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Public Interest


Schools S.O.S.

Apr. 25, 2001
By Columnist

If you live in California, it would be hard to miss the copious evidence revealing that there are numerous public schools in C...


Investments


LOS ANGELES - In his final budget proposal, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan boosts the amount of money set aside for emer...


International


Sliding Scale

Apr. 25, 2001
By Columnist

Courts apply jurisdictional principles to international Web site defendants with concern for the additional burden on such def...


Education


Immigration Groups Recognize L.A. Kids

Apr. 25, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles-area schoolchildren have been selected as the Southern California winners of the fifth annual...


Technology & Science


To hear California's politicians tell it, heartless power generators are the cause of the high price of West Coast electricity...


Litigation


Time Saver

Apr. 25, 2001
By Columnist

Motions in limine are extremely effective tools for trial advocacy and time management. When properly utilized, they permit mo...


Probate


Lawyers Club of Los Angeles President, 81, Dies

Apr. 25, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Andrew Herbert Benedict Landay, president of the Lawyers Club of Los Angeles and an arbitrator with the Los Ange...


Administrative/Regulatory


ABA Rues Action by President

Apr. 25, 2001
By Columnist

For a half-century, the American Bar Association has been asked by every administration, Republican and Democratic alike, to e...


Discipline


Lawyer Pleads Not Guilty in E-Mail Case

Apr. 25, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who allegedly sent threatening e-mail messages to opposing counsel in an egg price-fixing case he file...


Government


LOS ANGELES - In contrast to the city of Los Angeles' recent rosy fiscal forecast, Los Angeles County, burdened with soaring e...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Attorneys in the explosive parole case of convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz squabbled Monday over whether al...


Civil Rights


Black Inmates Sue County for Attacks in Jail

Apr. 25, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies did nothing to prevent planned attacks by Latino inmates on African-Americ...


Large Firms


McCutchen Doyle Looks At Merger With Piper

Apr. 25, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - After two years of courting potential merger partners, San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen is ...


LOS ANGELES - Help Wanted: Natural gas companies and electric utilities embroiled in class actions brought by pesky California...


Criminal


Court Reverses Vice Principal's Sex Conviction

Apr. 25, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Reversing the sex-crime conviction of a former vice principal who fathered two children with a student, an appeals...


Appellate Practice


U.S. Supreme Court Highlights

Apr. 24, 2001
By David Pike

Among actions announced Monday, April 23, 2001 by the justices were:


Criminal


Steady Drizzle

Apr. 24, 2001
By Columnist

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, dissenting in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), predicted that there would be "...


Firm Watch


Gary N. Stern has joined Gordon Edelstein Krepack Grant Felton & Goldstein, a 13-attorney personal injury and employment t...


Solo and Small Firms


Sweet and Sour

Apr. 24, 2001
By Staff Writer

Sharon Kinsey has been called many things, some of them nice, some of them not so nice. But whatever friends and detractors sa...


Bankruptcy


James Lopes, a partner of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, has been inducted as a Fellow to the American Colle...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles recruiter Larry Watanabe says Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery aims to build the finest intellectual property ...


Entertainment & Sports


Money-For-Silence Deals Belong to the Experienced

Apr. 24, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Convicted lawyer John J. Reiner was on the phone. It must have been a tough call to make. "I don't want you to feel badly beca...


Firm Watch


Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, which is known for its strong hospitality practice, will host its 11th annual hotel confe...


After holding out for four months, Morrison & Foerster announced April 9 that the San Francisco firm doesn't have any 2001...


Firm Watch


In what everyone says are two unrelated departures, a pair of patent litigators and a patent prosecutor from the Palo Alto off...


Solo and Small Firms


San Diego's Anderson & Kriger, a firm specializing in construction defect and homeowners associations, has recruited Kenne...


Solo and Small Firms


The Los Angeles business litigation shop of Fairbank & Vincent has recruited Richard Gluck as of-counsel. Gluck, former ge...


Entertainment & Sports


Tactical Error May Haunt Lawyer in Franchise Case

Apr. 24, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Larry Stein of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan had a burning question last Monday before a hearing in Los Angeles federal...


Large Firms


Townsend and Townsend and Crew has recruited three lateral associates for its San Francisco headquarters: Nancy Tompkins, Slad...


Transactions


Constellation Brands Inc. will acquire Ravenswood Winery Inc. for $148 million cash. Fairport, New York's Constellation brands...