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Now that they've decided to shutter their 59-year-old practice, lawyers practicing under the Tuttle & Taylor name will be ...


Now that O'Melveny & Myers' new firm chair will be based in Washington, D.C., someone will have to stand atop the firm's L...


Law Practice


Cybermatch

Sep. 26, 2000
By Joseph Sorrentino

Legal matchmaking has invaded the Web, with a number of lawyers developing sites designed to link professionals with potential...


Ed Poplawski of the Los Angeles' intellectual property shop Pretty Shroeder & Poplawski recently scraped his name off the ...


Entertainment & Sports


'Tales From De-Crypt'

Sep. 26, 2000
By Columnist

The digital age has been a boon to the entertainment industry, but it is also the bane of copyright owners. As entertainment c...


Transactions


Siebel Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Janna Systems Inc. The transaction is valued at $975 million. San Mateo-based Siebel...


After nearly eight months at the helm of Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott, managing partner Scott DeVries is h...


Transactions


Foster City's Electronics For Imaging Inc. will acquire Splash Technology Holdings Inc., based in Sunnyvale. The deal is value...


Transactions


Merger Turned on Keeping Employees

Sep. 26, 2000
By John Ryan

GetThere Inc. didn't need to sell out in order to survive. Its initial public offering last November had raised an impressive ...


Law Office Automation


ASP Away!

Sep. 26, 2000
By Columnist

The application-service-provider model minimizes the firm's day-to-day responsibility for its information-system infrastructur...


Transactions


Sabre Holdings Corp. will acquire GetThere Inc. in a cash deal valued at $757 million. Sabre, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is t...


Appellate Practice


Prolific Petitions

Sep. 26, 2000
By Columnist

The "one final judgment" rule states that an appeal lies only after a final judgment that disposes of all issues between the p...


William Moran, of-counsel to San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, died Sept. 15. Moran, who succumbed to cancer at 59, ...


Large Firms


Burdge Parts Ways With Dewey Ballantine

Sep. 26, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Business litigator Richard Burdge Jr. has parted ways with his longtime firm Dewey Ballantine and joined the Los Angeles offic...


Transactions


Numerical Technologies Inc., also known as NumeriTech, has acquired Cadabra Design Automation Inc. The stock deal is valued at...


Public Interest


New Resolve

Sep. 26, 2000
By Victoria Newman

From the tony stores of South Coast Plaza to the yacht-lined shores of Balboa Island, Orange County has no shortage of wealth....


Transactions


San Jose's Tessera Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Tessera provides Chip Scale Packaging tec...


Firm Watch


Steve Goldberg is returning to his old stomping grounds at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips after a dozen years of do...


Criminal


Judge May Rule in Teen Murder Case

Sep. 26, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler may rule today on a prosecutor's motion to amend a grand jury indictment of t...


International


SPOKANE, Wash. - America's judges are not participating in the global legal dialogue, a justice of the Canadian Supreme Court ...


Entertainment & Sports


Sign of the Times

Sep. 26, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Proskauer Rose is not a law firm, it's a phenomenon. OK, everything's a phenomenon these days - we're living in the Internet a...


Judges and Judiciary


Court Counts On Clerks for Coordination

Sep. 26, 2000
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - The nine Supreme Court justices this morning will stride down the court's marble corridors to gather around their...


Judges and Judiciary


Gov. Davis Appoints George to Bench

Sep. 26, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Stephanie George, the deputy district attorney who defeated former Orange County District Attorney Michael R. Capi...


Litigation


Laguna Art Group Sues Festival Board

Sep. 26, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LAGUNA BEACH - The charitable arm of the Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach has filed a lawsuit against the festival's board of ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Washington Bar Agrees to Add Minority Seat

Sep. 26, 2000
By Staff Writer

SPOKANE, Wash. - The Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association has voted to add one seat designated for a min...


Government


Javier Ovando, who was paralyzed in a home invasion shooting by Rampart division officers Rafael Perez and Nino Durden and ser...


Criminal


Proceedings Suspended in Murder Case

Sep. 26, 2000
By Chris Ford

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner Friday gave a reprieve to a former law student who faces a murder charge with a spec...


Civil Rights


While disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez' testimony holds weight with criminal prosecutors, the rogue co...


Law Practice


KENNETH S. GELLER Geller, 53, has argued "around 40" cases before the Supreme Court, first as a member of the U.S. solicitor g...


Constitutional Law


Court Upholds Injunction on Anti-Begging Law

Sep. 26, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Raising new free speech concerns, a federal appellate court has kept in place the preliminary injunction preve...