Constitutional Law
Censoring Religious Student Talk Violates Free Speech Rights
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By Jay Sekulow. Wrangling over the proper rules for church-state relations seems never-ending, especially when it involves all...
Firm Watch
Foley Lardner: CORPORATE BOUTIQUE ADDS TO BAY AREA EXPANSION
By Tamara Scott
Nobody likes to miss the boat - especially the S.S. Technology Practice - and Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner is no exception....
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Skadden Arps: PURCHASE EXPANDS PLUM CREEK'S TIMBER EMPIRE
By Victoria Newman
Plum Creek Timber Co. is acquiring the Timber Co. unit of Georgia-Pacific Corp. The deal, valued at $4 billion, is expected to...
With business driving the homeless from Skid Row, activists like lawyer Dan Marlmalefsky and the Rev. Alice Callahan are fight...
International corporate attorney Joseph M. Barbeau, an 18-year veteran of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has defecte...
Fighting a retaliation claim requires showing that whatever happened to an employee was unrelated to the employee's earlier pr...
Gregg Noel, like many corporate attorneys these days, is used to burning the midnight oil. His representation of Plum Creek Ti...
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Zevnik Horton: HISPANIC COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY GOES PUBLIC
By Victoria Newman
Hispanic communications giant Entravision Communications Corp. went public today in an offering initially valued at about $7....
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Wilson Sonsini: KABIRA TECHNOLOGIES FILES IPO WORTH $57 MILLION
By Victoria Newman
San Rafael's Kabira Technologies Inc. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at about $57 million. Kabira i...
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Brobeck Phleger: NUSPEED PURCHASE PART OF CISCO BUYING SPREE
By Victoria Newman
Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is buying NuSpeed Internet Systems. The stock deal is valued at $450 million. Sa...
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...
Norbert M. Seifert, formerly general counsel and corporate secretary of Imperial Credit Commercial Mortgage Investment Corp., ...
An independent, responsible judiciary is slowly emerging in Eastern European countries from what has traditionally been hamstr...
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Cleary Gottlieb: NORTEL NETWORKS ACQUIRES ALTEONWEB FOR $7.3 BILLION
By Victoria Newman
Nortel Networks Corp., the world's No. 2 network equipment supplier, has bought Web switch developer AlteonWeb Systems Inc. Th...
Firm Watch
Crosby Heafey: SANDERS BARNET HEADS FOR CROSBY'S CENTURY CITY OFFICE
By Tamara Scott
Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has lured Century City's Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk to join its Cent...
Membership Privileges Government Faces Major Hurdles in Credit-Card Case Whether the government can show injury to consumers, ...
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted to delay until April placing a measure on the ballot that would strengthen the po...
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's attorney Rachel Lehmer Claus is forced to deal with a change of rules that are interferin...
Michael Stolzberg, a retired workers' compensation judge, died Monday from a lung infection. He was 86. According to retired c...
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
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...
By David Houston Daily News Staff Writer A former veteran cop assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Division pl...
More than two years after a man's death in an unlicensed alcohol rehabilitation facility in North Hollywood sparked a debate a...
Former 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William A. Norris and former assistant U.S. attorney and Supreme Court clerk Edward ...
Law Practice
Judicial Council Proposes New Guidelines for Sealing Records
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Prodded by a state Supreme Court ruling that opened court proceedings involving actor-director Clint Eastwood ...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler on Friday set aside the conviction of a man allegedly framed by ex-Los Angele...
An immigration officer, already under criminal investigation for promising political asylum to two Chinese women in exchange f...
By Michael M. Berger. Land-use litigation in California is not for the faint of heart, at least if one represents landowners. ...
By Ruchi Gupta. Following a day-and-a-half of deliberation, a San Francisco jury awarded Mark Lewis, a 51-year-old mesotheliom...
The Public Eye: by Ross Johnson. Now that actor Robert Downey Jr. has left, at least for a bit, the California penal system, w...