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Lawyer Finds Home at Sheppard Mullin

Jul. 29, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Charles Donovan left Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis earlier this month for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &am...


By Tina Spee Vincent J. Bartolotta Jr. has been recognized on numerous occasions for the monumental verdicts he has won at tr...



Homeowner Battles for Right to Fly Old Glory

Jul. 29, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

LA QUINTA - Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Richard Birdsall hoisted an A...


Los Angeles County's Final Growth Frontier

Jul. 29, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MARCI WORMSER Special to the CREJ In Southern California's more familiar environment of high land costs limiting developme...



BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor It has been said that downtown Los Angeles truly will have arrived when 1100 Wilshir...


BY JOEL BENOLIEL The column "Taming the Beast" (Michael M. Berger, May 19) purported to tell the story of a lawsuit that Berg...



Gray Cary Guides Virage in Buyout

Jul. 29, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes British company Autonomy Corp. has agreed to buy struggling software firm Virage Inc. for $25 million in cash...


By Eron Ben-Yehuda Environmentalists warn that the state's use of insecticides to kill a pest that spreads the grapevine-kill...



Reviving a Market Jewel

Jul. 29, 2003
By Olivia Loy

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer After 30 years of inactivity, a relic from San Francisco's past will be restored and brought ...


Before accusing me of "fabrication," "fiction," "fantasies," "nonsense," making "unsupportable claims" and "misrepresent[atio...



Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - A bedrock concept in Fourth Amendment law is that, before the police can ...


Government Pull

Jul. 29, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By John Burton - The Washington, D.C. Circuit's decision in Center for National Security Studies v. United S...



Feuding Lawyers Reach Agreement in Corridor

Jul. 29, 2003
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - Feuding legal titans Browne Greene and Charles O'Reilly met in court Friday for a hearing on forcing arbitratio...


Street-Closure Plan Hits Roadblock

Jul. 29, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - The votes are in, but they may not count. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central Distr...



DeVries Judge Assails Critics

Jul. 29, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The judge poised to release the first child molester to complete the treatment program outlined in California's Se...


Cleanup Pacts Open Way for NFL Stadium

Jul. 29, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - The decades-long battle over cleanup of a Carson landfill long considered a prime spot for a National Football ...



SAN FRANCISCO - Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has recruited nanotechnology legal pioneer Kitu Bindra to join the firm's 15...


Tour de Latham

Jul. 29, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

When legal-industry strategists decided a global presence was the way to ensure long-term success at the highest levels, U.S....



California's Top 50 Law Firms

Jul. 29, 2003
By Tina Spee

Ask a law firm to pinpoint its main office location, and you're likely to get some incarnation of the following: "We don't ha...


Bush Nominates Janice Brown

Jul. 29, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...



No Strict Liability in Transplant Of Tissue

Jul. 29, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Suppliers of human tissue for medical procedures cannot be sued for strict liability because they provide a h...


Domain Names Ruled Intangible Property

Jul. 29, 2003
By Riley Guerin

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, while most people limited their thoughts about sex to the physical world, Gary Kremen was fantasizin...



Web Thieves Discourage Piracy

Jul. 26, 2003
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - When a dozen federal agents came banging on his door at 7 a.m. with guns drawn and a battering ram, Michael Nguy...


Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - With a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision at the end of June, en...



Class Litigation Replaces Negotiation With Unions

Jul. 26, 2003
By Sandra Corrales

Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - Most people are aware that union membership has been declining for decades. In 2001, the ...


Question of Time

Jul. 26, 2003

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Judicial review is most important when legislatures enact laws that are overwhelmingly p...



PG&E Parties Dispute Venue

Jul. 26, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in a procedural battle that could determine the fate of lawsuits seek...


Governor Puts Quartet on Los Angeles Bench

Jul. 26, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of Santa Monica court commissioner Joseph Shiro Biderman and...



Morgan Lewis Wins Cisco Litigation Deal

Jul. 26, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has landed an exclusive, two-year deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to handle all of th...


9th Sees And Raises Sanctions

Jul. 26, 2003
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld three contempt sanctions against a Larkspur criminal defense attorney who...