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Health Care & Hospital Law


Florida Couple Says Clinic Misused Embryos

Jul. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - Saying they don't know what happened to dozens of their frozen embryos, a Florida couple has sued the Regents of t...


Government


Panel Urges Changes in Initiative Process

Jul. 10, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - A commission studying ballot initiative reforms plans to recommend voters be given several options to change the ...


Law Practice


The Yale Club of San Diego has given the distinguished alumnus award to Pamela J. Naughton, a local partner at Sheppard Mullin...


Law Practice


The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers will install new fellow Judith Droz Keyes, 55, at its annual meeting in Chicago on...


Dialysis-center operator DaVita Inc. has closed the sale of $225 million in 9 1/4 percent senior subordinated notes. Torrance-...


Transactions


Chipmaker Intel Corp. has bought software-management company Cognet Corp. The companies have not disclosed the value of the ca...


Large Firms


A Break From Backbreaking Prosperity

Jul. 10, 2001
By Erik Cummins

Bob Gunderson has been vilified by law-firm managers and deified by associates. But the voluble co-founder of the 125-lawyer, ...


Firm Watch


The Century City business boutique Silver & Freedman welcomed partner Mark Sieke into its tax group on May 1. Silver &...


Transactions


Facilitator Eases Groundwater Cleanup

Jul. 10, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Malissa Hathaway McKeith's latest deal is like the Hollywood blockbuster, "Erin Brockovich." Just like Brockovich, the Loeb &a...


Firm Watch


Meanwhile, as Squire Sanders & Dempsey was losing two lawyers in Los Angeles, the firm was adding two more in San Francisc...


Bankruptcy


Patent Lending

Jul. 10, 2001
By Columnist

The court's holding should greatly simplify and, as a result, lessen the expense of documenting security interests in patents....


Law Practice


Tailor Made

Jul. 10, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

Remember Silicon Valley? The land of Viva Bob Gunderson!, lavish retreats in Pebble Bay and the $135,000 base salary? Things r...


Univision Communications Inc. has acquired or has agreed to acquire interests in 17 television stations across the country fro...


Anna Graves, formerly of-counsel in the Los Angeles home office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, has moved her practice...


Law Practice


Thespians Bring the Law Alive for Kids

Jul. 10, 2001
By Karen Coleman

Tampa's Holland & Knight found some unlikely Thespians among its San Francisco lawyers. Litigation partner Charles Coleman...


Education


Education Group Opposes School Vouchers

Jul. 10, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - To Bob Chanin, lead counsel for the National Education Association, the question of whether school vouchers are ...


Law Practice


Jurist Ponders Fees Issue In Dues Dispute

Jul. 10, 2001
By Don De Benedictis

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge will rule soon on whether the State Bar must pay as much as $2 million in fees ...


Family


Facts Behind Fatalities Lie On Hard Path

Jul. 10, 2001
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - When DeAngelo Brooks died on Jan. 20, he is believed to have become the first child murdered in the Los Angeles ...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - At the risk of belaboring the dramatic case of Bush v. Gore, the following were what I considered the best...


Communications


SAN FRANCISCO - Actor Dustin Hoffman cannot protect himself from a fashion update at the hands of L.A. Magazine, using digital...


Government


'I Did Everything For My Son'

Jul. 10, 2001
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - The pretty woman with closely cropped hair peers through wide, expressive eyes as she recalls growing up with im...


Bankruptcy


Automatic Update

Jul. 9, 2001
By Columnist

Section 104(b) of the Bankruptcy Code provides for automatic adjustments for inflation every three years to some of its provis...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Trying to Evade Control, Attorney Says

Jul. 7, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A government attorney accused Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Thursday of trying to use its bankruptcy to avoi...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today and Saturday for Carl Joseph Schuck, a retired Los Angeles trial attorney whose o...


Criminal


New Evidence Won't Delay Nawi Trial

Jul. 7, 2001
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - In order to keep intact a jury that is threatening to disintegrate and cause a mistrial, San Francisco deputy ...


Education


Scholarship Fund Recognizes Compton Students

Jul. 7, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The Compton Courts Scholarship Fund has awarded scholarships to 24 high-school graduates and college students. J...


Entertainment & Sports


Suit Accuses Magic Mountain of Racial Profiling

Jul. 7, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - In the second potential class action filed against Six Flags Magic Mountain in a month, a group of minority men ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Attorney Nets $425,000 in Fees in Rights Case

Jul. 7, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A San Jose lawyer who represented a former city attorney's office investigator in a successful civil rights lawsuit...


Law Practice


Hard to Swallow

Jul. 7, 2001
By Columnist

'Deputy Duh' admits that defense attorneys' duties can be honorable as well as necessary. ...


Labor/Employment


Fired Editor's Suit Blames Politician

Jul. 7, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A civil-rights activist and former editor of the L.A. Focus newspaper filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit Thurs...