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SILICON HILLS

Feb. 21, 2001
By Staff Writer

On a clear day, an impressive vista stretches east from the Folsom Dam overlook across the gently rising foothills to the snow...


Entertainment & Sports


FAST FORWARD

Feb. 21, 2001
By Melissa Onstad

You represent a fabulously well-to-do technology company whose software manages information in business-to-business transactio...


Law Practice


Littler Mendleson's Mining the Rust Belt

Feb. 21, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A little more than a year after opening an office in Columbus, Ohio, Littler Mendelson is at it again, this t...


Proxim Inc. has agreed to acquire Netopia Inc. in a stock-for-stock merger valued at $223 million. Sunnyvale's Proxim provides...


Firm Watch


New York's Milbank Tweed Haley & McCloy is sporting a new, pared-back moniker for its logo. Like an increasing number of n...


After managing his clients, along with the day-to-day operations of his former small practice, bankruptcy specialist Jon Hayes...


NewZing.com Inc. has completed an initial professional investment round of $5.25 million in financing led by Softbank Venture ...


Transactions


San Francisco's CommerceFlow Inc. closed $7.5 million in Series B funding last month, with Prism Venture Partners of Westwood,...


Transactions


Helping Put Rail Line on the Right Track

Feb. 21, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Nancy Smith used a new procurement strategy to close two deals for her client, the Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Con...


Corporate securities defender Eric Landau brought his litigation practice to the Irvine office of McDermott Will & Emery o...


Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has added another appellate lawyer to its Los Angeles office. Judy Gordon, formerl...


Large Firms


Team Effort

Feb. 21, 2001
By Staff Writer

From his low-key, quiet demeanor, it is hard to imagine that Edward Anderson is at the helm of one of Silicon Valley's fastest...


Alameda's Align Technology Inc. completed an initial public offering last month valued at $130 million. The company makes invi...


The Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority gave final approval last month to the second of two contrac...


Administrative/Regulatory


Council Decides Not to Fill Goldberg Seat

Feb. 21, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Based on Los Angeles City Council action last week, the quarter-million residents of a council district that inc...


Greg Goff, a tax partner in the main office of Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, died Feb. 5 in his home after a two-year ba...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Reproduction Rights At Risk

Feb. 21, 2001
By Columnist

The Bush administration has already sent clear and chilling messages that they will threaten the reproductive rights of women ...


Law Practice


Reality Remodeled

Feb. 21, 2001
By Columnist

Job satisfaction follows when attorneys choose self-awareness. Examining their assumptions about happiness can lead dissatisfi...


Labor and employment partner Dave Geerdes has stepped into the shoes of Joan Irion, the former managing partner of Heller Ehrm...


Entertainment & Sports


DON'T TRESPASS

Feb. 21, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Intellectual property attorneys anxiously are awaiting an appellate court ruling that could transform the information superhig...


Firm Watch


Former Pretty & Schroeder partner Michael Crapenhoft says he didn't even know his firm was going to merge with Pasadena's ...


David Schack, who was a partner at Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, is now insurance lawyer No. 2 in the local of...


SandCraft Inc. has raised $35.5 million in a third round of venture financing led by VantagePoint Venture Partners Inc. Santa ...


Judges and Judiciary


Jury Assembly Room Will Get a Face-Lift

Feb. 21, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

SANTA MONICA - The county Board of Supervisors Thursday approved a contract with an architect to design a new jury assembly ro...


Law Practice


True Inspiration

Feb. 21, 2001
By Columnist

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher has produced a compact, firsthand account of some of the significant historical e...


Intellectual Property


NEW, NEW LAW

Feb. 21, 2001
By Staff Writer

At the top of his 25-year career, Palo Alto-based intellectual property litigator James Elacqua provides his take on where IP ...


Government


De la Rocha Takes Parks to Task

Feb. 21, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners continued last week with its newfound toughness toward police Chie...


Government


Grand Jury Indicts Longanbach on 12 Counts

Feb. 21, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A grand jury has indicted the former chief of the district attorney's economic fraud division, charging him with 1...


Criminal


Jury Says Strangler Deserves to Die

Feb. 21, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Jurors on Thursday deliberated less than two hours before recommending a death sentence for Kim Raymond Kopatz, wh...


Government


Census, While Imperfect, Improves Minority Count

Feb. 21, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Census Bureau claims it has reached the zenith of "The Longest Continuous Scientific Project in America...