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Intellectual Property


Patent Investigator

Oct. 16, 2001
By Columnist

Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two precedential opinions that address the pre-filing inve...


Transactions


Understanding Signaling System 7

Oct. 16, 2001
By Staff Writer

Like most people, attorney Doug Cogen regularly places long-distance phone calls without giving any thought to how his calls g...


Las Vegas' Black Hills Nevada, subsidiary of Black Hills Energy Capital Inc., of Rapid City, S.D., acquired Southwest Power of...


Transactions


Savannah, Ga.-based Marshall House Inc., an affiliate of London's UBS Warburg, sold The Marshall House to HLC Hotels Inc., als...


Mountain View's VeriSign Inc. has announced its intention to acquire Lacey, Wash.-based Illuminet Holdings in a transaction va...


Venerable health law firm Foley & Lardner has tapped Douglas L. Carden as its new managing partner in Century City. Carden...


Large Firms


Seyfarth Shaw will hold its 2001 West Coast Labor & Employment Law Symposium on Oct. 25. Held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, ...


Education


Above the Bar

Oct. 16, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

When Robert Brown Jr. took over at the University of West Los Angeles, he saved it from the brink. But it still is suffering f...


Montreal's CGI Group Inc. has entered into a 10-year outsourcing contract with Novato-based Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., a su...


Law Practice


Living Life on the Edge While Ascending

Oct. 16, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Suicide Rocks is not exactly a confidence-inspiring name. Nor is it one that would seem likely to draw many visitors. And for ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The American Bar Association has chosen George Koelzer as the newest member of its Civil Litigation Institute. Koelzer, a part...


Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity Holdings has acquired the Access Products Division and Broadband Wireless Group from ADC Tel...


Technology & Science


Freeing Up Time

Oct. 16, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Lawyers in today's high-tech world must stay on top of new methods of doing business. Case-specific information for clients on...


International


The Euro-American Lawyers Group, an international association of law firms, has invited Los Angeles' Friedmann O'Brien Goldber...


Be in control of your own destiny. That's the philosophy of Matthew S. Ponzi , who recently helped found a new law firm. The y...


Criminal


Human Minds Cannot Catch Diseases

Oct. 16, 2001
By Columnist

As the legal proceedings against Andrea Yates move forward, one would think that, from the support she has been receiving, tha...


Large Firms


Gibson Dunn Embraces Split Personality

Oct. 16, 2001
By John Ryan

While Gibson Dunn & Crutcher continues to espouse that it's not a Republican law firm, recent headlines tell a much differ...


Large Firms


Crosby Heafey Roach & May is teaming up with the University of California, Irvine, to present a two-day seminar on medical...


Large Firms


San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps is donating $25,641 to the American Red Cross National Relief Fund to assist t...


Solo and Small Firms


Pay It Forward

Oct. 16, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Zarate & Vega covers its pro bono work by offering to Hispanic-owned businesses legal services in business law, contracts,...


Rutan & Tucker 's public law department is gaining the real-world expertise of State Sen. Dick Ackerman , who joined the f...


The Capital One Financial Corp. of Falls Church, Va., has agreed to acquire San Diego's PeopleFirst Finance for 3.7 million sh...


Firm Watch


Four California-based law firms ranked among the Top 25 legal advisers for U.S. mergers and acquisitions deals announced this ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Unfinished Business

Oct. 16, 2001
By Staff Writer

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have caused many lawyers to revisit their priorities and the ideals they once expressed upon en...


Criminal


Lawyers May Benefit by Move

Oct. 16, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller finally got a break when a judge moved their trial to Los Angeles, according ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


SAN FRANCISCO - Maribel Delgado is thrilled to be a board member of the National Hispanic Bar Association , even if she was a ...


Large Firms


Manhattan Project

Oct. 16, 2001
By John Ryan

No one could imagine the shock John Bicknell would feel were he to pull up outside the towering downtown Los Angeles headquart...


Litigation


Jury Mulls Biotech Royalties Case

Oct. 16, 2001
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury begins deliberations today in a case in which renowned cancer research center ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has overturned a kidnapping and rape conviction because the prosecution's expert witne...


Criminal


Stoned Judge Prompts Probe Into '82 Case

Oct. 16, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing due process concerns over a death sentence issued by a marijuana-smoking judge, a federal appeals court...