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Entertainment & Sports


Many lawyers found a great way to relax in the hills of Brentwood on Sunday, Oct. 14. Neville Johnson of the Westwood firm of ...


Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch is bulking up its intellectual property practice, adding attorney Troy Schmelzer to its...


Firm Watch


One California-based law firm graced a list of companies that are helping women balance work and family life. Working Mother m...


Family


Filling a Niche

Oct. 23, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

The vital, day-to-day work done by the attorneys and staff at Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center in Los Angeles isn't all th...


International


War Games

Oct. 23, 2001
By Columnist

It is not a semantic quibble to distinguish between criminal acts and acts of war when the toll in blood and treasure reaches ...


Palo Alto's PayPal Inc. announced the filing of a registration statement for the initial public offering of its common stock. ...


Law Practice


Simmer Down Now

Oct. 23, 2001
By Staff Writer

When did aggressively representing your client translate into a contest to see who could be the bigger jerk? Instead of all th...


Transactions


Santa Barbara based-Agility Communications Inc. received $83 million in a series C round of financing. New York's Goldman Sach...


Constitutional Law


In 1982, while searching for a research paper topic, University of Texas graduate student Gregory Watson discovered that in ad...


President Bush has nominated Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton attorney Matthew Fong chair of the advisory panel of a fede...


Entertainment & Sports


Meanwhile, outside the studio gates, entertainment lawyers are dealing with the above-mentioned security precautions. Jill Coh...


Entertainment & Sports


He is the highest-ranking legal officer of one of the major studios. For years, he has been an integral part of an operation t...


Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott has nabbed longtime litigator Carol Rene Brophy from the San Francisco office of Foley &am...


San Jose's Hynix Semiconductor America Inc., subsidiary of South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc., has raised $115 million in ...


Large Firms


Conference Call

Oct. 23, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

Sometimes, getting out of the office is nice. In good economic times or bad, arranging for outside meeting space can make the ...


Transactions


New York's DoubleClick Inc. agreed to acquire the technology assets of Marina del Rey-based L90 Inc. Neither company would dis...


Criminal


Counsel Pleads for Dog's Life

Oct. 23, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare appeal of a dog's death sentence, a panel of Court of Appeal justices has seemed disinclined to gra...


Transactions


La Mirada's Berkley Industries recently completed its acquisition of Santa Fe Springs-based Omni Plastics Inc. Neither company...


Entertainment & Sports


Terrorists. Truck bombs. Anthrax. Mass casualties. Is this any way to throw an awards show? As assistant general counsel, Scot...


Entertainment & Sports


Lawyer Finds Niche Through Trial By Fire

Oct. 23, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

Christopher Brearton calls his immersion into the world of entertainment finance a "baptism by fire." After graduating from th...


Criminal


Plumas DA Arrested On DUI Charge

Oct. 23, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - The district attorney of Plumas County has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after police found hi...


Family


Foster Parents Can Keep Indian Boy

Oct. 23, 2001
By Amy Tatko

LOS ANGELES - An American Indian boy should remain in the custody of his Hispanic foster parents because the child has no dire...


LOS ANGELES - Keeping a group of alleged gang members shackled together during their murder trial painted a "chain gang" imag...


Litigation


LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles jurors said Friday that they suspect that an exclusive West Hollywood eatery used a nonexistent dres...


Criminal


Clinic Alleges Smoke Screen

Oct. 23, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal narcotics agents with drawn guns recently burst through the front door of attorney Dale Schafer's medi...


Bankruptcy


And You Thought PG&E Bills Were High

Oct. 23, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A whopping $14 million fee request for the first four months of legal work on the Pacific Gas and Electric Co....


The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 took a heavy toll on the confidence of law firms throughout California if layoffs in recent ...


Criminal


In the Balance

Oct. 22, 2001
By Columnist

It is said that there are no atheists in the trenches, and the same can probably be said for civil libertarians. If an unconst...


Criminal


Feds Struggle to Link Detainees To Terrorists

Oct. 22, 2001
By James Gordon Meek

WASHINGTON - More than 800 people have been detained in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but few are believed ...


Litigation


"I'd rather appear in public half-dressed than half-prepared." George Bernard Shaw. Behind every great, seemingly effor...