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Firm Watch


Touting its success as a midsize firm, San Francisco's Steefel Levitt & Weiss announced last month that it has completed i...


Civil Rights


In Smith v. University of Washington Law School, 2000 Daily Journal D.A.R. 12859 (9th Cir. 2000), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...


Transactions


Agilent Technologies Inc. is purchasing Objective Systems Integrators Inc. for $665 million. Palo Alto's Agilent Technologies,...


The unusual joint venture between San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison and Hale and Dorr of Boston will open its thi...


LSI Logic Storage Systems Inc. has completed its acquisition of Syntax Inc. The transaction is valued at $58 million. Milpitas...


Government


City Coughs Up LAPD Overtime Pay

Dec. 19, 2000
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - With nary a peep, the Los Angeles City Council on Friday allocated millions of dollars to the Police Department ...


Government


Ex-O.J. DA Will Head Rampart Investigation

Dec. 19, 2000
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Friday named a former O.J. Simpson prosecutor to oversee the Rampart police co...


Juvenile


ACLU Jumps Into Fight Against Proposition 21

Dec. 19, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union jumped into the fight Friday against Proposition 21, a voter-approved initiativ...


Constitutional Law


Peep Shows Sue San Diego Over Restricted Hours

Dec. 19, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Three adult book and video stores are suing in federal court over an amended city ordinance restricting when peep ...


Judges and Judiciary


Council Mulls Role of Court Commissioners

Dec. 19, 2000
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to clarify the role of the state's burgeoning number of court commissioners, the Judicial Council has...


Criminal


Court Cuts Judges' Role in Assessing Experts

Dec. 19, 2000
By Dawn Piimanu

LOS ANGELES - Judges may not assess the credibility of experts at probable cause hearings, an appellate court has ruled. Inste...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Kaiser Pays $842,000 In Breast-Cancer Case

Dec. 19, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A 38-year-old news editor whose breast cancer allegedly went undiagnosed by the nation's largest nonprofit health ...


Law Practice


Paul Hastings Captures Division Title

Dec. 19, 2000
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Memo to the 52 teams who vied for titles in the Landau Lawyer's League Basketball Tournament: If at first you do...


Intellectual Property


U.S. Attorney Nails Internet Menace

Dec. 19, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - In what is believed to be the first criminal prosecution of film piracy in California under a new Internet-sp...


Environmental


SAN FRANCISCO - Protecting private property rights is a concept likely to underlie George W. Bush's policy toward the environ...


Litigation


City Pays Estate of Homeless Woman

Dec. 19, 2000
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - The estate of a homeless and mentally ill woman fatally shot in 1999 by Los Angeles Police Department officers a...


Communications


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired communications attorney Harry P. Warner. Warner died Dec. 11 at St. John's...


Law Practice


Howrey Simon Takes Trophy Group

Dec. 19, 2000
By Tamara Scott

LOS ANGELES - Howrey Simon Arnold & White has won the 26-attorney insurance recovery and complex business litigation group...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The ACLU expects to file a request today to intervene in the consent decree that the U.S. Justice Department neg...


Transactions


Finisar Corp. is acquiring privately held companies Demeter Technologies Inc., Shomiti Systems Inc. and Transwave Fiber Inc. T...


Government


High Court Ruling Violates Principles of Federalism

Dec. 16, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The U.S. Supreme Court's majority recount opinion constitutes a dark hour in our nation's great history. Bush v. Gore, 00-949 ...


Tax


Attorney Pleads to Felony Tax Charge

Dec. 16, 2000
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney faces up to three years in federal prison and a $100,000 fine for under-reporting the inc...


Litigation


Couple Files Lawsuit Over Lost Embryos

Dec. 16, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - A couple has filed a lawsuit against an Orange County fertility clinic, claiming that it deprived them of having c...


Environmental


Serious Headbanger

Dec. 16, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

Richard A. Dongell gently spins engaging yarns in the courtroom. But in his youth, he pounded out headbanging rock music befor...


Litigation


Cut to the Chase

Dec. 16, 2000
By Columnist

As the dispute resolution community moves into the 21st century, technology has become an important part of our daily routines...


Government


Imagining the Jury of Chad's Peers

Dec. 16, 2000
By Staff Writer

The Bystander In what historians may someday view as a missed opportunity, the lack of a jury trial in the Florida election s...


Law Practice


Tax Expert Jason Goes to Kirkland & Ellis

Dec. 16, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Robert M. Jason, head of the tax department at Century City's Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey, announced that he wil...


Appellate Practice


WASHINGTON - With the presidency hanging in the balance during two historic oral arguments, the Supreme Court justices display...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


'Like a Judge'

Dec. 16, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

Richard Mosk's new office is in disarray. A bookshelf recently filled with neat rows of books, a couch surrounded by boxes of ...


Law Practice


Time Management

Dec. 16, 2000
By Columnist

Time is a lawyer's stock and trade. It therefore pays to be as stingy with your time as you are with your money. ...