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The 80-lawyer Los Angeles business firm Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has added two lawyers. Partner James Richman and ...


Transactions


Unexplored Inc. has acquired Resort Automation Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $6 million. San Francisco's Unexplored ...


Roxanne Christ, an intellectual property lawyer with experience that ranges from entertainment to media and education, joined ...


After working too late the night before, associates Angus MacDonald, Kathleen Weaver, Bijal Vakil and Mehrnaz Boroumand of San...


Entertainment & Sports


American Beauty

Apr. 17, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

Helene Hahn wears a lot of labels: the ultimate Cinderella story, behind-the-scenes nemesis of Disney's Michael Eisner and one...


Large Firms


Tax and estate planning attorney George Short has merged his practice - Short & Associates - with Santa Barbara's Hatch &a...


Foster Farms will acquire the chicken operations of Zacky Farms Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Livingston's F...


Intellectual Property


Playing Tag

Apr. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Metatags are a nifty tool for getting Internet users to visit your site. Metatags are HTML code contained in a Web site but no...


Chicago's Winston & Strawn picked labor and employment partner Laura Petroff to head its not-quite-2-year-old Los Angeles ...


After a short hop to Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, former Disney lawyer Miriam Claire Beezy moved over to Cent...


Public Interest


Tax Lawyer's Generosity Sets an Example

Apr. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

While most of us dutifully write the check for our income-tax bill due today, most of Charles Bowman's clients haven't paid ta...


Transactions


WD-40 Co. has agreed to buy with Global Household Brands for $69 million. The San Diego's WD-40 manufactures industrial lubric...


Transactions


Pitney Bowes Inc. will acquire Alysis Technologies Inc. in a cash deal valued at $24 million. Pitney Bowes, based in Stamford,...


Law Practice


Ian Ballon, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, has published a three-volume legal treatise on Internet la...


Internet real estate rivals PropertyFirst.com Inc. of San Francisco and LoopNet Inc. of Alhambra have merged. The value of the...


Law Practice


Primp Pros

Apr. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

"Beauty contests" are the lawyer's version of a Survivor episode, as firms compete for a corporate client's business. But clie...


The San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger & Harrison welcomed a new executive compensation tax partner into its Irvine offic...


Solo and Small Firms


San Francisco's Sideman & Bancroft has brought aboard three lateral partners: S. Kendall Patton, Paul Gutierrez and Vincen...


Tax


Tax Reform With Fairness

Apr. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Although the Internal Revenue Code is primarily business-driven, values-based considerations also come into play. For example,...


Solo and Small Firms


In Control

Apr. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

Andy Schwartz left Bank of America's 156-lawyer legal department shortly after it merged with North Carolina's NationsBank in ...


Law Practice


Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer, a full-service firm in Sacramento, has recruited environmental associate Thomas Adams. Adam...


Just months after plunking down roots in Newark, N.J., San Francisco litigation shop Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold is ste...


Law Practice


JEWISH GROUP LAUDS GOOD WILL OF LATHAM LAWYER

Apr. 17, 2001
By Staff Writer

The American Jewish Committee will honor Barry A. Sanders, a partner with Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins, at the 22nd annua...


Criminal


Lawyer Requests Removal From Client's Case

Apr. 17, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The seventh lawyer for a rape suspect has asked to be removed from the case after his client butted him in the fac...


Criminal


Judge Unseals Tapes From Homicide Case

Apr. 17, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

NEWPORT BEACH - An Orange County judge who previously suppressed tape-recorded statements given to sheriff's investigators by ...


Criminal


DAs Call Defense Claim Premature

Apr. 17, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors on Friday called premature a defense claim that a 15-year-old boy charged in the shooting deaths of tw...


Discipline


Suspension for Arlo H. Smith

Apr. 17, 2001
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court has ordered the suspension from the practice of law of Arlo H. Smith, son of the forme...



Panel Invalidates Islamic Marriage Prenuptial

Apr. 17, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has turned down a wealthy physician's attempt to divide his marriage assets under Islami...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a Van Nuys criminal defense attorney to five years' probation Frida...


Personal Injury & Torts


Rollover Victim Gets $55 Million

Apr. 17, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - In the first courtroom trial of a tire tread-separation lawsuit since the Ford-Firestone recall, jurors on Frida...