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Judges and Judiciary


Davis Appoints Two Judges in San Bernardino

Oct. 31, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SAN BERNARDINO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed attorneys John M. Pacheco and Katrina West to the San Bernardino County ...


Criminal


Bar Takes Over Attorney's Practice

Oct. 31, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar has taken jurisdiction over the practice of a Brentwood trial attorney who is being investigated f...


Constitutional Law


Metal Band Prevails in Novel Suit

Oct. 31, 2001
By Matthew Heller

SAN LUIS OBISPO - According to Superior Court Judge E. Jeffrey Burke, recording companies "deliberately" marketed the "repulsi...


Judges and Judiciary


Why Sit Ye Here, Vagrant, All the Day Idle?

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

In Lewis v. The State , 3 Ga.App. 322 (1907), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in per...


Labor/Employment


Working Together

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that an employee-participation program that involved all workers in the company's...


Law Practice


Marketing Hurdles

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

I consider myself a classic marketing person. I am high-energy, passionate about my job and have attended time-management clas...


Large Firms


Employment Lawyer Was Mentor to Many

Oct. 30, 2001
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - A rosary will be said Friday and a requiem Mass celebrated Saturday for Jerome C. Byrne, a labor-and-employment...


Law Practice


Attorney Represented Real Estate Developers

Oct. 30, 2001
By Claude Walbert

LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Slivkin, a veteran attorney who represented some of Southern California's largest real estate develop...


Law Practice


On April 5, in a fit of attempted prescience, I wrote a column predicting that Sara Jane Olson would make a plea deal to settl...


Law Practice


Native Angeleno Litigated Cases for 60 Years

Oct. 30, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - Jerome W. Shepard, a native Angeleno and civil litigator for more than 60 years, has died. Shepard died of heart...


Labor/Employment


Horseplay Hazards

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Horseplay, as many parents will attest, is no laughing matter when someone gets hurt. However, it usually can be curtailed wit...


Judges and Judiciary


WASHINGTON - For 10 days, the nation's highest court hovered unscathed as the anthrax scare tightened its grip on Capitol Hill...


Law Practice


Survey Reports Lawyers Aren't All Millionaires

Oct. 30, 2001
By Don Debenedictisn

LOS ANGELES - California lawyers are older and more diverse than they were 10 years ago but not, overall, as rich as the publi...


Government


Facing U.S. Government's Deficiencies

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Terrorists succeed when a democratic government turns on its own people or persists in policies that no longer are viable. Thi...


Law Practice


Walking Wounded

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Anger, sorrow and fear hit us instantly when terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11. The emotional wound has hit u...


Education


California State University men's sports, after being assaulted by feminist organizations, are instead ignoring the desires of...


State Bar & Bar Associations


VENTURA BAR ASSOCIATION HONORS OXNARD LAWYER

Oct. 30, 2001
By Staff Writer

The Ventura County Bar Association has named William H. Hair, 68, this year's recipient of its Ben E. Nordman Award. Hair, nam...


Intellectual Property


The private organization that assigns Internet domain names has appointed a partner from Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli ...


Transactions


New York publishing giant Random House has agreed to purchase Newport Beach-based Books on Tape Inc. The deal is valued at $22...


Attorney Patricia P. Hollenbeck has moved her litigation practice to the San Diego office of Buchanan Ingersoll , bringing all...


Law Practice


The Faces of Power

Oct. 30, 2001
By Tanya Rothman

They are all white, and they are all men. In a state featuring such lawyers as Patricia Glaser, Johnnie Cochran and Kathleen S...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The Hispanic National Bar Association has elected Maribel Delgado, a senior associate at McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enerson i...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The California Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates has awarded Morrison & Foerster partner James J. Brosnahan...


Santa Clara's Virata Corp. and Globespan Inc. of Red Bank, N.J. have agreed to a merger. The stock-for-stock transaction is va...


Pillsbury Winthrop added two new partners in San Diego on Monday as part of an effort to expand its corporate and intellectual...


San Jose-based Symmetricom Inc. announced the acquisition of certain assets and products from Telmax Communication Corp. of Fr...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The American Corporate Counsel Association honored two California in-house lawyers at its annual meeting earlier this month. T...


Law Practice


And Then There Were 11

Oct. 30, 2001
By Tanya Rothman

The California Law Business staff is not a group known for keeping its opinions to itself. So you can imagine our frustration ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar has appointed Neil J. Wertlieb, a partner at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, as ...


One of the most charismatic leaders of the Silicon Valley's law-firm boom will be stepping down in a matter of months. Tower S...