Riordan & McKenzie: TORRANCE DIALYSIS COMPANY RAISES CASH WITH NOTE SALE
By Victoria Newman
Dialysis-center operator DaVita Inc. has closed the sale of $225 million in 9 1/4 percent senior subordinated notes. Torrance-...
Gibson Dunn: SANTA CLARA'S INTEL BUYS NEW YORK SOFTWARE FIRM
By Victoria Newman
Chipmaker Intel Corp. has bought software-management company Cognet Corp. The companies have not disclosed the value of the ca...
A Break From Backbreaking Prosperity
By Erik Cummins
Bob Gunderson has been vilified by law-firm managers and deified by associates. But the voluble co-founder of the 125-lawyer, ...
A SPECIAL LOOK AT PLANNING
By Ron Mc Nees
BY RUSS NICHOLS CREJ Staff Reporter Let's say you are planning a small $150 million shopping mall project. What's the first t...
Silver Freedman: JEFFER MANGELS TAX MAN CHOOSES SMALL-FIRM LIFE
By Karen Coleman
The Century City business boutique Silver & Freedman welcomed partner Mark Sieke into its tax group on May 1. Silver &...
Facilitator Eases Groundwater Cleanup
By Victoria Newman
Malissa Hathaway McKeith's latest deal is like the Hollywood blockbuster, "Erin Brockovich." Just like Brockovich, the Loeb &a...
Squire Sanders: SAN FRANCISCO PARTNERS DESERT BAKER & MCKENZIE
By Karen Coleman
Meanwhile, as Squire Sanders & Dempsey was losing two lawyers in Los Angeles, the firm was adding two more in San Francisc...
Patent Lending
By Columnist
The court's holding should greatly simplify and, as a result, lessen the expense of documenting security interests in patents....
Tailor Made
By Toni Vranjes
Remember Silicon Valley? The land of Viva Bob Gunderson!, lavish retreats in Pebble Bay and the $135,000 base salary? Things r...
O'Melveny & Myers: USA STATIONS ADD TO EMPIRE OF SPANISH TELEVISION GIANT
By Victoria Newman
Univision Communications Inc. has acquired or has agreed to acquire interests in 17 television stations across the country fro...
Pillsbury Winthrop: PAUL HASTINGS TRANSPLANT ADDS CORPORATE EXPERTISE
By Karen Coleman
Anna Graves, formerly of-counsel in the Los Angeles home office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, has moved her practice...
ENTERTAINMENT REAL ESTATE
By Ron Mc Nees
CREJ Staff Report The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences purchased an 118,000-square-foot building at 1313 N. Vine S...
Thespians Bring the Law Alive for Kids
By Karen Coleman
Tampa's Holland & Knight found some unlikely Thespians among its San Francisco lawyers. Litigation partner Charles Coleman...
Education Group Opposes School Vouchers
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - To Bob Chanin, lead counsel for the National Education Association, the question of whether school vouchers are ...
Jurist Ponders Fees Issue In Dues Dispute
By Don De Benedictis
SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge will rule soon on whether the State Bar must pay as much as $2 million in fees ...
Facts Behind Fatalities Lie On Hard Path
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - When DeAngelo Brooks died on Jan. 20, he is believed to have become the first child murdered in the Los Angeles ...
Justices Produce Sparking Prose, Plenty of Fireworks in 2000-2001
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - At the risk of belaboring the dramatic case of Bush v. Gore, the following were what I considered the best...
Actor Can't Collect for Publication of Altered Photo
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Actor Dustin Hoffman cannot protect himself from a fashion update at the hands of L.A. Magazine, using digital...
'I Did Everything For My Son'
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The pretty woman with closely cropped hair peers through wide, expressive eyes as she recalls growing up with im...
Automatic Update
By Columnist
Section 104(b) of the Bankruptcy Code provides for automatic adjustments for inflation every three years to some of its provis...
PG&E Trying to Evade Control, Attorney Says
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A government attorney accused Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Thursday of trying to use its bankruptcy to avoi...
Services Set for Lawyer Known for Optimistic Spirit
By Megan Webb
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today and Saturday for Carl Joseph Schuck, a retired Los Angeles trial attorney whose o...
New Evidence Won't Delay Nawi Trial
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - In order to keep intact a jury that is threatening to disintegrate and cause a mistrial, San Francisco deputy ...
Scholarship Fund Recognizes Compton Students
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The Compton Courts Scholarship Fund has awarded scholarships to 24 high-school graduates and college students. J...
Suit Accuses Magic Mountain of Racial Profiling
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - In the second potential class action filed against Six Flags Magic Mountain in a month, a group of minority men ...
Attorney Nets $425,000 in Fees in Rights Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A San Jose lawyer who represented a former city attorney's office investigator in a successful civil rights lawsuit...
Hard to Swallow
By Columnist
'Deputy Duh' admits that defense attorneys' duties can be honorable as well as necessary. ...
Fired Editor's Suit Blames Politician
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A civil-rights activist and former editor of the L.A. Focus newspaper filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit Thurs...
Land Locked
By Columnist
One of the most frustrating things about land-use litigation for landowners has been the procedural gauntlet that lies between...
Lawyers Should Avoid Perilous Waters of Cross
By Columnist
As we know, cross-examination is risky. The witness, at best, is indifferent to your case and, more than likely, actually want...