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Nossaman Guthner: LOS ANGELES BLUE LINE STAYS ON SCHEDULE FOR 2003 DEBUT
By Staff Writers
The Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority gave final approval last month to the second of two contrac...
LOS ANGELES - Based on Los Angeles City Council action last week, the quarter-million residents of a council district that inc...
Firm Watch
O'Melveny & Myers: TAX LAWYER GOFF, 49, DIES AT HOME AFTER CANCER BATTLE
By Staff Writer
Greg Goff, a tax partner in the main office of Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, died Feb. 5 in his home after a two-year ba...
The Bush administration has already sent clear and chilling messages that they will threaten the reproductive rights of women ...
Job satisfaction follows when attorneys choose self-awareness. Examining their assumptions about happiness can lead dissatisfi...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman: LABOR LAWYER TAKES HELM OF SAN DIEGO POST AFTER GOVERNOR TAPS PREDECESSOR
By Staff Writer
Labor and employment partner Dave Geerdes has stepped into the shoes of Joan Irion, the former managing partner of Heller Ehrm...
Intellectual property attorneys anxiously are awaiting an appellate court ruling that could transform the information superhig...
Firm Watch
Hogan & Hartson: PRETTY PATENT PARTNER LEAVES ON MERGER'S EVE
By Staff Writer
Former Pretty & Schroeder partner Michael Crapenhoft says he didn't even know his firm was going to merge with Pasadena's ...
Firm Watch
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart: PITTSBURGH FIRM DOUBLES L.A. INSURANCE COVERAGE GROUP
By Staff Writer
David Schack, who was a partner at Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, is now insurance lawyer No. 2 in the local of...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: SANDCRAFT FLOATS WELL ON THIRD-TIME VENTURE CAPITAL
By Staff Writer
SandCraft Inc. has raised $35.5 million in a third round of venture financing led by VantagePoint Venture Partners Inc. Santa ...
SANTA MONICA - The county Board of Supervisors Thursday approved a contract with an architect to design a new jury assembly ro...
Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher has produced a compact, firsthand account of some of the significant historical e...
At the top of his 25-year career, Palo Alto-based intellectual property litigator James Elacqua provides his take on where IP ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners continued last week with its newfound toughness toward police Chie...
SAN DIEGO - A grand jury has indicted the former chief of the district attorney's economic fraud division, charging him with 1...
RIVERSIDE - Jurors on Thursday deliberated less than two hours before recommending a death sentence for Kim Raymond Kopatz, wh...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Census Bureau claims it has reached the zenith of "The Longest Continuous Scientific Project in America...
SACRAMENTO - To his Central Coast constituents, Bruce McPherson, the new Republican chairman of the California Senate Public S...
Criminal
SLA Shotgun Slaying Blasts Holes in Prosecutors' Professional Facade
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is as mad as a wet cat over a Valentine's Day press release is...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge, who actively seeks competitive bids for lead counsel in securities class cases, has thrown a ...
LOS ANGELES - The state of California is renegotiating its contracts with telephone companies to try to reduce phone call rate...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Things Looking Up for a Slimmed-Down Tarkington
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The name Tarkington, O'Connor & O'Neill isn't on the growing list of failed Bay Area law firms. Nor is i...
The big debate raging in Major League Baseball is whether money is an enemy of the sport that will do away with an even playin...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Arbitration in Health Care Helps Patients, Taxpayers
By Columnist
The recent report titled "Arbitration in California Managed Health Care Systems" (2001), produced by the California Research B...
Commercial Law
California, U.S. Banks Scramble to Handle Changes to Rules for Loans
By Toni Vranjes
California and more than two dozen states have embraced changes to the rules that govern certain loan transactions in an effor...
Litigation to achieve social and political objectives is common. Many so-called public-interest groups across the entire polit...
Time and technology wait for no lawyer. When in the market for computer hardware and software, you should always buy the best ...
LOS ANGELES - Local leaders Thursday launched a telephone "helpline" aimed at reducing violence in Los Angeles streets and hom...
LOS ANGELES - California associates are a little jumpy these days. And while those jitters may resemble last year's sleep-depr...
Technology & Science
Web Panhandler Wants World to Give Him the Money
By Penny Arevalo
Who says Web sites can't make money? Rich Schmidt had two goals when he started his self-described "amazing" sendmeadollar.com...
