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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...


International


Treaty Trials

Jan. 22, 2002
By Columnist

Focus Column - By Gideon Kracov and Joseph F. C. DiMento, Recognizing the growth of global trade and economic interdependence,...


Litigation


Asked and Answered

Jan. 19, 2002
By Columnist

Most experienced trial lawyers think of voir dire as the opportunity to ask a series of questions at the outset of a trial tha...


Personal Injury & Torts


Golden Years

Jan. 19, 2002
By Columnist

Once counsel have decided that mediation is appropriate for resolving an elder abuse case, the next step is the selection of a...


Personal Injury & Torts


Lesson Plan

Jan. 19, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

When Chapman University School of Law opened its doors in 1995, one of its goals was to teach its students to litigate. They s...


Litigation


Taking the Paper Route

Jan. 19, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

Although the plantiff had a history of making sophisticated investments, her attorney emphasized her age and memory problems t...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Maximum Impact

Jan. 19, 2002
By Columnist

Often, when parties appear at mediation, they approach the process as an opportunity to "hammer" the other side. Their concept...


Labor/Employment


Employment Column - By Lynda Stevens and Geoffrey Crisp, There is a new world order in the legal field, or at least in Orange...


Litigation


Prankster Grows Up

Jan. 19, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

Despite having little regard for higher education as a teen-ager, Southern California attorney Jennifer L. Keller ended up def...


Law Practice


Couple Sues Sheppard Mullin for $68 Million

Jan. 19, 2002
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County couple has sued Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton for $68 million, claiming the law firm ...


SAN FRANCISCO - It might have been just a fading memory, an insignificant incident, that first brief meeting in El Centro betw...


Criminal


U.S. Jurisdiction Over Porn Is Left Open

Jan. 19, 2002
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO -A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a conviction for possession of child pornography downloaded from the In...


Appellate Practice


LOS ANGELES -The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a federal act signed into law after the Sept. 11 terrorist atta...


Judges and Judiciary


Homeless Court Finds a Home

Jan. 19, 2002
By John Ryan

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court's community homeless court has found a permanent home at a new shelter operated b...


Large Firms


Big Firms Paying Bonuses

Jan. 19, 2002
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Four large Northern California law firms - Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Heller Ehrman White & McAuli...


Law Practice


Entertainment Firm Adds Partners to Name

Jan. 19, 2002
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - One of Los Angeles's most well-known entertainment boutiques, Century City's Ziffren Brittenham Branca & Fis...


Intellectual Property


Stepped-Up Scrutiny

Jan. 19, 2002
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal trustbusters have crashed the intellectual property scene, and their message to patent-rich companies ...


Judicial Profile


Like Old Home Week for Contra Costa Judge

Jan. 19, 2002
By Matthew King

RICHMOND - Newly appointed Contra Costa County Superior Court John W. Kennedy reports to work every day at the Richmond Courth...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - In a major move to beef up its Bay Area presence, Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has nabbed prominen...