Corporate
Deals: $780M Acquisition Excites Blue Mountain -- Puma Captures and Gobbles Up Proxinet -- Tech Company Offers Stock Eloquently -- Bay View Invests in Mortgages -- Dial Cleans Up With New....
By Katherine Gaidos And Jason Song
Fenwick & West BLUE MOUNTAIN GETS EXCITED ABOUT DEAL Redwood City-based Excite@Home will acquire Blue Mountain Arts Publi...
Cost of Living or e-xpensive Attorneys in Silicon Valley have to pay a price for the chance to practice cutting-edge law. Lon...
Technology & Science
Suit Escalates War Between Companies, Online Attackers
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In an escalation of the legal war between corporate America and critics who post anonymous attacks on the Internet...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three years ago, after a drug called Gemcitabine was approved for treatment of pancreatic cancer, several med...
Personal Injury & Torts
Payouts Stir Controversy Over Liability for Employee's Wrongs
By Jean Guccione
While state judicial disciplinary authorities decide his fate, Placer County Judge W. Jackson Willoughby III must contend wit...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Barred From Courthouse After Sex Harassment Claims
By Jean Guccione
For the past 15 months, Placer County Judge W. Jackson Willoughby III has been barred from his own courthouse. Because two fe...
By Robin S. Levi If a document existed that set forth an international standard for comprehensively addressing sexual discrim...
Micro Mini 'One-Molecule' Contributors Dismissed From CERCLA Litigation The court endorsed the one-molecule rule but held tha...
By Charles Levendosky Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., enjoys slamming his head against the wall - the wall that separates church...
SAN DIEGO - When hundreds of investors were defrauded by J. David Dominelli in San Diego's most notorious pyramid scheme, Pat...
^^Ally McBeal^^ By Samantha Paynter Ally is seeing a new psychiatrist. Billy Thomas is in group therapy. This week's theme on...
^^LAW & ORDER^^ By Mara V. Watkins Law & Order fans were treated this week to a brand new episode and a guest appeara...
Judges and Judiciary
Judging Amy: Her Honor Shows Restraint in Sentencing
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^^Judging Amy^^ By Corky Pickering Mrs. Sandra Vocce and her ex-husband have had an amicable divorce until she objects to the...
Specialist Moves To Sheppard S.D. Attorney Richard L. Kintz has been recruited to head the corporate and securities group at ...
Sprowles Will Head Groveman Campaign J. Schuyler Sprowles, who served as public affairs director under former Los Angeles Cou...
^^Family Law^^ By Erin O'Bryan After a two-week hiatus, the crew at Holt & Associates are misbehaving again this week and...
Important Inoculation Act Provides Y2K Amnesty If Strict Requirements Are Met By Kurt Zimmerman President Clinton recently si...
^^The Practice^^ By M.C. Sungaila Rebecca Washington and Eugene Young defend a young woman, Jan Carlson, accused of murdering...
Government
Six Incumbents Fail to File for O.C. Re-Election
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The judges in Orange County who did not file for re-election by the filing deadline for incumbents Wednesday were...
Contracts
Fired Contract Attorney From N.Y. Sues Latham & Watkins for Breach
By Leslie Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO - A contract attorney fired by Latham & Watkins' San Francisco office has sued the firm for breach of contr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison is mourning the unexpected death of the head of its environmental practice, Jo...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Court Sanctions McCutchen for YWCA Conflict
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court judge has sanctioned and disqualified McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in...
State Bar & Bar Associations
L.A. Bar Votes to Give Aid to State Bar
By Don De Benedictis
The trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association have taken steps to protect the struggling State Bar of California and...
The Inglewood City Council has approved a six-figure settlement in a reverse-discrimination lawsuit filed against the city by...
Government
Riverside's Chief Assistant PD Resigns in Wake of New Regime
By Daniel Jennings
The No. 2 man in the Riverside County public defender's office, Chief Assistant Deputy Public Defender Floyd A. Zagorsky, has...
SANTA ANA - Robert Newman doesn't consider himself an animal-rights activist. But it was a near-eviction from an Orange Count...
Real Estate/Development
Vallejo signs Mare Island agreement with Navy
By John Mc Cloud
By John McCloud In early October the U.S. Navy signed an economic development conveyance agreement with the Vallejo Redevelop...
Los Angeles County's retirement system should be revamped because in some cases employees are eligible for service-connected ...
RIVERSIDE - A probate and elder law attorney here has been charged with helping one of his clients steal hundreds of thousand...
The city of Los Angeles could become liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in claims that will almost surely be filed as...