Civil Rights
Advocates of First Amendment Attack Court's Sealing Practices
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - A long-established practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of allowing attorneys to routine...
The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers inducted Elizabeth Huber, managing partner of the Los Angeles offi...
The University of San Francisco School of Law awarded Molly Lane, managing partner of the Palo Alto office of Brobeck Phleger ...
Of-counsel Irv Hepner switched gears as he represented Westfield America Inc. as its lead outside counsel instead of its gener...
The American College of Trial Lawyers inducted Richard Stratton as a fellow March 16 at its spring meeting in La Quinta. Strat...
Robert Cantore didn't think twice about including California's unfair competition law, Business and Professions Code Section 1...
Beefing up its trademark group, Los Angeles' Russ August & Kabat added two partners to its intellectual property practice....
General Motors Corp., Daewoo Motor Co. and the Daewoo Motor Creditors Committee have agreed to form GM Daewoo Auto and Technol...
In the wake of new workplace safety regulations that took effect two years ago, employers are facing tougher civil and crimina...
The antitrust and unfair competition law section of the State Bar of California awarded Don Hibner Jr. the 2002 Antitrust Lawy...
San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin has lured intellectual property partner Carole Barrett from Co...
Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. has acquired FM radio station KARA 105.7 from Empire Broadcasting Corp. in a cash deal worth $58 m...
Westfield America Inc. has acquired nine shopping centers in five different states from The Richard E. Jacobs Group Inc. The $...
The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County presented Carl McConnell, partner at San Jose's Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel with t...
The American College of Bankruptcy Professionals inducted Thomas Walpur to its ranks March 15. Walpur, a partner at Los Angele...
Boalt Hall launched the Gerald D. Marcus Fellowship Fund. This fund is in honor of Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy na...
Firm Watch
Nossaman Guthner: LEGISLATIVE PRO GIVES UP RETIREMENT TO PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Another Sacramento icon, state legislative counsel Bion Gregory joined the Sacramento office of Nossaman Guthner Knox & El...
Aspatore Books invited two California lawyers to write chapters in two new books from its Inside the Mind series, which are av...
April 24 was no ordinary day this year in California; Gov. Gray Davis proclaimed it Alec Cory Day in honor of one of the found...
Employment Law Column - By Sam McAdam and David Kadue - The first three years of Gov. Gray Davis' administration have brought ...
The zoning and land use subsection of the State Bar's real property law section appointed Scott Birkey as its vice chairman on...
The California Bankruptcy Forum named Randy Michelson its president for a one-year term. Michelson, partner in San Francisco'...
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected William Coblentz to its 2002 class. Coblentz, name partner at Coblentz Patch...
One Sacramento lawyer, Brian Toman , has decided to leave the state capital for private practice in the Bay Area. Toman, the f...
Employment Law Column - By Frank Cronin - Discrimination against individuals with disabilities has been illegal in California ...
San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe honored six professional staff members with its annual Professional Staff ...
Legal Aid of the North Bay presented the Wiley W. Manuel Award to Paul "Skip" Spaulding, partner at San Francisco's Farella Br...
Firm Watch
Proskauer Rose: LABOR, EMPLOYMENT STAR CHANGES FROM AKIN GUMP
By Staff Writer
Labor and employment partner Anthony Oncidi has left the Los Angeles office of Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & F...
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal is acquiring the New York law firm RubinBaum , enhancing its East Coast presence. Fifty Rubi...
Two former Environmental Protection Agency lawyers have left their respective law firms to start an environmental law boutique...