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Veteran Partner Guides $973 Million Deal

Mar. 20, 2001
By Victoria Newman

San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop called upon veteran partner Robert Sullivan to guide longtime client, Vodafone Group, throu...


Criminal


Early Release Ends Long-Running Case

Mar. 20, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Although Sam Sheldon says he's not an emotional man, he was nearly moved to tears the day Serena Nunn was reunited with her fa...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Judicial Jubilee

Mar. 20, 2001
By Victoria Newman

The San Fernando Valley Bar Association's 75th Anniversary Judges' Night drew some of the biggest names in local politics. ...


Large Firms


Burrowing In

Mar. 20, 2001
By Staff Writer

While Richard Marmaro's courtroom strategy is not unique or flashy, it certainly is successful. Peers who have litigated with ...


Biotechnology company Aviron has completed a $400 financing deal, consisting of both debt and equity. It is the first such fi...


Synaptics Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $50 million. The San Jose company develops human interface ...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - In the state Senate, the person to see on Proposition 36, the voter-approved drug treatment measure, is now Micha...


Labor/Employment


Lawmakers Seek Study of Officer Schedules

Mar. 20, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Several Los Angeles lawmakers Friday called for an independent report on the merits of offering police officers ...


Criminal


Judge Dismisses Burned-Baby Case

Mar. 20, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - In a decision that prosecutors may appeal, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday overturned a jury's guil...


Criminal


Convicted Killer Gets Life for Wife's Murder

Mar. 20, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Eric Bechler, convicted last month of first-degree murder after bludgeoning his wife, Pegye, to death and then dum...


Criminal


Man Faces Retrial In Teen's Death

Mar. 20, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A Buena Park man recently granted a retrial in the killing of a teen-ager who stole a plastic pumpkin from the man...


Litigation


School Reshelves Gay Book Series

Mar. 20, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

ANAHEIM - Administrators will return a biographical book series on notable gays and lesbians to the shelves of an Orange Count...


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - In a little hamlet in Peru stood a bridge that Justice Thomas F. Crosby Jr. helped build in the late 1960s, when h...


Government


LOS ANGELES - In briefs filed last week, key players in the Rampart scandal criticized the proposed consent decree's failure t...


Law Practice


The Last Call

Mar. 20, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

Just about everyone could use a stiff belt or two at the end of a stressful day. One or two were never enough for Marin attorn...


Government


Early Mailer Begins S.F. Defender's Race

Mar. 20, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Using a strategy political consultants say will be remembered either as foolhardy or brilliant, San Francisco ...


Criminal


Judge Declares Mistrial in Case of HIV Victim, 7

Mar. 20, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SAN BERNARDINO - Infected with HIV at birth, Brianna Richardson probably would have died young, no matter how well her father ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Kleve's on-again, off-again 1989 murder conspiracy conviction is on again following a second affirmance...


Civil Rights


Judging by Gender

Mar. 20, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Gender politics in a nationally watched federal civil rights lawsuit alleging police failure to respond to dom...


Judges and Judiciary


Complex-Case Plan Lightens Load

Mar. 20, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - Courthouses throughout Los Angeles were empty on President's Day, a government holiday. That didn't deter Los An...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Along the halls of the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles hang framed drawings by Compton schoolchildren, all...


Entertainment & Sports


Mouse House

Mar. 19, 2001
By Columnist

Intellectual property drives American business, especially in the world's new electronic economy. Protecting its intellectual ...


Intellectual Property


Tricky Calculation

Mar. 19, 2001
By Columnist

A patent gives its owner a right to stop others from making, using and selling the methods and items covered by the patent. Bu...


Entertainment & Sports


Walkout Threatens Tinseltown

Mar. 17, 2001
By Brian Mc Carthy

Hollywood's writers are staring a May 1 contract expiration in the face, but their recent vows to strike are hardly the first ...


Corporate


Cold Front

Mar. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

For Ryerson Babcock, transferring from Inacom Corp.'s New York office to its Maitland, Fla., branch seemed like a great opport...


Agriculture


Mmmm ... A Mouthful of Frankenfoods

Mar. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Nobody likes a quaint farmers' market more than I do. Along with my purchases of organic sprouts, strawberries and pomelos, I ...


Corporate


Poking Good-Natured Fun at Those on Unemployment Line

Mar. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

When Adam Tratt was laid off from his dot-com marketing job in October, he joined the legions of Internet company workers who ...


Technology & Science


Napster's Adversary Rises From The Ashes

Mar. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Using the novel approach of offering online music files legitimately, a reincarnated Scour plans to avoid the billion-dollar ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Retro Restriction

Mar. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Recently, an appellate court held that an initiative totally banning oil drilling applied to a pre-existing project because it...


Litigation


City of San Diego Challenges Ruling

Mar. 17, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - The city of San Diego, slammed with a $94.5 million jury verdict in an inverse condemnation case, filed an appella...