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Large Firms


Frequent Flier

Oct. 19, 1999
By Tamara Scott

Frequent Flyer By Tamara Scott Once a week, San Francisco lawyer Charles "Chuck" Birenbaum spends one night and two days in L...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Santa Monica Bar to Install Officers

Oct. 19, 1999
By From Staff Reports

Santa Monica Bar To Install Officers Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Victor E. Chavez will serve as keynote speake...


A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Samuel Goldwyn Cochran Cherry FORMER O.J. LAWYER MERGES WITH NEW YOR...


Intellectual Property


Zipping Lips

Oct. 19, 1999
By Elizabeth Freudenthal

Zipping Lips Technology and a fluid job market have increased the chances for rogue employees and contractors to leak confide...


Entertainment & Sports


Bear Essentials

Oct. 19, 1999
By Garry Abrams

Bear Essentials A tussle over Winnie-the-Pooh could become a big public access battle now that Walt Disney Co. is accused of ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Beverly Hills Bar Installs Officers

Oct. 19, 1999
By From Staff Reports

Beverly Hills Bar Installs Officers Nicholas R. Allis has been installed as president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. O...


Judges and Judiciary


He Was No Roger Maris

Oct. 19, 1999
By Columnist

By Gerald F. Uelmen Justice Stanley Mosk, who is about to break the record for longevity of service on the California Supreme...


Litigation


Beyond Belief

Oct. 19, 1999
By Jeffrey Anderson

By Jeffrey Anderson In June, Michael Small received a strange letter. The author, writing on behalf of an "anonymous friend,"...


Law Practice


Tech Alert!

Oct. 19, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

Tech Emergency! An international coalition of law firms battles the Internet Age's borderless vexations. By Leslie A. Gordon ...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Uncharted Territory

Oct. 19, 1999
By Columnist

^^Land Use Law^^ Uncharted Territory Takings Cases Don't Always Have to Be Tried Before a Jury The court found that where, as...


Product Liability


By Doug Bandow The federal government is now following the states in seeking to extort billions from the tobacco industry. Ci...


Large Firms


For Triathloner, Charity Begins in the Ocean

Oct. 19, 1999
By Leslie Gordon

Harry Macey , an intellectual property partner at Morrison & Foerster in Palo Alto, is known within his firm as the Bioni...


Wilson Sonsini SOLECTRON MAKES A SMART SELECTION Milpitas-based Solectron, a worldwide electronics manufacturer, recently pur...


Marketing


To Get Deal, Former Foes Worked as Friends

Oct. 19, 1999
By Katherine Gaidos

Two billion dollars was of little interest to Nevan Elam, associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and counsel for S...


Insurance


Premium Law

Oct. 19, 1999
By Stacy Cohen

Peak Experience Premium Law Zenith Man The Guardian The Protector Company Man Norman Beegun has spent the 25 years with Zenit...


Litigation


^^Securities Law^^ By Elizabeth Mann In 1995 Congress enacted the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, 15 U.S.C. Section...


Judges and Judiciary


Panel Sets Confirmation Date

Oct. 19, 1999
By Anna Marie Stolley

A confirmation hearing on Gov. Gray Davis' judicial appointments to the 2nd District Court of Appeal has been scheduled for N...


Personal Injury & Torts


Tales From the Crypt Give Fuel for Class-Action Fire

Oct. 19, 1999
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - They thought they were donating the bodies of loved ones to science. But rather than educating a future doctor or...


Intellectual Property


Catching Fakes

Oct. 16, 1999
By Columnist

Catching Fakes Courts May Grant Ex Parte Seizure Orders in Counterfeit Cases By Edward O. Lear Counterfeiting costs all U.S. ...


Discipline


Meeting Out Direct Justice

Oct. 16, 1999
By Columnist

^^ The Practice ^^ By M.C. Sungaila It's official - George Vogelman did it. He beheaded Susan Robbin (though he was acquitted...


Litigation


City Settles Police Explorers Case

Oct. 16, 1999
By Anne La Jeunesse

City Settles Police Explorers Case The Santa Monica City Council has approved a $50,000 settlement for a 15-year-old Police E...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Lawyers Reactivate Westside Group

Oct. 16, 1999
By From Staff Reports

Lawyers Reactivate Westside Group A group of Westside lawyers has reactivated the L.A. West chapter of the American Inns of C...


Judges and Judiciary


Judges to Model for Fashion Show

Oct. 16, 1999
By From Staff Reports

Judges to Model For Fashion Show Women Lawyers of Long Beach will hold its annual fashion show, featuring District Attorney G...


Appellate Practice


Good Lawyers Don't Take No for an Answer

Oct. 16, 1999
By Columnist

^^Family Law^^ By Erin O'Bryan These ethically challenged bunch of lawyers are at it again, this time getting romantic with c...


Intellectual Property


Just Reward

Oct. 16, 1999
By Columnist

Just Reward Pending Legislation Would Protect Compilers of Databases Database providers have expressed their concern that the...


Judges and Judiciary


Doogie Howser, PJ?

Oct. 16, 1999
By Columnist

By Kevin M. "Casey" Christensen According to recent articles, there are not only too few judicial positions to handle Califor...


Law Practice


Memorial services will be held today for Long Beach trial lawyer Robert H. Lund. Lund died Saturday following a long battle w...


Government


Deputy DA's Discrimination Suit Gets Under Way

Oct. 16, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The first witness testifying in a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination and retaliation against a former dep...


Judges and Judiciary


A joint committee of Los Angeles Municipal and Superior Court judges late Wednesday released its answers to many of the probl...


Criminal


Colorado Gov. to Appoint Ramsey Advisory Panel

Oct. 16, 1999
By Charles Ashby

DENVER - To help decide if a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the murder of JonBennet Ramsey, Colorado G...