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Litigation


Judge Reverses Ruling on Slurs

May 23, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES -A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has reversed a controversial ruling she made last week saying racial slurs hea...


Public Interest


SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys at Lillick & Charles are never bothered when Joel Mackey calls, looking for advice or other leg...


Intellectual Property


Judge Backs Sony in Fight With Upstart Firm

May 23, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying he found "nothing sinister" in its actions, a federal judge on Monday refused to punish electronics gi...


Criminal


Mom Pleads Guilty to Child Abandonment

May 23, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A mother who abandoned her young daughters in a crowded toy store the day after Christmas soon may be reunited wit...


Law Practice


East Bay's Jim Chiosso Dies After Surgery

May 23, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Chiosso, a prominent East Bay plaintiffs' attorney and longtime partner in Oakland's Gwilliam Ivary Chios...


Bankruptcy


The Costs of Bankruptcy

May 23, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., already facing massive increases in their utility bills, will also...


Customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., already facing massive increases in their utility bills, will also bear what may be...


Criminal


Rapper's Role in Saga Eludes Understanding

May 23, 2001
By Garry Abrams

By Garry Abrams LOS ANGELES -On Oct. 22, 1996, in a Los Angeles courtroom, Death Row Records impresario Marion "Suge" Knight ...


Criminal


SACRAMENTO - Possession of an ounce or less of marijuana would be reclassified from a misdemeanor to an infraction under a jud...


Government


Legal Service Wants Budget Cuts Restored

May 23, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - Pets apparently are worth more than lawyers to city officials who slashed funding to an AIDS-HIV legal service w...


Appellate Practice


U.S. SUPREME COURT HIGHLIGHTS

May 22, 2001
By David Pike

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: OPINIONS SECURITIES FRAUD: The justices ruled unanimously that a company ...


Elder Law


Elder-Law Experts Educate Seniors

May 22, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - The elderly man hoped for the best when he left his comfortable home to enter the hospital. Never in his wildest...


San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe scored a coup May 7 when Howrey Simon Arnold & White intellectual prope...


Now that the public markets aren't looking so hot, partners at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are using the...


Administrative/Regulatory


You may soon be ticketed for using a cellphone in your car. Hundreds of bills have been introduced in state and municipal legi...


After 13 years in the Danville main office of Gagen McCoy McMahon & Armstrong , land-use lawyer Patricia Curtin is gazing...


Labor/Employment


Big Score? Nevermore

May 22, 2001
By Columnist


Public Interest


A Successful Weaning

May 22, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

At first glance, Dominika Stryczek may not seem so squared away. Just 17, in high school and with a baby, Stryczek is on welfa...


The San Francisco office of Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis brought on two pairs of lawyers in the past two months. Most ...


Law Practice


Clothes Call

May 22, 2001
By Staff Writer

Despite recent reports to the contrary, casual wear at the office is here to stay. At least at the law firm office. ...


Criminal


Phony Purported Penitance

May 22, 2001
By Columnist

Can a murderer repent? In their recent amici brief filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in support of the habeas corpus petitio...


Tampa's Holland & Knight continues its aggressive Western expansion plan with the acquisition of seven lawyers from Los A...


Firm Watch


Come June, the Oakland home office of Crosby Heafey Roach & May will be having a face-lift, and later this year, its Los ...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Deborah Ann Thompson, who represented the city of Irwindale in its bid to get the Raiders football team, has di...


Transactions


Sunnyvale's Somnus Medical Technologies and Cardiff, England's, Gyrus Group have agreed to merge. Under the terms of the agre...


Transactions


Rochester, N.Y.'s Eastman Kodak Co. has agreed to buy Berkeley's Ofoto Inc. The companies did not disclose the financial term...


Transactions


Munich, Germany semiconductor company Infineon Technologies will buy San Jose's Catamaran Communications Inc. The stock deal ...


Transactions


Steady Hand Sails Catamaran Purchase

May 22, 2001
By Victoria Newman

Today's fluctuating economy hasn't been all bad for Michael Danaher's client, Catamaran Communications Inc. The privately held...


Intellectual Property


Descriptive Detail

May 22, 2001
By Columnist

Anyone who has litigated a trade-secret misappropriation case in California in the last decade and a half is intimately famili...


Law Practice


Moms in Law

May 22, 2001
By Staff Writer

It's an understatement to describe Lents & Foley as "family-friendly." After all, the two-lawyer Irvine office comes compl...