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...
Law Office Automation
New York's Weil Gotshal Came to the Valley And Made 21st-Century Technology Livable
By Staff Writer
REDWOOD SHORES - Stepping into Weil Gotshal & Manger's new Silicon Valley office is a distinctly unlawyerly experience, an...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has upheld the highly unusual decision of a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner to jail a c...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Hostage Negotiator Speaks at Masters Forum
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - "I'm nothing." The phrase comes straight from the mouth of a man who has devoted his life to hostage negotiation...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just two months ago, the California Supreme Court decided it wasn't ready to tackle the question of whether a ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's largest health care workers' union goes to court today to fight a class action by a nationa...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Three years ago tonight, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H. George Taylor and his wife, Lynda, were...
Forum Column - By Charles B. Craver - The collapse of Enron has demonstrated that most employees exercise no control over issu...
Criminal
Citing Lawyer's Need to Prepare, Court Grants Convict New Trial
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - While representing himself in a burglary trial, Narcisco Medina put the trial judge in what an appellate court cal...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bruce Eads , an associate with the Oakland firm of Donahue Gallagher Woods & Woods , has been named Volunt...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco Assistant District Attorney James Hammer, the lead prosecutor in the fatal dog-mauling trial, has ...
LOS ANGELES - Roger's story of sexual abuse by an adult male relative is ugly, but not uncommon. From the time the boy was 9, ...
LOS ANGELES - With leaves of potted plants bursting out like fireworks all around his bench, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ...
LOS ANGELES - Most of the cast of characters in the now-infamous dog-mauling case playing out in a Los Angeles courtroom are f...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The State Bar of California recently has reactivated its Commission for the Revision of t...
Focus Column - By David Gerber - The elements of a copyright infringement claim are "ownership of the copyright; and ... infri...
Q: What role should a mediator play in creating the documentation of a settlement reached at a mediation? ...
Focus On ADR - By C. David Serena - Why should anyone be concerned about the appointment of a guardian ad litem for a minor, o...
Column by John Patzakis - While lawyers are paying more attention to electronic evidence in civil litigation matters than ever...
Focus On ADR - By Jeffrey Krivis - Recently, I confronted the most difficult challenge of my 21 years in the practice of law....
Focus On ADR Opinion - By Richard M. Brown - Having been part of professional sports for two decades in such diverse capacitie...
Focus On ADR - By Kenneth D. Gack and Edward Stern - This is the first in a series of articles devoted to the most compelling ...
Focus On ADR - By Palmer Brown Madden - Mediations are not always successful. Based on experience, some 20 percent of the time...