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Firm Watch


The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach has named local resident Jennifer Hagle to its board of directors. A partner in the ...


Construction


Keeping Homeowners Housebroken

Jan. 9, 2001
By Columnist

In a cold-blooded and cruel decision issued on Dec. 4, the California Supreme Court literally and figuratively has crushed our...


Lloyd Loomis, one of the country's top labor and employment lawyers, is ringing in the new year as a partner in the Los Angele...


Back in October, labor lawyer Ann Kotlarski left a partnership at the 14-lawyer Los Angeles firm Lamb & Baute for an of co...


In a move that's rare for law firms , Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has acquired all the lawyers from a l...


Law Practice


Advisory Panel Named by Court

Jan. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - The state Supreme Court has appointed an 18-member panel led by bar officials to study and recommend whether atto...


Palo Alto-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has come out the winner in the Northern California firms' scramble for Limbac...


When Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker was looking for a few good estate planning lawyers earlier this year, Re...


Public Interest


The Department of Defense wastes billions of taxpayer dollars each year on a corrupt procurement and acquisition system that i...


Univision Communications Inc. will buy USA Networks Inc.'s broadcast group for $1.1 billion cash. Univision Communications of ...


Polycom Inc. will acquire Accord Networks Ltd. for $339 million. Milpitas' Polycom makes broadband appliances. Its multimedia ...


Firm Watch


The Friends of the University of California, Los Angeles, Armenian language and culture studies program elected sole practitio...


Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited three of the eight attorneys at Brand Farrar & Buxbaum, a corporate, real est...


Tom Turner, former real estate practice group head at Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch, now leads the whole 71-lawyer Sa...


Ham Enersen, once a prominent water lawyer and a name partner at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, died on ...


Transactions


Broadcom Corp. has agreed to purchase VisionTech Ltd. The deal is valued at $777 million. Irvine's Broadcom makes integrated c...


Construction


Wait and See

Jan. 9, 2001
By Columnist

The 'Aas' court concentrated on the foreseeability of harm and the degree of certainty that the plaintiff suffered injury. ...


Yodlee.com Inc. is buying VerticalOne Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Redwood Shores' Yodlee provides personal account aggreg...


Criminal


Unusual Forfeiture of Web Site With Plea

Jan. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN JOSE - In what is believed to be the first criminal forfeiture of a Web site in an intellectual property case, two Los Ang...


Firm Watch


On Saturdays, They Take a Turn at the Mike

Jan. 9, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

Most days, the three partners of Los Angeles litigation boutique Solomon Saltsman & Jamieson argue on behalf of their clie...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Gavel Passage

Jan. 9, 2001
By Staff Writer

It was time to say hello to the Bar Association of San Francisco's new president, Doug Young, and goodbye to his predecessor, ...


Transactions


Brobeck Partner Likes Being in the Mix

Jan. 9, 2001
By John Ryan

A desire to get more involved in the fate of his clients' businesses has determined the course of Richard Chernicoff's career....


Firm Watch


The Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha, the honorary land economics society, selected Joan Story as one of 22 individuals to ...


Litigation


Clint Wins Again Against ADA Suit

Jan. 9, 2001
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - Clint Eastwood has won another small victory in his legal battle with a disabled Alameda woman who filed a civil ri...


Telecommunications equipment maker Ciena Corp. is purchasing Cyras Systems Inc. for $2.6 billion, comprised stock and debt ass...


Securities


Senate Confirms Gourley as DMV Director

Jan. 9, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - The state Senate has confirmed former West Los Angeles attorney Steven Gourley as director of the Department of ...


Securities


LOS ANGELES - Private services will be held for Robert H. Volk, attorney and former state commissioner of corporations whose r...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - Three corporate officers of one of the country's biggest title companies have tentatively settled an unusual f...


Public Interest


Trailblazers Remembered

Jan. 9, 2001
By Tina Spee

LOS ANGELES - California's legal community lost hundreds of practitioners and jurists in 2000. What the year will most be note...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Friday held in contempt a whistle-blower who gave court-sealed files concerning alleged spousal ...