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Public Interest


Pro Bono Publico

Jan. 23, 2002
By Contributing Writer

In the summer of 1971, armed with one year of law school, I began my legal career with a summer job at Pine Tree Legal Assista...


Solo and Small Firms


The Orange County chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, which provides educational programs for people interested i...


Firm Watch


Skadden Fellowship Foundation, a public interest law foundation created by New York's Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, h...


Solo and Small Firms


The real estate section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association has elected Clifford Horner, partner at Walnut Creek's Morg...


Firm Watch


Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan , an 84-attorney business and entertainment litigation firm in Los Angeles, has added Vin...


Marketing


S.F. MARKETING MANAGER TAKES OVER AS PRESIDENT

Jan. 23, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Michele O'Driscoll began her one-year term as president of the Legal Marketing Association's Bay Area chapter Jan 1. O'Drisco...


Transactions


KB HOMES OF LOS ANGELES BUILDS $200 MILLION NEST

Jan. 23, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

KB Home closed its offering of senior subordinated notes on Dec. 14. The transaction brought in $200 million for the company. ...


Transactions


HEARTS ARE HAPPY WITH BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT

Jan. 23, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Thousand Oaks' Amgen Inc. and Sunnyvale's Hysec Pharmaceuticals Inc. have entered into an agreement to develop and sell alfime...


State Bar & Bar Associations


BAR'S BANKRUPTCY SECTION TAPS SOUTHLAND LAWYER

Jan. 23, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The Insolvency Committee of the State Bar business law section has named Los Angeles attorney Peter Bronson to the 25-member c...


Large Firms


The League of California Cities' City Attorneys Department elected Peter Brown president Dec. 18. Brown, partner at Santa Barb...


Transactions


DRUG MANUFACTURER'S IPO RAISES $144 MILLION

Jan. 23, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. went public on Dec. 13. The initial offering raised $144 million. The lead manager was C...


Entertainment & Sports


Pfeiffer's Role Depicts Every Legal Stereotype

Jan. 23, 2002
By Catherine Cavella

Movie Review - By Stephen Zager, "I am Sam" features fantastic performances by both Sean Penn and 7-year-old Dakota Fanning bu...


Transactions


Becoming Ice Cream Partners USA's sole owner, Nestlé USA acquired the remaining 50 percent of the ice cream company from Gener...


State Bar & Bar Associations


ASSOCIATION RECOGNIZES LEWIS D'AMATO MANAGER

Jan. 23, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The San Francisco Bar Association has given Duane Musfelt, managing partner of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard's San Fra...


Law Practice


State's New Law Partners Named Over the Holidays

Jan. 23, 2002
By Donna Huffaker

In early December, California Law Business reported that the state's law firms had elevated 92 associates to partner. The prom...


Firm Watch


After nearly 15 years at the Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 's downtown Los Angeles office, insolvency partner Tom Patterson ...


Transactions


Aristos Logic Corp. raised nearly $16 million in its second round of financing. The deal closed on Dec. 10. The lead investors...


Solo and Small Firms


STEEFEL LEVITT PARTNER GETS SOCIETY'S TOP HONOR

Jan. 23, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha Society, an honorary land economics society, has awarded Edward Steefel, name partner ...


Transactions


Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. closed an $86 million securities offering on Jan. 10. The lead underwriter was Banc of America Secu...


State Bar & Bar Associations


AFRICAN-AMERICAN BAR ANNOUNCES NEW OFFICERS

Jan. 23, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

One of the country's oldest African-American bar associations, the John M. Langston Bar Association, has announced its officer...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Resolution Dispute

Jan. 23, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

To JoAnn Dean, her fight against her former employer is just one more case of an alternative dispute resolution system mired i...


Government


LOS ANGELES - In the latest round in a controversial murder case, a state appeals court has ruled that Gov. Gray Davis doesn't...


Energy Law


LOS ANGELES - From his sixth-floor office in Houston, attorney Mark Haedicke remembers the Enron Corp. of yesteryear. In 2000,...


Entertainment & Sports


SLAPP Happy

Jan. 23, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

Barry Langberg is all riled up. Or at least, as agitated as the soft-spoken celebrity libel lawyer is likely to get. Langberg,...


Litigation


Column by Garry Abrams - Tardy tears of regret and sorrow flowed like Niagara Falls on Friday at the sentencing of Sara Jane O...


Workers' Comp.


SAN FRANCISCO -Asserting that "no good deed goes unpunished," a state appellate court has wiped out a $512,900 judgment won by...


Large Firms


Sonnenschein Nath Lures Insolvency Pro

Jan. 23, 2002
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Chicago-based Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal has recruited insolvency expert Michael Lubic to anchor the fir...


Litigation


Stipulated Reversal Is Rejected

Jan. 23, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - As part of the secret settlement of the nation's largest employment-related racial bias jury award, attorneys ...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - WhenCooley Godward became the first large firm in the Bay Area to ax associates last year, it never could have e...


International


Offensive Speech

Jan. 22, 2002
By Columnist

International Law Practitioner Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson, Speech today finds expression and is made highly accessible t...