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Mergers & Acquisitions


San Diego attorney Scott Stanton wrapped up a $49 million deal during the holiday season. Stanton put the finishing touches on...


Firm Watch


Michael McCarthy joined Sherman Oaks litigation firm Nemecek & Cole on Jan. 1 as a partner in the firm's professional liab...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Jay Berman - Most mediations begin with the mediator's opening statement, muc...


Firm Watch


Package Deal Brings Two to Liner

Jan. 21, 2004
By Erik Cummins

Jonathan Kitchen and George Kalikman joined Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif as a package deal after practicing to...


Litigation


Pharmaceutical Rivals Unite to Save Settlement

Jan. 21, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

Two companies that duked it out for 12 years over a patent found themselves in court again recently, this time sitting at the ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Jurist Decides Air Cargo Firm Is Citizen

Jan. 21, 2004
By Amy Spees

An administrative law judge with the U.S. Department of Transportation has ruled that Miami-based Astar Air Cargo, formerly DH...


Education


Probationers Devour Culinary Arts Classes

Jan. 21, 2004
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - It wasn't exactly Martha Stewart. But the culinary arts program offered to teen offenders doing time at Camp Scu...


Firm Watch


Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has joined the ranks of Los Angeles-based law firms to move into the booming Las Vegas l...


Firm Watch


Neil Falconer was the seventh lawyer at Steinhart & Falconer when he joined the San Francisco firm as a young associate in...


Transactions


Company Raises Cool $22 Million

Jan. 21, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

MarkMonitor, a Boise, Idaho-based company that provides software to help companies protect their intellectual property, will d...


Constitutional Law


Sheriff, Radio Host Take Feud to Court

Jan. 21, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

A long-running feud between a top Santa Cruz law enforcement official and one of his chief critics erupted recently into a fre...


Tax


Headwaters' Offering Brings $90 Million

Jan. 21, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

As counsel to Headwaters Inc., San Francisco attorney Linda Williams helped the energy company obtain $175 million in bank fin...


Superior Court judges have elected a former Los Angeles County deputy public defender to be a commissioner. Pennie McLaughlin ...


Investments


Judge Tosses Securities-Fraud Suit

Jan. 21, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

A federal judge in Los Angeles last month dismissed a securities fraud class action brought against Woodland Hills-based Synco...


Law Practice


Red Zone

Jan. 21, 2004
By Columnist

Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - Larry King is getting a last-minute touch of makeup as his producer whispers in his ear...


Firm Watch


Tampa Firm Gains Foothold in San Diego

Jan. 21, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Cowley & Chidester has teamed up with Holland & Knight, giving the Tampa, Fla.-based law firm its first office in the ...


Law Practice


Wiretap Dance

Jan. 21, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Technology - By Jack Lindauer - Ask any corporate executives or attorneys whether they think their phones might be ta...


Intellectual Property


IP Litigator Joins McDermott Will

Jan. 21, 2004
By Joel Rosenblatt

Intellectual property litigator David S. Bloch jumped from associate to partner by leaving Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in...


Firm Watch


Paul Plevin Gets Gray Cary Veteran

Jan. 21, 2004
By Draeger Martinez

J. Rod Betts joined San Diego labor boutique Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton as an employment law partner on Jan. 2. ...


Litigation


S.F. Nursing Home Settles With Patients

Jan. 21, 2004
By Amy Spees

Seven patients of San Francisco's historic Laguna Honda Hospital have decided there's no place like home, and, after three yea...


Intellectual Property


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jennifer Stanley - Licensees seeking ownership of modifications that they make to li...


Constitutional Law


The U.S. Citizenship Stretch

Jan. 21, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to review Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, a case in which...


Immigration


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether authorities can imprison indefinitely hundreds of illegal-alien ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


We Hold These Truths

Jan. 21, 2004
By Contributing Writer

The legal landscape is changing. Officials up and down the state are struggling to make up for budget shortfalls and keep cour...


Litigation


Papers in GM Case Stay in Legal Limbo

Jan. 21, 2004
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES - No decision was reached Friday on making public reams of confidential data from General Motors Corp. on vehicle ...


Litigation


Utility Firm Wins Battle for Reimbursement

Jan. 21, 2004
By Stefanie Knapp

After a decadelong battle with its insurer, a utility holding company robbed by one of its own executives can collect $12.5 mi...


Judges and Judiciary


His Words Precede Him

Jan. 21, 2004
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - No one disputes that Joseph O'Flaherty calls them as he sees them. But sometimes - critics, supporters and O'F...


Insurance


LOS ANGELES - The state will appeal a Los Angeles Superior Court order striking down legislation that lets insurance companies...


Entertainment & Sports


Column By Garry Abrams - On Friday, while other Los Angeles lawyers toil over contracts, wills, lawsuits and celebrity felony ...


Government


Lawyer Wants Documents Released

Jan. 17, 2004
By Erica Williams

LOS ANGELES -Plaintiffs' attorney Garo Mardirossian is not just trying to win a case. He wants to reform the auto industry. To...