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Litigation


Former DA Sues Supervisor, Orange County

Nov. 2, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant prosecutor of Orange County, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the county ...


Real Estate/Development


FINANCE BRIEFS

Nov. 2, 2000
By Ron Mc Nees

Four new lenders join Internet marketplace San Ramon - IMX Exchange, an Internet-based electronic marketplace for the wholesa...


Civil Rights


Unequal Protection

Nov. 1, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Legalized abortion and California's recently passed child-abandonment law protect a woman's right to plan her family much more...


Securities


Selective Service

Nov. 1, 2000
By Columnist

A new regulation is intended to combat "selective disclosure" by company officials of material, nonpublic company information....


Law Office Automation


Smoldering Software

Nov. 1, 2000
By Columnist

Litigation support programs can help lawyers find the smoking gun. ...


Judges and Judiciary


A Pennsylvania trial court contemplates a suit against Satan. ...


Media


Judge Franklin R. Taft got the attention of spectators during a death row inmate's habeas corpus hearing when he granted a pr...


Intellectual Property


Every person has been moved by a beautiful work of art. It's a snapshot of reality that makes you think. It makes you happy, a...


Criminal


Costumed Jury Will Hear Medi-Pot Case

Nov. 1, 2000
By Claude Walbert

AUBURN - Before a panel of spooks and specters, medical-marijuana activist Steve Kubby today will begin telling a Placer Count...


Government


Services will take place in Beverly Hills today for Melvin Joseph Duvall Jr., a former trial lawyer with the U.S. Department o...


Military Law


Peer-Court Teens Prepare at School, Work Hard

Nov. 1, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - She was 16 and in big trouble with both the law and her mother for shoplifting six silver rings. At her sentencing...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Justices Review Sovereign Immunity

Nov. 1, 2000
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Continuing its focus on arbitration, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether an Indian tribe must ...


Labor/Employment


Court Reinstates Termination Suit

Nov. 1, 2000
By Daniel Evans

Despite undisputed testimony that her former boss called her a "black bitch" and wanted her fired, a trial judge last year thr...


Law Practice


A memorial service will take place Thursday for retired Los Angeles attorney John E. Caldwell. Caldwell, who specialized in ta...


Activist lawyers are gearing up to file a mega civil rights suit against the Los Angeles Police Department. The attorneys are ...


Law Practice


In a move some observers suggest could reignite February's associate salary wars, all three offices of New York-based Sullivan...


Judges and Judiciary


Scorcher in the Valley

Nov. 1, 2000
By Staff Writer

The contentious race for an open judgeship in Sacramento County between two hard-nosed lawyers reflects an alarming trend: Ju...


Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips recently added a pair of partner-level attorneys to its Palo Alto office, one from a...


Law Practice


The In Crowd

Oct. 31, 2000
By Garry Abrams

To win a place on this year's California Law Business list of the state's most influential attorneys, it helped to have a rela...


Transactions


Wilson Sonsini Partner Takes Acquisition in Stride

Oct. 31, 2000
By Victoria Newman

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Just ask Aaron Alter. The corporate and securities partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goddric...


Townsend and Townsend and Crew has added another outpost, this one in San Francisco's East Bay, just across the water from the...


Transactions


Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at approximately $40 million. Based in Emeryville...


Administrative/Regulatory


Courtroom Civility

Oct. 31, 2000
By Columnist

Where has collegiality gone? Why is there so much disharmony in the courtroom? What can be done to arrest the marked decline i...


Transactions


SM Lithography Holding N.V. will buy rival chip-equipment maker Silicon Valley Group Inc. of San Jose. The stock deal is value...


Ellie Mae Inc. has acquired Genesis 2000 Inc. The cash, stock and assumption of debt deal is worth $20 million. Pleasanton's E...


Government


Ceremony Honors Prosecutors' Work

Oct. 31, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Twenty-three county and city prosecutors were among those honored Friday for their work on domestic violence cases. ...


Constitutional Law


San Diego law professor Bryan Wildenthal has just returned from a 1-week trip to South Africa, where he and other legal profes...


Law Practice


Big 10

Oct. 31, 2000
By Staff Writer

So you want to be among the 10 most powerful lawyers in California? No problem. Just follow these simple steps. You must do on...


Firm Watch


Management at San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe says that its office in San Diego's Golden Triangle has seen...


Despite ballooning salaries and more work than its lawyers can handle, San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison managed ...