EM Holdings Inc. has acquired eMachines Inc. The deal, announced Nov. 20, is worth $161 million. Garden Grove's EM Holdings is...
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Greenberg Traurig: 500 PARTY AT NEW OFFICE TO CELEBRATE EXPANSION
By Staff Writer
About 500 people packed into the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig a few weeks ago to celebrate the firm's growth in the...
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Wilson Sonsini: NAME PARTNER STEPS DOWN AFTER 31 YEARS IN PALO ALTO
By Staff Writer
When John B. Goodrich joined Wilson Mosher & Martin in 1970, only eight lawyers practiced alongside him. The small Palo Al...
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Baker & McKenzie: OFFICE MOVES CHALKED UP AS BOTH STRATEGY AND COVER-UP
By Staff Writer
Call it smart strategic planning or a plain-old marketing spin - Peter Engstrom , the managing partner of Baker & McKenzie...
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McCutchen Doyle: THIRD ROUND OF FINANCING NETS NETLOGIC $22 MILLION
By Staff Writer
Mountain View's NetLogic Microsystems Inc. announced that it raised $22 million in its third round of financing. New York-base...
This wasn't the year to be up for partner at California's largest law firms. In 2000, San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger &...
The California energy crisis, terrorist attacks and an economic recession almost derailed the single largest municipal financi...
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Akin Gump: IT'S RAINING CATS, DOGS AND PUBLIC OFFERINGS FOR VCA
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles-based VCA Antech Inc. announced its initial public offering of 14 million shares on Nov. 20. The offering is expec...
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Morrison & Foerster: SHIPPING COMPANY SECURES SECOND FINANCING ROUND
By Staff Writer
San Carlos-based Open Harbor Inc. raised $10 million in a second round of venture capital financing. Lead investors included D...
Foley & Lardner attorney Stacy Taylor used to drive through the busy, one-way streets of San Diego to get to her office in...
Christmas came early this year for Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips. ...
SAN DIEGO - Promising to unify a divided district attorney's office and regain the confidence of police agencies, former feder...
SAN BERNARDINO - The state attorney general's office is investigating allegations by county officials that Robert J. O'Connor ...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for two Pakistani students say federal officials are unfairly punishing their clients based on their nat...
SAN FRANCISCO - California cities and counties may yet get a formal voice in the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy, desp...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury sided Friday with one of the world's most renowned art dealers, finding that W...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawmakers Will Visit Two Riverside Courts
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Assemblyman David Kelly, R-Idyllwild, and State Sen. Jim Battin, R-La Quinta, will visit Riverside County courts t...
Appellate Practice
Anthrax Precautions Lower Number of Petitions High Court Considers
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is heading for a record low number of signed opinions this term, in part because of concerns ab...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's Legal Community Against Violence has undertaken a controversial new advertising campaign to prod co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Lazarus, having complained to the city Ethics Commission about his opponent in San Francisco's city attorn...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego office of Haight, Brown & Bonesteel is now a one-attorney outpost following the recent departure...
SACRAMENTO - The head of California Common Cause has accused a state agency of lax enforcement of campaign disclosure laws aga...
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Pillsbury Wintrop: NBA LEGEND BRINGS TOUCH OF MAGIC TO OPEN HOUSE
By Staff Writer
None of the attorneys at Pillsbury Winthrop in Los Angeles was interested in a game of one-on-one against former Laker star Ea...
In 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. The goals of the disabilities act are laudable. It was ...
In Styne v. Stevens, 26 Cal.4th 42 (2001), the California Supreme Court held that the one-year statute of limitations s...
As we begin the 21st century, older Americans in the work force face both good news and bad news about age discrimination in e...
What side are you on? On July 8, the New York Times reported on a battle between lawyers who support keeping citations in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the last remaining issues in the long-playing probate fight among Jerry Garcia's heirs - control of luc...
SAN RAFAEL - San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of assault with a deadly weapon and...
LOS ANGELES - A management audit of the Los Angeles city attorney's office praises the criminal division's high conviction rat...