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Criminal


If Caught, Where Will Bin Laden Face Trial

Oct. 17, 2001
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - President Bush has proclaimed he wants Osama bin Laden "dead or alive." But experts said last week that bin Lade...


Government


Seeking: A Lawyer Who Does It All

Oct. 17, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - The city attorney for a major metropolis must be both brilliant and humble. He must be a bulldog litigator and...


Entertainment & Sports


You want collectibles? We'll show you collectibles! Jack Cardoza's "Titanic" legal nightmare began on Sept. 28, 1998, on what ...


Discipline


SAN FRANCISCO - Leo Bazile, a former Oakland City Council member and vice-mayor with a troubled political history, has resigne...


Criminal


Judge Rejects Defense Bid to Delay Olson Trial

Oct. 17, 2001
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday refused to postpone the trial of Sara Jane Olson, who is accused of...


Government


Public Power Fuels Eisenberg

Oct. 17, 2001
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - There's no mistaking the biggest plank in Neil Eisenberg's platform. ...


Government


Official Doubts Al-Qaida Mailed Anthrax Letters

Oct. 16, 2001
By Staff Writer

WASHINGTON - Federal investigators doubt terrorists from the al-Qaida organization are behind a spate of allegedly anthrax-lad...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The America Bar Association has named Debora S. Ballati chair-elect of its Forum on the Construction Industry. With 5,300 memb...


Criminal


October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, when activists focus the nation's attention on violence against women. However, ...


After 11 years at LeBoeuf Lamb Green & McRae, two corporate partners have walked a few blocks north on Figueroa Street to ...


Intellectual Property


Taco Tale

Oct. 16, 2001
By Columnist

The little dog looks into the camera and recites, "Yo Quiero, Taco Bell." For the last several years, television viewers could...


Intellectual Property


Patent Investigator

Oct. 16, 2001
By Columnist

Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two precedential opinions that address the pre-filing inve...


Transactions


Understanding Signaling System 7

Oct. 16, 2001
By Staff Writer

Like most people, attorney Doug Cogen regularly places long-distance phone calls without giving any thought to how his calls g...


Las Vegas' Black Hills Nevada, subsidiary of Black Hills Energy Capital Inc., of Rapid City, S.D., acquired Southwest Power of...


Transactions


Savannah, Ga.-based Marshall House Inc., an affiliate of London's UBS Warburg, sold The Marshall House to HLC Hotels Inc., als...


Mountain View's VeriSign Inc. has announced its intention to acquire Lacey, Wash.-based Illuminet Holdings in a transaction va...


Venerable health law firm Foley & Lardner has tapped Douglas L. Carden as its new managing partner in Century City. Carden...


Large Firms


Seyfarth Shaw will hold its 2001 West Coast Labor & Employment Law Symposium on Oct. 25. Held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, ...


Education


Above the Bar

Oct. 16, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

When Robert Brown Jr. took over at the University of West Los Angeles, he saved it from the brink. But it still is suffering f...


Montreal's CGI Group Inc. has entered into a 10-year outsourcing contract with Novato-based Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., a su...


Law Practice


Living Life on the Edge While Ascending

Oct. 16, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Suicide Rocks is not exactly a confidence-inspiring name. Nor is it one that would seem likely to draw many visitors. And for ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The American Bar Association has chosen George Koelzer as the newest member of its Civil Litigation Institute. Koelzer, a part...


Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity Holdings has acquired the Access Products Division and Broadband Wireless Group from ADC Tel...


Technology & Science


Freeing Up Time

Oct. 16, 2001
By Contributing Writer

Lawyers in today's high-tech world must stay on top of new methods of doing business. Case-specific information for clients on...


International


The Euro-American Lawyers Group, an international association of law firms, has invited Los Angeles' Friedmann O'Brien Goldber...


Be in control of your own destiny. That's the philosophy of Matthew S. Ponzi , who recently helped found a new law firm. The y...


Criminal


Human Minds Cannot Catch Diseases

Oct. 16, 2001
By Columnist

As the legal proceedings against Andrea Yates move forward, one would think that, from the support she has been receiving, tha...


Large Firms


Gibson Dunn Embraces Split Personality

Oct. 16, 2001
By John Ryan

While Gibson Dunn & Crutcher continues to espouse that it's not a Republican law firm, recent headlines tell a much differ...


Large Firms


Crosby Heafey Roach & May is teaming up with the University of California, Irvine, to present a two-day seminar on medical...


Large Firms


San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps is donating $25,641 to the American Red Cross National Relief Fund to assist t...