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ML Hightower Inc. has merged with Product Design Group Inc. to create PDG Hightower. The deal is valued at $8 million. San Die...


Large Firms


O'Melveny Lands in Silicon Valley

Mar. 27, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Eleven lawyers from the Los Angeles white-shoe firm of O'Melveny & Myers expect to open the firm's first S...


Administrative/Regulatory


University Appoints Head of IP Office

Mar. 27, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The University of California, Los Angeles, has appointed Andrew Neighbour director of the Office of Intellectual...


Public Interest


This is not meant to be another apology for Bill Clinton. The sloppiness and appearance of ethical impropriety that marked his...


According to schedules filed in its Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, Graham & James, which shuttered its doors last summer, owes...


Labor/Employment


Important Papers

Mar. 27, 2001
By Columnist

Movies set in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian countries often show police officials asking civilians for their "papers" an...


Bank of the West, a subsidiary of Hawaii's BancWest Corp., has acquired 30 branch offices in Nevada and New Mexico from First ...


Transactions


After tripping through a few other businesses, tax lawyer Glen Kohl has gotten back into the law firm groove. He signed up wit...


Constitutional Law


Religious Roots

Mar. 27, 2001
By Columnist

Last week, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's...


Contracts


Court Holds Noncompete Clause Unenforceable

Mar. 27, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - In a long-awaited ruling, a state appellate court underscored the importance of getting to the courtroom first w...


Judges and Judiciary


Attorney Joins the Immigration Bench

Mar. 27, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Veteran immigration attorney Christine E. Stancill has taken a seat on the U.S. immigration court in Los Angeles...


Judges and Judiciary


Seven Take Oath for Superior Court Bench

Mar. 27, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Court of Appeal Justice Charles Vogel administered the oath to seven new judges of the Los Angeles Superior Cour...


Criminal


Group Seeks Sanctions Against District Attorney

Mar. 27, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Alternate Public Defender is seeking sanctions against newly elected District Attorney Steve Coo...


Marketing


Heller Web Site Wins Marketing Prize

Mar. 27, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has taken first place honors for its Web site at a legal marketing award c...


Criminal


Defenders Rally Behind Lawyer Struck by Client

Mar. 27, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Attorney Daniel W. Cohen expected trouble when a judge appointed him to represent accused rapist Johnny Stanley. S...


Litigation


Jury Awards Couple $3.7 Million

Mar. 27, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A Woodland Hills couple whose dream home turned into a money pit because the seller failed to disclose major str...


Personal Injury & Torts


Ford Exposure Is Set at $3.5B

Mar. 27, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay judge has agreed that Ford Motor Co. will owe California consumers $3.5 billion if found liable fo...


Government


Upland Officer Sues for Right to Choose Lawyer in Interrogation

Mar. 27, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - An Upland police officer is suing his employer and the city, alleging that the police department's internal...


Transactions


Hotel Music Deal Strikes the Right Chord

Mar. 27, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Guests in North America's biggest hotel chains, from Four Seasons to Marriott, will be able to select compact disc music throu...


Criminal


Fast Track

Mar. 27, 2001
By Columnist

The 9th Circuit became the first federal appellate court to rule that the right to Brady material cannot be waived through a p...


Public Interest


LOS ANGELES - Nearly three years ago, two people from opposite worlds joined forces. They had nothing in common, except each h...


Public Interest


LOS ANGELES - Matthew Monroe of Monroe & Shapiro decided to make public his previously confidential mentor relationship wi...


Entertainment & Sports


Ross Negotiates Like a Beauty

Mar. 27, 2001
By Tamara Scott

LOS ANGELES - Richard "Rick" Ross remembers his first beauty contest. It involved not babes in bathing suits but a seasoned ac...


Law Practice


Helping the Walls to Speak

Mar. 27, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Appellate attorney Irving Greines sounds like the worst kind of libertine when he talks about the obsession that...


Technology & Science


Offshore Sites Brace for Academy Awards Betting

Mar. 24, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Between the Oscars and the NCAA basketball tournament, March has become the pre-eminent month for office pools around the coun...


Corporate


Mall Stalwart Loses Its Edge

Mar. 24, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

Decked in a baby-blue tank top, form-fitting blue jeans and lips shining with an extra coat of gloss, Sarineh Abnoosi, 17, cru...


Entertainment & Sports


Love Slave

Mar. 24, 2001
By Columnist

A self-proclaimed 'smart gal with a fat bank account,' Love professes that she is 'ready to take this thing all the way to the...


Technology & Science


Dot-Coms' Problems Mirror Car Industry's

Mar. 24, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

As the markets continue to plummet despite the Federal Reserve's efforts this week, economists and market watchers are turning...


Technology & Science


Will New Economy Still Grow?

Mar. 24, 2001
By Columnist

Despite what the stock market might say, we are in the midst of a New Network Economy. So it is important to understand some o...


Civil Rights


For 21 years, I've been an ever-more-out lesbian. For almost 10 years, I've been engaged in legal advocacy, first on behalf of...