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Firm Watch


Oxnard plaintiffs' boutique Hiepler & Hiepler has hired an experienced defense attorney as a senior litigation associate. ...


Firm Watch


When Ed Wes heard on Jan. 12 that Brobeck Phleger's associate salary raises were for real, he decreed that it be so for the Sa...


Firm Watch


San Diego gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender boutique Lynn Stock & Stephens has hired its first associate. Jason Barsi...


Law Practice


Scrap Collector

Jan. 23, 2001
By Columnist

The fable "Rock Soup" reminds a litigator of the essence and importance of discovery: collecting scraps of information to put ...


Transactions


Lantronix Inc. has agreed to buy United States Software Co. for $7 million. Irvine's Lantronix Inc. makes servers that enable ...


Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins has brought intellectual property lawyer DeAnne Ozaki aboard as of-counsel in the home offic...


Transactions


Sizzler International Inc. has obtained a seven-year $10 million term loan from Chicago's Heller Financial Inc. The Culver Cit...


Firm Watch


After New York Marathon, It's Off to Boston

Jan. 23, 2001
By Contributing Writer

New Mexico's Mt. Taylor Quadathlon is not for the weak. A 13-mile bike ride precedes a 5-mile run. The course continues with a...


Firm Watch


Partner Jim Towery stepped up to the executive board of San Jose's Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel on Jan. 1. Towery, a business...


Government


Court Upholds Record Campaign Fines

Jan. 23, 2001
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - A superior court judge has upheld an $880,000 fine by the state Fair Political Practices Commission - the largest...


Firm Watch


Jan. 16 marked a changing of the guard, or at least half of it, at San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps. The firm a...


Transactions


Los Angeles' California Pizza Kitchen Inc. has filed for a secondary stock offering. About 3.4 million common shares will be o...


Most of the bankruptcy practice from the late Troop Steuber Reddick & Tobey - two of three lawyers - have found a home at ...


Firm Watch


San Diego's Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek has added seven associates. The full-service business and litigation firm now has 59 ...


Firm Watch


Deborah Neville became senior counsel in the Palo Alto office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips at the beginning of January afte...


Firm Watch


Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati voted Jonathan Axelrad back into the partnership on Jan. 9, after his return ...


Hughes Electronics Corp. has agreed to buy Telocity Inc. for $180 million in cash. Hughes Electronics of El Segundo is the spa...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The $2 million-a-year job of monitoring federally mandated reforms of the Los Angeles Police Department is suffi...


Large Firms


Boom Time

Jan. 23, 2001
By Diane Taylor

Rick Parker, managing partner of Brobeck Phleger's San Diego outpost, oversees an office growing so rapidly it has already out...


Public Interest


DRAWING THE LINE

Jan. 23, 2001
By Columnist

For the past 28 years, Jan. 22 has been an occasion to celebrate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Yet this year's celebration o...


Transactions


Eagerness to Adapt Helps Seal Deal

Jan. 23, 2001
By Victoria Newman

David Hayes has always been on the cutting edge. To finance his law school education, Hayes worked as a computer programmer fo...


Firm Watch


JAMS FAMILY GROWS BY TWO IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Jan. 23, 2001
By Staff Reports

Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has added an appeals judge and a family law specialist to its Southern California...


Energy Law


Edison Asks Court To Block Sell-Off

Jan. 23, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Southern California Edison filed suit late Friday asking the court to block the California Power Exchange from s...


Civil Rights


Judge's Order Bars Protester From Center

Jan. 23, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge on Friday issued a temporary restraining order against a man accused in a civil complaint o...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati will not match the base salary set in the latest salary war initiated by Sa...


Criminal


Victim of Bad Beating Testifies for High Bail

Jan. 23, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - With his jaw wired shut from his injuries, the victim of a beating so severe it left his head misshapen told a jud...


Litigation


Speech Defense

Jan. 23, 2001
By Columnist

The two opinions issued last month show that courts are following the legislative direction of 'Briggs.' ...


Law Office Automation


Attorney Mike Lorimer Loses Cancer Battle

Jan. 23, 2001
By Victoria Newman

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Mike (Walter L.M.) Lorimer, a renowned entertainment and labor lawyer. Lorimer die...


Criminal


Plasma Manufacturer Admits Misconduct

Jan. 23, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The owner of an Orange plasma manufacturing and distributing company pleaded guilty Friday to violating national F...


Government


To the End, Attorneys Were Split On Clinton

Jan. 23, 2001
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - On the day before he left office, Bill Clinton once again managed to cleave opinion - this time about whether he ...