Arnold H. Gold might as well put on a pair of running shoes. The retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge-turned-mediat...
Firm Watch
Trio of Patent Litigators Joins Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe continues to expand its intellectual property practice at a rabid pace. On ...
Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has made it easier for clients working at the molecular level - think atoms...
Workers' compensation attorney Pauline Nightingale works out of her Los Angeles condominium, just blocks from the bustling, up...
James Cameron's former executive assistant has sued the director of big-budget Schwarzenegger vehicles for pregnancy discrimin...
Dorsey & Whitney has lured prominent patent prosecutor Ann M. Pease away from Cooley Godward's Palo Alto office. For sligh...
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Latham & Watkins Hires Three East Coast Securities Litigators
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins has added three securities litigators to its East Coast shops. David M. Brodsky joined ...
Ross E. Shanberg is the latest partner at Irvine's Kring & Chung. The firm announced Shanberg's election to the partnershi...
Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall of Los Angeles has added corporate and securities lawyer Howard Hart, t...
Litigation
Bench Officer Gains New Post as Presiding Judge for Los Angeles
By Leslie Simmons
On Sept. 11, Assistant Presiding Judge Robert Dukes became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court. and Nor...
Under a multifaceted financing agreement, BluePoint Energy Products Inc. has received a $500,000 loan and could get an additio...
Michael Gosk, formerly a corporate tax partner at accounting and consulting firm KPMG, has brought his international and offsh...
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'Lawyer's Lawyer' Berne Rolston Moves His Offices to Beverly Hills
By Staff Writer
Berne Rolston, the self-proclaimed lawyer's lawyer, has moved his shop from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills. Rolston, whose new ...
After only 18 months with New Jersey's Lowenstein Sandler, Miriam Cohen and three partners have taken their corporate finance ...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has lured away the co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's business crimes and investigations ...
Firm Watch
Piper Rudnick Forms Strategic Alliance With The Cohen Group
By Staff Writer
Piper Rudnick has formed a strategic alliance with consulting firm The Cohen Group to combine its legal services with the busi...
Calpine Corp. has obtained $106 million to help finance the construction of a power plant near Denver, Colo. Credit Lyonnaise ...
In Closing Column - By Dennis L. Sharp and John M. Seitman - While there are many advantages to contractual arbitration, perh...
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Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Adds Partner to Handle International Tax
By Staff Writer
In the nation's capitol, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw added another international tax partner to its ranks Sept. 4. Hal Hicks,...
A Los Angeles law firm is representing Gadzoox Networks Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Northern California. ...
Venture capital money continues to flow into Orange County medical device manufacturer MicroVention Inc. The Aliso Viejo-based...
In the six years since the State Bar of California first developed a committee on alternative dispute resolution, continuing e...
After three years of litigation, an international price-fixing conspiracy class action brought by livestock producers and feed...
Litigation
Superior Court Judge Draper Retires After Serving 16 Years
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge William B. Draper Jr. has retired after more than 16 years as a trial judge. His final assign...
Litigation
Appligent Software Lets Firms Control Classified Information
By Stefanie Knapp
Appligent Inc. has released new software that allows law firms to redact sensitive information from portable document format, ...
SANTA BARBARA - You could hardly get horsier than Hope Ranch. In the exclusive Santa Barbara-area community, riders gallop dow...
SAN FRANCISCO - Upon returning to the adult criminal courts last month after spending four years defending juvenile cases, Jea...
Criminal
Investigation Targets Figure at Heart of Hollywood and Politics
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Cody Cluff, the insider's insider who has built a career at that point where the glittery worlds of Hollywood an...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Compliance With State Won't Shield Local Agency From Flood Liability
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Focus Column - By Todd W. Blischke - In Arreola v. Monterey County, 99 Cal.App.4th 722 (2002), the 6th District Court o...
SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald George and Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown are at it again. Three weeks ...