Focus Column - Family Law - By Harold J. Cohn and Pamela Wax-Semus - How does the community get compensated for funds expended...
Litigation
S.F. Firm Was Uncowed by World's Largest Software Maker
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The California lawyers who led the antitrust charge against Microsoft Corp. took a big gamble on the case. Tw...
Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - Pity the plight of corporate California. Dismayed at the stranglehold anti-business liberals h...
OAKLAND - Now that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors has begun to flex its newfound power over the probation department,...
LOS ANGELES - A teen-ager from India, who was granted asylum in the United States after relating a horrific tale of child abus...
By Laura Wides Associated Press Writer State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a complaint Tuesday against two pharmaceutic...
By Joel Rosenblatt Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko has elected James R. Janz, the mayor of Atherton, as its managing partner. Jan...
Litigation
Construction Litigator Forms Firm To Represent General Contractors
By Karen Coleman
Construction litigator Paul A. Lax has left Castle & Lax to form Lax & Stevens, a new firm specializing in representi...
Transactions
Cooley Facilitates $4 Million Deal for Software Publisher
By Toni Vranjes
A Paris-based software publisher has invested $4 million in Elibrium Inc., the second round of financing for the San Mateo com...
By Erik Cummins Carroll, Burdick & McDonough will continue its lateral hiring spree in 2003 under Jim Walsh, the firm's n...
By Joan Ostewalder Orange County picked on the wrong guy when it challenged an administrative ruling that put a $100 property...
By Joan Osterwalder A San Francisco Superior Court jury rejected claims by an investment bank saleswoman who alleged her boss...
Firm Watch
Kring & Chung Ups Blakely to Partner, Ontario Managing Partner
By Staff Writer
Irvine's Kring & Chung has promoted John R. Blakely to partner and, at the same time, managing partner of the Ontario off...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Announces Annual Service Awardees
By Stefanie Knapp
By Stefanie Knapp The Judicial Council of California will present its 10th Annual Distinguished Service Awards at the 2003 Ca...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda The Union Pacific Railroad is scheduled to be arraigned next month in three Central Valley counties on doz...
LOS ANGELES - San Diego business litigator Michael J. Perez has filed a breach-of-contract suit against Haight, Brown & B...
Litigation
Judges Association Fetes Judge For His Contributions to Group
By Stefanie Knapp
The California Judges Association honored retired Judge Roy Wonder with its 2002 President's Award for Outstanding Service to...
Firm Watch
For First Time, Heller Ehrman Hires Chief Marketing Officer
By Staff Writer
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe made a big change in the marketing department, hiring a chief marketing officer for the f...
By Toni Vranjes Business information provider First American Corp. of Santa Ana has agreed to merge its background-screening ...
Firm Watch
St. Francis Winery Names L.A. Litigator as Its President, CEO
By Staff Writer
The St. Francis Winery & Vineyards has appointed a former Los Angeles litigator as its president and chief executive offi...
By Erik Cummins Kenneth Seeger, Adam Salvas and Brian Devine really got to know one another in the last couple of years. In f...
Robert Zelnick, a partner in McDermott, Will & Emery's Washington, D.C. office has been named head of the firm's trademar...
Litigation
Chief Probation Officers Honor San Mateo Superior Court Judge
By Stefanie Knapp
The Chief Probation Officers of California selected assistant presiding Judge Mark Forcum as its Judicial Officer of the Year...
Litigation
Retiring Solano Jurist Calls His Staff 'Greatest in Universe'
By Leslie Simmons
Longtime Solano County Superior Court Judge Eric Uldall retired Dec. 16, just weeks shy of the 19 th anniversary of his appoi...
By Karen Coleman Former Eureka defense lawyer Paul Gallegos upset the established order of things in the Humboldt County when...
By Liz Valsamis Neil R. O'Hanlon spent the last month of 2002 getting accustomed to his new role of managing partner at the C...
LAW FIRM MANAGMENT By Sandy Lechtick In the Chinese language there is a well-known symbol with two distinct meanings - danger...
Litigation
Ex-New York Mayor Will Keynote Defense Counsel Group's Seminar
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel will hold its annual seminar Feb. 27-28 at the Century Plaza Hotel and...
By Karen Coleman California litigants rang in 2003 with another round of statutory hikes in court fees. The increases, effect...
By Liz Valsamis Manatt, Phelps & Phillips began 2003 by taking a bite out of the Big Apple. On Jan. 1, the Los Angeles-ba...