After the collapse of the banking system in Ecuador in 1998, the principals of the private banks absconded with the public's f...
American Board of Certification recertified Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton partner William Winfield of Oxnard as a busines...
The Asian Business League elected Robert Lum, associate in the Los Angeles office of Cleveland's Squire Sanders & Dempsey,...
At its first annual Business Awards Luncheon, the San Leandro African American Business Council honored Liane Randolph with it...
Ticketmaster has agreed to acquire Soulmates Technology in a stock deal worth $23 million. The deal was announced March 27. Lo...
Firm Watch
Kring & Chung: IRVINE GENERAL COUNSEL REJOINS HIS FORMER FIRM
By Staff Writer
Attorney Paul A. Rianda is returning to his roots. The business and corporate lawyer, who worked at Kring & Brown as an as...
Jeffrey Dintzer, partner at Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, didn't realize what he was getting himself into when he a...
You might find Jonathan Joseph, partner at San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop, lurking behind the scenes at San Francisco's Am...
Firm Watch
Quinn Emanuel: FOUNDS TAKES REIGNS OF EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has appointed Phyllis Kupferstein to manage its nationwide employment ...
Digeo inc. and Moxi Digital Inc. agreed to merge in a deal announced on March 29. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ki...
Solectron Corp. has agreed to buy equipment and inventory from Lucent Technologies Inc. for $125 million. This is part of a th...
The California Academy of Appellate Attorneys elected Rita Gunasekaran, a partner at Los Angeles' Haight Brown & Bonesteel...
The Central City Association, a Los Angeles organization that promotes the business of the city, named John Whitaker its 2002 ...
David Marion laces up his sneakers as a new member of the board of directors of the Greater San Diego Inner-City Games. The gr...
Chiron Corp. acquired Matrix Pharmaceutical Inc. through its subsidiary, Manon Acquisition Corp. The cash deal is worth $61 mi...
ViroLogic Inc. sold convertible stock for $10 million. The deal was announced March 26. The investors included SDS Merchant Fu...
Firm Watch
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart: THREE LAWYERS DEFECT TO NIXON AND SONNENSCHEIN
By Staff Writer
Three lawyers, one a former PG&E general counsel, have left Kirkpatrick & Lockhart 's 2-year-old San Francisco office,...
The Southern California Chapter of the IndUS Entrepreneurs has named Shibir Grewal, partner at Newport Beach-based Stradling Y...
LOS ANGELES - When police Chief Bernard Parks walks into City Council chambers Tuesday for a high-stakes public hearing on his...
SAN FRANCISCO - In taking over the defense of Marjorie Knoller, appellate specialist Dennis Riordan has signaled that decision...
SAN FRANCISCO - Like Learned Hand, who spent much of his 50 years on the bench stranded in the 2nd Circuit, Judge Alex Kozinsk...
SAN FRANCISCO - Medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby cannot fight his misdemeanor drug convictions from Canada because fugit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Speakers at last month's Prop. 65 News conference in San Diego were thrilled when Napa attorney Mark Pollock s...
Intellectual Property
Information Material to Patentability Must Be Disclosed
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Neil Maloney - Rule 56, 37 C.F.R. Section 1.56, imposes on each individual associated with the filing and pr...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Deputy District Attorney Charles Q. Clay III, Assistant City Attorney Mary Strobel...
Among real estate attorneys, skyscrapers often are referred to as trophy buildings. With their massive height and stylish arc...
Criminal
Court Guard Tried to Sway Jury, Officials Say
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A security guard at the Rancho Cucamonga courthouse Thursday told jurors in a hallway during a break in del...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner acted within his power when he held an attorney in contempt of court a...
SAN FRANCISCO - This city's waterfront is getting a makeover thanks in large part to a quirky federal tax law known as the His...
SANTA ANA - Two Orange County brothers have sued the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a priest who they claim molested them on c...