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Entertainment & Sports


Los Angeles' Lawyers Could Score Big With XFL Brawls

May 8, 2001
By Contributing Writer

He Hate Me? He Hate You! It was supposed to be a feel-good story. The idea was to interview longtime Los Angeles lawyer-turned...


Public Interest


From a Beset Profession Comes a Hero

May 8, 2001
By Leslie Gordon

Most lawyers are not sharks, Latham & Watkins' Tim Crudo says. The San Francisco litigation partner is proof that many law...


Personal Injury & Torts


One Step Removed

May 8, 2001
By Columnist

Manufacturers always are concerned about the risk of product liability lawsuits and often go to great lengths to be proactive ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


LMI Aerospace Inc. has bought the operating assets - machinery, equipment and inventory - of Sun Valley companies Tempco Engin...


Firm Watch


Wesierski & Zurek Donate Computers to College

May 8, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Irvine-based insurance defense boutique Wesierski & Zurek donated computer equipment to Fountain Valley's Coastline Commun...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Morrison & Foerster partner Cedric Chao has been elected chairman and president of the Northern California Chapter of the ...


Law Practice


Nurturing Nature

May 8, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

As a child growing up Los Angeles, Cecilia Estolano never lived more than five miles from the ocean. "The beach was my way of ...


Law Practice


Care Giver

May 8, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Before heading off to the office, Catherine Atkin drops her 2-year-old son, Max, off at day care. She knows she's one of the l...


Large Firms


A sponsorship by Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in San Diego will enable a 4-year-old girl, who is waiting for a kidney tran...


Transactions


Pasadena's Tunable Photonics has received $7 million in private equity financing. San Francisco's Blueprint Ventures led the f...


Law Practice


Sole Practitioner

May 8, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

When it comes to protecting intellectual property, Skechers U.S.A. in-house lawyer Philip G. Paccione isn't shy. "We have a ne...


Public Interest


The state's largest banking organization, the California Bankers Association, has presented Los Angeles' Deborah Thoren-Peden ...


Law Practice


Starry Knight

May 8, 2001
By Brian Mc Carthy

In Hollywood, 38-year-old Carlos Goodman is the lawyer who represents the top independent talent. A partner at Los Angeles' Li...


Law Practice


Passion Player

May 8, 2001
By Staff Writer

"Most of the regular longtime posters have no idea who Tom is, but that doesn't really matter," one longtime Silicon Valley In...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Santa Monica's TheBrain Technologies Corp. has received a $16 million equity investment from a group of investors led by GE Eq...


Firm Watch


The California Supreme Court has appointed appellate attorney Barbara Ravitz to a newly formed committee which recommends cand...


While the partners at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen were plotting strategy and tee times at their annual...


Entertainment & Sports


To borrow a hoary sports clich, Martin Singer of Lavely & Singer had a bad month on one day, April 26. That morning, New T...


Solo and Small Firms


With former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso as the keynote speaker, San Francisco's La Raza Lawyers Association ...


Entertainment & Sports


Fresh-Faced Filmmakers Grace Firm's Client Roster

May 8, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Sometimes, the longest journey is the three inches one takes in the pilgrimage from the darkness of the lower brain to the lig...


Law Practice


Acquiring Mind

May 8, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

At 37, Intel Corp.'s Suzan A. Miller, or "Sam" as her family and friends call her, could pass for a software programmer. Inste...


Juvenile


Juvenile Jack-in-the-Box

May 8, 2001
By Columnist

The Manduley decision was logical and sound. The court recognized that by giving prosecutors the sole discretion to fil...


Public Interest


Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services has elected Irell & Manella partner James Adler to a one-year term as its president...


Law Practice


Joining the Fray

May 8, 2001
By John Ryan

The 2000 presidential election put the practice of election law on the national map. "Before that, I had to continuously expla...


Law Practice


New Territory

May 8, 2001
By John Ryan

As corporate transactions in the Internet world are cooling down, new types of litigation still are heating up. Lori Schechter...


The Los Angeles chapter of the American Jewish Committee honored Latham & Watkins international business partner Barry San...


Law Practice


Driver's Seat

May 8, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

During on-campus interviews at Duke University Law School in 1990, Jonathon Kaplan told law firms that not only did he expect ...


Law Practice


Plain Talk

May 8, 2001
By Ed Kimble

The lack of a college degree certainly hasn't hampered the success of Gary Dordick, 39. The Beverly Hills litigator has won mo...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Santa Clara's Intel Corp. has agreed to buy Newark's LightLogic Inc. The cash deal is worth $400 million. Intel is the world's...


Criminal


Mover and Shaker

May 8, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

Anyone who thinks that government lawyers don't come with pedigrees should meet John Hueston, head of the U.S. attorney's offi...