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Judges and Judiciary


Former U.S. District Judge William Ingram, 77

May 30, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - South Bay attorneys are mourning the loss of former chief U.S. District Judge William Ingram, one of the first fede...


Government


First, You Must Find a Job

May 30, 2002
By Marisa Navarro

LOS ANGELES - Congratulations! Those three grueling days in February paid off. After passing the California Bar Exam you're ea...


State Bar & Bar Associations


LOS ANGELES - Jeff Anhalt spent the past weekend digesting the bad news that he didn't pass the California Bar Examination. Th...


Civil Rights


Justices Will Examine Cross-Burning Statute

May 30, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider the constitutionality of a Virginia ban on cross burning in a c...


Law Practice


Attorney's Capital-Case Inexperience Vexes Judge

May 30, 2002
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Attorney Mark Blankenship has never tried a murder case, let alone a death penalty case. But Blankenship refused t...


Law Practice


Sherman Wilke, 88, of Sacramento

May 30, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Sherman Wilke, the patriarch of one of Sacramento's oldest law firms, Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birn...


Litigation


Court Hands Patent Holders a Small Win

May 30, 2002
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court has given some of the bite back to a longheld patent rule used by inventors to fend off...


Litigation


Great Hush

May 29, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Mike Martin - The titanic wake of the sex abuse scandal that plagues the Roman Catholic Church may rock the ...


Law Practice


Into the Shark Tank

May 29, 2002
By Columnist

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Jeremy J. Osher - Although law school gave me the analytical tools to cr...


Law Practice


Into the Shark Tank

May 29, 2002
By Columnist

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Catherine W. Johnson - When I first started practicing law, I discovered...


Law Practice


Into the Shark Tank

May 29, 2002
By Columnist

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Martha K. Gooding - As I approach 20 years in practice, younger lawyers ...


Law Practice


Into the Shark Tank

May 29, 2002
By Columnist

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The transition from law student to lawyer is somewh...


Law Practice


Into the Shark Tank

May 29, 2002
By Columnist

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Michael Greene and Jeffrey Benz - You've passed the Bar Exam and learne...


Civil Rights


LOS ANGELES - A long-established practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of allowing attorneys to routine...


Law Practice


CONSUMER SERVICES GROUP ADDS HUDSON COOK LAWYER

May 29, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers inducted Elizabeth Huber, managing partner of the Los Angeles offi...


Law Practice


LAW SCHOOL RECOGNIZES MENTORING COMMITMENT

May 29, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The University of San Francisco School of Law awarded Molly Lane, managing partner of the Palo Alto office of Brobeck Phleger ...


Transactions


Of-counsel Irv Hepner switched gears as he represented Westfield America Inc. as its lead outside counsel instead of its gener...


Law Practice


The American College of Trial Lawyers inducted Richard Stratton as a fellow March 16 at its spring meeting in La Quinta. Strat...


Labor/Employment


Robert Cantore didn't think twice about including California's unfair competition law, Business and Professions Code Section 1...


Firm Watch


Beefing up its trademark group, Los Angeles' Russ August & Kabat added two partners to its intellectual property practice....


Transactions


GM, DAEWOO MIX PARTS TO FORM NEW BUSINESS

May 29, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

General Motors Corp., Daewoo Motor Co. and the Daewoo Motor Creditors Committee have agreed to form GM Daewoo Auto and Technol...


Labor/Employment


Danger Signals

May 29, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

In the wake of new workplace safety regulations that took effect two years ago, employers are facing tougher civil and crimina...


Law Practice


The antitrust and unfair competition law section of the State Bar of California awarded Don Hibner Jr. the 2002 Antitrust Lawy...


Firm Watch


San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin has lured intellectual property partner Carole Barrett from Co...


Transactions


Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. has acquired FM radio station KARA 105.7 from Empire Broadcasting Corp. in a cash deal worth $58 m...


Transactions


WESTFIELD SNATCHES UP NINE SHOPPING CENTERS

May 29, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Westfield America Inc. has acquired nine shopping centers in five different states from The Richard E. Jacobs Group Inc. The $...


Law Practice


The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County presented Carl McConnell, partner at San Jose's Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel with t...


Law Practice


BANKRUPTCY GROUP PICKS MUNGER TOLLES ATTORNEY

May 29, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The American College of Bankruptcy Professionals inducted Thomas Walpur to its ranks March 15. Walpur, a partner at Los Angele...


Law Practice


BOALT HALL NAMES FUND IN HONOR OF S.F. LAWYER

May 29, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Boalt Hall launched the Gerald D. Marcus Fellowship Fund. This fund is in honor of Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy na...


Another Sacramento icon, state legislative counsel Bion Gregory joined the Sacramento office of Nossaman Guthner Knox & El...