Calculate This! Twisted Knickers Inspire Fruit's $80M Suit Against Fried Frank
By Garry Abrams
Underwear manufacturer Fruit of the Loom has got its knickers in a twist with the well-known law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris,...
L.A. Will Pay $11M to Settle 29 Rampart Suits
By David Houston
The city of Los Angeles tentatively has agreed to pay nearly $11 million to settle 29 lawsuits filed by victims of corrupt Ram...
Death Penalty Overturned in Closing Citing God's Wishes
By Pamela Mac Lean
A Los Angeles prosecutor improperly urged jurors to impose the death penalty by invoking "God's law" as justification in four ...
Court: To Sell Milk Here, Meet Our Standards
By Peter Blumberg
The California Supreme Court decided Monday what kind of milk Californians should drink. From now on, the court said, only mil...
Brobeck Phleger: BROADCOM WILL PURCHASE CHIP-DEVELOPER ALLAYER
By Staff Writer
Irvine communications chip maker Broadcom Corp. is acquiring Allayer Communications, a privately held developer of optical net...
Gray Cary: ZHONE FILES AN OFFERING VALUED AT $345 MILLION
By Staff Writer
Oakland's Zhone Technologies has filed an initial public offering valued at $345 million. Zhone Technologies develops subscrib...
Bryan Cave: IXIA GOES PUBLIC TO GET $71.5 MILLION CUSHION
By Staff Writer
Calabassas' Ixia has gone public in an offering valued at $71.5 million. Ixia is developing a family of platforms for testing ...
Stars' Bar
By Columnist
The 9th Circuit just heard oral arguments in a high-profile right-of-publicity case. ...
Drinker Biddle: SEMICONDUCTOR STARS AGREE TO CONNECTION
By Staff Writer
Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. has agreed to acquire Cerprobe Corp. in a deal valued at $225 million. Kulicke and Soffa, ba...
Students Gear Up For Mock Trials
By Staff Reports
Senior- and middle-school teams from throughout the county will participate in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 23rd ann...
Skjerven Morrill: SILICON VALLEY OFFICE TAPS SURVIVORS FROM MAJESTIC
By Staff Writer
Most of the remaining lawyers from Majestic Parsons Siebert & Hsue have landed in the new San Francisco office Skjerven Mo...
Risky Mail
By Columnist
Lawyers can help clients keep their carefully packaged marketing morsels from degenerating into distasteful "spam," thus avoid...
Loeb & Loeb: ENTERTAINMENT LAW SEES ACQUISITIONS AS BIG COUP
By Staff Writer
Los Angles' Loeb & Loeb considers its most recent lawyer acquisitions, both from the corporate world, to be a coup for the...
Squire Sanders: JAPANESE BAR FOUNDATION CONTINGENT PAYS U.S. VISIT
By Staff Writer
Squire Sanders & Dempsey, the big national firm out of Cleveland, recently hosted a contingent of 80 lawyers from Japan at...
Coudert Brothers: RECRUITS TO NEW YORK GROUP CHANGE OFFICES IN SAME BUILDING
By Staff Writer
The demise of an 18-year-old San Francisco intellectual property boutique means five new lawyers and another patent agent for ...
Union Claims County Downplayed Health Risks
By Cheryl Romo
Amid reports that another county worker may have contracted Legionnaires' disease, union officials charge that the county down...
Yagman's World
By Jeffrey Anderson
Stephen Yagman just doesn't know when to quit. This is how the Los Angeles civil rights lawyer and renowned gadfly recently co...
Rule of Law
By Columnist
To promote justice, all members of the bar should stay informed about rule-of-law issues here and abroad and speak out in favo...
Fenwick & West: INTERWOVEN WILL ACQUIRE BOTH METACODE AND AJUBA
By Staff Writer
Sunnyvale's Web content management software maker, Interwoven Inc., has agreed to acquire two companies: San Francisco's Metac...
Sullivan & Cromwell: $35,000 BONUSES WAIT FOR FIRST-YEAR N.Y. ASSOCIATES
By Staff Writer
Sullivan & Cromwell, a big New York firm with 45 lawyers in Los Angles, lit a fire under East Coast year-end bonuses when ...
Pillsbury Madison: CHEVRON, TEXACO PREPARE FOR A $36 BILLION MERGER
By Staff Writer
Chevron Corp. has agreed to acquire Texaco Inc. for $36 billion. Chevron also will acquire $7 billion of Texaco's debt. San Fr...
Thrust Into Limelight, He Prefers Background
By John Ryan
Terry Kee, corporate and securities partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco, is a little weary of the media ...
Political Junkie
By John Ryan
Attorney Stephen Kaufman is a political junkie, the Smith Kaufman name partner practicing the arcane art of campaign and elect...
O'Melveny & Myers: GOLDMAN LAYWER PETROCELLI SWITCHES PRACTICES IN L.A.
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers isn't one to shrink from the limelight. Litigator Dan Petrocelli, whose name became a house...
Holding Sway
By Melissa Onstad
Sliding easily from bar to clustered armchairs and back again, they paused from time to time to graze from trays laden with go...
Having a Life
By Staff Writer
Santa Rosa's Lanahan & Reilley has doubled in size in three years. "We're not doing it to be a large law firm," Daniel Lan...
9 to 5
By Columnist
New Wage Orders will effect the rules that law firms must follow on such diverse topics as overtime, alternative workweeks, me...
Haight Brown: OUTPOST WILL MOVE FROM SANTA MONICA TO AIRPORT
By Staff Writer
Southern California's Haight Brown & Bonesteel announced plans to move its Los Angeles office closer to the Los Angeles In...
Sidley & Austin: LOCAL SATELLITE TAKES BITE OF SQUIRE SANDERS IN KOREA
By Staff Writer
In a deal both firms say was sealed some time ago, the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Sidley & Austin has acquired three ...
Bar Board OKs $50 Cut in Bar Dues Next Year
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar Board of Governors voted unanimously - and happily - on Friday to cut bar dues by $50 for next y...