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Damages Ruled Out in Rent Control Disputes

Feb. 7, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Tenants and cities with rent control laws got a win Monday when the California Supreme Court ruled that landlo...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The American Bar Association will honor Angela Oh with its Inspirational Award of Excellence at its midyear meeting in San Die...


Judges and Judiciary


Lawyers' Committee Honors Five

Feb. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights honored U.S. District Court Senior Judge Thelton Henderson...


Product Liability


DCA: Judge Ordering Ford Recall Isn't Biased

Feb. 6, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Ford was right about Ford, a California appellate court said Friday. The same judge who told Ford Motor Compan...


Large Firms


Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited an experienced appellate and litigation attorney for its Los Angeles off...


Firm Watch


Chicago's Mayer Brown & Platt acquired a certain je ne sais quoi with its Jan. 1 addition of the Paris corporate boutique ...


Transactions


Intel Corp. has agreed to acquire Xircom Inc. in a deal valued at $748 million. Santa Clara's Intel Corp. is the world's large...


Vivian Rescalvo, a land use planner who has worked for the city and county of Los Angeles and the city of Torrance, joined the...


Pillsbury Winthrop, that San Francisco and New York amalgam established this year, has added five California lawyers in its fi...


Transactions


Acquisition Binge Keeps Lawyer Busy

Feb. 6, 2001
By John Ryan

The TV commercials for Intel's Pentium processors, which are as hip as they are ubiquitous, don't paint a complete picture of ...


Large Firms


Meeting a challenge issued by the American Bar Association and Georgetown University Law Center, Latham & Watkins donated ...


Tripwire Inc. has secured $24 million in third-round venture financing led by private-placement group Deutsche Banc Alex.Brow...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn & Crutcher held a private art sale at the firm on Thursday to benefit at-risk inner...


Transactions


Naturalhealthlink.com Inc. has secured $9.4 million in venture financing led by MDS Capital Corp. Los Angeles' Naturalhealthli...


Firm Watch


Jong Han Kim, a corporate lawyer specializing in Korean business transactions and the politics that govern them, returned as o...


Family


A Great Gift

Feb. 6, 2001
By Melissa Onstad

Family law mediator David Price discusses the role of mediation and how it can ease the conflict between contending parties in...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Appoints Judge To Law Library Board

Feb. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court has appointed Judge David Yaffe to a four-year term on the Board of Trustees of the L...


Firm Watch


Mission Gives Lawyer a Sense of Balance

Feb. 6, 2001
By Rebecca Kuzins

Richard Zaitlen has developed a new appreciation for the comfortable life that often is taken for granted. In November, Zaitle...


Discipline


Instilling Purpose

Feb. 6, 2001
By Columnist

There is much more to being a lawyer than just bottom lines and billable hours, which is why classes in justice need to be a p...


Transactions


Santa Clara's Riverstone Networks Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $108.6 million. Riverstone provides ...


Law Practice


Court Reporter Donna Bowers, 52, Dies

Feb. 6, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Thursday for Donna Suzan Bowers, a longtime federal court reporter and the wi...


Public Interest


Law and Justice

Feb. 6, 2001
By Tamara Scott

In its largest turnout to date, more than 1,500 lawyers, judges, politicians and corporate executives from the Los Angeles ar...


Litigation


Fact Track

Feb. 6, 2001
By Columnist

An attorney must pack his bag with plenty of facts - and evidence to back them up - before he takes the next train to the cour...


Large Firms


Tulane Law School in New Orleans has a new course, thanks to the entertainment and iLaw practice groups of Los Angeles' Loeb &...


Criminal


Council Honors Rampart Inquiry

Feb. 6, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Friday commended the nearly 200 lawyers and crime experts the Board of Police Co...


Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. has signed an agreement with JMB Realty Corp. under which JMB Realty will construct a new off...


Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolf is the latest law firm office to sprout from the ashes of Los Angeles' Troop Steuber Pasich R...


Transactions


Six new lawyers joined the Los Angeles-based Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan during the first two weeks of 2001. David Gu...


Also in early January, San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen added Patricia Coleman James to its 30-lawyer intel...


Litigation


GROWING PAINS

Feb. 6, 2001
By Joseph Sorrentino

The town of Coyote is little more than a glorified truck stop in south San Jose. Caltrain, Highway 101 and Monterey Avenue cut...