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Corporate


Risky Mail

Nov. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Lawyers can help clients keep their carefully packaged marketing morsels from degenerating into distasteful "spam," thus avoid...


Firm Watch


Los Angles' Loeb & Loeb considers its most recent lawyer acquisitions, both from the corporate world, to be a coup for the...


Squire Sanders & Dempsey, the big national firm out of Cleveland, recently hosted a contingent of 80 lawyers from Japan at...


The demise of an 18-year-old San Francisco intellectual property boutique means five new lawyers and another patent agent for ...


Government


Amid reports that another county worker may have contracted Legionnaires' disease, union officials charge that the county down...


Law Practice


Yagman's World

Nov. 7, 2000
By Jeffrey Anderson

Stephen Yagman just doesn't know when to quit. This is how the Los Angeles civil rights lawyer and renowned gadfly recently co...


Criminal


Rule of Law

Nov. 7, 2000
By Columnist

To promote justice, all members of the bar should stay informed about rule-of-law issues here and abroad and speak out in favo...


Transactions


Sunnyvale's Web content management software maker, Interwoven Inc., has agreed to acquire two companies: San Francisco's Metac...


Sullivan & Cromwell, a big New York firm with 45 lawyers in Los Angles, lit a fire under East Coast year-end bonuses when ...


Chevron Corp. has agreed to acquire Texaco Inc. for $36 billion. Chevron also will acquire $7 billion of Texaco's debt. San Fr...


Transactions


Terry Kee, corporate and securities partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco, is a little weary of the media ...


Law Practice


Political Junkie

Nov. 7, 2000
By John Ryan

Attorney Stephen Kaufman is a political junkie, the Smith Kaufman name partner practicing the arcane art of campaign and elect...


Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers isn't one to shrink from the limelight. Litigator Dan Petrocelli, whose name became a house...


Law Practice


Holding Sway

Nov. 7, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

Sliding easily from bar to clustered armchairs and back again, they paused from time to time to graze from trays laden with go...


Law Practice


Having a Life

Nov. 7, 2000
By Staff Writer

Santa Rosa's Lanahan & Reilley has doubled in size in three years. "We're not doing it to be a large law firm," Daniel Lan...


Labor/Employment


9 to 5

Nov. 7, 2000
By Columnist

New Wage Orders will effect the rules that law firms must follow on such diverse topics as overtime, alternative workweeks, me...


Firm Watch


Southern California's Haight Brown & Bonesteel announced plans to move its Los Angeles office closer to the Los Angeles In...


In a deal both firms say was sealed some time ago, the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Sidley & Austin has acquired three ...


Law Practice


Bar Board OKs $50 Cut in Bar Dues Next Year

Nov. 7, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar Board of Governors voted unanimously - and happily - on Friday to cut bar dues by $50 for next y...


Litigation


O.J. Cannot Prevent 'Dream Team' Saga

Nov. 7, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

Former murder defendant O.J. Simpson did not want any television viewers to see "American Tragedy," a made-for-television movi...


Criminal


Urbane Garcetti Versus Scrappy Cooley for DA

Nov. 7, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

In one day, voters must choose between Los Angeles' two-term District Attorney Gil Garcetti and challenger Steve Cooley. Thoug...


Government


Prop. 37 Sustains Initiative's Spirit

Nov. 7, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 13, the property tax-cutting initiative that remains loved and loathed in the state 22 years after...


Government


Final Decree

Nov. 7, 2000
By Staff Writers

Following through on his pledge to sign the consent decree if the Los Angeles City Council passed it, Mayor Richard Riordan ap...


Government


Citing witness intimidation by a corrupt immigration agent, a federal judge has ordered a new trial for a man convicted in an ...


Law Practice


Firm Donates Services to Decree Negotiations

Nov. 7, 2000
By Tamara Scott

While implementation of a consent decree placing the Los Angeles Police Department under the eyes of a federal monitor could c...


Government


Lawyers for four Los Angeles Police Department officers on trial in the Rampart scandal probably will rest their case today. O...


Government


Cast Your Vote for Smaller Government

Nov. 4, 2000
By Contributing Writer

The most important political question you can ask yourself on election day is simply this: Do you want smaller government? Do ...


Litigation


Lawyers spend so much time with time, maybe we should do something about the time spent hanging around the courts. ...


Construction


'Fountainhead' Case

Nov. 4, 2000
By Eron Ben Yehuda

After winning a $10.5 million verdict in September, plaintiff Abel Vargas should be happy, right? Think again. The 39-year-old...


Education


As the debate rages over Proposition 38, the school-choice voucher initiative in California, supporters of educational choice ...