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Firm Watch


Latham & Watkins partner Michael Hertz has put the San Francisco Bar Association's volunteer legal services program online...


Firm Watch


The Defense Research Institute has elected Theresa Marchlewski, a partner at Santa Monica's Haight Brown & Bonesteel, to i...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Unjust Justice

Jan. 3, 2001
By Columnist

Justice can only be achieved through a public forum and the prospect of significant punishment. ...


Firm Watch


Carr & Ferrell, a technology firm based in Palo Alto, has added Randy Gard as a partner to its intellectual property group...


Supermarket chain Safeway Inc. will buy Genuardi's Family Markets for an undisclosed amount. Pleasanton's Safeway operates gro...


Transactions


To Do the Deal, He Had to Pass the Test

Jan. 3, 2001
By Staff Writer

While the mantra for selecting real estate is "location, location, location," the mantra for real estate titan Fred Sands' sel...


Transactions


Thousand Oaks' WellPoint Health Networks has agreed to buy Cerulean Companies Inc. of Atlanta for $700 million in cash. WellPo...


Firm Watch


Helping the Newly Rich Cope With Wealth

Jan. 3, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Jon Gallo specializes in estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, including technology entrepreneurs and sports and ent...


Firm Watch


San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has received the "Deal of the Year" award for its transactional work that he...


Public Interest


All around the country, the Justice Department has filed lawsuits against localities for the offense of maintaining "at-large"...


Transactions


Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has acquired Fred Sands Realtors of Los Angeles for an undisclosed amount. Operations of...


Litigation


Ironclad Defense

Jan. 3, 2001
By Columnist

In Pavicich, the court converted a mere pleading hurdle to the filing of a civil-conspiracy claim against an attorney and clie...


Transactions


Francisco Partners and Citicorp Venture Capital have joined forces to buy 80 percent of American Microsystems Inc. for $525 mi...


Constitutional Law


9th Circuit Allows Fetal Tissue Use

Jan. 3, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - An Arizona statute that criminalizes "experimentation" with fetal tissue from abortions is unconstitutionally ...


Firm Watch


The Orange County Women Lawyer's Association has sworn in Michelle Lents, name partner at Lents & Foley in Irvine, as its ...


Law Practice


Legal Explorer

Jan. 3, 2001
By Tamara Scott

Three decades ago, much of Orange County was farmland covered with strawberry patches and orange and lemon groves. Today, it's...


After wrapping up a short term as general counsel to Torrance Web startup eStable Inc., Edward Swanson is once again plying hi...


In a publicity coup for all parties involved, the New York-based Forbes magazine named three Northern California law firms to ...


Litigation


SAN FRANCISCO - A determined mediator, widespread publicity and a pending motion for class certification all pushed Providian ...


Law Practice


Client Cache

Jan. 3, 2001
By Staff Writer

California's law firms have to do much more these days to retain their best associates than simply give them hefty pay raises ...


After their firm decided to merge into Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld without them, the insurance group from Century City'...


Criminal


Soy Sauce Scenario

Jan. 3, 2001
By Columnist

Soy sauce is a wonderful condiment. I can't live without it. If it were possible, I'd have soy sauce-flavored toothpaste. Imag...


Law Practice


Synergy Plus

Jan. 3, 2001
By Staff Writer

San Francisco's Union Square was at its merriest last month. The holiday decorations were up, and the trees were lighted. Stre...


What was once a perfunctory San Diego satellite office of Arter & Hadden has become a destination for several San Diego la...


Judges and Judiciary


Prosecutor Rises to Superior Court Seat

Jan. 3, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - As Orange County prosecutor Richard M. King prepares to take his newly appointed seat on the Superior Court bench,...


Judges and Judiciary


Davis Names 16 to State Court Judgeships

Jan. 3, 2001
By Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - After a long delay in filling empty slots on the state's courts, Gov. Gray Davis announced 16 year-end judgeship...


Labor/Employment


Non-Compete Case Socks Coach

Jan. 3, 2001
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - The legal battles between workers and their former employers in Silicon Valley usually take place in the technology...


Insurance


Insurance 'Redlining' Upheld by 1st DCA

Jan. 3, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Controversial state regulations allowing auto insurance companies to base premiums largely on where drivers li...


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners during 2000 managed to avert the kind of political struggle over t...


Government


LOS ANGELES - Following up on an audit conducted about the time former Officer Rafael A. Perez allegedly stole cocaine from Lo...