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Mergers & Acquisitions


Adjusting to Life That Gets Faster, Faster

Jan. 25, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

If Gordon Davidson finds something new in transactional law, it must really be new. After all, he's been with the Palo Alto o...


Criminal


Judge Recuses Self From Trial

Jan. 25, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Judge Recuses Self From Trial SANTA ANA - Judge Charles Margines recused himself Friday from the criminal case of former Orang...


Public Interest


Reaching Out to L.A.'s Inner City Children

Jan. 25, 2000
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

Last summer, Cynthia Cruz took a bus once a week from downtown Los Angeles to Century City to meet with her legal team from G...


Entertainment & Sports


Blockbuster Bootleg

Jan. 25, 2000
By Columnist

As the industry "goes digital," new opportunities for cyber piracy will present themselves. ...


Large Firms


Chosen Path

Jan. 25, 2000
By Tamara Scott

By Tamara Scott Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference....


The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. - Irvin...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Tort Reformers Take to the Web

Jan. 25, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON- Tort reformers have taken their war with trial lawyers into cyberspace. The Washington-based American Tort Reform ...


Judges and Judiciary


Three Guilty of Embezzling Court Fees

Jan. 25, 2000
By Michael Harris

In a case that sparked a district attorney's investigation into allegations of widespread theft by Los Angeles Municipal Court...


Litigation


DA Says Office Unfairly Denied Her Promotion

Jan. 25, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - An Orange County deputy district attorney who is suing her office for discrimination testified during a trial Frid...


Criminal


Former Disney Internet executive Patrick Naughton's conviction for possessing child pornography was overturned Friday by a fed...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - Kathleen E. O'Leary was sworn into office Friday as an associate justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal in ...


Criminal


CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Jan. 25, 2000
By Matthew Heller

VICTORVILLE - Three generations of the family of James Marien had called for justice for the man who shot him in cold blood, s...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court is expected to receive a petition today asking it to order the California Supreme Court to rem...


Intellectual Property


Milk and Cookies

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

The Federal Trade Commission has promulgated rules for the use of children's personal information on the Internet. ...


Probate


RIVERSIDE - Three attorneys appointed to help the alleged victims of the Riverside County conservatorship fraud recover some o...


Litigation


Doctor Know

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Since the enactment of the Civil Discovery Act of 1986, California attorneys have questioned whether Code of Civil Procedure S...


Entertainment & Sports


On 'Law & Order' this week, the world is a strange, unrecognizable place - inside and outside the courtroom. ...


Entertainment & Sports


Jimmy Berluti on 'The Practice' suggests using the diminished-capacity/social-deviant theory utilized by the Reginald Denny-be...


Litigation


Tying Up Loose Ends

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Attorneys who do not vet even the most renowned expert and closely supervise preparation risk alienating the fact finder. ...


Criminal


By Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg As we have dusted off our keyboards and realized our computers still work, Americans...


Entertainment & Sports


Just because Amy Gray's a lawyer and a judge doesn't make her immune from behaving like the parents she sees in her courtroom....


Intellectual Property


Beneficial Collaboration

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

According to data for 1998 released by the Association of University Technology Managers, $24 billion from public and private ...


Litigation


Techno Talkers

Jan. 22, 2000
By Mark Blumberg

Attorney Susan van Keulen believes she was in the right place and right time based solely on geography and timeliness. In 1988...


Criminal


Judge Issues Order to Parole Board

Jan. 22, 2000
By Michael Harris

Judge Issues Order To Parole Board In the latest chapter in the legal showdown over the parole of a convicted killer, a judge ...


Environmental


Logging Giant Won't Recover Its Defense Costs

Jan. 22, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned back once and for all an attempt by Pacific Lumber Co. to obtain nearly $700...


Litigation


The Sun Also Rises

Jan. 22, 2000
By Mark Blumberg

When Cleveland attorney Alan J. Ross stood before a jury in Sunrise Telecom Inc. v. Electrodata Inc., he mounted a three-prong...


Public Interest


Trading on Traditional Teachings

Jan. 22, 2000
By Columnist

Many of the pressing ethical and legal issues that are front-burner today were painstakingly and lovingly considered by Jewish...


Entertainment & Sports


Ally McBeal has an epiphany this week that John Cage is 'The One.' ...


Litigation


Walkie Squalkie

Jan. 22, 2000
By Mark Blumberg

In summer 1997, Sunrise Telecom Inc. co-founder Robert C. Pfeiffer attended the annual SuperComm conference in New Orleans exp...


Litigation


Learning by Example

Jan. 22, 2000
By Mark Blumberg

It was one of those rare discussions in chambers that David W. Rudy says still makes him shudder. ...