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Littler Mendelson partner Alan Levins, of course an employment lawyer, has his name blazoned across the cover of a new book, "...


Transactions


Two energy companies have formed a new alternative-fuel enterprise. Oilman T. Boone Pickens' Pickens Fuel Corp. and BCG eFuels...



Transactions


Gores Technology Group, through its affiliate GTG PC Holdings, has bought computer manufacturer Micron PC from its parent, Mic...


Entertainment & Sports


Franchise, Morgan Creek Duke It Out In Dual Suits

Jul. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

It sounds like a Century City version of Ultimate Lawyer Fighting Championship. So let's hide the women, children and Jaguar c...



Transactions


Private equity firms J.W. Childs Associates L.P. and Halifax Group L.L.C. will buy diagnostic-imaging company InSight Health S...


Firm Watch


San Francisco executive-compensation lawyer Virginia Gibson joined the partnership at New York's White & Case on July 9. G...



Large Firms


Corporate Lawyer Returns to Brown Raysman

Jul. 17, 2001
By Victoria Newman

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Milstein Felder & Steiner has welcomed back corporate lawyer John G....


Intellectual Property


Digital Future

Jul. 17, 2001
By Columnist

The future of movies is digital. Digital production and distribution of motion pictures is inevitable. Lately, you cannot pick...



Bankruptcy


Creditor Wholesalers Don't Get Immunity

Jul. 17, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the powerful creditors' committee in the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy, who are also majo...


Public Interest


SAN FRANCISCO - Six students and a faculty member from the University of San Francisco School of Law are spending the summer i...



Criminal


Go With What Works

Jul. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Shouldn't drug users who cause harm to others raise different questions, and answers, than users such as Robert Downey Jr. who...


Transactions


Sunnyvale's Monolithic System Technology Inc. went public June 28 with an initial offering worth $50 million. Monolithic licen...



Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of New York's Coudert Brothers continued recovering from the loss of two attorneys as...


Transactions


Santa Clara's Yahoo! Inc. has agreed to buy Santa Monica-based music portal Launch Media Inc. The tender offer is worth $12 mi...



Administrative/Regulatory


Courthouse Has Yet to Address Ledge-Jump Risk

Jul. 17, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Two weeks after a 35-year-old man jumped from the ninth floor of the Los Angeles County Courthouse - the second ...


Technology & Science


Peek Time?

Jul. 17, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

The ultimate use of many products deviates from their intended purpose. Think back ages ago, to 1999. Remember the harmlessnes...



Transactions


Building a Sweet Deal for Technology Firm

Jul. 17, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Talk about a sweet deal! Los Angeles' Gores Technology Group didn't have to pay a dime to Nampa, Idaho's Micron Electronics In...


July is moving month for a tiny San Francisco outpost of Thelen Reid & Priest. Five emerging-companies lawyers, partner To...



Environmental


Attorney Does Her Part to Save Energy

Jul. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

NEWBURY PARK - In these days of skyrocketing energy costs and rolling blackouts, Ventura County attorney Tina Rasnow has found...


Law Practice


Patent Attorney, Avid USC Supporter Dies at 85

Jul. 17, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Ashley Stewart Orr, a member of the Los Angeles patent-law bar for more than 30 years, died July 9 at his home nea...



Entertainment & Sports


Son Follows in His Father's Footsteps

Jul. 17, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

Irell & Manella entertainment transactional attorney Eric Suddleson once vowed to have nothing more to do with Hollywood. ...


Entertainment & Sports


Magazine Spread Spurs First Amendment Fight

Jul. 17, 2001
By Contributing Writer

The sound you heard after a federal appeals court in San Francisco reversed a notorious ruling against Los Angeles Magazine o...



Personal Injury & Torts


Amputee Wins $21 Million for Utility Accident

Jul. 17, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Rejecting defense claims that Southern California Edison is not obligated to make power lines more visible, a Lo...


Criminal


Perez Transfers to Tehachapi Prison

Jul. 17, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - Disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael A. Perez, the key figure in the Rampart police corruption sca...



Civil Rights


Riding it Out

Jul. 17, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

Civil-rights advocates hope that the terms of a settlement which went into effect June 15 will bring an end to alleged police ...


Tax


West Coast Tax Haven

Jul. 17, 2001
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - An Internal Revenue Service program that helps international companies abide by agency rules will set up its f...



Government


LOS ANGELES - With a powerful new ally in City Hall, opponents of the Los Angeles International Airport expansion plan have st...


Labor/Employment


Judge Allows Worker To Switch Employers

Jul. 17, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - In another ruling supporting the rights of California workers to switch jobs, a U.S. district judge has rejected a ...



Appellate Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - Declaring that the obsolete provisions, ambiguities and redundancies that have crept into California's appella...


Securities


S.F. Judge Won't Dump Arbitrator

Jul. 14, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has refused to remove an arbitrator from a case, rejecting a claim that her day job as ...