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Firm Watch


Looking to a new frontier, Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch plans to open an office in north San Diego county within the...


Large Firms


The Asian Professional Exchange has awarded Holland & Knight associate Adam C. Ritter its 2001 President's Award. The Los ...


Atlanta's Coca-Cola Co. agreed to purchase Half Moon Bay-based Odwalla Inc. in a transaction valued at $181 million. Coca-Cola...


Solo and Small Firms


Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Robert McNeill Jr., a partner at Ivie McNeill & Wyatt in downtown Los Angeles, a board membe...


It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Three environmental attorneys, who focus on such muddy problems as contaminated la...


Large Firms


The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers has selected Douglas R. Young, president of the San Francisco Bar Association and pa...


Law Practice


Pass or Fail

Nov. 27, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

Friday, Nov. 16, 2001: Doomsday. Judgment Day. Bar results day.         Antonella Nistorescu was nervous at work most of Frid...


A new attorney has taken the helm at the Orange County office of Severson & Werson , and he's ready to move it into the ne...


Sweet-talking recruits for its summer associate program, the Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy enclosed ...


Criminal


Banks to Bytes

Nov. 27, 2001
By Contributing Writer

There was a sinister side to the roaring 1990s. When stock markets surged, a slew of thirty-something technology buffs sudden...


Transactions


Moving a High-Tech Patent Portfolio

Nov. 27, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Mark Kelson admits he didn't know much about technology when he began representing Pasadena-based Acacia Research Corp. about ...


Large Firms


Doing Overtime

Nov. 27, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

It was arguably one of the most Byzantine real estate development deals in the history of downtown Los Angeles yet the daedal ...


Fremont's Abgenix Inc. acquired Hesed Biomed Inc. of Omaha, Neb. Neither company disclosed terms of the deal. Abgenix is a bio...


Criminal


Embracing Truth

Nov. 27, 2001
By Contributing Writer


Visto Corp. of Mountain View raised $31 million in a sixth round of venture capital financing. Walden VC II Media of San Franc...


Large Firms


The American Intellectual Property Law Association has chosen for a top leadership position the managing partner of Howrey Sim...


Law Practice


High Finance

Nov. 27, 2001
By John Ryan


Occam Networks Inc. of Moorpark and Accelerated Networks Inc. have agreed to a merger. Neither company disclosed terms of the ...


Judges and Judiciary


Hopefuls for S.D. Bench Face Off

Nov. 27, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Voters in the March 5 primary election will select judges in four races, with only one sitting judge being challen...


State Bar & Bar Associations


ABA Grant Helps Group Assist Rural Residents

Nov. 27, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - The Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco and Central California Legal Serv...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - The United States Patent and Trademark Office has declared an emergency as thousands of time-sensitive patent ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Inspires by Example

Nov. 27, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - The starting salary is $145,100, and the paychecks keep coming until you die. You get to rule over your own mini...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Nicholas Van Aelstyn is heavily invested in the pro bono work he does for the Compassion in Dying Federation i...


Family


Lawyers Empathize With Parents

Nov. 27, 2001
By Amy Tatko

LOS ANGELES - When attorney Dina Kaplan tried to get better reading instruction at a public school for her friend's son, who h...


Criminal


Secret U.S. Court Handles Surveillance Warrants

Nov. 27, 2001
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - To get to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court inside the Department of Justice, you must enter a c...


Criminal


Mens Rea

Nov. 26, 2001
By Columnist

One of the more difficult laws to understand and apply in California is the child-abuse statute, Penal Code Section 273a. The ...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Soft Settlement

Nov. 26, 2001
By Columnist

Prospects are favorable for settlement of the biggest antitrust case in decades. The good news is that Microsoft's billionaire...


Family


Consider this: You buy a crib for your baby, and you take the railings off, or you lock the front door to your house but leave...


Criminal


Hush Hush!

Nov. 26, 2001
By Columnist

Recently, Attorney General John Ashcroft caused quite a commotion by announcing that federal authorities would monitor attorne...