Administrative/Regulatory
Recent 9th Circuit Decisions Illuminate Abstention Doctrine
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - Attorneys conducting federal litigation involving state and local administrative agencies mu...
SACRAMENTO - The lobbying arm of California's trial lawyers dropped out of the top 10 largest donors to state legislative camp...
LOS ANGELES - More law firms nationwide are offering active, government-approved retirement plans to their employees, accordin...
LOS ANGELES - The flashbacks come faster as Vernon Montoya approaches what used to be Camarillo State Hospital. When Montoya w...
Judges and Judiciary
Family Court Litigants Say Judge Isn't for Real
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - What happens if an elected or appointed judge fails to file an oath of office with the secretary of state's office,...
LOS ANGELES - In an effort to keep its health care workers from getting raises, county officials recruited some of those worke...
LOS ANGELES - Bernard Jefferson, a former California appellate court justice and president emeritus of a Southern California l...
Entertainment & Sports
Lawyer's Glossy Confessional of 'Bad Boy' Days Defies All Expectation
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - One of the comforts of old age may be a misspent youth. That's my conclusion after learning that ultr...
Forum Column -Opposing Counsel - By Gordon Spencer - The California Supreme Court's decision in Manduley v. Superior Court<...
Forum Column - Opposing Counsel - By Daniel Macallair - The recent ruling by the California Supreme Court upholding Propositio...
LOS ANGELES - A prosecutor told a Los Angeles jury on Monday that the two attorneys charged in the dog-mauling death of their ...
WASHINGTON - From 1993 to 1995, Jennifer K. Harbury tried everything she could - even a hunger strike - to force U.S. governme...
Abgenix Inc. sold $200 million worth of notes that will be converted into stock in 2007. The deal closed March 4. Abgenix refu...
Stalking cases, especially those involving celebrities, have caught the attention of the state and the media for years. ...
Gary Olson led Thousand Oaks-based Amgen Inc. in its offering of zero coupon senior convertible notes, which will mature in 30...
ActionPoint Inc. will acquire Captiva Software Corp. in a stock-for-stock deal that is worth $10 million. The deal was announc...
Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. closed its offering of more than 9 million shares March 5. The deal is worth $98 million. The lead ...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: BILLING RATES, CONTRARY FOCUSES SPUR DEPARTURE
By Staff Writer
The real estate practice group at the Orange County office of Pillsbury Winthrop has office space to spare. Five of its lawyer...
Loudcloud Inc. will acquire Frontera Corp. The stock deal, announced Feb. 28, is worth $13 million. Sunnyvale's Loudcloud mana...
Law Practice
Attorney's Novel Approach to Job Hunting Raises Brows
By Katherine Gaidos
Peter Thottam has a résumé to make ambitious corporate associates drool. During the heady dot-com days of the late 1990s, he ...
My husband has a theory about airport security. "It's to keep the elephants out," he explained solemnly, as we waited in an in...
Identix Inc. and Visionics Corp. agreed to merge on Feb. 22. The stock deal is worth $600 million. Los Gatos-based Identix mak...
Firm Watch
Fenwick & West: SILICON VALLEY SHOP DOES BETTER THAN MOST IN 2001
By Staff Writer
All things considered, 2001 was not a bad year at Fenwick & West , says Gordon Davidson , chairman of the 300-lawyer Palo ...
Two years ago, a young partner in the tech boomtown of Reston, Va., spoke to me with unbridled confidence about the expansive ...
Amgen Inc. has agreed to sell 30-year senior notes that will be converted into Amgen stock. Amgen expects to raise $2.8 billio...
Firm Watch
Steptoe & Johnson: LUCE PARTNER WILL HEAD L.A. INSOLVENCY PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Washington, D.C.'s Steptoe & Johnson has recruited Los Angeles bankruptcy veteran Barry Glaser to complete its West Coast ...
Genesis Microchip Inc. will acquire all the assets of VM Labs Inc., including patents, trademarks and other intellectual prope...
It's not a bad time to be a white-collar defense lawyer, as Walter Brown proved two weeks ago when he left San Francisco's The...
Firm Watch
McDermott Will: SILICON VALLEY OUTPOST NABS FENWICK FOURSOME
By Staff Writer
Continuing its Silicon Valley growth, Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added four lawyers who specialize in complex an...
Compass Group will acquire Bon Apptit Management Co. Inc. The cash deal is worth more than $155 million and was announced Marc...