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Discipline


Lawyer Settles Big Claim

Mar. 21, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A Monterey attorney's insurer has agreed to pay $910,000 to a Seattle woman to settle her claim that he cost h...


Litigation


Decision Rescission

Mar. 21, 2001
By Columnist

This month's topic is the poor relation of motion practice: the motion to reconsider. These motions are on my mind because I'm...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A police dog named Reilly has failed to pin an arson rap on rap performer Nate Dogg. Los Angeles criminal defens...


Criminal


Trucker's Beater Faces Trial Again

Mar. 21, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Damian Monroe "Football" Williams, who gained notoriety as the man who beat trucker Reginald Denny at the outset...


Labor/Employment


County Staffers Claim Building Made Them Sick

Mar. 21, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - A dozen employees of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services have filed a lawsuit sayi...


Litigation


Appellate Court Reinstates Earthquake Suit

Mar. 21, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit pitting a Northridge apartment building owner against Allstate ...


Large Firms


Federal Prosecutor Joins Sidley & Austin

Mar. 21, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Kimberly A. Dunne has left her post as the chief of the public corruption and government fraud section of the U....


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Buoyed by last year's record profits and not dissuaded by the current economic downturn, two large out-of-town...


Criminal


Federal Judge Discards Five Rampart Suits

Mar. 21, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - Relying on a Supreme Court decision that bars defendants from seeking civil-rights claims when they have an unde...


Native Americans


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday appeared ready to curtail the sovereign immunity of Native American tribes, at least whe...


Government


The Bush Administration and American Bar Association appeared locked in a debate Monday over the new administration's decision...


Appellate Practice


U.S. Supreme Court Highlights

Mar. 20, 2001
By David Pike

Among actions announced Monday, March 19, 2001 by the justices were:


Law Practice


The Storyteller

Mar. 20, 2001
By Leah Lessard

It's hard to tell whether Kevin Duffis' life is an example of art imitating life or life imitating art. As a boy growing up in...


Large Firms


Baker & McKenzie Lawyers Headed to Steefel?

Mar. 20, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - It looks like the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzie will need to shop for some real estate and land...


Britain's Vodafone Group is buying a one-third interest in Mexico's Grupo Iusacell. The cash deal is worth $973.4 million. Vod...


Solo and Small Firms


Irvine's Marshack Shulman Hodges & Bastian has elevated associate Michael Kelly to partner. Kelly, 34, specializes in wro...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe chairman and CEO Ralph Baxter and a 26-member contingent of leaders from law...


Firm Watch


San Francisco's Cooper White & Cooper elected two new members - Jeffrey Wong and Keith Howard - to its management committe...


Transactions


Medronic Inc. has acquired the Contegra Pulmonary Valved Conduit product line from VenPro Corp. The terms of the deal were no...


Intellectual property lawyer Chuck Hoyng has become partner number 12 in the 50-lawyer Menlo Park outpost of Los Angeles' Lath...


Three weeks after luring nine lawyers away to start its new Pittsburgh office, Littler Mendelson has its hand back in the Buc...


Discipline


Retired Sonoma Judge Allowed Back on Bench

Mar. 20, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Sonoma County judge who was dropped from the assigned judges program following a sexual harassment c...


Firm Watch


Trial lawyer Dale La Casella joined Pasadena's Richardson & Harmon on Jan. 8 as of-counsel. "We are fortunate to have Ms....


Even though San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster is pulling out of Argentina in the next month, its eight lawyers there can...


After an 18-month dalliance with Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif, partner Kenneth Krug returned to...


Firm Watch


Real estate boutique Pircher Nichols & Meeks has recruited a new associate for its Los Angeles headquarters. Mark Hulbert...


Large Firms


HOLLAND FIRM HONORED FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE

Mar. 20, 2001
By Staff Writer

Holland & Knight is the first law firm to receive the Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service from the Points...


Public Interest


Private Judging

Mar. 20, 2001
By Columnist

The California Supreme Court's recent decision in Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services authorized the use of arb...


Most of Los Angeles' five-lawyer Reinis & Reinis moved over to Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger, also in Los Angeles, ...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew announced the addition of two new associates to its ...