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Government


GAO Plans Suit Forcing Access To Enron Files

Jan. 31, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - In the latest chapter in the ongoing Enron scandal, the General Accounting Office plans to file an unprecedented ...


Intellectual Property


Pretrial Protection

Jan. 31, 2002
By Columnist

Focus Column - By Benjamin Scheibe, The ongoing controversy over DVD decryption technology has produced yet another startling ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Column by Garry Abrams - No nudes is good nudes. This ancient schoolyard pun flashed across my mind this week when I read the ...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Margaret S. Henry's chambers have that tousled look of offices stalled in transition from old occupant's style t...


Agriculture


Ground Attacks on Farming

Jan. 31, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson, To many of us, the image of the farmer at his plow is right up there with motherhood and ice...


Government


Scandal Sparks Run for DA Post

Jan. 31, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - District Attorney Dennis Stout is no stranger to the rigors of campaigning for elected office. To become Ranc...


Health Care & Hospital Law


LOS ANGELES - Nobody disputed that David Dyer slit a dog's throat and planned to cook the animal and eat it. The Oroville man ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Young Lawyers' New Head Oozes Enthusiasm, Energy

Jan. 30, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

PASADENA - Laura Farber admits she has trouble saying "No" to a good cause. So despite a sometimes hectic job as partner at Pa...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Tuesday that a court cannot remove a lawyer from a case because of an "appearance of im...


Criminal


Judge Denies Bail for Jewish Group Leaders

Jan. 30, 2002
By Susan Mcraen

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday denied bail for two Jewish Defense League leaders accused of plotting to blow up a Culve...


Civil Rights


Barring Justice

Jan. 30, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman, The Sept. 11 holocaust at the World Trade Center, the illegal detention of over a thousand i...


Appellate Practice


New Batch

Jan. 30, 2002
By Columnist

Appellate Law Practitioner Column - By David S. Ettinger, California's rules governing appellate practice are undergoing their...


Entertainment & Sports


Forum Column - By Yitzchok Adlerstein and Michael Broyde, If Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O'Neal needs to improve hi...


Large Firms


18 Leave Even Crandall to Branch Out

Jan. 29, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

LOS ANGELES - Citing client conflicts and a desire for a fresh start, 18 lawyers are leaving the Southland insurance defense a...


State Bar & Bar Associations


State Bar Will Study Splitting Off Conference

Jan. 29, 2002
By Don Debenedictisn

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California and its controversial offspring, the Conference of Delegates, took a dramatic step S...


Labor/Employment


Wishful Thinking

Jan. 29, 2002
By Columnist

Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Benjamin R. Martin, Employers often wish that they could use noncompete agreements in ...


Entertainment & Sports


Litigators Mull Breach-of-Semantics Suit

Jan. 29, 2002
By Garry Abrams

Column by Garry Abrams - Was Mariah Carey's recording contract politely "canceled" like a stamp? Or was it vengefully "termina...


Judges and Judiciary


Understaffed, Overwhelmed, Swamped

Jan. 29, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg, It is time to reconsider the division of labor in California's civil courts. In many of the...


Family


Gay Couples Deserve Chance at Marriage Gamble

Jan. 29, 2002
By Catherine Cavella

Forum Column - By Sean Carter, W.C. Fields once said, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again; then quit - there's no u...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES - Fine-tuning the scope of the California Arbitration Act, an appellate court has ruled that parties to an arbitra...


Law Practice


Golden Years

Jan. 29, 2002
By Columnist

Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz, With advances in medicine, you may find that it is entirely possible to spend 30 years in reti...


Judges and Judiciary


Norwalk Judge Labors With Love

Jan. 29, 2002
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - William J. Birney is particularly proud of the part he played in two legal accomplishments. They are his sons, l...


Transactions


PUBLIC OFFERING PUTS $150 MILLION IN STORAGE

Jan. 29, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Public Storage Inc. priced a public offering of 6 million depositary shares on Jan. 15. The offering brought in $150 million. ...


Firm Watch


Robert Sloss , an intellectual property partner at General Counsel Associates , has left the Mountain View firm to join Farell...


Law Practice


Legal Lingo

Jan. 29, 2002
By Columnist

The high priests of "good writing" are trying to convince lawyers to change the way they write. They want us to organize our t...


Thomas Lambert is finishing up his first month as managing partner of Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp , a 125-att...


Transactions


BIOMARIN HEADS NORTH OF THE BORDER FOR SYNAPSE

Jan. 29, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. agreed to acquire Synapse Technologies Inc. in a deal announced Jan. 14. This cash-and-stock deal...


Firm Watch


Setting its sights on bigger and better things in San Diego, Manning & Marder Kass Ellrod Ramirez is moving to an office s...


Firm Watch


Transportation attorney and consultant Sarah L. Catz has brought her expertise to the Irvine office of Nossaman Guthner Knox &...


Large Firms


In a year when many California law firms saw their corporate work evaporate into thin air, Latham & Watkins managed to sta...