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Law Practice


Legal Aid Society of San Francisco honored Caroline Mitchell, of-counsel at San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop, with the Roll...


Technology & Science


Masters of the Cite

Jul. 9, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

To win work from lawyers, law firm librarians have worked hard to master the various electronic databases, such as LexisNexis,...


Law Practice


ATTORNEY'S WRITING HITS HOME WITH COMMONERS

Jul. 9, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The Burton Foundation celebrates lawyers who write for the common people. On June 18 at the New York Palace Hotel, in New York...


Law Practice


The Contra Costa Council awarded Walnut Creek's Archer Norris the Contra Costa Medal on June 13. This award is presented each ...


Transactions


BOTOX MAKER SPINS OFF CONTACT LENS PRODUCTS

Jul. 9, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Advanced Medical Optics Inc. closed a $200 million bond offering June 20 and a $135 million credit facility June 21, in prepar...


Transactions


Business Engine announced June 21 that it has raised $22 million in its recent round of financing. Oak Investment Partners led...


Law Practice


Boalt Hall Alumni Board named Charlene Shimada, partner at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, president. Shi...


Law Practice


NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE PICKS INCUMBENT OFFICERS

Jul. 9, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The Council of the American Law Institute re-elected its incumbent officers to another one-year term May 12. Michael Traynor, ...


Law Practice


BANKRUPTCY FORUM PICKS ORANGE COUNTY OFFICER

Jul. 9, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The California Bankruptcy Forum elected Penelope Parmes, partner at Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker, vice president. She began...


Transactions


Putting Positive Spin on Complex Transaction

Jul. 9, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Allergan Inc. hired partner Cary Hyden to handle its spinoff of Advanced Medical Optics Inc. The most recent aspect of this sp...


Transactions


ELECTRONIC DATA ACQUIRES SUNNYVALE'S LOUDCLOUD

Jul. 9, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Electronic Data Systems Corp. has agreed to acquire the managed hosting business of Loudcloud Inc. for $64 million. Electronic...


Firm Watch


Enticed by the firm's acquisition last week of New York-based Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman , corporate lawy...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - While most of the Alameda County judges fared well in the county bar association's most recent judicial evalua...


Juvenile


A Child-Suicide in Foster Care

Jul. 9, 2002
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - The garden at the house on Stockwell Street overflows with collard greens, lacy baby tears and pink flowers; ins...


Criminal


Mauling Appeal Raises Eyebrows

Jul. 9, 2002
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - The filing by San Francisco prosecutors of a notice of appeal of the trial judge's grant of a new murder trial...


Criminal


Glitches Test New Drug Program

Jul. 9, 2002
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - As Los Angeles County enters its second year of implementing Proposition 36, the drug-treatment initiative, thos...


LOS ANGELES - Twelve days after being informed of Kerry Brooks' death by a confidential source, the Daily Journal petitioned t...


Criminal


Death Blockade

Jul. 9, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Richard C. Dieter - Just before Anthony Porter's scheduled execution in Illinois, his lawyers had little id...


Judges and Judiciary


So Far So Good for Novice Richmond Judge

Jul. 9, 2002
By Matthew King

RICHMOND - Usually, judges get to step into the pool one pinkie toe at a time. Not George Spanos. When Spanos took the bench i...


Firm Watch


The Los Angeles office of McKenna Long & Aldridge has lost complex business litigator Joel Goldman to Russ August & Ke...


Criminal


Death Blockade

Jul. 8, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Michael Rushford - The U.S. Supreme Court announced in Atkins v. Virginia that executing the mentally...


Environmental


Focus Column - By William D. Wick - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals plunged twice into the murky waters of TMDLs - the w...


Civil Rights


Getting 'Psyched'

Jul. 6, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

Unlike many parents, the mother of Michael D. Seplow didn't want an attorney for a son. "My mom would always make jokes that s...


Criminal


Couple Enter Pleas In Court Bribery Case

Jul. 6, 2002
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The owners of a private background investigative service pleaded no contest Wednesday to bribing court clerks to...


Litigation


Between the Cracks

Jul. 6, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

A mentally ill man from Los Angeles languished in a New York prison for two years because he was mistaken for an escaped convi...


Criminal


Stalemate in Smuggle Case Spurs Mistrial

Jul. 6, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has declared a mistrial for the last of seven Ukrainians charged with operating an international...


Litigation


Legal Stagecraft

Jul. 6, 2002
By Columnist

Column - Focus on High-Profile Litigation - By Noelle C. Nelson, Ph.D. - When a celebrity enters the courtroom, whether it's O...


Litigation


Technology on Trial

Jul. 6, 2002
By Columnist

In this two-part series, litigation expert Richard L. Charnley discusses using technology in trial. Part I examines developing...


Labor/Employment


Call Waiting

Jul. 6, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

California State University general counsel LeRoy Anderson won a defense verdict in a workplace discrimination case. Bell v...


Administrative/Regulatory


Davis Names One to Peace Officer Group

Jul. 6, 2002
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has named his appointments secretary, Michael Yamaki, to the Peace Officer Standards and Trainin...