Hoping for a Rain of IPOs to Ease the Drought
By Liz Valsamis
Attorney Dennis DeBroeck, a partner at Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, senses that the initial public offering dry spell is ov...
Arco's Ronald Redcay Rejoins Arnold & Porter
By Katherine Gaidos
Ronald Redcay, a founding partner of the Los Angeles office of Washington, D.C.,-based Arnold & Porter, rejoined the firm ...
Hardly a Pollution Solution
By Columnist
The federal government, responsible for enforcing our environmental laws, regularly pollutes the environment with impunity. Th...
Latham & Watkins: WOODLAND HILLS' CAPSTONE UNVEILS $136 MILLION IPO
By Staff Writers
Capstone Turbine Corp. went public in late June in an offering valued at about $136.5 million. Capstone, based in Woodland Hil...
Cooley Godward: STAFFMARK TO SELL DIVISION FOR $196M IN CASH
By Staff Writers
StaffMark Inc., which provides temporary and supplemental staff to companies needing employees for office administration and l...
Meteoric Rise
By Tamara Scott
It was something of a shock when Alan K. Austin, the longtime managing partner of Silicon Valley's hottest firm, Wilson, Sonsi...
Hazard Control
By Columnist
Law firms need to operate more as businesses, including being proactive about risk management and the type of insurance covera...
Center Stage
By Columnist
The problem of sexual assault needs to take center stage. It is important that men understand its severity, police become well...
Good Trade
By Columnist
The major aim of the bill is to allow African countries to expand their economies through growth in trade with the United Stat...
'Gangsta Cops' Focus of Meetings
By Staff Writer
Joseph D. McNamara, an associate at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, will talk about "Gangsta Cops and the Drug Wars"...
Fenwick & West: MOUNTAIN VIEW'S HANDSPRING GOES PUBLIC WITH OFFERING
By Staff Writers
Handspring Inc. went public in late June in a stock offering valued at about $200 million. The founders of the Mountain View-b...
Santa Monica Bar Sets Summer Party
By Staff Writer
Lawyer Sandra Polin will host a summer party at her Pacific Palisades home July 18 for members of the Santa Monica Bar Associa...
Gray Cary: MATTSON TECHNOLOGY BUYS SEMICONDUCTOR BUSINESSES
By Staff Writers
Mattson Technology has agreed to acquire STEAG Electronic Systems' Semiconductor Division and CFM Technologies. The value of t...
Blanc Williams: ARNOLD & PORTER ACQUIRES COVETED BOUTIQUE IN L.A.
By Staff Writers
After years of overtures from firms throughout the country, prominent Century City entertainment and high-tech boutique Blanc ...
Tomlinson Zisko: WEBANGO RAISES $20M IN FIRST ROUND OF FINANCING
By Staff Writers
Santa Clara's Webango Inc., which helps companies use the Internet to manage their relationships with various service supplier...
Worker Sues City Over Shared Costs
By Anne La Jeunesse
A man fired from his job as a warehouse supervisor for the city of Burbank has filed suit against the city, challenging the co...
Judicial Campaign Costs Harmful
By Daniel Shaw
NEW YORK - State and local grassroots organizations increasingly are setting their sights on the sharply escalating costs of j...
Officers May Be Demoted Without Hearing
By Daniel Evans
The state appellate court has refused to block the demotion of two senior Los Angeles police officers who complained their rea...
Bankruptcy Fraud Charges Expanded
By Anne La Jeunesse
A federal indictment against a Los Angeles attorney and two doctors on bankruptcy fraud has been expanded to include three add...
Bar Lacks Sufficient Diversity
By Don De Benedictis
NEW YORK - Minorities are significantly underrepresented in the legal profession compared even to other professions, the presi...
Nail Polish Needn't Carry Warnings, Says AG
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - During the past eight years, dozens of sometimes acrimonious lawsuits resulted in more than $1 million paid to...
Two Officers Are Acquitted in Rampart Hearing
By Michael Harris
Once again casting doubts on the credibility of Rampart scandal whistle-blower Rafael Perez, two police officers were acquitte...
Davis Names Vietnamese-American to O.C. Court
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
Deputy Attorney General Nho Trong Nguyen was appointed Orange County Superior Court's first Vietnamese American judge. ...
ABA Board Opposes MDPs
By Don De Benedictis
NEW YORK - The American Bar Association Board of Governors voted strongly Friday to oppose letting lawyers form partnerships o...
Professor Can Use Public Funds
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A university professor who champions anti-smoking campaigns is free to use public funds for his lobbying activ...
Pozner Has a Penchant for Detail
By Charles Ashby
DENVER - Most television legal analysts don't say much that's worth listening to. That may not come as a surprise to many lawy...
130 Dogs Endangered by Decision to Close Shelter
By Daniel Evans
Leaving the lives of 130 dogs in doubt, a state appellate court has given the green light to the city of Burbank to shut down ...
S.D. Project Offers DNA Testing to Prisoners
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Each request, painstakingly printed in pencil, represents someone's last hope to prove to the world that the jury ...
State Seeks to Permanently Revoke License of Foster Mom
By Cheryl Romo
The state Department of Social Services is seeking to revoke permanently the foster care license of a Santa Barbara-area foste...
Potential Protestors at DNC Fall Deeper Into 'Protest Pit'
By Chris Ford
Protests continued to escalate Friday over the protesters expected at the Democratic National Convention, as the Los Angeles C...