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Intellectual Property


Phantom Pen

Mar. 14, 2000
By Columnist

^^Entertainment Law^^ Tease: Writer who contributed to the script and direction of Malcolm X not a co-author. Page 7. Phantom ...


Law Practice


Carroll Burdick Puts New Faces Into Three Branches

Mar. 14, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

CARROLL BURDICK PUTS NEW FACES INTO THREE BRANCHES San Francisco-based Carroll, Burdick & McDonough added new partners in...


Corporate


CIA Meets Valley

Mar. 14, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

TECHNOLOGY The CIA and Silicon Valley are using tax dollars to fund a nonprofit organization that invests in high-tech compan...


Transactions


Wilson Sonsini CENTILLIUM COMMUNICATES THROUGH $82M IPO FILING Centillium Communications is issuing an initial public offerin...


Criminal


Ex-DDA Pleads in Witness-Tampering Case

Mar. 14, 2000
By Craiq Anderson

SANTA CRUZ -- Former District Attorney Peter Chang pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of a court order Friday in order ...


Education


Loyola Gets New Law Dean

Mar. 14, 2000
By Denise Levin

Loyola Law School's new dean, David Burcham, already has a reputation for being No. 1 at the school. He graduated with the hig...


Litigation


Family of Crash Victim Sue Airline

Mar. 14, 2000
By Denise Levin

Just one day after the U.S. Senate voted to amend an 80-year-old maritime law that limits awards of monetary damages to famili...


Insurance


Defeat Cripples Expanded Torts

Mar. 14, 2000
By Tom Dresslar

SACRAMENTO - When voters soundly rejected a plan to expand bad-faith lawsuits against insurers, they may have administered mor...


Personal Injury & Torts


Finney as Masry, Just One of the Guys

Mar. 14, 2000
By Contributing Writer

Who really is Edward Masry, the lawyer depicted in the film "Erin Brockovich," which opens this Friday at a theater near you? ...


Insurance


Judge Returns Battered Boy To Foster Care

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA On 'Family Law,' a humane result requires law-defying actions. ...


Insurance


Cases Clever Plot Twists Soon Unravel

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA On 'Ally McBeal,' if it's worth saying, it's worth saying twice. Page 8. ^^Ally McBeal^^ By Renee Laurents OK, if it's w...


Public Interest


Wiccan Mom Gives Up Kid To Save Him

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA The application of law within 'Judging Amy' is like the Boeing 707 in the movie 'Airport' - merely a setting for panic a...


Family


Friendly Fire

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM Family law attorneys and judges should receive training regarding how to craft safe custody and visitation orders. ...


Constitutional Law


Bible Text Has Place In Schools

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

FORUM Teaching about the Bible as history and literature is possible without violating the First Amendment. Page 6. By Martha ...


Law Practice


Belin Rawlings Makes All Associates Partners

Mar. 11, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Brentwood-based Belin Rawlings & Badal, in an effort to provide an "entrepreneurial" alternative to large law firms, has ...


Litigation


True Due Diligence

Mar. 11, 2000
By Anne La Jeunesse

^^Litigator Profile^^ By Anne La Jeunesse Verdicts & Settlements Staff Writer Trying to get fair representation for poor p...


Insurance


Burned-out Police Cross Ethical Lines

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

DICTA This week's 'Law & Order' shows why good cops go bad. ...


Insurance


Mo HMO Woes

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Brian S. Kabeteck and Carolyn P. Bell Last year, responding to perceived abuses by he...


Litigation


Slice Price

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Gregg S. Garfinkel Presented with a scenario reminiscent of the movie "The Money Pit,...


Litigation


Rite Aid Settles Suit Over Late Paychecks

Mar. 11, 2000
By Denise Levin

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against Rite Aid that claimed some employees were not getting their paychecks. Cour...


Civil Rights


By Jeff Jacoby Are black Americans owed reparations for the 240 years that their forebears were enslaved in this country? Some...


Law Practice


Money Mentality

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ Sharon J. Berman Litigators may recall the wonderful "gravy days" of business. Client li...


Litigation


City Needn't Protect Homeowner

Mar. 11, 2000
By David Kravets

SAN FRANCISCO - Buyer beware. That was the essential message of a California Supreme Court ruling Thursday. By a 6-1 vote, the...


Criminal


FBI Denies Probe Compromised

Mar. 11, 2000
By Martin Bergn

The FBI's ability to investigate the Los Angeles police corruption scandal has not been compromised, a top official of the age...


Litigation


Friendly Foraging

Mar. 11, 2000
By Columnist

^^SPECIAL ISSUE: CONSUMER ATTORNEYS^^ By Julie Campanini Voir dire is the first opportunity for an attorneys to meet the audie...


Litigation


Attorneys Bitter About Insurance Cartel

Mar. 11, 2000
By Denise Levin

In the wake of this week's primary election and the defeat of propositions 30 and 31, Consumer Attorney Association of Los An...


Judges and Judiciary


Paez and Berzon Win Senate Confirmation

Mar. 11, 2000
By Daniel Shaw

WASHINGTON - The rhetoric flew for the final time, the vice president hovered to break any ties, and by the end of Thursday, t...


Law Practice


Into the Light

Mar. 10, 2000
By Columnist

"Do I stay or do I go?" This is the theme song symbolizing the career questions confronting lawyers today. A high percentage o...


Public Interest


FORUM Proposition 22 was supposed to embed an invidious distinction in the law beyond the ability of the Legislature to change...


Large Firms


Orricks Merger With London Firm Scrapped

Mar. 10, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

SAN FRANCISCO - Rumored for months, the merger between San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and London's Bir...