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Intellectual Property


Top of the Pops Spun In Napster Hearing

Mar. 6, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Whenever a court hearing draws at least three satellite vans, roughly 70 reporters, 11 television cameras and ...


Large Firms


BALTIMORE - James Rogan, the Republican congressman who voters ousted from office after he helped lead the impeachment of Pres...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Attorney fees sought by a group that battled the State Bar for 10 years over how the bar spends member dues could cost each du...


Litigation


For the Record

Mar. 5, 2001
By Columnist

The resounding message is clear - when the privacy card is played, courts listen closely.


Investments


Stock Chill Cools Off IPO Climate

Mar. 3, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

The climate for initial public offerings this year has been chilly and bleak. Not even the latest venture from the poster chil...


Securities


Raising the Threshold

Mar. 3, 2001
By Columnist

Amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act have raised the notification threshold. ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


To the Rescue

Mar. 3, 2001
By Columnist

The best advice for the rescue attorney is to ensure high-quality representation, with the idea of making the representation '...


International


Visa Voyage

Mar. 3, 2001
By Columnist

People from other countries who want to come here to start up a business or seek employment as an executive or manager, or wit...


Commercial Law


Cyberagents Are the Web's New Shoppers

Mar. 3, 2001
By Columnist

Just as we have people to help us access goods and services - travel agents and insurance agents for us ordinary folk, sports ...


Tax


Bush Proposal Brings Smiles

Mar. 3, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

Although some experts say that President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan may leave businesses out in the cold, several busin...


Labor/Employment


Major Overhaul

Mar. 3, 2001
By Columnist

The Legislature's new laws for 2001 included a multitude of changes to employment laws. ...


Litigation


The following is a recapitulation of a recent foray made into one of the local courts adjacent to the desert high country. Ple...


Corporate


Upwardly Immobile

Mar. 3, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

In today's job market New Economy employees are as mobile as the phones and personal digital assistants they create. At least ...


Law Practice


Rounsaville Going In-House

Mar. 3, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent attorney Guy Rounsaville Jr., has returned to his in-house roots and taken a position as executive v...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Gimme Shelter

Mar. 3, 2001
By Columnist

Ever since 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court has reassumed its role as the defender of property rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amen...


Firm Watch


LOS ANGELES - Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May launched a Southern California intellectual property practice this w...


Intellectual Property


Napster Faces Major Labels' United Front

Mar. 3, 2001
By Brian Mc Carthy

As Napster heads to court - again - today, the music industry has vowed to present itself a united front against its so-called...


Criminal


'Cornfed' Secures Phone Privileges

Mar. 3, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - A Pelican Bay inmate implicated in the notorious San Francisco dog mauling case was granted phone privileges T...


Technology & Science


San Jose attorney Ray Bilbeaux once tried doing stand-up comedy during open-mike time at Los Angeles comedy clubs, but he deci...


Law Practice


Longtime Daily Journal Columnist Dies

Mar. 3, 2001
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - Dick Goldberg, a veteran television newsman and former reporter and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily Journal,...


Government


San Diego Program Gives Victims Phones

Mar. 3, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A public-private partnership on Wednesday launched one of the nation's largest programs to help domestic violence ...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - A young intellectual-property attorney and his wife have received nearly $200,000 in a settlement after their we...


Judges and Judiciary


Trimming the Sails

Mar. 3, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - When he was first appointed to the bench, Ronald Evans Quidachay was in demand. Ethnic, political and communit...


Criminal


Jury Deciding Man's Fate Won't Know He Raped His Own Mother

Mar. 3, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Four days after he finished a prison term for murder, Steven Daniel Matthews raped his own mother. But the ju...


Discipline


Justices Take Hard Line on Moral Turpitude

Mar. 3, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday reaffirmed its zero-tolerance policy for attorneys who commit crimes ...


Investments


Rainmaker Joins Pillsbury Winthrop

Mar. 3, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Lewis Feldman, rainmaker and head of the structured-finance practice group at Cox Castle & Nicholson, has le...


Civil Rights


Firm Sued for Sex Discrimination

Mar. 3, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The old boys' club atmosphere at a small San Francisco firm doomed female attorneys to failure, a former assoc...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Park Place

Mar. 2, 2001
By Columnist

It is no longer sufficient to justify government action that favored constituents would benefit. ...


Litigation


Panel Rules Against Injured Woman Who Moved

Mar. 2, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - A woman injured on the job at a La Salsa restaurant unsuccessfully petitioned a state appellate court in Los Ang...


Judges and Judiciary


Judicial Tattoo

Mar. 2, 2001
By Columnist

You are in court. Your client is with you. The judge takes the bench. "The judge is wearing a pony tail," your client observes...