Employment Law Column - By Michael D. Young - Can an employer prevent its employee from working for a competitor by inserting ...
The Tax Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats elected Nicholas Freud, 60, to join its ranks April 10. Freud, part...
Two California firms opened their doors to local children recently. Walnut Creek's Archer Norris hosted 12 young girls, rangin...
InterSAN Inc. has closed its third round of funding, bringing in nearly $18 million. The deal was announced May 13. Worldview ...
Malcom Weiss, partner at Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, spoke at the California Mining Association's "Calif...
Lately, management practitioners of traditional labor law have been assaulted for the side they take in labor-management dispu...
The American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry elected John Heisse II as its chair-elect. Heisse, managing p...
Employment Law Column - By Theodora R. Lee - The Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1681, et seq., is the federal la...
The lawyers who negotiated the $250 million State Farm gender discrimination settlement in 1992 are on the forefront of the la...
Firm Watch
Kring & Chung: TRIATHLETES SWIM, RUN, BICYCLE IN ANNUAL EVENT
By Staff Writer
Six Kring & Chung attorneys donned sports attire and sunscreen on May 19 to participate in the 25th Anniversary Kring &...
Steve Sherman, partner at Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel in San Francisco, is hitting the books again - this time at the Bernar...
The Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association has elected associate Judy Lam of Santa Monica's Alschuler Grossman Stein ...
Janet Reese joined the ranks of the Estate Planning Advisory Committee for Continuing Education of the Bar. Reese, partner at ...
Liberty Media Corp. will acquire MIH Limited's controlling ownership in OpenTV Corp. The deal, announced May 8, is worth $185 ...
Employment Law Column - By Stephen L. Berry and Sherri Fanger McInnes - California courts and employers continue to experience...
The Women's Business Council of the Century City Chamber of Commerce honored Shelley Reid with the 2002 Women of Achievement A...
Morrison & Foerster corporate litigation partner Charles Patterson writes poetry. "It's something I can do while I'm waiti...
The Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative honored the San Francisco office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton ...
PALO ALTO - For nearly a year, Larry Sonsini, the 61-year-old chairman and chief executive of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Ro...
Fair Isaac and Company Inc. will acquire HNC Software Inc. The $810 million deal was announced April 29. San Rafael's Fair Isa...
LOS ANGELES - An award-winning documentary film depicting the atrocities of the Holocaust kept guests spellbound at the Consti...
SAN FRANCISCO - Most of the lawyers departing Skjerven Morrill's Newport Beach and Austin, Texas, offices, which Skjerven will...
Banking
Stock Option Debate May Impede Standardization of World Accounting
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Matthew J. McGinn - Business leaders, national securities regulators and the global accounting profession ar...
SAN FRANCISCO - Victim services workers at the San Francisco district attorney's office receive approximately 60 police report...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Wallace Friedman, a Burbank attorney for more than 40 years. Friedman died May 8. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for beleaguered file-sharing software companies Grokster Inc. and StreamCast Networks have accused the...
Criminal
Congressman Plans Challenge To Rules for Terrorism Trials
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Two years ago, a California state senator and former federal prosecutor challenged one of Bill Clinton's impeachm...
LOS ANGELES - A South El Monte attorney was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of embezzling a $25,000 insurance settlement ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has sentenced a Diamond Bar man to 33 months in prison for tax evasion related to a scheme in wh...
RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge Friday denied a defense attorney's motion to sanction a prosecutor and strike the death penalty ...