Column by Garry Abrams - If Louisiana lawyer Edwin Hunter is really as smart as his reputation, he'll soon be boarding the nea...
SAN FRANCISCO - There's nothing unusual about a law firm sponsoring its own softball or basketball team. It's a time-honored t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Trena Burger-Plavan has quit her post on a local fire commission after critics...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawmakers Unveil Proposals Bills To Regulate Arbitration
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A package of proposals announced Monday by members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee would regulate private arb...
Dicta Column - By The Rodent - It's the same old story. You are awakened by a 3 a.m. phone call from the county jail. On the...
Dicta Column - By Andrew Duggan - Attorneys increasingly are turning to the Internet to gain a competitive edge and broaden th...
Focus Column - By Sidney Brown and Harold J. Cohn - Child-custody and visitation recommendations are commonly driven by a subj...
Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc. has closed a $62 million public offering, effective Feb. 13. UBS Warburg led the offering. RBC Ca...
Legato Systems Inc. will acquire OTG Software Inc. for $443 million. The deal was announced Feb. 21. Mountain View's Legato pr...
The Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is mourning the loss of partner Ted Obrzut . Obrzut died Feb. 15 a...
What does it mean to say you supervise other attorneys or to say you are supervised? Does it mean they will obey your orders o...
Firm Watch
Foran Glennon: YOUNG LAW FIRM ALREADY NEEDS MORE OFFICE SPACE
By Staff Writer
Formed just seven months ago, Foran Glennon Palandech & Ponzi has already set its sights on Orange County expansion. The C...
PayPal Inc. has gone public with a Feb. 14 offering of $70 million. The lead manager was Salomon Smith Barney. Co-managers wer...
ESS Technology Inc. brought in $107 million in its follow-on public offering of Feb. 6. Needham & Co. managed the offering...
Nike Inc. announced Feb. 22 that it will acquire Hurley International. The companies have not disclosed the terms of the deal....
Firm Watch
Sidley Austin: NEW PARTNER GIVES OFFERS TO FIVE WILSON ASSOCIATES
By Staff Writer
Three associates have left Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in the last two weeks to join litigator Timothy Sc...
Three partners have moved their environmental practices less than a mile away to Morgan Lewis & Bockius' office in downtow...
Read any law periodical, and it is easy to find a story about the 20, 50 or 100 top major law firms. There is a wealth of info...
Baxter International acquired Fusion Medical Technologies Inc. in a deal announced Feb. 27. The stock-for-stock merger is wort...
Firm Watch
Littler Mendelson: NEW MANAGING PARTNER TAKES OVER IN SAN DIEGO
By Staff Writer
The nation's largest employment boutique has selected a new leader for its San Diego branch. San Francisco-based Littler Mende...
The Titan Corp. will acquire Science & Engineering Associates Inc. The stock deal, announced Feb. 25, is worth $72 million...
In the coming months, the California Supreme Court will decide how employers can treat employees on the move and the enforceab...
Yahoo! Inc. has acquired HotJobs.com Inc. The Feb. 12 deal is worth $436 million. Sunnyvale's Yahoo! is an Internet search eng...
Corporate
Welcoming Risk, One Corporate Lawyer Finds Her Work Niche in Hotel Business
By Liz Valsamis
Madeleine Kleiner remembers the phone call that led her down the in-house career path. The Beverly Hill's Hilton Hotels Corp. ...
King led Sunnyvale's Yahoo! Inc. in its hostile takeover of New York-based HotJobs.com Inc. HotJobs had entered into a merger ...
When Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich acquired a nine-attorney regulatory boutique in Washington, D.C., last Janua...
Entertainment and sports attorney Kristine Lefebvre has joined the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Lord Bissell & Brook as...
Pluris Inc. has completed its fifth round of funding, which brought $53 million to the Cupertino company. The deal closed Feb....
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has denied a request by former Compton Councilwoman Leslie Irving to stay a decision that ouste...
Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins worked on three of the 10 largest mergers and acquisitions announced in 2001, including the ...