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Government


Family of Angels-Flight Crash Victim Sues City

Mar. 28, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - The family of an 83-year-old New Jersey man killed early last month in the crash of Angels Flight in downtown Lo...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Studio City entertainment attorney Harden C. Bennion. Bennion died March 2...


Civil Rights


Court Takes on Minority Preferences

Mar. 28, 2001
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Randy and Valerie Pech, the white owners of Adarand Constructors Inc., a Denver construction firm specializing in...


Appellate Practice


Judge Dodges Issue of Publication

Mar. 28, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge declined Monday to be drawn into a head-on confrontation over the ticklish question of whether...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - Large out-of-state corporations doing substantial business in California may be facing a legal brick wall when...


Criminal


Racist Gunman Makes Apology, Gets Life Term

Mar. 28, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The smirking white supremacist who boasted of shooting minorities two years ago was not in evidence Monday as Bu...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Normally, the Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles does not rival Disneyland as the happiest place o...


Public Interest


Daily Journal's Collection of Quotes

Mar. 27, 2001
By Columnist

"A reasonable solution seems obvious: hold a true 'public' execution - allow a public broadcast." Timothy McVeigh, in a Feb. 1...


Appellate Practice


U.S. Supreme Court Highlights

Mar. 27, 2001
By David Pike

Among actions announced Monday, March 26, 2001 by the justices were:


GATX Capital Corp. has purchased the U.S. information technology lease portfolio of El Camino Resources Ltd. The deal, which c...


Just months after snapping up a new West Coast intellectual property head, Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two ...


Supermarket giant Safeway Inc. recently completed $1.2 billion in senior notes financing. Pleasanton-based Safeway is one of N...


San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has apparently decided that one local office is not enough. On March 1, the fi...


The fierce Los Angeles corporate firm Irell & Manella started 2001 with the changeover of five lawyers in its 16-member ex...


Rich Doyle, former general counsel for Gamut Interactive - a startup that's been put on ice due to lack of funding - has bounc...


Transactions


On Command Corp. has bought a controlling interest in Hotel Digital Network Inc. The amount of the cash, stock and continuing-...


Law Practice


Lawyer Bashing

Mar. 27, 2001
By Columnist

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2. How many times hav...


Litigation


Big Boutique

Mar. 27, 2001
By Staff Writer

Mill Valley's Chavez & Gertler has earned a national reputation for specializing in high-profile consumer class actions. R...


Palo Alto's PayPal, an Internet payment provider, has raised $90 million in Series D equity financing. The investment gives th...


Labor/Employment


Fire Chasers

Mar. 27, 2001
By Leslie Gordon

One person's misery is, as they say, another person's gain. And to tell you the truth it's pretty miserable out there. In the ...


After a decade away, corporate lawyer Steve Rowles has returned to his old stomping grounds at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison....


Law Practice


Bergna, 79, Former Santa Clara DA

Mar. 27, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Louis P. Bergna, who during his 25-year stint as the Santa Clara district attorney earned a reputation for hig...


Help desk software company Peregrine Systems Inc. will buy e-commerce software maker Extricity Inc. The stock deal is worth $1...


Transactions


Partners at the Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo voted Jay Gallagher back into the firmwide chair spot. Gallagher, a...


Entertainment & Sports


Lawyers In Franchise Suit Provide Study In Contrasts

Mar. 27, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Like everyone else in Hollywood, this columnist has been watching Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures wi...


Entertainment & Sports


In every episode of the TV show "NYPD Blue," there's a scene when the scuzzbag perp doesn't want to give up the information to...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Coming Out

Mar. 27, 2001
By Staff Writer

Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, an organization consisting of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenders and their su...


Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Chair and Chief Executive Officer Ralph Baxter kicked off the Fulcrum Law Firm Leadership Su...


Administrative/Regulatory


Law School Awards Memorial Scholarship

Mar. 27, 2001
By Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Western State University College of Law has awarded the first Felix Guadalupe Valdez Memorial Scholarship to thi...


Entertainment & Sports


For Movie Deals, She's the Go-To Lawyer

Mar. 27, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

Anyone who obeys the old adage "follow the money" will spend a lot of time trailing Loeb & Loeb partner Susan Williams aro...