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The Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority gave final approval last month to the second of two contrac...


Administrative/Regulatory


Council Decides Not to Fill Goldberg Seat

Feb. 21, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Based on Los Angeles City Council action last week, the quarter-million residents of a council district that inc...


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...


Healthcare/Hospital Law


Reproduction Rights At Risk

Feb. 21, 2001
By Columnist

The Bush administration has already sent clear and chilling messages that they will threaten the reproductive rights of women ...


Law Practice


Reality Remodeled

Feb. 21, 2001
By Columnist

Job satisfaction follows when attorneys choose self-awareness. Examining their assumptions about happiness can lead dissatisfi...


Labor and employment partner Dave Geerdes has stepped into the shoes of Joan Irion, the former managing partner of Heller Ehrm...


Entertainment & Sports


DON'T TRESPASS

Feb. 21, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Intellectual property attorneys anxiously are awaiting an appellate court ruling that could transform the information superhig...


Firm Watch


Former Pretty & Schroeder partner Michael Crapenhoft says he didn't even know his firm was going to merge with Pasadena's ...


David Schack, who was a partner at Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, is now insurance lawyer No. 2 in the local of...


SandCraft Inc. has raised $35.5 million in a third round of venture financing led by VantagePoint Venture Partners Inc. Santa ...


Judges and Judiciary


Jury Assembly Room Will Get a Face-Lift

Feb. 21, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

SANTA MONICA - The county Board of Supervisors Thursday approved a contract with an architect to design a new jury assembly ro...


Law Practice


True Inspiration

Feb. 21, 2001
By Columnist

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher has produced a compact, firsthand account of some of the significant historical e...


Intellectual Property


NEW, NEW LAW

Feb. 21, 2001
By Staff Writer

At the top of his 25-year career, Palo Alto-based intellectual property litigator James Elacqua provides his take on where IP ...


Government


De la Rocha Takes Parks to Task

Feb. 21, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners continued last week with its newfound toughness toward police Chie...


Government


Grand Jury Indicts Longanbach on 12 Counts

Feb. 21, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A grand jury has indicted the former chief of the district attorney's economic fraud division, charging him with 1...


Criminal


Jury Says Strangler Deserves to Die

Feb. 21, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - Jurors on Thursday deliberated less than two hours before recommending a death sentence for Kim Raymond Kopatz, wh...


Government


Census, While Imperfect, Improves Minority Count

Feb. 21, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Census Bureau claims it has reached the zenith of "The Longest Continuous Scientific Project in America...


Government


Daring to Be Different

Feb. 21, 2001
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - To his Central Coast constituents, Bruce McPherson, the new Republican chairman of the California Senate Public S...


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...


Technology & Science


Judge May Name Master To Select Lead Counsel

Feb. 21, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge, who actively seeks competitive bids for lead counsel in securities class cases, has thrown a ...


Criminal


Prisoners, State Say Phone Bills Unfairly High

Feb. 21, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - The state of California is renegotiating its contracts with telephone companies to try to reduce phone call rate...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility


SAN FRANCISCO - The name Tarkington, O'Connor & O'Neill isn't on the growing list of failed Bay Area law firms. Nor is i...


Entertainment & Sports


Auto Racing, Money Work Hand in Hand

Feb. 17, 2001
By Columnist

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


The recent report titled "Arbitration in California Managed Health Care Systems" (2001), produced by the California Research B...


Commercial Law


California and more than two dozen states have embraced changes to the rules that govern certain loan transactions in an effor...


Constitutional Law


Litigation Targets

Feb. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Litigation to achieve social and political objectives is common. Many so-called public-interest groups across the entire polit...


Law Practice


Computer Tips

Feb. 17, 2001
By Columnist

Time and technology wait for no lawyer. When in the market for computer hardware and software, you should always buy the best ...


Criminal


Leaders Launch Violence Helpline

Feb. 17, 2001
By Chris Ford

LOS ANGELES - Local leaders Thursday launched a telephone "helpline" aimed at reducing violence in Los Angeles streets and hom...


Large Firms


Sour Economy Turns Greedy Associates Needy

Feb. 17, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - California associates are a little jumpy these days. And while those jitters may resemble last year's sleep-depr...


Technology & Science


Who says Web sites can't make money? Rich Schmidt had two goals when he started his self-described "amazing" sendmeadollar.com...