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Government


Ex-DA Handles Police Liability For Irvine Firm

May 17, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

IRVINE - Devallis Rutledge, former chief assistant district attorney of Orange County, has joined the firm of Manning, Marder,...


Corporate


Reback Leaves Wilson Sonsini for Tech Firm

May 17, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

SAN FRANCISCO - Gary L. Reback, a high-profile partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati who led one of the first legal ...


Public Interest


By Steven A. Silver In her editorial "Mothers Targeting Gun Violence," (Forum, May 8), Sen. Dianne Feinstein gushed about the ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Family Targets Manufacturers Of Disinfectant

May 17, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

The family of a 55-year-old United Airlines flight attendant who died of "metastatic lung disease" a year ago has filed a wron...


Criminal


Just as the federal government is pressuring Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks to hand over the keys to his...


Criminal


Bar Court Reinstates Mitchelson

May 17, 2000
By Pamela A. Mac Lean And Anne La Jeunesse

SAN FRANCISCO - Celebrity divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson has convinced a State Bar Court judge that he is fit to practice la...


Government


Appellate Court Gives Torrance $1.7M in Fees

May 17, 2000
By Martin Bergn

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday approved an award of more than $1.7 million in attorney's fees for the city of To...


Government


Judge Tosses Weapons Charge in Rampart Case

May 17, 2000
By Martin Bergn

A federal judge Monday dismissed weapons charges against a man who contended he had been framed by one of the police officers ...


Criminal


Joy Gibson Gets 3 Years for Pimping

May 17, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Convicted pimp Joy "Babydol" Gibson, who allegedly plied her sex trade via the Internet, was sentenced Monday to three years i...


Discipline


Dump Site Suit Charges Lawyer With Conspiracy

May 17, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Peter C. Sheridan, a partner at Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro,...


Criminal


A compromise "Driving While Black or Brown" bill tailored to win the support of Gov. Gray Davis has been proclaimed by its spo...


Entertainment & Sports


Eric Suddleson, former head of business and legal affairs at Los Angeles' Mutual Film Co., has joined the entertainment and in...


Government


Rampart Attorneys Lash Out

May 17, 2000
By Michael Harris

As the first three officers charged in the Rampart scandal pleaded not guilty Monday, their attorneys went on the offensive, a...


Criminal


Supporters Back Off Compromise

May 17, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

In announcing his compromise racial profiling bill at that April 27 Sacramento rally, state Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City.,...


Litigation


DETAILED SEARCH

May 16, 2000
By Columnist

Bottom Line: By Frank W. Nemecek and Mary H. Redfield An attorney has been hired to represent a client in a lawsuit. Pursuant ...


Litigation


Waddington Set for Arbitration Talk

May 16, 2000
By Staff Reports

Retired Judge Lawrence C. Waddington will talk about "The 'Litigization' of Arbitration: A Review of Cutting Edge Case Law" at...


Transactions


Making a Career of Doing Big Mergers

May 16, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

Debra Summers believes in getting down to business. In fact, focusing on the business issues, while managing the legal ones al...


Securities


Software company Blue Martini Inc. has filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of stock. The transaction...


Probate


Easy Marks

May 16, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

A 45-minute flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and $55 was all it took for Joel Levitt and Barbara Gold to get hitched at th...


Transactions


PeopleSoft Inc. has acquired Advance Planning Solution Inc. in a cash transaction whose value was not disclosed. ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Waste Elimination

May 16, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Land Use Law By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. In Waste Management of Alameda County Inc., v County of Alameda (Browning-F...


Corporate


Chevron Remains a Defendant in Nigeria Suit

May 16, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has ruled that Chevron Corp. must remain as a defendant in a suit accusing the oil giant's Nig...


Transactions


ACT Networks Inc., based in Calabasas, is being acquired by Redwood City's Clarent Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valu...


Administrative/Regulatory


BREAKING THE MOLD

May 16, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Nightmare on Tribute Street For years, Kathy Masera and her staff at the California Job Journal in Sacramento had lived with a...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Seagate Technology Inc. has been acquired by Veritas Software Corp. and a private investor group led by Silver Lake Partners i...


Transactions


Online search engine GoTo.com Inc., based in Pasadena, has acquired AuctionRover.com Inc., based in Research Triangle Park, N....


Criminal


Forum: By Stephen Yagman The paradoxical notion of hiding in plain sight serves LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks very well, like th...


Public Interest


Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Showing some pretty fancy footwork, Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush denied knowi...


Judges and Judiciary


STRAYING WATCHDOG

May 16, 2000
By Columnist

The Closer: By Anthony V. Baker These days, I often wonder what Alexander Hamitlton would think about the Supreme Court. By an...


International environmental lawyer David R. Andrews has returned to San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen after ...