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Labor/Employment


Arbitration Affray

May 1, 2001
By Columnist

By 2002, 90 percent of employees will be covered by alternate dispute resolution programs, including binding arbitration. This...


Law Practice


Domain Shame

May 1, 2001
By Staff Writer

Too many ignore the childhood precept of owning up and believe that the "adult thing" to do is to try to get away with paying ...


Constitutional Law


Death Metal

May 1, 2001
By Joseph Sorrentino

Elysie Marie Pahler was 15 when she was raped, tortured and murdered by three boys who say they were inspired by their favorit...


Wireless entertainment company Jamdat Mobile Inc. has received $10 million in second-round financing from Patricof & Compa...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council Friday voted to give $400,000 to a former Police Department officer who sued the de...


Transactions


AirFiber Inc., a telecommunications equipment supplier, has received $50 million in third-round, equity financing. New York's ...


Maxtor Corp. has bought Quantum HDD, the Hard Disk Drive Group of Quantum Corp., for $1 billion in stock. Maxtor, based in Mil...


Now that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is firmly entrenched in the United States, the San Francisco-based firm is looking ...


Government


Staffer Sues Court Over Disability

May 1, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A deputy court clerk at the Pomona Courthouse who suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome has sued Los Angeles Super...


Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is getting busy at both ends of the state. The firm is slated to move into a spanking new ...


Federal Trade Commission lawyer Debra Valentine is coming back to O'Melveny & Myers after six years with the government. V...


Senior Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lawyer Christy Richardson took her employment practice over to a firm that ought t...


Firm Watch


After several years of hopping from startup company to startup company, former Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich partner Dan Do...


Transactions


Market Skid Accelerates Dealmaking

May 1, 2001
By Victoria Newman

The cooling economy is heating up Henry Lesser's business. Since September, the co-chair of Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & F...


It was a double whammy for Santa Monica-based Haight Brown & Bonesteel, as Washington, D.C's McKenna & Cuneo lured awa...


Constitutional Law


Parents' Targets

May 1, 2001
By Joseph Sorrentino

For years artists, wrapping themselves in the cloak of the First Amendment, have avoided civil liability for their fans' crime...


A trio of litigation partners filed out of the San Jose's Hopkins & Carley and into the local office of New York's Coudert...


Family


Emotional Issue

May 1, 2001
By Columnist

California's nonparental visitation statute recently was tested by the California Court of Appeal in Punsly. ...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips added two new partners in April, one from in-house and one who is returning after a ...


The more than 2,000 lawyers and staff of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop celebrated their first 100 days as a new firm on A...


Transactions


Black Hills Energy Capital Inc. has bought two Enron North America Corp. subsidiaries: Fountain Valley Power and E-Next A Equi...


Probate


LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Newport Beach attorney Hallack Watts Hoag, former president of the Legal Aid ...


Criminal


Judge Rejects DAs' Bid For Sanity Exam of Killer

May 1, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that prosecutors cannot use civil discovery laws to seek an additi...


International


LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles attorney faces up to eight years in state prison and a $200,000 fine if convicted of partic...


Law Office Automation


Computers Make the Job Easier

May 1, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Computer technology has leveled the playing field for sole practitioners and small town lawyers, according to ...


Litigation


Judge OKs Deposing News Reporter

May 1, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz may depose a Los Angeles Times reporter who allegedly heard ...


SAN DIEGO - A judge rejected a constitutional challenge to the mandatory trial of a 15-year-old boy as an adult because of his...


Criminal


HEMET - Keith Henson spent last summer brandishing placards and picketing outside a Church of Scientology film production faci...


Law Practice


Retired Southern California Lawyer Dies at 76

May 1, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - James Anderson Sullivan, a lawyer who spent most of his career in the Los Angeles area, died in Jacksonville, Fla....


Government


LOS ANGELES - Michael Gennaco, who led civil rights prosecutions in the U.S. attorney's office for the past six years, was nam...