Firm Watch
Holland & Knight: LOS ANGELES POST ADDS LOEB & LOEB LITIGATOR
By Staff Writer
Trial lawyer Kevin Coventon has brought his varied skills to Holland & Knight 's Los Angeles office, where he is practicin...
On May 1, Trans-Elect Inc. acquired Michigan Electric Transmission Co. Trans-Elect paid $290 million for the energy company. W...
Favrille Inc. netted $16.9 million in its recent second-round financing. The deal was announced June 11. Sanderling Ventures l...
Steve Wasserman's pitch to McDonald's executives worked. On June 12, Wasserman and several representatives accompanied him to ...
Cleveland's Jones Day Reavis & Pogue continues to expand its intellectual property litigation practice in Southern Califor...
Los Angeles-based uber bankruptcy boutique Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young & Jones has recruited Jason Pomerantz as of-counsel...
Brian Kabateck has taken three lawyers from Quisenberry & Kabateck to form The Kabateck Law Firm in Los Angeles, effective...
Firm Watch
Foley & Lardner: BROBECK COUNSEL BRINGS CORPORATE BACKGROUND
By Staff Writer
Attorney Anne Lee has left the San Diego office of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, where she was a corporate associate, and ha...
Jakks Pacific Inc. brought in $71.4 million in a public offering announced May 23. The underwriters included Bear Stearns &...
Firm Watch
Sonnenschein Nath: SEDGWICK PARTNER TAKES LABOR LITIGATORS ALONG
By Staff Writer
Led by partner Donna D. Melby , a group of four labor and employment litigation attorneys has left Sedgwick Detert Moran &...
Molecular Devices Corp. has acquired Universal Imaging Corp. The $22 million cash deal was announced June 3. Sunnyvale's Molec...
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Orrick Herrington: BROBECK'S FORMER AD MAN RETURNS FROM EAST COAST
By Staff Writer
Just three months at Philadelphia's Dechert , marketing director David Geyer - the architect behind Brobeck Phleger & Harr...
Who says times are tough? Judging by this year's list of rainmakers, bad times are good for the legal business. More Californi...
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Manatt Phelps: NEW MUSIC DUO INCLUDES FORMER NAPSTER HONCHO
By Staff Writer
The music department of Manatt Phelps & Phillips grew this month, with the addition of two new attorneys. The Los Angeles-...
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Oppenheimer Wolff: LOCAL LAWYERS MOVE UP TO CO-CHAIR IP PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has named two California lawyers co-chairs of the firm's intellectual property practice: Sili...
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Heller Ehrman: L.A. PARTNER CONTRIBUTES HIS ACCOUNTING EXPERTISE
By Staff Writer
Bolstering its offering to Big 5 accounting firm clients PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche and ...
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has added attorney Brette S. Simon to its corporate practice in Los Angeles. Simon, who ...
LOS ANGELES - Almost as soon as the 14-year-old boy from Fujian province on mainland China stepped off the plane in Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal lawsuit accuses the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department of conspiring with the Kaiser Permanent...
Judges and Judiciary
Here's the Robe, There's the Bench, Start Presiding
By Xenia Kobylarz
MERCED -To say that Merced County Superior Court Judge John Kirihara hit the ground running his first day on the bench is not ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $201,000 to settle a wrongful death suit brought by...
SAN FRANCISCO - Claire Joyce Tempongko never met Maria Teresa Macias, but the two domestic violence murder victims have a lot ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Budget Crisis Could Prevent Passage of Bill for Mentally Ill
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - State lawmakers are moving toward passage of AB1421, a measure that would expand the state's ability to treat pe...
WASHINGTON - Some new sounds will be floating soon through the Supreme Court's marble halls - the patter of little bare feet, ...
SAN DIEGO - With up to 10 more weeks to come in David Westerfield's trial on charges of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Da...
Personal Injury & Torts
9th Circuit Hears Case on Top Secret Documents
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel appeared sharply divided over how far the government can go to assert national s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two commercial litigators have resigned from Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco office to join Latham & Wa...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The American Civil Liberties Union recently has filed suit against four airlines, chargin...
SACRAMENTO - California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the state's premiere organization of criminal defense lawyers, has cho...
Gordon Bava, firm co-chairman, led a group of underwriters in their purchase of 4 million shares of Jakks Pacific Inc. for $71...