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DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for May 3

May 4, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INDUSTRIAL NEWARK - Stephens & Stephens LLC purchased a two industrial buildings totaling 200,658 square feet of space at ...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - The public is getting access to dozens of once-secret documents filed in the criminal cases of accused double a...


Litigation


Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - There is an old saying that goes something like this: Be careful what you wish for; you ...


Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The U.S. Tax Court's recent decisions in Estate of Wayne Bongard , 124 TC No. 8 (20...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - Interpreters from 10 courthouses stretching from Monterey to Sonoma won't be at work today. Instead, they'll ...


Firm Watch


SAN FRANCISCO - Donna Mezias made a mental note to herself when Jones Day recruited Robert Mittelstaedt, a senior litigation ...


Judges and Judiciary


L.A. Judges Fill Three Commissioner Slots

May 4, 2005
By Blair Clarkson

LOS ANGELES - Three open commissioner seats on the Los Angeles Superior Court were filled Friday with the election of Santa M...


Government


Whistle-Blower Gets Day in Court

May 4, 2005
By Dan Evans

LOS ANGELES - A former Carson official who said she was fired for exposing corruption in the south Los Angeles County city wi...


Judges and Judiciary


Veteran Jurist Is Quiet But Sharp

May 4, 2005
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carlos Ynostroza doesn't say much in court. He just lets the lawyers try t...


Column - By Garry Abrams - Could that be a dead, stinking rat wrapped in the First Amendment on the doorstep of the Santa Moni...


Criminal


Literary Gangster Pleads

May 4, 2005
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Kody Scott, a former Eight Tray Crips member-turned-author, pleaded guilty Monday to resisting an officer and t...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Vision Plan Can't Benefit From Law's Flaw

May 4, 2005
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - A major national eye care provider called Vision Service Plan had a vision of its own: Use a lawmakers' typo ...


Firm Watch


Partner Gets Her Wish in Move to Bingham

May 4, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - When Wendy Lazerson joined Holland & Knight five years ago, she hoped to spearhead its labor and employme...


Intellectual Property


Patent Settlement

May 4, 2005
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $325 million EMC Corp. to end four years of litigation over patents for ...


Juvenile


Pop Star May Take Unusual Legal Action

May 4, 2005
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles prosecutor who now works as a defense lawyer says he may file a federal civil rights lawsui...


Criminal


Accused Defender Accepts Contempt Citation

May 4, 2005
By Staff Writer

SAN JOSE - The criminal case against former Santa Clara County deputy public defender Thomas Spielbauer for misleading a judg...


Litigation


Taking cases on contingency has long been a practice reserved for personal-injury or trial attorneys willing to take on an ind...


Firm Watch


Lured by the well-established real estate practice at Los Angeles' Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri, partner Wendy Glenn joined...


Firm Watch


Sometimes, decisions to take a cross-continental trek in search of a new job are made for you. Such was the case when former J...


Litigation


Attorney Ethan Schulman says he won't let client Hastings College of the Law fall prey to the Christian Legal Society's nation...


Geraldine Johnson of Arizona was sexually abused repeatedly for five years as a young teenager. Her abuser was her parents' bo...


Entertainment & Sports


Perhaps taking a cue from Marlon Brando's performance in the 1953 film "Julius Caesar," two longtime associates of the actor h...


Litigation


Fourteen-year-old Irma Perez had never taken the illegal stimulant Ecstasy before going to a slumber party at a friend's house...


Commercial Law


Thanks to several Los Angeles attorneys, the east end of the famous Sunset Strip is getting a face-lift. Attorneys from Weston...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for May 2

May 3, 2005
By Joseph Pimentel

INSTITUTIONAL MORENO VALLEY - MIF LLC purchased the Moreno Valley Ranch Golf Club at 28095 John F. Kennedy Drive from Atsugi ...


Corporate


Mossimo Giannulli wants the shirts off his investors' backs, and he's hired Latham & Watkins' Orange County attorneys to h...


Entertainment & Sports


Shaq and Kobe they're not. They probably couldn't be bench players for the Clippers or the Kings or even make it as freshmen w...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Software giant Adobe Systems Inc., maker of the popular Acrobat document-sharing software, has announced plans to acquire riva...


Litigation


An autopsy report concluded that 40-year-old Michael L. Sanders of Fresno died from a cocaine overdose. But his widow's lawyer...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Clients of mediator Gig Kyriacou could be forgiven for mistaking the Toluca Lake neutral for a wayward gourmet chef: First he ...