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Law Practice


Specialist in Probate Law Dies of Cancer at 59

Oct. 3, 2001
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - Irene L. Silverman, a prominent probate attorney, has died. Silverman died Sunday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center...


Judges and Judiciary


Strict Rule-Enforcer Tolerates No Bad Behavior

Oct. 3, 2001
By Contributing Writer

BAKERSFIELD - Almost every day for the past 19 years, Kern County Superior Court Judge James M. Stuart has been carrying a fad...


Government


High Court Limits Access to Police Records

Oct. 3, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court placed new restrictions on public access to police files Monday in a ruling that ...


Transactions


Morgan Lewis

Oct. 2, 2001
By Staff Writer

Black Hills Generation Inc., a subsidiary of Rapid City, S.D. Black Hills Corp., recently entered into a $140 million syntheti...


Law Practice


Legal Soldiers

Oct. 2, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Whether in the courtroom or the conference room, attorneys are accustomed to a good fight. These days, however, some Californi...


Oregon's largest law firm just got bigger. San Francisco's Washburn Briscoe & McCarthy plans to merge with Stoel Rives , a...


Firm Watch


Sandra Shippey, a partner with the Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch in San Diego, has joined the California State Bar Bu...


Bankruptcy


SAN DIEGO LAWYER JOINS INSOLVENCY MEMBERSHIP

Oct. 2, 2001
By Tanya Rothman

Bankruptcy attorney Geraldine A. Valdez has become the newest member of the State Bar Business Law Section's Insolvency Commi...


Transactions


Crosby Heafey

Oct. 2, 2001
By Staff Writer

Voice Mobility International Inc. garnered gross proceeds of $13 million (Canadian) as it closed a private placement in the Un...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The American Law Institute elected Barry G. Kaiman, a partner at Los Angeles-based Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard, to t...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The San Diego County Law Library's Justice Foundation honored Janeen Kerper, a longtime law professor at California Western Sc...


Transactions


Greene Radovsky

Oct. 2, 2001
By Staff Writer

Baldwin Park's In-N-Out Corp. has signed a lease from San Francisco's Anchorage Enterprises to occupy 3,000 square feet of San...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has broached plans for a new unit to track and prosecute a greater number of chil...


New York's Coudert Brothers' has selected Los Angeles partner, David Huebner , to its executive committee. The newly elected b...


Litigation


As Worlds Collide

Oct. 2, 2001
By Staff Writer


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Empty Pockets

Oct. 2, 2001
By Contributing Writer

With the economy's downturn, the work at California's corporate law firms that represent technology and Internet clients has ...


Constitutional Law


MAN VS. MACHINE

Oct. 2, 2001
By Columnist

Red-light cameras are unconstitutional and should be banned from our system of justice, because they deprive people of due pro...


Large Firms


Jumping Hurdles for Rare Horse Owners

Oct. 2, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Do what you love and the money will follow. Just ask Jack Humes. The business litigator grew up in California riding horses. A...


Corporate


For the second year in a row, Global Competition Review has named Howrey Simon Arnold & White the world's top anti-trust a...


The partners at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen have elected litigator Donn Pickett as their new chairman....


More is better, Townsend and Townsend and Crew has decided. The San Francisco-based firm has restructured its management team ...


Coming soon to a Brobeck Phleger & Harrison office complex in the Silicon Valley: a Four Seasons hotel. Last year, Brobeck...


Transactions


Jeffer Mangels

Oct. 2, 2001
By Staff Writer

Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels of Chicago recently arranged the sale of three Monterey properties to the Monterey-based Cannery Row...


Law Practice


Bush Taps Former S.D. Lawyer for Air Force

Oct. 2, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - President Bush will nominate former San Diego lawyer Mary L. Walker to be general counsel of the Department of the...


Constitutional Law


About 60 U.S. communities are using red-light cameras, with significant safety benefits. Research by the Insurance Institute f...


Transactions


Reconciling Challenging Border Lines

Oct. 2, 2001
By Columnist

In November, John Iino was sitting on a beach in Hawaii when his cell phone rang. The client on the other end presented the va...


Personal Injury & Torts


Doubletake

Oct. 2, 2001
By Columnist

Payne v. National Collection Systems Inc. , 91 Cal.App.4th 1037 (2001), addresses the res judicata implications on a pr...


Bankruptcy


SAN DIEGO LAWYER JOINS INSOLVENCY MEMBERSHIP

Oct. 2, 2001
By Tanya Rothman

In other Procopio Cory news, bankruptcy attorney Geraldine A. Valdez has become the newest member of the State Bar Business La...


The latest published work of San Francisco attorney Roger L. Davis has a family feel. Davis, the chairman of Orrick Herrington...


Personal Injury & Torts


Moving Target

Oct. 2, 2001
By Columnist

For now, lawsuits premised on the notion that guns cause harm and do not benefit society will not get far. ...