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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 ...


Transactions


Sunnyvale's Endwave Corp. has gone public in an initial public offering valued at $84 million. Endwave designs components for ...


According to Bay Area co-managing partner Bruce Czachor, the Menlo Park office of New York's Shearman & Sterling is back o...


Administrative/Regulatory


So Close

Oct. 31, 2000
By Katrina Dewey

A few clear themes that distinguish between those individuals who made the Top 100 list and those who came close emerged in th...


Law Practice


The Top 100

Oct. 31, 2000
By Staff Writer

Wylie Aitken Santa Ana's politically minded trial lawyer. Aitken, who in 1960 campaigned for John F. Kennedy, remains committe...


Law Practice


Pull Power

Oct. 31, 2000
By Tanya Rothman

Influence. This entire issue of California Law Business is devoted to it. Who has it, who wants it, who's lost it. And, while ...


Transactions


Sempra Energy International has completed the purchase of Dominion Resources Inc.'s natural gas and electricity assets in Arge...


Effective Nov. 1, senior Morrison & Foerster finance partner Keith Wetmore will become the new chairman of the 965-lawyer,...


Transactions


Corixa Corp. has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Coulter Pharmaceutical Inc. The deal is valued in excess of $900 ...


Firm Watch


ANNUAL MEETING BALLOTS MEAN MANAGEMENT MOVES

Oct. 31, 2000
By Staff Writer

California law firms are counting up their annual meeting ballots, and naming new partners by the scores. Now is also the time...


Public Interest


Cultural Literacy on the Decline

Oct. 31, 2000
By Columnist

While young lawyers may be adept at legal subjects, they are showing a decline in general knowledge. ...


Education


State Settles Special-Ed Lawsuits

Oct. 31, 2000
By Jill Boekenoogen

One hundred million dollars a year in state funds may seem like a lot of money, especially when it took two lawsuits and 20 ye...


Litigation


Backlash Vindicates Gay Ex-Scoutmaster

Oct. 31, 2000
By Ed Kimble

The widespread backlash against the Boy Scouts of America has vindicated his 10-year legal battle, a former New Jersey scoutma...


Government


Gunman Hoax Mars Event on Park Safety

Oct. 31, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A bogus report of a man aiming a rifle at a group of school children Friday morning marred a county event to kick off a new pr...


Civil Rights


Digital Disability

Oct. 31, 2000
By Columnist

It makes business sense to encourage accessibility, for then a whole additional segment of the population can have access to t...


Administrative/Regulatory


Sex Offender Challenges Statute

Oct. 31, 2000
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Over a 31-year period, Andre Brigham Young has been convicted of six violent rapes. He was released from prison a...


Government


Boy Scouts Respond to ACLU Lawsuit

Oct. 31, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - An American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit contends that the Boy Scouts shouldn't be allowed to lease public land b...


Judges and Judiciary


Lawyer Practices on the Cutting Edge

Oct. 31, 2000
By Contributing Writer

TUSCON, Ariz. - When Tucson attorney John Messing admits to being "heavily involved in something called XML," it may sound lik...


Juvenile


Family Saga of Incest Still Haunts

Oct. 31, 2000
By Cheryl Romo

Flashbacks and nightmares of a brutal and traumatic childhood began intruding on the present when Donna Friess, a community co...


Government


One confirmed and two suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported among county employees working in a Wilshire...


Law Practice


Conflict Catch

Oct. 31, 2000
By Staff Writer

Stuart Eppsteiner of Solana Beach's Eppsteiner & Associates is tired of insurance companies calling the shots. He says tha...


Transactions


BigVine.com Inc. and SmallBusiness.com. have combined operations, creating a new Internet company targeting small businesses. ...


Appellate Practice


The law, like baseball, is a game of inches and tradition. In the case of Robert Earl Olmsted, it was just 1/32 of an inch an...