The celebration and remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday this month coincided with the beginning of trial in G...
Public Interest
Attorney General-Designate's Record Demonstrates Unfitness
By Columnist
It is troubling that some are suggesting that John Ashcroft's nomination to be attorney general cannot be defeated unless some...
Judges and Judiciary
Association Honors Superior Court Judge
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Association presented its most prestigious award to Judge John J. "Jack" Ryan in a ceremony ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A hung jury was declared Monday in the trial of a Bernal Heights man accused of murdering his girlfriend. Dist...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a Riverside man to 36 months' probation Monday for throwing a piece...
SAN JOSE - U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel on Monday avoided, for the moment, making any major decisions in a dispute a...
LOS ANGELES - A Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech has vowed to appeal a decision that it says has sucked the lifeblood from its p...
LOS ANGELES - Three Interior lawyers from the Clinton administration have joined Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. ...
LOS ANGELES - Bet Tzedek drew its largest crowd ever - 1,500 people - to its annual fund-raiser Saturday night at the grand ba...
Appellate Practice
Medi-Pot Case Wends Its Way To 4th District Court of Appeal
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A medical marijuana case is heading to the 4th District Court of Appeal after being dismissed, reinstated and then...
LOS ANGELES - Services have been conducted for William Hesser Pavitt Jr., name partner at Culver City's Beehler & Pavitt. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Colleagues Testify at Judge's Disciplinary Hearing
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, accused of playing hooky from the bench while attending a Ca...
Technology & Science
Boalt Opens Law, Technology Clinic, Hires Expert as Director
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - In its continuing push to build hands-on opportunities for its students, Boalt Hall opened its law and technolog...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Chinese machinery company that sailed four giant cranes into the port of Oakland illegally hired two dozen C...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Southern California Edison will be back in court Wednesday morning, attempting to get a judge to blo...
Constitutional Law
High Court to Review 9th's 'Virtual' Child Porn Decision
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a 1996 law criminalizing the distribution of sexually explicit image...
LOS ANGELES - Troy Newman had been waiting for President Bush's inauguration for eight years. "I'm excited to get a guy out of...
SAN FRANCISCO - A super-sensitive, Band-Aid-style drug testing device known as a sweat patch is being used increasingly as a s...
Large Firms
IP Star Leaves Orrick Herrington For McDermott Will & Emery
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Terry McMahon, a prominent intellectual property litigator, will join the Menlo Park office of Chicago's McDer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown intends to appoint Kimiko Burton-Cruz as interim public defender when Jeff Brown resigns to...
Government
Smoking Gun Drops From Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - With the last-minute flurry of plea deals and pardons of the Clinton administration and the inauguration of Pres...
Personal Injury & Torts
Paralyzed Man Wins $15M in Roll-Over Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In a judgment believed to be the largest personal injury verdict in San Bernardino County history, a jury h...
Among actions announced Monday, Jan. 22, 2001 by the justices were:
Transactions
Brobeck Phleger: BROADCOM PAYS $1.7 BILLION IN A DEAL WITH SERVERWORKS
By Staff Writers
Broadcom Corp. has agreed to acquire ServerWorks Corp. in a deal valued at $1.74 billion. Irvine's Broadcom makes integrated c...
Firm Watch
Graham & James: CREDITORS SEEK CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY LIQUIDATION
By Staff Writer
The fact that San Francisco's Graham & James has closed its doors hasn't dissuaded three creditors from pressing for the i...
Transactions
O'Melveny & Myers: HEARME SCORES $20 MILLION IN SALE OF ONLINE GAME SITE
By Staff Writers
GameSpy Industries Inc. will buy the HearMe Web site, Mplayer. The cash, promissory note and stock deal is valued at $20 milli...
Transactions
Gibson Dunn: NORTHROP GRUMMAN PLANS TO BUY LITTON INDUSTRIES
By Staff Writers
Northrop Grumman Corp. is acquiring Litton Industries Inc. In consideration, Northrop will pay $3.8 million in cash and assume...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa County Supervisor Gayle Bishop has avoided state prison but will serve six months in count...
Dallas' Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld added bankruptcy partner Peter Gurfein to its Los Angeles office on Jan. 1. Gurfein...
Firm Watch
Brobeck Phleger: AD AND SALARY SPENDING COMMEMORATE BOOM YEAR
By Staff Writer
After chalking up $195 million in profits last year, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison decided to throw some money around. On Jan...