Boston research firm BTI Consulting Group Inc. has awarded Judith Droz, a partner with Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May...
Solo and Small Firms
REAL ESTATE ATTORNEYS AID SANTA MONICA'S HOMELESS
By Staff Writer
Upward Bound House, a nonprofit community service organization in Santa Monica, has honored two attorneys from Harding Larmore...
IPrint Technologies Inc. of Menlo Park has merged with Wood Associates, subsidiary of Santa Clara's Wood Alliance Inc. Terms o...
In these trying days, the game of golf provide practical lessons on managing life both on the course and in the office. ...
The Sonoma County bar gathered last month at the ninth annual "Careers of Distinction" dinner to honor two men lauded for upho...
Firm Watch
Squire Sanders: PALO ALTO PARTNER TAKES TOP MANAGEMENT POSITION
By Toni Vranjes
Squire Sanders & Dempsey has named Silicon Valley partner Nicholas Unkovic to its national management committee, making hi...
The pressures of motherhood and lawyering can be daunting, but being a mother in law also can be rewarding and even lead to th...
The Practicing Law Institute has released the sixth annual supplement to the treatise "Likelihood of Confusion in Trademark La...
Firm Watch
Alschuler Grossman: MUSIC LITIGATOR MOVES FROM BOUTIQUE TO CENTURY CITY FIRM
By Staff Writer
Music litigator Mark Passin has hopped from Los Angeles music-law boutique Engel & Engel to Century City's Alschuler Gross...
The Legal Marketing Association's Bay Area chapter has awarded Debra Fischer its annual Rella Lossy Professional Achievement A...
Firm Watch
Gordon & Rees: HAIGHT PARTNER DELIVERS CROSS-BORDER EXPERTISE
By Staff Writer
International business partner George R. Gonzalez , whose legal work helped make the summer blockbuster "Pearl Harbor" a reali...
Firm Watch
Procopio Cory: ANOTHER LYON ASSOCIATE DECIDES TO PLAY ELSEWHERE
By Staff Writer
Stephen Beuerle is the latest San Diego attorney to move from Lyon & Lyon to Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch . Beue...
Transactions
O'Melveny & Myers: LOS ANGELES REIT RAISES $61 MILLION IN OFFERING
By Contributing Writer
Los Angeles' Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. has raised $61 million by selling 6.1 million shares of its common stock. Jolson Merch...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
JAMS RECRUITS THREE NEW NEUTRALS AROUND STATE
By Staff Writer
Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has recruited three new neutrals in the past two months. William McDonald, 65, ha...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: SAFEWAY CHECKS OUT WITH $400 MILLION IN FINANCING
By Columnist
Pleasanton-based Safeway Inc. has raised $400 million through the sale of investment-grade debt securities. Deutsche Banc Alex...
LOS ANGELES - A former Latham & Watkins associate has returned to the Los Angeles-based firm as a partner. John Flynn move...
Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has asked the nation to perform a balancing act: become better prepared for terrorist...
Juvenile
Foster-Home Teens Tell of Their Lives, Haunted by Violence, Fear
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The message was simple. In families, violence begets violence, and kids taken from violent homes don't always f...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Says Opponent Is Running in Retaliation
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Hesperia attorney Robert J. O'Connor is challenging San Bernardino County Presiding Judge Roberta McPeters in...
LOS ANGELES - Henry Liang has a lot to learn before he sits down behind the newly installed information desk at the entrance o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Olympic Community College, in Bremerton, Wash., violated the free speech and free exercise of religion rights ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Who owns the ball? In sports bars and tort classes, it's the question of the moment. Who is the legal possesso...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Kimberly Ryan graduated from high school in 1974, she didn't go to college. "We just didn't do it in my f...
One of the most significant pieces of environmental legislation adopted this year is the California Land Environmental Restora...
Former landowners are not liable under the federal Superfund statute for contamination that only passively migrated in soil an...
Judges and Judiciary
Part-Time Judge Relishes Time in Scottish Getaway
By Jeffrey Anderson
Building subcontractors - framers, plasterers, drywallers, electricians - will find it more difficult to obtain liability insu...
Lots of talk about patriotic desire and of contagion of various sorts of late. I am reminded of a story from our history. ...
Finding the right legal recruiter can be the first step to finding the right job. A successful recruiter is an expert at match...
The prevailing wisdom is that, at a deposition, only the deposition-taker can win, and the witness can only lose. This is only...