Jason Dearen

May 28, 2003 | Law.com

Golden Gate University School of Law's Susan Rutberg started the San Francisco chapter of the Northern California Innocence Project in August 2001 to work on cases of inmates who say they were wrongfully convicted. For students, who sometimes team with the San Francisco public defender's office, it's an opportunity to apply what they study in the classroom. It also gives them a dose of reality.

By Jason Dearen

6 minute read

May 01, 2003 | Law.com

RealNetworks Inc., the Seattle-based provider of online audio and video services, recently bought San Francisco's Listen.com Inc. for $36 million in cash and stock. Attorneys in the Kirkland, Wash., Palo Alto and San Francisco offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented RealNetworks in the transaction. Lawyers in the Mountain View office of Fenwick & West represented Listen.com.

By Jason Dearen

3 minute read

December 13, 2002 | Law.com

Robert Berring, a tenured professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, was named Wednesday as the interim replacement for former Dean John Dwyer, who resigned two weeks ago amid allegations of sexual assault by a former student. Berring, 53, known at the law school as "Uncle Zeb," will serve until January 2004, when a permanent replacement will be named.

By Jason Dearen

6 minute read

August 21, 2002 | Law.com

Privacy law experts said Tuesday that an agreement among state legislators and financial institutions on a bill to tighten consumer privacy in California could prevent a hodgepodge of local regulations and may keep the state in line with privacy standards being enacted around the world. SB 773 by state Sen. Jackie Speier, D-Burlingame, seeks to give consumers the power to prevent financial institutions from selling personal information to marketing companies.

By Jason Dearen

3 minute read

February 20, 2003 | Law.com

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart lawyers counsel employee stock ownership plan of U.S. Investigations Services Inc., a provider of background checks for employees of the federal government. Also, attorneys in the San Francisco office of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough successfully defend DaimlerChrysler AG and Mercedes-Benz USA in product liability and personal injury lawsuit.

By Jason Dearen

3 minute read

December 30, 2002 | Law.com

Pro bono work has been central to San Francisco family law attorney Kevin Duffy's career since graduating from law school in 1983. According to an internal study conducted by the Bar Association of San Francisco's Volunteer Legal Services Program, Duffy has taken on more pro bono family law cases than anyone else in San Francisco.

By Jason Dearen

5 minute read

October 29, 2002 | Law.com

With partisan balance of the House and Senate at stake and congressional seats in play across the country, attorneys at the 40 largest corporate law firms in California have kicked more than $742,000 into the campaign kitty this election cycle. Democrats have received the lion's share of the contributions, but the top political players among the state's biggest firms are also giving the GOP a substantial cut.

By Jason Dearen

6 minute read

September 24, 2002 | Law.com

Working hard seems to be the key theme these days at Gordon & Rees. An anomaly in the current economic climate, Gordon & Rees seems to be surviving, and, at least according to partners, thriving. In the past year alone, the firm has added 30 new attorneys and has added offices throughout the state. All this for a firm that has specialized in one of the lowest-margin, least attractive practice areas of the past 10 years: insurance defense.

By Jason Dearen

9 minute read

June 06, 2003 | Law.com

Local civil rights pioneer and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Eva Paterson, is leaving her longtime post to head up a new organization called the Equal Justice Society. Paterson, who joined the organization as her second job after graduating from Boalt Hall School of Law in 1975, said that after 25 years at the Lawyers' Committee, "It was time for a change."

By Jason Dearen

3 minute read

February 27, 2003 | Law.com

Salt Lake City-based NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Bridgewater, N.J.-based Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. have agreed to an all-stock merger of equals valued at about $1.6 billion. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented NPS in the deal. The New York office of Dorsey & Whitney represented Enzon.

By Jason Dearen

3 minute read