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Litigation


A $141 million global patent settlement finally has quieted the battleground between computer giants Hewlett-Packard Co. and I...


Litigation


NBC Failed to Pay All Overtime Owed, Officer Claims

Feb. 15, 2005
By Draeger Martinez

A Hollywood labor issue left to simmer for years threatens to boil over in Los Angeles Superior Court. A Los Angeles police of...


Litigation


Psychologist Defends Her Research

Feb. 15, 2005
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Internationally renowned for her research on memory, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has never shied away from ...


Real Estate/Development


BY JOSEPH PIMENTEL CREJ Contributing Writer With the season of giving over, many shoppers are expecting that dent in their ch...


Litigation


Since its foundation 232 years ago, the Chabad religious group has grown from a handful of believers into one of the foremost ...


Firm Watch


After four years as a "junior member" of the white-collar defense group at McDermott Will & Emery in Century City, Fernand...


Transactions


DLA Advises Protein Design on ESP Pharma Purchase

Feb. 15, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary attorneys are representing Protein Design Labs Inc. in its $500 million acquisition of ESP Pharma ...


Law Practice


As an international corporate transactions attorney, Clark Libenson may think globally, but he made a conscious choice in Janu...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Feb. 14

Feb. 15, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL COSTA MESA - BKM Development purchased three industrial buildings totaling 162,084 square feet of space at 3189-319...


Transactions


IBM Corp. will acquire Corio Inc., a tmarsh provider of software for businesses, in a cash deal worth $182 million. Buying San...


Firm Watch


Law Beat

Feb. 15, 2005
By Amy Spees

Walking into Bottom of the Hill, a funky nightclub at 17th and Missouri streets in San Francisco, The Scene was pleasantly sur...


Firm Watch


Two months into his new tenure as managing partner of the downtown Los Angeles and Century City outposts of Morrison & Foe...


Transactions


Briefs

Feb. 15, 2005
By Geneva Whitmarsh

Blockbuster Ups Ante for Video Chain Hollywood Entertainment Video giant Blockbuster Inc. announced early this month that it ...


Immigration


The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says it's taking the initiative in cracking down on illegal aliens committing crim...


Law Practice


Lifestyle Work

Feb. 15, 2005
By Contributing Writer

EXTRA Closer Column - Law Firm Management - By Lin M. Meyer - In a field in which job satisfaction for many is relatively low,...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Beverly Hills trial attorney Michael Alder created quite a stir at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' 56th Ann...


Immigration


Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched re...


Appellate Practice


Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - It's not often that an appellate advocate has th...


Forum Column - By Ronald P. Sokol - The Queen of Hearts had "only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off w...


Forum Column - By Frederick J. Ufkes - On Feb. 3, 2005, the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued its decision in Lockheed Litig...


SALT LAKE CITY - Responding to budget cuts from the White House and to a new report on criminal defense needs, the American Ba...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - In October 1950, 15 years before he became staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, William Tay...


Firm Watch


After its Jan. 1 merger with Taiwan Commercial Law Offices in Taipei, Taiwan, Preston, Gates & Ellis is strengthening its ...


Judges and Judiciary


Officials Investigate Judge's Suicide

Feb. 15, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge L. Jeffrey Wiatt, who presided over some of Los Angeles County's most notorious...


Criminal


Public Defender Resigns Under Pressure, Returns to Courtroom

Feb. 15, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Public Defender John Roth resigned Friday because of concerns from officials that he gave the county a black...


Personal Injury & Torts


Widow of Deputy Will File Derailment Claim

Feb. 15, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - The widow of a sheriff's deputy killed in last month's deadly Metrolink derailment is set to file today the firs...


Real Estate/Development


Crisis Mode

Feb. 15, 2005
By Lorelei Laird

EXTRA Feature - California is finally moving up instead of out. After decades of dealing with a housing crisis by expanding su...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer Karol Martin Repkow resigned from the Sacramento public defender's office in 2001 so s...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the spurned suitor of the late Venture Law Group, has persuaded five form...


Litigation


Judge Fines Developer for Encroachment

Feb. 15, 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA BARBARA - A judge has levied a $277,000 fine against a developer in the equestrian-friendly community of Hope Ranch for...