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Atlanta's AFC Enterprises Inc. has completed an initial public offering that brought in $183 million. Goldman Sachs & Co.,...


A troop of environmental partners in the San Francisco office of Chicago's Baker & McKenzie marched over to local business...


Large Firms


McDermott Beefing Up IP Practice

Apr. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to become an intellectual property powerhouse on the West Coast, McDermott, Will & Emery has snared...


Eleven lawyers from Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers are moving into new Menlo Park digs just across the freeway from the lo...


Entertainment & Sports


VENTURA D.A. MAKES CLEVER MOVE IN BROCKOVICH CASE

Apr. 10, 2001
By Contributing Writer

As long as we're on the subject of aggressive prosecutors, Ventura County Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Frawley score...


Constitutional Law


Protesting Drug Testing

Apr. 10, 2001
By Columnist

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently that a hospital's drug testing of pregnant women at the direction of the police and the ...


Law Practice


True Believers

Apr. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

Three months ago, Carson City attorney Thanayi Lindsey was surfing the Web and stumbled across a curious site: MyCounsel.com. ...


Criminal


Judge Spares DA in 'Brady' Battle

Apr. 10, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A judge on Friday denied a defense attorney's request to sanction the Los Angeles district attorney's office for...


Criminal


Arrest Warrant Issued in $100 Million Scam

Apr. 10, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of Michael J. Fanghella, accused by the Securities and Exch...


Insurance


Disabled Court Reporter Recovers $1.3M

Apr. 10, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime court reporter for former San Francisco Superior Court Presiding Judge Alfred G. Chiantelli has bee...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Bar Governors Table Bid for Death Penalty Moratorium

Apr. 10, 2001
By Don De Benedictis

SAN FRANCISCO - Tossing a political hot potato back where it came from, the State Bar Board of Governors tabled a request Frid...


Criminal


Murderer Seeks Details on 'No Parole' Policy

Apr. 10, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - The attorney for convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz filed a discovery motion late last week seeking informati...


Criminal


Boy Recounts the Fatal Mauling of His Friend

Apr. 10, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

BARSTOW - Ten-year-olds Cash Carson and Daniel Gonzales walked toward a Newberry Springs home last year to ask its occupants f...


Judges and Judiciary


Organization Honors Juvenile Court Judge

Apr. 10, 2001
By Cheryl Romo

LOS ANGELES - Terry Friedman, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, has been named this year's recipient of t...


Entertainment & Sports


Live Through This

Apr. 10, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

If you aren't prepared to go all 15 rounds, then you shouldn't get into the ring, according to courtroom warrior A. Barry Capp...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - A lawyer repeatedly sent threatening e-mail messages to opposing counsel after losing a price-fixing class actio...


Natural Resources


Water Warriors Talk Peace

Apr. 10, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement of an important Central Valley agriculture case that could come soon will help clear the way for ...


SAN FRANCISCO - The city's three-year-old legal dispute over its business-tax framework will reach a critical point today when...


Law Practice


Pacific Gas Bankruptcy Dims Hopes for Edison

Apr. 10, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas and Electric's bankruptcy filing, the state's bankruptcy ...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - The rare reversal of a murder conviction last week by a sharply divided 1st District Court of Appeal panel rev...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Filing Opens a Can of Worms

Apr. 10, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to seek bankruptcy protection rather than a political ...


Corporate


Firms Flee Fickle Investors

Apr. 7, 2001
By Toni Vranjes

The food and the decor at the hundreds of eateries owned by restaurant chain Buffets Inc. haven't changed in the last year - a...


Government Contracts


Uncle Sam Paves Way For R&D

Apr. 7, 2001
By Columnist

Despite the common perception that the federal government seeks only the acquisition of big-ticket items, such as rocket engin...


Firm Watch


Munger Tolles Taps Internet Law Expert

Apr. 7, 2001
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Munger Tolles & Olson has added renowned legal scholar Lawrence Lessig to its 150-attorney rost...


Technology & Science


Web Site Spotlights Wacky Inventions That Flopped

Apr. 7, 2001
By Contributing Writer

In these days when biotechnology and high-tech companies live and die based on the breadth of their intellectual property port...


Civil Rights


Climbing to Educational Equality

Apr. 7, 2001
By Columnist

Affirmative action has been back in the news and the subject of talk shows and student demonstrations since University of Cali...


Law Practice


Members of the criminal-defense profession have long recognized the extraordinary achievements of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Harold "Hal" Rosenberg, Van Nuys criminal defense attorney and former president of...


Intellectual Property


Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has dropped its appeal of a case it brought against an Irvine-based manufacturer...


Litigation


Courtroom Karma

Apr. 7, 2001
By Columnist

Every weekday, with the exception of election-snafu litigation, which seems to flourish on the weekends, many of us litigators...