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Large Firms


Analyze This

Jan. 6, 2004
By Columnist

Column - Law Firm Management - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - In addition to providing its clients with quality legal service...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Electronic-Design Firms Merge

Jan. 6, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Silicon Valley high-technology companies Verisity Ltd. and Axis Systems Inc. are joining forces to create a bigger player in t...


Law Practice


Counting Every Last Cent

Jan. 6, 2004
By Joel Rosenblatt

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Faxes, photocopies, Internet research, and telephone calls all make their way onto legal bills. ...


International


German Investors Finance U.S. Movies

Jan. 6, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

When "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" made its European premiere in Berlin in December, attorney Larry Ulman at...


Litigation


Lawyers Can Prepare Clients for Small-Claims Court

Jan. 6, 2004
By Contributing Writer

Column - Trial Strategy - By Douglas G. Carnahan - As the state Legislature and the Judicial Council continue to consider incr...


Transactions


Intellidot Attracts $15 Million

Jan. 6, 2004
By Toni Vranjes

Intellidot Corp.'s small hand-held device for preventing medication mistakes has piqued the interest of venture capitalists, w...


Litigation


Bared breasts are a common sight in Las Vegas, so when staff of a casino restaurant asked Watsonville mother Amy Howley to lea...


Firm Watch


Weissmann Wolff Lands Lawyer-Writer

Jan. 6, 2004
By Liz Valsamis

Peter J. Dekom is putting his solo practice and writing career behind him to join a Beverly Hills-based entertainment firm. ...


Firm Watch


Wilson Sonsini Recruits Far East Expert

Jan. 6, 2004
By Joel Rosenblatt

Lucas Chang exemplifies the intensifying battle for lawyers with expertise in China. Chang, until December a partner at Heller...


Firm Watch


Anticipating a doubling of its attorney ranks in Palo Alto this year, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw moved Dec. 12 to larger off...


Litigation


Immigration Judge Gives Woman Asylum

Jan. 6, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

Mariam Musa Ibrahim Mohammed doesn't have to return to Sudan, because an immigration judge granted her request for asylum rece...


Litigation


A Washington, D.C., District Court judge recently granted a preliminary injunction halting the hostile takeover of Atlantic Co...


Banking


Trust Firms Settle $90 Million Class Suit

Jan. 6, 2004
By Eron Yehuda

Some of the country's largest financial institutions have agreed to a $90 million settlement of a class action alleging that t...


Firm Watch


Marketing Guru Sets Up Own Shop

Jan. 6, 2004
By Erik Cummins

David Geyer, the architect of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's groundbreaking multimillion-dollar television advertising camp...


Criminal


Forum Column - By Paul J. Wallin - Based on the evidence that has been revealed thus far, it is shocking that many attorneys, ...


Labor/Employment


Focus Column - Employment Law - By David H. Raizman and Kaye E. Chaffee - Courts repeatedly have interpreted California's proh...


Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Michael J. Collins and Nima Shivayi - In Snider v. Superior Court (Quantum Productions Inc...


Judges and Judiciary


SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster of San Diego vindictively doubled a defendant's original sentence after the ...


Government


SAN FRANCISCO - In its more than five years of existence, a uniquely Californian program has stiffened the enforcement of envi...


Government


Column By Garry Abrams - Last week, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft added more murk to the ocean of murk surrounding the i...


Judges and Judiciary


A True Competitor

Jan. 6, 2004
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Before he took the bench, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley spent nearly 25 years as a prosecutor, ...


Native Americans


The Dry Creek Band of the Pomo Indians and Sonoma Falls Developers have recently settled for $50 million a breach of contract ...


Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk Pasich - While the scope of coverage will depend on the particular policies involved, t...


Constitutional Law


Preventing Attacks

Jan. 3, 2004
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Cary L. Schatz - The United States suffered a significant setback in the war on terrorism with the 2nd U.S. ...


Column By Garry Abrams - Maybe it's only because we have so many famous people facing criminal charges this winter. But maybe ...


Judges and Judiciary


Proposed Budget Cuts Portend 'Disaster'

Jan. 3, 2004
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - California's courts learned this week they have a new $44 million hole in their wallets this year and must brace...


Criminal


Attorney Campaigns With Book in Hand

Jan. 1, 2004
By Brent Kendall

WASHINGTON - "Winning Back America." "A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America." "An Even Better Place: America in th...


Transactions


DAILY DEALS -- Transactions for Dec. 31

Jan. 1, 2004
By Chris Tolles

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LONG BEACH - Invensys has signed a lease renewal on a 219,000-square-foot industrial building located at 10...


Immigration


Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Brian D. Lerner - In Farah v. Ashcroft, 2003 U.S.App.LEXIS 23239 (9th Cir. Nov. 14,...


Judges and Judiciary


Notebook - By Donna Domino - Ever since his appointment in May 1996 as California's chief justice, Ronald M. George has enjoye...