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Civil Rights


Camp Controversy

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

The Boy Scouts of America should think twice before celebrating its recent "vindication" before the Supreme Court, where it in...


Transactions


EMotion Inc., has completed a $34 million round of financing. GE Capital and Chartwell Capital Investors II led the financing....


Transactions


Qualstar Corp. went public on June 23, in an offering valued at about $35.8 million. Qualstar develops and manufactures automa...


Transactions


Hoping for a Rain of IPOs to Ease the Drought

Jul. 11, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Attorney Dennis DeBroeck, a partner at Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, senses that the initial public offering dry spell is ov...


Large Firms


Arco's Ronald Redcay Rejoins Arnold & Porter

Jul. 11, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Ronald Redcay, a founding partner of the Los Angeles office of Washington, D.C.,-based Arnold & Porter, rejoined the firm ...


Natural Resources


Hardly a Pollution Solution

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

The federal government, responsible for enforcing our environmental laws, regularly pollutes the environment with impunity. Th...


Capstone Turbine Corp. went public in late June in an offering valued at about $136.5 million. Capstone, based in Woodland Hil...


Transactions


StaffMark Inc., which provides temporary and supplemental staff to companies needing employees for office administration and l...


Law Practice


Meteoric Rise

Jul. 11, 2000
By Tamara Scott

It was something of a shock when Alan K. Austin, the longtime managing partner of Silicon Valley's hottest firm, Wilson, Sonsi...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


Hazard Control

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

Law firms need to operate more as businesses, including being proactive about risk management and the type of insurance covera...


Criminal


Center Stage

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

The problem of sexual assault needs to take center stage. It is important that men understand its severity, police become well...


International


Good Trade

Jul. 11, 2000
By Columnist

The major aim of the bill is to allow African countries to expand their economies through growth in trade with the United Stat...


State Bar & Bar Associations


'Gangsta Cops' Focus of Meetings

Jul. 11, 2000
By Staff Writer

Joseph D. McNamara, an associate at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, will talk about "Gangsta Cops and the Drug Wars"...


Handspring Inc. went public in late June in a stock offering valued at about $200 million. The founders of the Mountain View-b...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Santa Monica Bar Sets Summer Party

Jul. 11, 2000
By Staff Writer

Lawyer Sandra Polin will host a summer party at her Pacific Palisades home July 18 for members of the Santa Monica Bar Associa...


Transactions


Mattson Technology has agreed to acquire STEAG Electronic Systems' Semiconductor Division and CFM Technologies. The value of t...


After years of overtures from firms throughout the country, prominent Century City entertainment and high-tech boutique Blanc ...


Transactions


Santa Clara's Webango Inc., which helps companies use the Internet to manage their relationships with various service supplier...


Labor/Employment


Worker Sues City Over Shared Costs

Jul. 11, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A man fired from his job as a warehouse supervisor for the city of Burbank has filed suit against the city, challenging the co...


Government


Judicial Campaign Costs Harmful

Jul. 11, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

NEW YORK - State and local grassroots organizations increasingly are setting their sights on the sharply escalating costs of j...


Litigation


Officers May Be Demoted Without Hearing

Jul. 11, 2000
By Daniel Evans

The state appellate court has refused to block the demotion of two senior Los Angeles police officers who complained their rea...


Law Practice


Bankruptcy Fraud Charges Expanded

Jul. 11, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A federal indictment against a Los Angeles attorney and two doctors on bankruptcy fraud has been expanded to include three add...


Law Practice


Bar Lacks Sufficient Diversity

Jul. 11, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

NEW YORK - Minorities are significantly underrepresented in the legal profession compared even to other professions, the presi...


Litigation


Nail Polish Needn't Carry Warnings, Says AG

Jul. 11, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - During the past eight years, dozens of sometimes acrimonious lawsuits resulted in more than $1 million paid to...


Government


Two Officers Are Acquitted in Rampart Hearing

Jul. 11, 2000
By Michael Harris

Once again casting doubts on the credibility of Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael Perez, two police officers were acquitte...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Names Vietnamese-American to O.C. Court

Jul. 11, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Deputy Attorney General Nho Trong Nguyen was appointed Orange County Superior Court's first Vietnamese American judge. ...


Law Practice


ABA Board Opposes MDPs

Jul. 11, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

NEW YORK - The American Bar Association Board of Governors voted strongly Friday to oppose letting lawyers form partnerships o...


Education


Professor Can Use Public Funds

Jul. 11, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A university professor who champions anti-smoking campaigns is free to use public funds for his lobbying activ...


Criminal


Pozner Has a Penchant for Detail

Jul. 11, 2000
By Charles Ashby

DENVER - Most television legal analysts don't say much that's worth listening to. That may not come as a surprise to many lawy...


Criminal


Leaving the lives of 130 dogs in doubt, a state appellate court has given the green light to the city of Burbank to shut down ...