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Drug Distributor Buys Software Company

Jan. 28, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes Pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. has purchased Solana Beach's Bridge Medical Inc., which ma...


Intellectual Property


INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams It's happening across many industries. You've probably seen the ads -...



Personal Injury & Torts


By Eron Ben-Yehuda Academy Award winning screenwriter Nancy E. Dowd knows how to tell a good story. But when she claimed at a...


Firm Watch


Michael Oleinik jumped at the chance to be a partner in the Los Angeles office of Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery, join...



Firm Watch


Dechert Opens New, Focused S.F. Office

Jan. 28, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Dechert's newest office is small and focused. Unlike some firms that open offices with large groups represent...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Word Up

Jan. 28, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

By Stefanie Knapp There's a tradition that the president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel must uphold...



Firm Watch


By Erik Cummins Reed Smith Crosby Heafey chose a Crosby Heafey lifer and a former law firm managing partner as the leaders of...


Firm Watch


Sheppard Mullin Lands Entertainment Group

Jan. 28, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis The day after Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton hooked four entertainment partners from Ak...



Firm Watch


By Liz Valsamis Bryan Cave appointed Jeffrey W. Morof as the new managing partner of the St. Louis-based firm's Santa Monica ...


Transactions


Trizec Sells Posh Pasadena Mall

Jan. 28, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes Trizec Properties Inc., a Chicago-based real estate investment trust, has sold the posh Paseo Colorado shoppi...



Litigation


By Joan Osterwalder A Hooters corporate Christmas party was no joyous celebration for a San Diego security guard. Evan Johnso...


Litigation


Recipe for Success

Jan. 28, 2003
By John Ryan

By John Ryan John Quinn was pretty happy with how things were going in 1988. The four-attorney trial shop he founded two year...



Bankruptcy


Levene Neale Guides FAO's Chapter 11

Jan. 28, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes The parent company of high-end toy retailer FAO Schwarz tapped a Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique to handle it...


Firm Watch


The National Association for Law Placement Inc., known through the legal community as NALP, has hired a new executive directo...



Washington, D.C.'s Piper Rudnick has added real estate attorney Rick Wendy to its Chicago office, the firm announced Jan. 14....


Litigation


Presiding Justice Steps Down Early

Jan. 28, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian stepped down early from her interim post as acting administrative presiding justice of th...



Thelen Reid & Priest has added a pair of private equity lawyers to its New York headquarters, the firm announced Jan. 13....


Corporate


Tech Firm Scores $18 Million in Funding

Jan. 28, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes Technology company S2io Inc. of Cupertino has raked in $18 million in its second round of financing. New inve...



Pillsbury Winthrop has added three new partners around the globe: Ashley Winton in London and Kenneth W. Taber and Maria T. G...


Zoning, Planning and Use


City Cracks Down on Slumlords in Skid Row

Jan. 28, 2003
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - The days of crack addicts giving birth on couches, security guards dealing drugs, prostitutes openly selling th...



Constitutional Law


Guarding Vulnerable Rights

Jan. 28, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Margaret C. Crosby - On January 23, 1973, the day after the Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 (1973), decisi...


Litigation


Lockyer's 17200 Bid Fails

Jan. 28, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in a week, a San Francisco appeals court has dinged Attorney General Bill Lockyer for his...



Large Firms


Brobeck Partners Pay Down Chunk of Debt

Jan. 28, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - The 160 partners at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison will give up $26 million in personal earnings to retire s...


Civil Rights


Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - As we mark the life and times of Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate his life this month, i...



Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Defendants sentenced to life in prison under California's three-strikes l...


Civil Rights


Judge Tosses Teacher's $425,000 Verdict

Jan. 28, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has tossed out a $425,000 jury award to a former Locke High School art teacher who claimed s...



Large Firms


Lawyer Sails Away From the Corporate Life

Jan. 28, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - From her office on the 19th floor of a high-rise, Dana Schwartz occasionally broke from her legal work and watched...


Public Interest


Legal Center Will Help Spanish Speakers

Jan. 28, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - The Fresno Superior Court today opened its Self-Help Education and Information Center for Spanish-speaking litig...



Law Practice


Lawyer Helped Shape Chilean Legal Community

Jan. 28, 2003
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A memorial service is scheduled for Janeen Kerper, a California Western School of Law professor and international...


Appellate Practice


Oldest Death Row Inmate Wins Reversal

Jan. 28, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court panel has reversed the death sentence of the oldest inmate on California's death row, sa...