Orrick Herrington: NOVATEL WIRELESS CONNECTS WITH $56 MILLION OFFERING
By Staff Writers
Novatel Wireless Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $56 million. San Diego's Novatel Wireless develops wireless Int...
Chadbourne & Parke: INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP LAYS TRACKS FOR PUBLIC OFFERING
By Staff Writers
Conexant Spinco Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Newport Beach's Conexant Spinco is a who...
Scholarship Connects Lawyer, Student
By Staff Writer
Shanna Bradford is a success story from one of the Bay Area's poorest neighborhoods. Last year, she won a $5,000-a-year law sc...
Brobeck Phleger: PORTAL SOFTWARE JUMPS INTO EUROPEAN MARKET
By Staff Writers
Portal Software Inc. has acquired Solution42 AG. The transaction is valued at $300 million. Portal Software, of Cupertino, pro...
Limbach & Limbach: HIGH RENTS FORCE BAY AREA IP BOUTIQUE TO CLOSE SHOP
By Staff Writer
San Francisco patent prosecution boutique Limbach & Limbach will disband by year's end. Firm partners are blaming Limbach'...
Court Eyes Ineffective-Counsel Rules
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider this week just how "ineffective" attorneys must be for their convicted clients to...
Murder Suspect Testifies About GHB
By Tessa Jarrett
JOSHUA TREE - During his days of partying, Troy Lindley Geborde often saw people pass out from ingesting too much of the contr...
Judge Changes Venue in Wrongful-Death Suit
By Anne La Jeunesse
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge recently transferred a mother's $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Palmdale Sch...
Parties Consent to End Shootout Suit
By David Houston
After months of haggling over details, the parties in the lawsuit filed by the two children of one of the robbers in the 1997 ...
Fee Agreements Would Need to Be in Writing
By Don Debenedictisn
Here are excerpts of some of the more significant changes to lawyer ethics rules proposed today by the American Bar Associatio...
Commission Proposes Controversial Changes in Rules of Attorney Ethics
By Don Debenedictisn
After 3 1/2 years of hard labor, a blue-ribbon American Bar Association commission today releases its proposal to rewrite atto...
Justice May Be Blind, But It's Not Cheap
By Jeffrey Anderson
Justice is supposed to be blind. Too bad it's not cheap. The ever-growing chasm between the wealthy and the poor in this count...
System Puts Orphans From Large Family Up for Adoption
By Cheryl Romo
Martha Rodriguez, 28, returned to her parents' home in Degollado, Jalisco, Mexico, with her two baby girls. She had come home ...
Let Us Pray: May the Legal Process Always Be With Us
By Garry Abrams
In light of the continuing presidential election furor, the day after Thanksgiving may be a good, safe moment to say a few wor...
Draw Them a Picture
By Columnist
A strong opening statement is critical to success at trial. It should be the jury's road map through the maze of legal issues ...
Technical Turmoil
By Eron Ben Yehuda
Attorneys come in different stripes, but few offer greater contrast in style and personality than Manatt, Phelps & Phillip...
Immaculate Rejection
By Columnist
The prosecutor told the jurors that they could '[do] what God says' and impose the death penalty, or act like heathens and let...
Legal Dilettante
By Eron Ben Yehuda
Attorney B. Boyd Hight seems suspiciously modest for a one-time actor. Actually, calling him an actor is a stretch. His only r...
Showing Brain Drain
By Eron Ben Yehuda
Greg K. Hafif of the Law Offices of Herbert Hafif in Claremont won $5.8 million in a boating accident case. Raul Marmol v. Ade...
In Indonesia, All Contracts Are Onerous
By Contributing Writer
BALI, Indonesia -- Like most Indonesian attorneys, Aloysia Trombine knew little about contract drafting when she started pract...
Photo Finish
By Columnist
This vignette occurred in England. A man unwittingly drove his vehicle in excess of the speed limit through a speed trap. ...
Perilous Policy
By Columnist
While capital punishment in the United States has lately been a campaign issue, a federal administrative agency that routinely...
Smoke This Book: Advice on Avoiding Pot Busts
By Staff Writer
Hungry Minds Inc., in its rush to publish "Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies," "Success For Dummies," "Making Marriage Wor...
Courtroom Clod
By Columnist
Learning to talk to judges is like grasping a foreign language - once you know the vocabulary you must also understand the nua...
Second Class
By Columnist
When it comes to searches and seizures, parolees in California are treated like second-class citizens: Police can search their...
Judge Blocks Transfer of Assets From Fraudulent Firm
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - A federal judge has put the breaks on an alleged financial scam by issuing a temporary restraining order that bloc...
Panel Studies LAPD Immigration Policy
By Chris Ford
After hearing testimony that Los Angeles Police Department officers still violate a 1979 order that they not inquire about imm...
Council OKs Hiring Patricia Glaser
By Chris Ford
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to put litigator Patricia Glaser on a $150,000 retainer to thwart efforts by outs...
Personal-Injury Pioneer Toxey Hall Smith Dies
By David Houston
Funeral services were held earlier this week in Poplarville, Miss., for Toxey Hall Smith Sr., a pioneer in personal injury and...
Rampart Juror Denies Misconduct
By Anne La Jeunesse
Legal authorities say the latest development in the convictions of three Los Angeles police officers in the first trial born o...