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Intellectual Property


Songnappers

May 23, 2000
By Columnist

Practitioner: Entertainment Law By John M. Genga Copyright interests continue to prevail in lawsuits challenging uncompensated...


Mergers & Acquisitions


DEALS: MERGER DOUBLES SIZE OF PEREGRINE SYSTEMS

May 23, 2000
By Melissa Onstad

San Diego's Peregrine Systems Inc., a business infrastructure software provider, has acquired Atlanta-based Harbinger Corp., w...


Firm Watch


Alternative dispute resolution firm JAMS, based in Irvine, has added eight mediators to offices throughout the state, includin...


Large Firms


On the Move: Palo-Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has recruited two lateral partners for its 366-attorney corporat...


Government


Latino Organization Seeks Probe of 'Hate Group'

May 23, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - The League of United Latin American Citizens, a national organization advocating civil rights for Hispanics, is ac...


Criminal


O.C. Midwife Pleads Guilty to Baby's Death

May 23, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Lori Jensen, a former Orange County midwife accused of causing the stillborn birth of a baby by unlawfully adminis...


Law Practice


Tax Lawyer Applies Skills to e-Charities

May 23, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

As everything else is linked to the Web, so is charity, according to Cynthia Rowland, partner in San Francisco's Coblentz, Pat...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Platinum Equity Holdings, a Los Angeles-based, privately held company specializing in acquiring Internet technology companies,...


Criminal


Three Nabbed for Allegedly Defrauding Bank

May 23, 2000
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Three Mexico City men, one of them apparently an attorney, were arrested early this month in Chula Vista for defra...


Firm Watch


Kenneth N. Klee, acting professor at UCLA School of Law , has been given the 11th annual Frederic P. Sutherland Public Interes...


Transactions


DEALS: SILICON ENERGY BUYS ENERGY CONCEPTS

May 23, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Silicon Energy Corp. has acquired Energy Concepts Inc. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. ...


Public Interest


By Thomas Edward Wall The cause of child abuse prevention received a major boost when the California Supreme Court unanimously...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Santa Clara-based Veridicom Inc., which provides security software for use in business-to-business online transactions, has ac...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Gamble Leck & Mallory has promoted six associates to partner in its Irvine, Los Angeles, W...


Law Practice


Trickle Down

May 23, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

An executive from a Silicon Valley start-up was shocked when he talked to Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati - the region'...


Public Interest


LEGAL STIGMATA

May 23, 2000
By Columnist

The Closer: By Stanley W. Lamport Mark Twain once said, " Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." The world arou...


Law Practice


Starting the Workday by Riding the Surf

May 23, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

Plenty of busy attorneys rise each morning before the sun. But the alarm clock of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Jonathan Moshe...


Public Interest


State Court Justice Are Coming to L.A.

May 23, 2000
By Staff Reports

The Beverly Hills Bar Association will honor the justices of the state Supreme Court at its annual luncheon June 6 at the Cent...


Firm Watch


Heller Ehrman will receive the American Bar Association's 2000 Pro Bono Publico Award at the association's annual meeting July...


Law Office Automation


BEST BUYS

May 23, 2000
By Columnist

Bottom Line: By Gary S. Wong Technology has permeated the day-to-day operation of most law firms, and the cost of this technol...


Criminal


Police Get Deadline on Evidence

May 23, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

A court on Friday gave Glendale police until October to provide evidence that a former respiratory therapist may have committe...


Government


The city of Los Angeles has launched a program to reduce the volume of nonemergency calls fielded by 911 operators and to cons...


Immigration


Senate Approves Hmong Legislation

May 23, 2000
By Martin Bergn

Legislation to make it easier for some Laotian Vietnam War veterans and their families to take citizenship tests was awaiting ...


Firm Watch


After 27 years with Cooley Godward, corporate and securities lawyer Alan C. Mendelson - a founding partner of Cooley's Palo Al...


Firm Watch


The Los Angeles office of San Diego-based Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has recruited corporate and transactional attorn...


Firm Watch


Gary L. Reback , a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner who initiated one of the earliest legal fights against Microso...


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - If you've visited the ballpark recently, you may have admired the quick spin of a well-turned double play and ...


Criminal


Lawyer Says Rampart Not A Real Crisis

May 23, 2000
By Michael Harris

Crisis? What Rampart crisis? In a decidedly minority opinion, outspoken police defense attorney Ira Salzman believes that the ...


Law Practice


Don't Call Us, We'll Call You

May 23, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

SAN FRANCISCO - This phenomenon is for real: Large Silicon Valley firms are so overwhelmed by the demand for their time, they ...


Criminal


Court Says Evidence Locker Is DA's

May 23, 2000
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Orange County's supervising criminal courts judge and the alternate public defender's office broke the law whe...