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Simpson Thacher CISCO IS COMPATIBLE WITH PAIR OF RECENT PURCHASES San Jose-based Cisco Systems, which offers a variety of bus...


Natural Resources


Insurers Must Pay for Stringfellow Cleanup

Mar. 7, 2000
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - California taxpayers got what could potentially be a $500 million break Thursday from the 4th District Court o...


Transactions


Wilson Sonsini REAL'S DEAL APPARENT IN SPEEDY NETZIP PURCHASE Seattle's RealNetworks acquired Atlanta's Netzip Inc. for 1.7 m...


Intellectual Property


Link Liability

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

By Peter Brown The continued expansion of the Internet brings not only unparalleled opportunity but also significant risk. A ...


Transactions


Bigger-Money Merger for Bigger-Money Companies

Mar. 7, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Howard Rice BIGGER-MONEY MERGER FOR BIGGER-MONEY COMPANIES In an agreement valued at $2.7 billion, San Francisco's Charles Sc...


Judges and Judiciary


Boxer Touts Judge For Central District

Mar. 7, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., on Friday recommended to President Clinton that he nominate San Luis Obispo County ...


Labor/Employment


Paper Proof

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

By Richard S. Rosenberg Law firms have certain reporting and notice requirements that must be fulfilled every time an employe...


Transactions


Brobeck Phleger LIVE ON LINE NOW ENJOYING DIGITAL ISLAND ADVENTURES San Francisco's Digital Island Inc. acquired New York's L...


Firm Watch


Sonnenschein Loses Los Angeles Lawyers

Mar. 7, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

Winston & Strawn SONNENSCHEIN LOSES LOS ANGELES LAWYERS The Los Angeles office of Chicago-based Sonnenschein, Nath & ...


Firm Watch


Northern Virginia Office Opened With New Hire

Mar. 7, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

Morrison & Foerster NORTHERN VIRGINIA OFFICE OPENED WITH NEW HIRE San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster plans to op...


Transactions


Jeeves Grows Greener With Educational Deal

Mar. 7, 2000
By Emma Varesio

Cooley Godward JEEVES GROWS GREENER WITH EDUCATIONAL DEAL Emeryville's Ask Jeeves Inc. acquired the Evergreen Project Inc. in...


Public Interest


Spin Report By John M. Curtis "We don't have inflation because the people are living too well ... we have inflation because th...


Law Practice


Longtime Orange County Prosecutor Dies

Mar. 7, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - Longtime Orange County prosecutor Ed Freeman, remembered by colleagues as a good lawyer who was "revered on both s...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Deadbeat Payors

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

Physicians have an arsenal of weapons to use against delinquent payers. Physicians Have Many Options for Obtaining Reimburseme...


Family


Child Abduction

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

THE CLOSER Kidnapping of a child by a noncustodial parent can do as much damage as abduction by a stranger. By Paula Savage C...


Government


DA Demotes Chief Assistant

Mar. 7, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

DA Demotes Chief Assistant SANTA ANA - Devallis Rutledge, Orange County's chief assistant district attorney who was stripped o...


Criminal


Mother Pleads in Chained Girl Case

Mar. 7, 2000
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - A woman who kept her 6-year-old daughter chained to a bed has avoided a possible life prison term for torture by p...


Criminal


SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1990s, Connie "Chip" Armstrong, who lived like a Texas tycoon of a bygone age, didn't rob with a gun. I...


Public Interest


Bush Says He Wants New Era

Mar. 7, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM George W. Bush sets out his agenda. ...


Firm Watch


Name Partner Goes In-House at a Dot-Com

Mar. 7, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

Troop Steuber NAME PARTNER GOES IN-HOUSE AT A DOT-COM Name partner Bruce D. Tobey is leaving Century City-based Troop Steuber...


Criminal


Rights of Immigrant Defendants to Be Heard

Mar. 7, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - It's a scene repeated over and again inside the halls of California's criminal courtrooms: A defendant pleads ...


Law Practice


General Counsel Keep a Wary Watch

Mar. 7, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

The legal community now knows how much a first-year associate can expect to be paid in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles' highest...


Firm Watch


Ken Allen , a partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew in Palo Alto, is both a night owl and an early riser. He has to be to...


Large Firms


Fee Frenzy

Mar. 7, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

By Leslie A. Gordon A frequent visitor to a Yahoo bulletin board on salaries known as the Silicon Valley Greedy Associates Cl...


Law Practice


Rolling in the Dough

Mar. 7, 2000
By Staff Writer

The Big Five Threat DEWEY: Let's move on to multidisciplinary practices and where the practice of law is going, especially co...


Law Office Automation


Ordering Chaos

Mar. 7, 2000
By Tamara Scott

By Tamara Scott For large law firms pumping money and resources into information technology systems, the concept that that ha...


Government


Bar Associations Condemn Governors Remarks

Mar. 7, 2000
By Don De Benedictis

Joining a chorus of criticism, the presidents of six of California's largest bar associations have written Gov. Gray Davis to ...


Large Firms


Part-Time Partner

Mar. 7, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

By Leslie A. Gordon Mary Murphy spent most of her career as an associate unsure of whether she was on track for partner. A re...


Government


SACRAMENTO - U.S. Supreme Court justices presumably have watched with keen interest the GOP presidential race, which has seen ...


Government


SACRAMENTO - These are heady times for political reformers. Campaign finance restrictions have moved to firmer legal ground, t...