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Intellectual Property


Long-Arm Statute Overreached in Cybersuit

Nov. 27, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Just because it's the World Wide Web doesn't mean cybersuits can be filed anywhere someone takes offense. In a...


Government


FORUM The Bush administration used unscrupulous tactics to persuade the U.N. Security Council to sign on to Resolution 1441.


Bankruptcy


Bankruptcy Trustee In Scandal Withdraws

Nov. 26, 2002
By Susan Mcraen

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Robert Dennis Pryce Jr., who was indicted last week on money-laundering and other charges r...


Law Practice


Six Bar Exam Questions and Sample Answers

Nov. 26, 2002
By Jeff Berg

Experts who cram three years of law-school study into intense bar-review courses for graduates offer sample answers to six que...


Law Practice


Focus Column - Law Practice - By Daniel Zohar - In starting your own practice, you will confront virtually nothing that others...


Immigration


Liberty Bind

Nov. 26, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Liliana M. Garces and Jayashri Srikantiah - The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether mandatory detention...


Litigation


TDK TKOs Silicon In Legal Round Over Chip Patent

Nov. 26, 2002
By Christina Landers

It was one small step in the mire of patent infringement litigation worldwide - but a victory all the same. Manufacturer TDK S...


Litigation


Spin Cycle

Nov. 26, 2002
By Contributing Writer

Litigation Column - By Julie Campanini - As employment cases continue to flourish across the country, counsel is constantly tr...


Firm Watch


Thelen Reid Moves Three Offices at Once

Nov. 26, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Last week was moving week for Thelen Reid & Priest, the 425-lawyer firm that had the unfortunate task of moving its New Yo...


Firm Watch


Nol Nino joined San Francisco's TMC Development as its lone general counsel Nov. 4. Until the hiring of Nino, TMC outsourced ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


High Resolution

Nov. 26, 2002
By John Ryan

The most sought-after neutrals in California sure have a lot of friends. Hundreds of attorneys from a variety of legal markets...


Firm Watch


Calling all soccer-playing lawyers. Those lifelong dreams of slicing a perfect shot into the corner of the goal or drilling a...


Intellectual Property


Intel Loses Pair of Patent Infringement Cases

Nov. 26, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

Microchip technology meant macro dollars for Intergraph Corp. Intergraph, a Huntsville, Ala.-based computer services company, ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Neutral Revives Insurance Agency

Nov. 26, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Harry Low took a two-year break from his work as a highly paid neutral at JAMS. But it wasn't a peaceful rest. Gov. Gray Davis...


Litigation


A Los Angeles judge is expected to give preliminary approval Dec. 6 to a settlement of a nationwide class action that accused ...


Litigation


Jury Awards City Solutions $9.8 Million

Nov. 26, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

This was a newspaper war of another sort. Outdoor advertiser City Solutions Inc. sued its former business partner, Eller Media...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish has established an insurance counseling and litigation group. Richar...


Firm Watch


Work Drought Plagues Silicon Valley Firms

Nov. 26, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

It came as no real surprise when, on Nov. 15, Cooley Godward laid off 46 associates and staff members, and Fenwick & West ...


Firm Watch


Grant T. Langton has left intellectual property boutique Christie, Parker & Hale for Los Angeles' Jeffer, Mangels, Butler ...


The Arizona law-firm scene is undergoing a bit of reshuffling - at least as far as the attorneys at two Phoenix firms are con...


Firm Watch


Pasadena's Brown & Kellner has opened a second office in Las Vegas. The three-attorney firm intends to use the office as ...


After 11 years, the expansion of the BART system to the San Francisco airport is finally complete. With so many bumps along t...


Real Estate/Development


THE MARKETS -- Los Angeles Industrial

Nov. 26, 2002
By Michael Gottliebn

How's business? "We are one of the healthiest markets in the United States. That has to do with the ports without a question....


Law Practice


Speaking Two Languages Boosts Résumé

Nov. 26, 2002
By Erik Cummins

It's rare, if not unprecedented, for a corporate associate to get involved in one-on-one dealmaking in the first year or two o...


Transactions


Pan Pacific Plans to Buy Center Trust

Nov. 26, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, plans to increase its presence in California by acquiring ...


Transactions


Startup Firms Struggle to Find Investors

Nov. 26, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Entrepreneurs want it. But they're having a hard time getting it. With lingering concerns about the economy, young companies a...


Criminal


Treatment Regimen Keeps Parolee Off Streets

Nov. 26, 2002
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles parolee Charlie Jones and other repeat criminal offenders with mental illness and a history of ...


Education


Underdog A-Team Hits Wall at Mock Trial

Nov. 26, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - John Marshall High School's run for top honors in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 25th annual Mock Trial ...


Criminal


Westerfield May Face Civil Suit

Nov. 26, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Convicted child murderer David A. Westerfield's woes likely will include a civil lawsuit as he whiles away years i...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - The regents of the University of California have recovered $11 million from contractors and an insurance company...