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20 Under 40 - Richard Hasen - It seems like everybody wants a piece of Loyola Law School professor Richard Hasen. The election...


Transactions


INVESTORS INJECT DRUG PRODUCER WITH CAPITAL

May 7, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Ribapharm Inc., a spinoff of ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., went public April 12. Its initial public offering brought in $260 milli...


Large Firms


Talking His Way to White-Collar Victories

May 7, 2002
By Donna Huffaker

20 Under 40 - Bart Williams - From the beginning of his legal career, Bart Williams always wanted to be the guy who did the ta...


Large Firms


On Call

May 7, 2002
By Contributing Writer

A new era in crisis communications - the most challenging but invigorating in memory - is demanding more from both attorneys a...


Corporate


Native New Yorker Gets Down to Business

May 7, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

20 Under 40 - Pamela Burke - Howard Clowes describes Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich colleague Pamela Burke as someone who "h...


Large Firms


Charting Internet Territory at the High Court

May 7, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

Allonn Levy, representing a client pro bono, will be helping to define the boundaries of Internet law and going up against par...


Large Firms


Tech Client Magnet Also Rocks in Court

May 7, 2002
By Marisa Navarro

20 Under 40 - Charles Verhoeven - Three years ago, when litigation boutique Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges wanted ...


Large Firms


Bringing West-Coast Flair to Finance

May 7, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

20 Under 40 - Ken Baronsky - Ken Baronsky doesn't consider himself young. At age 39, however, Baronsky has already spent three...


Entertainment & Sports


Problem Solver Keeps 'Law & Order' on Air

May 7, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

20 Under 40 - Monica Harris - Busloads of people work to keep the long-running television drama "Law & Order" and its spin...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - Public agency attorney Greg Moser has taken over management of Foley & Lardner's San Diego offices. Firmwide...


Judges and Judiciary


New Judge On Bench In East Bay

May 7, 2002
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. attorney Theresa J. Canepa has been appointed to the Contra Costa County Superior Court by Gov....


Bankruptcy - Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Article XX of the California Constitution mandates that the Legislature prote...


Criminal


Court Clobbers Cannabis Clubs

May 7, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has sounded the death knell for medical marijuana clubs in Northern California by siding with ...


Criminal


Jurist Tosses Case Against Jewish Center

May 7, 2002
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed a case filed against the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Lo...


Corporate


Critics Lash Out at Corporate Rule Benders

May 7, 2002
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - When the savings and loan scandal broke in the late 1980s, causing billions in losses to American taxpayers, ther...


Litigation


Default in Patent Case Is Blow to Tech Firm

May 7, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco high-tech firm has suffered a rare default judgment in a high-stakes patent case after its att...


Corporate


A Few Bad Apples Spoil Bunch?

May 7, 2002
By Marisa Navarro

LOS ANGELES - When Arthur Andersen, a Big Five accounting firm with revenue topping $9 billion in 2001, laid off 7,000 of its ...


Litigation


Judge Weighs Case on Decades-Old Treasure

May 7, 2002
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - For seven days, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin has heard testimony in a case about an agreement...


Family


The Father of All Dilemmas

May 7, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - What six-and-a-half-year old Nicholas knows about his family is this: He loves his mommy and he loves his dadd...


Law Practice


N.Y. Native Represented Peggy Lee

May 7, 2002
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - Ludwig Gerber, a writer, movie producer, Congressional candidate and lawyer, whose clients included singer Peggy...


International


SAN FRANCISCO - A fight over allowing Mexican trucks to haul freight throughout the United States is now apparently in the lap...


Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Article XX of the California Constitution mandates that the Legislature protect "a certain...


Government


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney went too far in a sweeping search of law firms and other organizations ...


Law Practice


Ahead of the Pack

May 7, 2002
By Tanya Rothman

20 Under 40 - Each year, California Law Business takes a look at the some the best and brightest young talent the legal world ...


Law Practice


20 Under 40 - Kevin Rosen - When the Los Angeles Unified School District sued O'Melveny & Myers in 1999 for allegedly prov...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges Engage in Musical Benches

May 7, 2002
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Recent Los Angeles Superior Court judicial assignments include changes at courts in Whittier, Pomona, Huntington...


Transactions


Divine inc. has agreed to acquire Viant Corp. in a stock and cash deal worth $120 million. The deal was announced April 5. Chi...


Transactions


Blue Martini Software Inc. has acquired Cybrant Corp. The stock deal is worth $7 million and was announced April 16. San Mateo...


Transactions


Palo Alto's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison partner Curtis Mo led JetBlue Airways Corp. in its initial public offering that bro...


Intellectual Property


Sitting On Top of the World

May 7, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

20 Under 40 - Sean Collin - Sean Collin has a knack for applying life experience to his legal practice. Collin, a partner who ...