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Constitutional Law


By Jay Sekulow. Wrangling over the proper rules for church-state relations seems never-ending, especially when it involves all...


Firm Watch


Nobody likes to miss the boat - especially the S.S. Technology Practice - and Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner is no exception....


Transactions


Plum Creek Timber Co. is acquiring the Timber Co. unit of Georgia-Pacific Corp. The deal, valued at $4 billion, is expected to...


Public Interest


Kenny's Corner

Aug. 8, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

With business driving the homeless from Skid Row, activists like lawyer Dan Marlmalefsky and the Rev. Alice Callahan are fight...


Firm Watch


International corporate attorney Joseph M. Barbeau, an 18-year veteran of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has defecte...


Labor/Employment


Retaliation Response

Aug. 8, 2000
By Columnist

Fighting a retaliation claim requires showing that whatever happened to an employee was unrelated to the employee's earlier pr...


Transactions


Nailing Timberland Deal Took Long Hours

Aug. 8, 2000
By Victoria Newman

Gregg Noel, like many corporate attorneys these days, is used to burning the midnight oil. His representation of Plum Creek Ti...


Transactions


Hispanic communications giant Entravision Communications Corp. went public today in an offering initially valued at about $7....


Transactions


San Rafael's Kabira Technologies Inc. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at about $57 million. Kabira i...


Transactions


Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is buying NuSpeed Internet Systems. The stock deal is valued at $450 million. Sa...


Technology & Science


Cyberschool

Aug. 8, 2000
By Staff Writer

Law schools are experimenting with ways to produce a new breed of lawyers who can figure out how to apply a body of law writte...


Firm Watch


Norbert M. Seifert, formerly general counsel and corporate secretary of Imperial Credit Commercial Mortgage Investment Corp., ...


Judges and Judiciary


A Free Judiciary

Aug. 8, 2000
By Columnist

An independent, responsible judiciary is slowly emerging in Eastern European countries from what has traditionally been hamstr...


Transactions


Nortel Networks Corp., the world's No. 2 network equipment supplier, has bought Web switch developer AlteonWeb Systems Inc. Th...


Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has lured Century City's Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk to join its Cent...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.


Membership Privileges

Aug. 8, 2000
By Columnist

Membership Privileges Government Faces Major Hurdles in Credit-Card Case Whether the government can show injury to consumers, ...


Civil Rights


City Council Delays Police Measure

Aug. 8, 2000
By Chris Ford

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted to delay until April placing a measure on the ballot that would strengthen the po...


Law Practice


Rule Rebel

Aug. 8, 2000
By E Freudenthal

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's attorney Rachel Lehmer Claus is forced to deal with a change of rules that are interferin...


Judges and Judiciary


Workers' Compensation Judge Stolzberg Dies

Aug. 8, 2000
By Lisa Madrid

Michael Stolzberg, a retired workers' compensation judge, died Monday from a lung infection. He was 86. According to retired c...


Criminal


Escapees Say, 'We Were in Bondage'

Aug. 8, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Sherrald Reed, LaRonda Burton, Mercedes Knox, Denise Reed, Rosslynn Mitchell and Barbara Becker - all convicted of drug offens...


Criminal


Judge Will Unseal Papers On Plea in DA Speed Case

Aug. 8, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Brian Kazarian was one of the finest the Orange County district attorney's office had to offer: an aggressive, sometimes arrog...


Government


By David Houston Daily News Staff Writer A former veteran cop assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Division pl...


Criminal


Abuse, Neglect Close to Home

Aug. 8, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

More than two years after a man's death in an unlicensed alcohol rehabilitation facility in North Hollywood sparked a debate a...


Firm Watch


Former 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William A. Norris and former assistant U.S. attorney and Supreme Court clerk Edward ...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Prodded by a state Supreme Court ruling that opened court proceedings involving actor-director Clint Eastwood ...


Government


Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler on Friday set aside the conviction of a man allegedly framed by ex-Los Angele...


Discipline


An immigration officer, already under criminal investigation for promising political asylum to two Chinese women in exchange f...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Temporary Takings

Aug. 5, 2000
By Columnist

By Michael M. Berger. Land-use litigation in California is not for the faint of heart, at least if one represents landowners. ...


Product Liability


Little Fibers

Aug. 5, 2000
By Ruchi Gupta

By Ruchi Gupta. Following a day-and-a-half of deliberation, a San Francisco jury awarded Mark Lewis, a 51-year-old mesotheliom...


Criminal


Death Row Honcho Is Next in Line

Aug. 5, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The Public Eye: by Ross Johnson. Now that actor Robert Downey Jr. has left, at least for a bit, the California penal system, w...