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Firm Watch


FRIEDEMANN O'BRIEN ADDS PARTNER, PRACTICE AREA

Nov. 28, 2000
By Staff Reports

Friedemann O'Brien & Zarian's name just got a bit longer, thanks to Steven Goldberg. Goldberg has joined the Los Angeles-b...


State Bar & Bar Associations


KEEPING IT

Nov. 28, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Santa Clara County, the home of Silicon Valley, seems to have it all: money, fame, and an overabundance of residents who under...


Public Interest


TEAMWORK

Nov. 28, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

On the first floor of what was once a television studio, near the corner of Vine Street and Fountain Avenue in Los Angeles, th...


Chatsworth's Luminent Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at about $144 million. The company's line of fiber ...


Litigation


Losing Side in ADA Case Swings Again at Eastwood

Nov. 28, 2000
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - The disabled Alameda woman and her attorneys who lost her civil rights lawsuit against actor-director Clint Eastwoo...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles' Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey has recruited the national adoption director of the Alliance For Childre...


Transactions


VeriSign Inc. has bought GreatDomains.com for an undisclosed amount. VeriSign, based in Mountain View, provides security softw...


Education


KIDS' AID

Nov. 28, 2000
By Marisa Navarro

Dana was as happy as could be when she became the foster mother to a 2-year-old baby girl. She had no idea when the girl's mo...


Judges and Judiciary


The writer, a recent graduate of the University of San Francisco Law School, assisted this summer in the school's overseas pro...


Public Interest


Legal Aid Has Strayed

Nov. 28, 2000
By Columnist

This week, the Daily Journal devotes its pages to a discussion of access-to-justice issues. Coincidentally, the Supreme Court ...


Criminal


I supported Proposition 36, the initiative that mandated treatment programs for first-time drug possessors. It is a needed fir...


Transactions


The Shansby Group has acquired the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The ...


Transactions


SonicWALL Inc. has acquired Phobos Corp. for $279 million in cash and stock. Phobos, based in Salt Lake City, makes Internet t...


Public Interest


FOR THE LONG HAUL

Nov. 28, 2000
By Victoria Newman

Never in her wildest dreams did Julie Su expect that, her first year out of law school, she would be meeting clients held behi...


Transactions


Adapting to High Tech's Rapid Change

Nov. 28, 2000
By John Ryan

Tim Curry, partner in the Palo Alto office of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, has represented high-tech compan...


Firm Watch


After months of socking new intellectual property partners into its own Northern Virginia outpost, Cooley Godward has found an...


Firm Watch


LUCE FORWARD WELCOMES RECRUIT FROM BIG APPLE

Nov. 28, 2000
By Staff Reports

San Diego's Luce Foward Hamilton & Scripps has recruited a New York lawyer for its Los Angeles office. Allison Gotsch come...


Litigation


Man Files Lawsuit, Claims False Arrest

Nov. 28, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A Los Angeles man has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-felon Rafael A. Perez,...


Public Interest


Lifelines

Nov. 28, 2000
By Columnist

Legal aid organizations bring justice and hope to thousands, providing crucial services to those whose only payment is gratitu...


Firm Watch


WEINTRAUB GENSHLEA ADDS FOURTH PATENT ATTORNEY

Nov. 28, 2000
By Staff Reports

Sacramento's Weintraub Genshlea Chedial & Sproul has recruited its fourth patent attorney. John Costello joins the firm's ...


After 10 years with Encino appeals-only shop Horvitz & Levy, partner Tina Imre has moved into that practice area at a full...


Firm Watch


LITIGATORS DONATE TOYS FOLLOWING LEGAL VICTORY

Nov. 28, 2000
By Staff Reports

Two attorneys at Philadelphia-based Morgan Lewis & Bockius have started their holiday shopping early, thanks to an impress...


Public Interest


Edge Law

Nov. 28, 2000
By Staff Writer

Electronic Frontier Foundation protects privacy and free speech on the Internet and pursues precedent-setting cases where ques...


Litigation


Online Defamation Suit Is No SLAPP, Courts Rule

Nov. 28, 2000
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE -- Ever since Varian Medical Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against two of its former employees for caustic messa...


Intellectual Property


Circumvention Navigation

Nov. 28, 2000
By Columnist

Copyright owners enjoy a separate cause of action against those who gain unauthorized access to their encrypted digital entert...


Firm Watch


FOUNDATION CHOOSES ITS FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT

Nov. 28, 2000
By Staff Reports

The Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange County has elected Julianne Sartain as its first woman president. Sartain is a ...


Public Interest


Rose Bird Memorial Fund Rekindles Legacy

Nov. 28, 2000
By Marisa Navarro

When Rose Bird died from breast cancer last December, her legacy was widely distilled to two events - in 1977, she was the fir...


Firm Watch


Five new law school graduates have accepted offers from New York-based Condon & Forsyth. The associates joined the firm's ...


Novatel Wireless Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $56 million. San Diego's Novatel Wireless develops wireless Int...


Conexant Spinco Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Newport Beach's Conexant Spinco is a who...