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Palo Alto's Hewlett-Packard Co., agreed to buy the Netherlands' Indigo N.V., in a deal valued at $882 million in stock and cas...


Education


Fewer Choices

Sep. 25, 2001
By Robin Davidson

Santa Clara University School of Law, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, is supplying a smaller world of law firms with more ...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Professor Armin Rosencranz is a bit of an over-achiever. Between teaching international environmental policy a...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Four candidates have made the short list to become the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, ...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Enjoys Forging Solutions

Sep. 25, 2001
By Tamara Scott


Government


LOS ANGELES - Support groups for Arab-Americans have turned to civil libertarians for help in dealing with what they character...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - When California voters passed Proposition 36 last year, San Francisco seemed particularly well-positioned to i...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - First came the terrorist attacks. Then the stock market collapse. Like everyone else, managers at California ...


Immigration


LOS ANGELES - Following last week's terrorist bombing and a backlash of racial hatred, Michel Shehadeh has reason to be wary o...


Bankruptcy


SAN FRANCISCO - The potential for a legal train wreck over the bankruptcy reorganization plan filed last week by Pacific Gas ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Harmonious Goals

Sep. 22, 2001
By Columnist

An inconsistency is created if one provision will frustrate a policy stated in a second provision and there is no commitment t...


Large Firms


Townsend Augments Management

Sep. 22, 2001
By John Ryan

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major overhaul, San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has created three new management positions...


Construction


INDIO - The city of Palm Springs has agreed to pay $1.2 million in compensation for developing a golf course on land donated f...


Law Practice


Grown-Up Steps

Sep. 22, 2001
By Columnist

All too often, attorneys perform only future, or strategic, planning to cover the next few months only. Most attorneys rarely ...


Employee Benefits


The employment of temporary or contract lawyers, both for law firms and corporate law departments, may be the solution to an u...


Criminal


Riverside Man Allegedly Threatens Mosque

Sep. 22, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - In the first hate-crime prosecution in Riverside County since last Tuesday's terrorist attacks, the district attor...


Litigation


What do you do when cross-examination produces an answer to your questions that actually aids your case? Startlingly enough, t...


Judges and Judiciary


Appeals Judge Harbors No Agenda

Sep. 22, 2001
By Contributing Writer


Large Firms


Oregon Firm Acquires Washburn Briscoe

Sep. 22, 2001
By Laura Cutland

SEATTLE - Oregon's largest law firm, Portland's Stoel Rives, will nose its way into the California market Oct. 1 when it acqui...


Government


Southern District Judges Hope for Reserves

Sep. 22, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Federal judges in the Southern District, hopeful that a Senate committee will ease a judicial emergency by approvi...


Education


Schools Suit Certification Looks Likely, Judge Says

Sep. 22, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge said Thursday he will probably certify a class consisting of millions of California scho...


Constitutional Law


SAN FRANCISCO - The last war on American soil was between the Union and the Confederacy. Then, as with the terror attacks now,...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall was sworn in Thursday as the first woman to hold the post of chief judg...


Immigration


LOS ANGELES - In a chilling foreshadowing of last week's terrorist attack, former FBI Director Louis Freeh in 1993 ordered the...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Proposes Sweeping Reorganization

Sep. 22, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. may accomplish through the bankruptcy court what state utility regulators thwarte...


Judges and Judiciary


Champion of the Circuit

Sep. 22, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Although Judge James R. Browning did more than any other judge to usher the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...


Criminal


DA Wants Right To Indict Minors

Sep. 21, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney's office on Wednesday petitioned the state Supreme Court for a review o...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - A San Diego Superior Court judge entered a not-guilty plea through his attorney Wednesday to misdemeanor charges...


Insurance


Right of Succession

Sep. 21, 2001
By Columnist

The transfer of assets and liabilities from one corporation to another may give rise to the transfer of insurance benefits by ...


Family


'Old School' Attorney Who Loved Mentoring Dies

Sep. 21, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for James A. Watkins, a retired Torrance attorney described by colleagues as an ...