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Family Keeps Control of Media Company

Nov. 11, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes A team of Los Angeles attorneys represented Freedom Communications Inc. in a deal that will keep control of t...


By Tina Spee In the early morning hours of Oct. 11, two partners from Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger str...



Powerbrokers

Nov. 11, 2003
By Tina Spee

CORPORATE BellSouth and DIRECTV Inc. have signed an agreement to offer BellSouth residential customers DIRECTV digital satell...


BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer As residents returned to the fire-ravaged San Bernardino Mountains to assess the damage, t...



Litigator takes advantage of Vantage's closing. Page XX By Erik Cummins Janice Brown, a veteran San Diego trial lawyer, has f...


By Karen Coleman An Oakland Superior Court judge wrapped up a long-running dispute between Viacom and 650,000 Californians, a...



By Erik Cummins Daniel Johnson and Daniel "R.D." Sullivan got plenty of big aviation cases at their three-lawyer Los Angeles ...


Systems Building

Nov. 11, 2003
By Contributing Writer

BY ROBERT L. NOBLE California's growing population has created an ongoing demand for more classroom and office space. In resp...



By Eron Ben-Yehuda A novel suit that argues a radio show qualifies as a business establishment under state anti-discriminatio...


Public Art Can Be Fleeting

Nov. 11, 2003
By Staff Writer

BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer W ith developers increasingly opting to turn their 1 percent-for-the-arts funding requirem...



Focus Column Employment Law By Helene J. Wasserman The decision in Liu v. Amway Corp. , 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 22320 (9th U.S. ...


Dollars Outweigh Sense

Nov. 11, 2003
By Robin Davidson

Forum Column By Michael S. Fields Calling the relationship between doctors and attorneys in California adversarial would be a...



Focus Column Environmental Law By William D. Wick A municipal redevelopment agency can sue private parties for injunctive rel...


Fired PD Cites Judge as Witness

Nov. 11, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Thomas Spielbauer marshaled his major weapon against a misdemeanor charg...



Protest Buffer Zone Get Judicial Hearing

Nov. 11, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge will decide today whether to block enforcement of San Diego County's ordinance that prohibits pro...


Ex-DA Investigator Gets Seven Years

Nov. 11, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court judge Friday sentenced Daniel L. Riter, formerly a senior investigator with the Rivers...



LOS ANGELES - Coming forward to accuse a movie star of sexual harassment is never easy, say lawyers for alleged victims, who ...


SAN FRANCISCO - A breakaway group of partners at intellectual property specialty firm Pennie & Edmonds in New York will j...



Harris Took Money From Hotel Owners

Nov. 11, 2003
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Candidate Kamala Harris, a deputy city attorney, has accepted hundreds of dollars in contributions from owner...


Contempt Case Ends With 20 Days For Kallins

Nov. 11, 2003
By Karen Coleman

OAKLAND - Attorney Maureen Kallins mouthed "I'm OK" to friends and family as sheriffs' deputies handcuffed and led her out of...



LOS ANGELES - Does Hollywood play by a different set of rules when it comes to sexual harassment? Governor-elect Arnold Schwa...


A Budding Political Dynasty?

Nov. 8, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - They may not be the Kennedys of Hyannisport or the Bushes of Kennebunkport - yet. But the Rubalcavas of Los Ange...



CARLSBAD - Shawn Heacock of Marcus & Millichap represented Kamran Saffer in the $2.8 million sale of Saffer's industrial p...


Stock Exchange Takes Sonsini, Others Off Board

Nov. 8, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - The Silicon Valley has lost an influential, or at least symbolic, voice on the New York Stock Exchange as Lar...



Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In the last few weeks, wildfires have devastated vast areas of Southern Cal...


A Step Down

Nov. 8, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Recently, 8,000 people lost their homes. A lot of other folks were ecstatic about this: ...



Golden Gate School of Law Names Dean

Nov. 8, 2003
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - Golden Gate University School of Law announced Thursday that it has hired Frederic White, a professor at Clev...


Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - It is nearing year-end, and depending on the firm, the billable year finishes in Nov...



In Two Counties, One Judge Faces Opponent

Nov. 8, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Dennis Kottmeier, who served as district attorney of San Bernardino County from 1981 to 1994, filed papers We...


Big Bear Courthouse Reopens After Fire Closure

Nov. 8, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - The San Bernardino County courthouse in Big Bear has reopened after being closed since Oct. 28 because of wil...