Traveling the globe to serve his clients, partner Allan Marks recently was in Mexico representing QUALCOMM Inc. in Madrid's Te...
Although most aspiring lawyers have the common sense to avoid battery charges, online sex sites and breast-baring moments, eve...
Firm Watch
Milbank Tweed: LOS ANGELES OFFICE ADDS TRANSACTIONAL PARTNER
By Staff Writer
The Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has nabbed a former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom corporat...
James Nelson , a 20-year veteran of employment and labor law, has left Sacramento's indigenous Downey Brand Seymour & Rohw...
JDS Uniphase will acquire Scion Photonics from Tyco Ventures. Announced April 25, the cash deal is worth $43 million. San Jose...
In a deal announced May 14, ResMed Inc. has acquired Servo Magnetics Inc. for $32 million. Poway's ResMed makes and sells prod...
Juniper Networks Inc. will acquire Unisphere Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens Corp. The cash-and-stock deal, announced M...
THe Closer - By Sandra Muñoz - It never ever fails. Whenever I am in court, at a deposition or even meeting with a client, no ...
Firm Watch
Gunderson Dettmer: LAYOFFS HIT ASSOCIATES FAMOUS IN SALARY WARS
By Staff Writer
The first firm in the nation to raise first-year associates' salaries to $125,000 in 1999 last month became the latest Silicon...
Northern California law firms that laid off associates after the autumn of 2001 have yet to face the music at on-campus recrui...
Gores Technology Group's acquisition of the Learning Co. from Mattel Inc. in October 2000 doesn't necessarily look like the ...
Summer associates at large firms used to spend the summer learning how to write research memos, get along with partners and se...
Just about the only topic of conversation among California legal observers in recent weeks has been the turbulence at San Fran...
First Community Bancorp will acquire Marathon Bancorp for $20 million. The deal was announced May 14. In addition, Marathon Ba...
Kyphon Inc. went public May 16, bringing in $90 million for the company. U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc. managed the offering....
Deltagen Inc. offered more than 5 million shares to private investors. This offering brought in $25 million for the Redwood Ci...
LOS ANGELES - Like most attorneys, Elwood Kendrick treks to his office each working day to puzzle through his cases. He logs o...
LOS ANGELES - Entertainment transactional attorneys Henry Holmes and Steven Katleman have joined the Los Angeles office of Mia...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two partners have left Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian's Austin, Texas, office to...
LOS ANGELES - A Filipino lawyer who claims he took part in a treasure hunt in the Philippines more than 30 years ago is not en...
Forum Column - By Lee Casey - President Bush's decision to "unsign" the 1998 treaty establishing an International Criminal Cou...
Appellate Practice
A Premartial Injury Cannot Give Rise to a Claim for Loss of Consortium
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Focus Column - By David E. Stanley and Carrie M. Hemphill - When a husband and wife take each other "for better or for worse ....
Focus Column - By Nathaniel T. Trelease and Andrew W. Swain - One of the biggest challenges for Internet-based vendors in comi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A record drop in trademark application filings is forcing the Patent and Trademark Office to lay off more than...
Management Column - By Bobbie McMorrow and Gina Airey - In this article, we put the examination of reality in the context of s...
All 20 associates and partners who remained in Skjerven Morrill 's Austin, Texas, and Newport Beach offices before they closed...
Bruce E. MacMillan, 51, joined Mountain View's Caliper Technologies Corp. as general counsel and vice president last month. Ma...
Law Practice
Attorneys at Brobeck Continue To Jump Ship After Clifford Deal
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The attrition continued at San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison following last week's deal sending 20...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Puts Family Law Attorney On Bench in Sacremento Court
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Family law specialist Jerilyn L. Borack, the sister of State Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, has been appoi...
LOS ANGELES - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold has lost its Los Angeles-based labor and employment practice group with the...