REITS
By Ron Mc Nees
CREJ Staff Report Last week, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2001-29, formally acknowledging that corporations may spin off the...
Latham & Watkins: IRVINE'S INTERPORE WILL BUY VIRGINIA MEDICAL COMPANY
By Victoria Newman
Irvine's Interpore International Inc. has agreed to acquire Leesburg, Va.'s American OsteoMedix Corp. The cash-and-stock deal ...
O'Melveny & Myers: FILM STARTUPS' MERGER AND FINANCING CLOSE TOGETHER
By Victoria Newman
Hypnotic Inc. and Nibblebox Inc., two startups that use the Internet to produce and distribute independent films, have merged....
Shearman & Sterling: A THIRD MANAGING PARTNER WILL JOIN BAY AREA OFFICES
By Karen Coleman
John Wilson took over for Peter Lyons as the head of Shearman & Sterling 's San Francisco and Menlo Park offices Sunday. L...
Wilson Sonsini: MENLO PARK'S INTERWAVE COMPLETES WIRELESS BUY
By Victoria Newman
Menlo Park's interWAVE Communications International Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Wireless Inc., a purchase it announc...
World of Difference
By Staff Writer
The way the legal system works in the United States is so different from everything that can possibly happen in legal life in ...
Singer Settles Suit With Welsh Choir
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - A Welsh singer and his attorney have settled their lawsuit alleging the Welsh Choir of Southern California was ins...
A SPECIAL LOOK AT MEDICAL OFFICES
By Don Parret
By Russ Nichols CREJ Staff Reporter The DASCO Co. headquartered in Florida appears to be the 300-pound gorilla of the medical...
Gray Cary: WILSON SECURITIES EXPERT JOINS LITIGATION PRACTICE
By Karen Coleman
Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich named securities litigator David Priebe special counsel June 20. He will work in ...
Merger Boosts Shaw Pittman's L.A. Office
By Erik Cummins
LOS ANGELES - The 15 attorneys at Century City's Klein & Martin merged with the local office of Shaw Pittman Sunday, bring...
Tough Standard
'Glastetter' demonstrates just how rigorous an analysis must be employed by federal judges evaluating causation issues in tort...
Carlton DiSante: LEBOUEF LAWYER TAKES CHARGE OF S.F. OUTPOST
By Karen Coleman
Cheryl Orr, a former of-counsel to the San Francisco office of LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, became managing partner for t...
Latham & Watkins: INVESTORS PUT $43 MILLION INTO NETWORKS DEVELOPER
By Victoria Newman
Business-process networks developer Viacore Inc. of Irvine has closed $43 million in equity funding from corporate and venture...
Pillsbury Winthrop: NEW McLEAN, VA., OUTPOST CONSOLIDATES TWO OFFICES
By Karen Coleman
Pillsbury Winthrop has tied up one last loose end from its California-New York merger in January. It consolidated two of its o...
Actors' Guild Negotiator Possesses the Soft Touch
By Contributing Writer
By the time you read this, the contract negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television an...
Mintz Levin: BAY AREA DEBTOR SELLS ITS ASSETS TO YELLOWBRIX INC.
By Victoria Newman
Internet-service provider YellowBrix Inc. has acquired the assets of bankrupt rival iSyndicate Inc. Terms of the cash-and-stoc...
Finding the Sweet Spot in Sour Times
By Victoria Newman
Robert Haymer describes his latest deal as one with a lot of "moving parts." The O'Melveny & Myers partner represented Nib...
REAL ESTATE & THE LAW
By Gina Keating
BY GINA KEATING Special to CREJ A state appellate court cleared another hurdle in the Los Angeles Unified School District's a...
Dechert: EAST COAST DRUG BUSINESS LANDS PRIVATE INVESTMENT
By Victoria Newman
Seven months after its November initial public offering, biotechnology company Adolor Corp. has received a $60 million private...
Wilson Sonsini: LOCAL SOFTWARE COMPANIES READY FOR $1 BILLION UNION
By Victoria Newman
San Diego's Peregrine Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Remedy Corp. of Mountain View in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.1...
Alschuler Grossman: PAIR WILL SHARE LEADING OF ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
By Karen Coleman
The 75-lawyer Los Angeles firm Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan is adding a pair of co-chairs to its entertainment litigat...
Sony Lands in Legal Mess for Bogus Movie Reviews
By Contributing Writer
The reviews are coming in on the decision by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to investigate phony movie review...
Babbitt Redux
By Jeffrey Anderson
The Scene was about to depart for the 25th annual Douglas Dinner at the Beverly Hilton, when the phone rang. "I heard there's ...
PROJECTS
By Ron Mc Nees
CREJ Staff Report While the spotlight on Hollywood's rebirth has focused on a handful of mega projects, more modest but diver...
Sheppard Mullin Welcomes Back Alumnus
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Larry Braun, former head of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton's corporate department, will return to the fir...
Mintz Levin: FORMER STATE BAR LEADER OPENS WEST COAST OFFICE
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles antitrust lawyer Harvey Saferstein planted a flag for the Boston firm Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo ...
Man Who Says Cops Beat Him Files Suit
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A man who claimed two police officers kidnapped him from Skid Row in 1997, beat him up and then dumped him near ...
Go With the Flow
By Katherine Gaidos
Summer associates, like the partners that hire them, have their eyes on the economic horizon. Despite the flagging economy and...
'Hip Chick' Hangs With Musical Artists
By Katherine Gaidos
Manatt Phelps & Phillips music department head Laurie Soriano counsels her artist clients, legally and otherwise. "Sometim...
State Bar Issues Discipline Report
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers from small firms and sole practitioners make up nearly 95 percent of those investigated for discipline o...