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Napa's Chalone Wine Group Ltd. has obtained private financing to purchase three vineyards. The unsecured loan is valued at $30...


Law Practice


The Quiet Firm

Oct. 10, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

Seyfarth Shaw ranks 42nd in the state, but its image tends to run beige. To rectify its lack of recognition, the firm has emba...


Insurance


Touch Coverage

Oct. 10, 2000
By Columnist

As difficult as it may be to believe, there really is sexual-harassment insurance coverage. Employment-practices liability ins...


Transactions


South San Francisco's Exelixis Inc. has agreed to acquire Agritope, based in Portland, Ore. The stock-for-stock transaction is...


Transactions


Contra Costa's tallest building, One Concord Center, has been sold in a deal worth $55 million. TrizecHahn Corp., a real estat...


Law Practice


The New Holy Grail

Oct. 10, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

The corporate legal department has become the holy grail of a legal career, with attendant respect, and a leader and an associ...


Law Practice


Lives at Risk

Oct. 10, 2000
By Columnist

Terrorist groups are still targeting defense attorneys in Northern Ireland despite the desire of its citizens to put the Troub...


Constitutional Law


Show Us the Money

Oct. 10, 2000
By Columnist

The White House, the symbol of the executive branch that enforces our federal laws, has been financed illegally and in direct ...


Firm Watch


The Los Angeles arm of New York giant Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom lost corporate attorney Brian McCarthy to an execu...


Los Angeles' Stutman Treister & Glatt, one of the country's leading bankruptcy firms, is mourning the loss of founder Jack...


Law Practice


Mellowing Out

Oct. 10, 2000
By Staff Writer

For the past year, former lawyer Mary Mocine has made a practice of getting attorneys' attention with simple but revolutionary...


Morrison & Foerster has added one partner to its Irvine office and another to its San Francisco headquarters. The most rec...


Civil Rights


Pasadena Firm Hit With Discrimination Case

Oct. 10, 2000
By David Houston

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Pasadena law firm Robert L. Re...


Litigation


Judge Will Sentence Three in Phone Scam

Oct. 10, 2000
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Three Southland residents were convicted last week on federal fraud and money laundering charges after bilking som...


Litigation


Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Welsh Choir

Oct. 10, 2000
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - The Welsh Choir of Southern California has something to sing about after a judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging it m...


Government


Northrop Pays U.S. $1.4M Settlement

Oct. 10, 2000
By David Houston

Northrop Grumman Corp. paid the U.S. government $1.4 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the company of ov...


Technology & Science


You can get just about anything you want on the Internet these days: books, music, cars ... legal representation. With the Ele...


Discipline


Court Vacates Officer's Arson Conviction

Oct. 10, 2000
By Pamela Mac Lean

A federal appeals court has vacated the arson-for-profit conviction of retired San Francisco police Officer William Parenti on...


Immigration


British officials have confirmed they have no criminal record on file against an Englishwoman facing deportation from the Unit...


Criminal


Criminal defense attorneys Friday hailed a judge's order to hold evidentiary hearings to probe the district attorney's office ...


Government


New State Legislation Combats Identity Theft

Oct. 10, 2000
By Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO - It was a year of mixed results for those fighting the problem of identity theft in California. For instance, a bi...


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments on whether false statements or omissions in applications for sta...


Corporate


Tort Attack

Oct. 7, 2000
By Contributing Writer

California's civil-justice system has always been a major deterrent against increased job growth and economic development. Thi...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Work Force

Oct. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Many California employers, as well as members of the state's burgeoning alternative dispute resolution industry, breathed a co...


Litigation


Oh, to Play on a Winning Super Bar Team

Oct. 7, 2000
By Columnist

The State Bar should develop a scoring system whereby law firm wins are computed like baseball statistics. ...


Product Liability


X-treme Risk

Oct. 7, 2000
By Columnist

The court rejected Whitfield's proposed new theory, concluding that it would be unwise to adopt a broad new theory of recovery...


Law Practice


After 14 years, litigation attorney Steven O. Kramer has defected from San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro to join t...


Public Interest


Unique Insight

Oct. 7, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

Mona Thalheimer knew whom to turn to when her rights as a deaf person were violated. She contacted one of the only deaf attorn...


Public Interest


Tough Stuff

Oct. 7, 2000
By Columnist

The movie 'Girlfight' asks the question: Do women athletes need legal protection from being forced to compete against male ath...


Litigation


Call Bollixed

Oct. 7, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

More than a year after a landmark settlement promised people with disabilities better access to emergency call boxes, Carol An...