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San Francisco-based Unexplored Inc. has raised $10 million in second series funding. The financing's lead investors included W...


Product Liability


Dangerous Devices

Apr. 3, 2001
By Columnist

It is hard to conceive of a case more different than the Supreme Court's last decision on the very same issue in 'Medtronic.' ...


The environmental lawyers at Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker have brought some top-notch regulatory advice in...


San Francisco's Blum Capital Partners has agreed to buy El Segundo's CB Richard Ellis Services Inc. The cash and assumption-of...


Law Practice


STAND-UP LAWYERING

Apr. 3, 2001
By Columnist

As a group, we often take ourselves too seriously. Lawyers should strive to be approachable, accessible and understandable. Be...


Firm Watch


Katrina Foley, a partner at Irvine's Lents & Foley, will lead the Costa Mesa Planning Commission. In a 5-0 vote, the commi...


Real Estate/Development


Building a Niche

Apr. 3, 2001
By Staff Writer

Kathleen Carpenter has spent 14 of her 15-year legal career as a "dirt" lawyer. Although her feet are still firmly planted in ...


While San Francisco's Littler Mendelson was busy opening its two new Pennsylvania outposts earlier this year, partner Dennis B...


Firm Watch


Colleen McAndrews, a name partner at Bell McAndrews Hiltachk & Davidian, an election-law boutique in Sacramento, has been ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Jewish Prudence

Apr. 3, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was among those who honored the work of the Jewish Federation's Legal Division at its 53rd Annual Dinner...


Chicago's Equity Office Properties Trust will buy Spieker Properties Inc. of Menlo Park. The cash, stock and assumption-of-deb...


Corporate


No Big Deal

Apr. 3, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Last year, corporate lawyers worked fast and furious to meet the tight deadlines set by their clients selling or buying a busi...


Bioheart Inc. has raised $11 million in a first round of funding. Of that amount, $1 million came from Menlo Park's Tyco Ventu...


Public Interest


Our federal government is not known for its ability to take quick action. For instance, it took almost 50 years of pleas from ...


Continuing its rapid growth, Santa Monica corporate firm Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has added two more lawye...


Firm Watch


The Children's Institute International, a local child-abuse prevention agency, recently honored Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Bu...


Intellectual property lawyer Joe Greco returned to San Jose's Skjerven Morrill & MacPherson as of-counsel on March 16 afte...


The ubiquitous San Francisco firm Brobeck Phleger & Harrison furnished two consultants and a big-firm backdrop for televis...


Firm Watch


Joan Haratani has been elected president of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. She was inducted at th...


Corporate


A Second Chance

Apr. 3, 2001
By John Ryan

Al Pepin's retirement in the peaceful Napa Valley town of St. Helena was a dream come true. He had lived and worked in San Fra...


Network software provider Novell Inc. will buy Cambridge Technology Partners Inc. The stock deal is worth $266 million. Provo,...


Transactions


Stormy Weather Fails to Dampen Deal

Apr. 3, 2001
By Leah Lessard

When Spieker Properties Inc. decided to sell all its holdings to Equity Office Properties Trust, the company reached for a fam...


Thirty-five years after Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati corporate and securities department head Larry Sonsini stepped in...


Large Firms


Role-Playing Lawyer Basks in the Limelight

Apr. 3, 2001
By Diane Taylor

Jason Schauer, 31, appears to be a rising star. With roles in musical productions like "Crazy for You," "42nd Street" and "Cha...


Firm Watch


J. Tim Konold, a partner at San Diego's Higgs Fletcher & Mack, was elected president of the American College of Mortgage A...


Firm Watch


Joseph Genshlea, a founding partner of Sacramento's Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Sproul, has been inducted into the Trial Lawyer...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles-based Murchison & Cumming has elevated Bryan Weiss and Thomas Dias to associate partner. It has also promoted ...


Criminal


Judge Denies Bail Reduction in Murder Retrial

Apr. 3, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A judge refused Friday to reduce bail for a Buena Park man awaiting retrial on a murder charge for allegedly shoot...


Government


Energy-Contract Suits Face Battle

Apr. 3, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Lawsuits that state legislators and the media filed to force disclosure of California's electricity purchase agree...


Criminal


Prosecutors Request Pick of Psychiatrist

Apr. 3, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors want to choose their own psychiatrist to evaluate an Orange County man who is seeking release from a s...