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LOS ANGELES - In many things, two out of three isn't bad. But when it comes to burying someone, it's a lousy percentage. That ...


Family


Expert Advice

Jul. 10, 2001
By Columnist

The expert's report is not binding on the court but is usually powerful evidence bearing on the best interest of the children.


Large Firms


Homecoming

Jul. 10, 2001
By Tanya Rothman

Lawyers at Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie spared no expense in a recent celebration welcoming back name partner Richard R...


Transactions


Monaco Coach Corp. has agreed to buy SMC Corp. The cash- and assumption-of-debt deal between the Oregon motor-coach manufactur...


Firm Watch


On July 1, Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman increased the number of attorneys in its Century City outpost by two-thirds by ...


Larry Braun is settling back into his old corporate-chair spot at Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton after a t...


David Laufer, an intellectual-property and product-distribution law specialist, hopped off the teetering Los Angeles office of...


Law Practice


McDermott Partner Will Lead Bankruptcy Forum

Jul. 10, 2001
By Lisa Madrid

The California Bankruptcy Forum has named David Gould, a corporate partner in the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & E...


Law Practice


The California chapter of the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation has appointed George Means, a real estate partner at Sidle...


Education


Local Students Get 'Green' School Cash

Jul. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley has presented nearly $17,000 in environmental scholarships to 18 students from fi...


Law Practice


Gov. Gray Davis has nominated George Caplan, co-managing partner of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hayes & Handler's Los Angeles off...


Entertainment & Sports


Tinseltown Follies

Jul. 10, 2001
By Columnist

The dynamics of Hollywood collective bargaining does not fit easily into the patterns that we learned in labor-law courses i...


Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two more feathers to the cap of its California intellectual-property practice. ...


Firm Watch


Former shipping executive David Morrison will juggle the books for a large law firm, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...


Transactions


Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. Inc. have closed a $249 million financing for the 495-megawatt Tuxpan I...


Education


A legal education is a time-proven hedge against economic downturns - at least that is the thinking among today's law school a...


Constitutional Law


Lackluster Legacy

Jul. 10, 2001
By Columnist

The Rehnquist Court has cut back on individual rights by carving out exceptions to Warren Court decisions. ...


Law Practice


The California State Bar has awarded C. Hartzog Clamon, an insurance defense associate at Hayes Simpson Greene in San Diego, i...


Transactions


The Irvine Ranch and Orange County water districts have announced a 40-year deal with the U.S. Department of the Navy to clean...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Florida Couple Says Clinic Misused Embryos

Jul. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - Saying they don't know what happened to dozens of their frozen embryos, a Florida couple has sued the Regents of t...


Government


Panel Urges Changes in Initiative Process

Jul. 10, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - A commission studying ballot initiative reforms plans to recommend voters be given several options to change the ...


Law Practice


The Yale Club of San Diego has given the distinguished alumnus award to Pamela J. Naughton, a local partner at Sheppard Mullin...


Law Practice


The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers will install new fellow Judith Droz Keyes, 55, at its annual meeting in Chicago on...


Dialysis-center operator DaVita Inc. has closed the sale of $225 million in 9 1/4 percent senior subordinated notes. Torrance-...


Transactions


Chipmaker Intel Corp. has bought software-management company Cognet Corp. The companies have not disclosed the value of the ca...


Large Firms


A Break From Backbreaking Prosperity

Jul. 10, 2001
By Erik Cummins

Bob Gunderson has been vilified by law-firm managers and deified by associates. But the voluble co-founder of the 125-lawyer, ...


Firm Watch


The Century City business boutique Silver & Freedman welcomed partner Mark Sieke into its tax group on May 1. Silver &...


Transactions


Facilitator Eases Groundwater Cleanup

Jul. 10, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Malissa Hathaway McKeith's latest deal is like the Hollywood blockbuster, "Erin Brockovich." Just like Brockovich, the Loeb &a...


Firm Watch


Meanwhile, as Squire Sanders & Dempsey was losing two lawyers in Los Angeles, the firm was adding two more in San Francisc...


Bankruptcy


Patent Lending

Jul. 10, 2001
By Columnist

The court's holding should greatly simplify and, as a result, lessen the expense of documenting security interests in patents....