Cooley Godward: FOR $975 MILLION, SIEBEL WILL BUY CANADIAN LEADER
By Staff Writers
Siebel Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Janna Systems Inc. The transaction is valued at $975 million. San Mateo-based Siebel...
Nossaman Guthner: FOUR-OFFICE SHOP SELECTS INITIAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
By Staff Writer
After nearly eight months at the helm of Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott, managing partner Scott DeVries is h...
Brobeck Phleger: FOSTER CITY'S EFI MAKES $150 MILLION ACQUISITION
By Staff Writers
Foster City's Electronics For Imaging Inc. will acquire Splash Technology Holdings Inc., based in Sunnyvale. The deal is value...
Merger Turned on Keeping Employees
By John Ryan
GetThere Inc. didn't need to sell out in order to survive. Its initial public offering last November had raised an impressive ...
ASP Away!
By Columnist
The application-service-provider model minimizes the firm's day-to-day responsibility for its information-system infrastructur...
Fried Frank: SABRE HOLDINGS WILL GAIN BUSINESS TRAVEL WEB SITE
By Staff Writers
Sabre Holdings Corp. will acquire GetThere Inc. in a cash deal valued at $757 million. Sabre, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is t...
Prolific Petitions
By Columnist
The "one final judgment" rule states that an appeal lies only after a final judgment that disposes of all issues between the p...
Farella Braun: LONGTIME SECURITIES STAR, MENTOR, 59, DIES OF CANCER
By Staff Writer
William Moran, of-counsel to San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, died Sept. 15. Moran, who succumbed to cancer at 59, ...
Burdge Parts Ways With Dewey Ballantine
By Katherine Gaidos
Business litigator Richard Burdge Jr. has parted ways with his longtime firm Dewey Ballantine and joined the Los Angeles offic...
Wilson Sonsini: SAN DIEGO'S NUMERITECH OBTAINS CANADA'S CADABRA
By Staff Writer
Numerical Technologies Inc., also known as NumeriTech, has acquired Cadabra Design Automation Inc. The stock deal is valued at...
New Resolve
By Victoria Newman
From the tony stores of South Coast Plaza to the yacht-lined shores of Balboa Island, Orange County has no shortage of wealth....
Wilson Sonsini: SAN JOSE'S TESSERA FILES ITS FIRST PUBLIC OFFERING
By Staff Writers
San Jose's Tessera Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Tessera provides Chip Scale Packaging tec...
Manatt Phelps: STEVE GOLDBERG RETURNS AFTER 12-YEAR DALLIANCE
By Staff Writer
Steve Goldberg is returning to his old stomping grounds at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips after a dozen years of do...
Judge May Rule in Teen Murder Case
By Anne La Jeunesse
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler may rule today on a prosecutor's motion to amend a grand jury indictment of t...
Canadian Court Justice Declares U.S. Out of Loop
By Staff Writer
SPOKANE, Wash. - America's judges are not participating in the global legal dialogue, a justice of the Canadian Supreme Court ...
Sign of the Times
By Katherine Gaidos
Proskauer Rose is not a law firm, it's a phenomenon. OK, everything's a phenomenon these days - we're living in the Internet a...
Court Counts On Clerks for Coordination
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The nine Supreme Court justices this morning will stride down the court's marble corridors to gather around their...
Gov. Davis Appoints George to Bench
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Stephanie George, the deputy district attorney who defeated former Orange County District Attorney Michael R. Capi...
Laguna Art Group Sues Festival Board
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LAGUNA BEACH - The charitable arm of the Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach has filed a lawsuit against the festival's board of ...
Washington Bar Agrees to Add Minority Seat
By Staff Writer
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association has voted to add one seat designated for a min...
Paralyzed Rampart Victim Sues His Public Defender
By Ed Kimble
Javier Ovando, who was paralyzed in a home invasion shooting by Rampart division officers Rafael Perez and Nino Durden and ser...
Proceedings Suspended in Murder Case
By Chris Ford
A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner Friday gave a reprieve to a former law student who faces a murder charge with a spec...
Panel Discounts Perez's Testimony, Acquits Officers of Excessive Force
By Anne La Jeunesse
While disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez' testimony holds weight with criminal prosecutors, the rogue co...
Six U.S. High-Court Litigators Prepare for New Term
By David Pike
KENNETH S. GELLER Geller, 53, has argued "around 40" cases before the Supreme Court, first as a member of the U.S. solicitor g...
Court Upholds Injunction on Anti-Begging Law
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Raising new free speech concerns, a federal appellate court has kept in place the preliminary injunction preve...
'Harsh' Act Unites Defense And Immigration Attorneys
By Susan Mc Rae
After getting his criminal conviction overturned, attorneys for reformed gang member Alex Sanchez won his release Friday from ...
Seven Days, Hundreds of Appeals
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court term that begins Oct. 2 will not be an encore of its historic 1999-2000 session, but it will pr...
Call to Arms
By Columnist
This term, the Supreme Court will hear a case addressing whether the nondelegation doctrine has any lingering vitality. ...
Atheists, Agnostics Deserve Same Consideration as Gays
By Contributing Writer
There has been much controversy generated by the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling allowing the Boy Scouts to exclude gays, B...
Tips for Cutting Office Equipment Expenses
By Columnist
An office equipment purchase today requires the buyer to decide whether to buy a service contract or pay for repairs as they h...