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Litigation


A Chance to Gamble and Get Together

Aug. 20, 2002
By Christina Landers

From doll collectors to advocates for human rights, organizations of nearly every stripe hold some type of annual convention. ...


Large Firms


Two Summer Associates Form 'an Awesome Team'

Aug. 20, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Professor Jim Gash remembers the first time that he saw William Grignon on Pepperdine University School of Law's campus. It wa...


Entertainment & Sports


Music Maven Gary Stiffelman Has Many Talents

Aug. 20, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

Gary Stiffelman, the second music lawyer to make Ziffren Brittenham's masthead, is wise in the ways of the music industry. Sti...


Firm Watch


Chicago's Lord, Bissell & Brook has nabbed Arnold Peter from Littler Mendelson. Peter, a partner in the entertainment prac...


Transactions


With the help of Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, two banks with headquarters on opposite sides of the country are ...


Litigation


Las Vegas Gathering Celebrates 20 Years

Aug. 20, 2002
By Christina Landers

It has been 20 years since the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles held its first three-day convention in Las Vegas,...


Entertainment & Sports


Deal Maker Skip Brittenham Is Always Going Up

Aug. 20, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

"Hard," "good" and "smart." That's how most people describe Skip Brittenham, a founding partner who has been a deal-making for...


Entertainment & Sports


Sam Fischer Is Proof That Nice Guys Finish First

Aug. 20, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

Soft-spoken celebrity lawyer Sam Fischer has earned a gentlemanly reputation in a business where such kudos are rare. "He's th...


Firm Watch


Intellectual property attorney Arlyn Alonzo has joined McDermott, Will & Emery as a partner in the firm's Irvine office. S...


Entertainment & Sports


Omnipresence, Brains Guide Ken Ziffren's Success

Aug. 20, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

Ken Ziffren has a habit of popping up in some unlikely places. But the results are usually the same. In 1986, he helped media ...


Entertainment & Sports


A Phone-To Guy, Cliff Gilbert-Luria Does Star Deals

Aug. 20, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

Orlando Jones, star of 7-Up commercials and the film "The Time Machine," recently did a charity guest appearance on a comedy e...


Another bench vacancy will be created in the Los Angeles Superior Court when Judge Reginald Dunn retires at the end of October...


Kimon Manolius, the top administrator in the San Francisco city attorney's office, has left to join Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, ...


Litigation


Specialists Reveal Secrets to Success

Aug. 20, 2002
By Christina Landers

Every year at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' popular Las Vegas Convention, there is one panel that is more...


Transactions


Biotech company Versicor Inc. of Fremont and Italy's Biosearch Italia are breaking out the vino, celebrating their cross-Atlan...


Litigation


Although he billed himself as the "People's Lawyer" in late-night television advertisements, Richmond City councilman and atto...


Transactions


Union Bank Expands in State

Aug. 20, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

You can expect to see a lot more red Union Bank of California signs popping up all over the state, if things go according to p...


Firm Watch


Jamie L. Johnson has joined the Santa Monica office of St. Louis' Bryan Cave as partner in the labor and employment group. Joh...



Follow up Act

Aug. 20, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

Psssst. Want to know a secret? Those maps to the stars they sell on Hollywood street corners? They're a rip. They tell you to ...


The Marin County district attorney's office has a new chief investigator. He is Rob Guidi, who spent 16 years as a police offi...


Civil Rights


Dark wood paneling, hunter green carpet and art of the firm's founders made way years ago for a modern, sleek design at most C...


Large Firms


Sealed Lips

Aug. 20, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Domestic guru Martha Stewart seems equally at home baking gingerbread cookies in the kitchen or ringing the opening bell at th...


Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has lured away the chair of Kaye Scholer's antitrust practice group. Richard M. Steuer ...


Firm Watch


Reorganization Star Leads Firm

Aug. 20, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Cecily Dumas, a corporate reorganization partner with San Francisco's Murphy Sheneman Julian & Rogers, has been elected ma...


Three Los Angeles-area court commissioners were appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to the Los Angeles Superior Court Aug. 8. Commiss...


Large Firms


Capital Gains

Aug. 20, 2002
By David Pike

A growing number of firms have established practice groups in the nation's capital to handle Supreme Court and other appellate...


Litigation


Oakland attorney Scott Cole has filed suit in San Bernardino Superior Court in two cases on behalf of seven employees of Coca-...


Litigation


Controversial Med-Mal Case Returns to Court

Aug. 20, 2002
By Christina Landers

LOS ANGELES - A judge will decide Tuesday whether Los Angeles County will have to pay a $12.3 million medical malpractice judg...


Litigation


Professor, Music Lawyer Played Instruments

Aug. 20, 2002
By Sandra Corrales

LOS ANGELES - Services for Donald E. Biederman, entertainment attorney and law professor, took place Monday morning at the Ste...


Litigation


Whistle-Blower Bill Advances

Aug. 20, 2002
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would punish corporate executives and others in key positions who are aware of financial fraud in the...