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Litigation


Column by Bill McDonald - It is time for you to file your mediation brief. Assume there have been no negotiations on financial...


Criminal


SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge William D. Mudd saw the first signs of trouble with the media at the beginning of April. That...


Litigation


Guillermina Byrne, a Los Angeles Superior Court referee, once again is facing a runoff for a court commissioner seat, this tim...


Firm Watch


Coastal Clients Move Attorney

Jul. 30, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

Project development and finance lawyer Charles E. Schwenck has plugged into Kaye Scholer's Los Angeles office, where he repres...


Litigation


Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline A. Connor, who presided over the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart corruptio...


Litigation


On the heels of a victory on behalf of a death row inmate, Douglas R. Young, a partner at San Francisco's Farella Braun & ...


Large Firms


Different View

Jul. 30, 2002
By Contributing Writer

Column by Robert Steinberg - Did you ever wonder what running a company has in common with being a lawyer? After 11 years as a...


Firm Watch


The month of July brought two new faces to Pillsbury Winthrop's Southern California offices. On July 15, land use attorney Chr...


Transactions


Los Angeles' Irell & Manella assisted Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. in its June 24 initial public offering that brought in ne...


Large Firms


Onward, Upward

Jul. 30, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

On the first Friday in June, Richard Odom boarded a plane in Los Angeles bound for San Francisco. Odom, chairman of San Franci...


Firm Watch


The former general counsel to a San Diego clothing company jumped to Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch as of-counsel. M...


Firm Watch


Walnut Creek-based Archer Norris is going for statewide appeal with its latest Southern California moves. The litigation and b...


Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - One of three African-Americans in a racial profiling trial against the Los Angeles Police Department testified F...


Discipline


Attorney Moves Toward Bar Readmittance

Jul. 30, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - One-time civil rights attorney A. Thomas Hunt, who resigned from the State Bar in 1993 with charges pending, has...


Judges and Judiciary


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County judge charged by the Commission on Judicial Performance four years ago with the improper us...


Large Firms


Townsend, Lyon Merger Talks End

Jul. 30, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger talks between San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew and Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon are dead....


Criminal


Ex-Sheriff's Deputy is Sentenced

Jul. 30, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A former Santa Clara County sheriff's lieutenant who avoided state prison time for molesting two teenage girls in h...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - By Javier H. Van Oordt - Individuals define sexual harassment in many different ways. However, identifying the ...


Family


Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Many family law judicial officers like to conduct business in chambers. Many attorneys lik...


Law Practice


Tower of London

Jul. 30, 2002
By John Ryan

From Tower Snow's perch in an aerie in San Francisco's Financial District, he has the kind of Bay Bridge view that inspires dr...


Criminal


SANTA ANA - A recent appellate decision against managers of Sav-On Drugstores, who sought to sue as a class for unpaid overtim...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California and the Central Valley - two regions whose pollution historically has been overshadowed by...


Environmental


Parties Make a Deal in Tahoe MTBE Case

Jul. 30, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The handful of oil companies still defending their use of the controversial gas additive MTBE in a landmark ju...


Front Page


SAN FRANCISCO - Bankruptcy reform legislation nearing congressional approval will make it harder for lawyers to represent clie...


Firm Watch


Defense Attorney Heads South

Jul. 30, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

Making the move 120 miles south, white-collar criminal defense lawyer Yvonne Dutton has joined Allen Matkins Leck Gamble &...


Firm Watch


If you've got a brand name but you just can't break into television or film, Miami's Greenberg Traurig has the answer. The fir...


Firm Watch


A Laguna Beach-based computer products company has lured Doug Kari to be its general counsel and senior vice president of busi...


Firm Watch


Cooley Godward Seats New Business-Department Chair

Jul. 30, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

Cooley Godward has announced a substitution in the not-so-coveted position of business department chairman. Mark Tanoury, 47, ...


Transactions


Latham Represents Amgen In Big Biotech Deal

Jul. 30, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

The biggest merger in biotech history has closed, with Latham & Watkins representing Amgen Inc. in its $17.7 billion acqui...


Firm Watch


Ropers Majeski Nabs Two Lawyers

Jul. 30, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has nabbed two attorneys: Philip Gregory for its San Jose office and Gerald Kna...