In Lewis v. The State , 3 Ga.App. 322 (1907), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in per...
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that an employee-participation program that involved all workers in the company's...
I consider myself a classic marketing person. I am high-energy, passionate about my job and have attended time-management clas...
LOS ANGELES - A rosary will be said Friday and a requiem Mass celebrated Saturday for Jerome C. Byrne, a labor-and-employment...
LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Slivkin, a veteran attorney who represented some of Southern California's largest real estate develop...
Law Practice
The Redemption of Going Double or Nothing on an Olson Plea Bargain
By Garry Abrams
On April 5, in a fit of attempted prescience, I wrote a column predicting that Sara Jane Olson would make a plea deal to settl...
LOS ANGELES - Jerome W. Shepard, a native Angeleno and civil litigator for more than 60 years, has died. Shepard died of heart...
Horseplay, as many parents will attest, is no laughing matter when someone gets hurt. However, it usually can be curtailed wit...
WASHINGTON - For 10 days, the nation's highest court hovered unscathed as the anthrax scare tightened its grip on Capitol Hill...
LOS ANGELES - California lawyers are older and more diverse than they were 10 years ago but not, overall, as rich as the publi...
Terrorists succeed when a democratic government turns on its own people or persists in policies that no longer are viable. Thi...
Anger, sorrow and fear hit us instantly when terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11. The emotional wound has hit u...
California State University men's sports, after being assaulted by feminist organizations, are instead ignoring the desires of...
State Bar & Bar Associations
VENTURA BAR ASSOCIATION HONORS OXNARD LAWYER
By Staff Writer
The Ventura County Bar Association has named William H. Hair, 68, this year's recipient of its Ben E. Nordman Award. Hair, nam...
Intellectual Property
ICANN NAMES ARBITRATOR TO POLICY REVIEW TASK FORCE
By Tanya Rothman
The private organization that assigns Internet domain names has appointed a partner from Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli ...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: RANDOM HOUSE GETS AN EARFUL WITH ACQUISITION
By Contributing Writer
New York publishing giant Random House has agreed to purchase Newport Beach-based Books on Tape Inc. The deal is valued at $22...
Firm Watch
Buchanan Ingersoll: ATTORNEY SWITCHES OUTFITS, BRINGS LITIGATION EXPERTISE
By Staff Writer
Attorney Patricia P. Hollenbeck has moved her litigation practice to the San Diego office of Buchanan Ingersoll , bringing all...
They are all white, and they are all men. In a state featuring such lawyers as Patricia Glaser, Johnnie Cochran and Kathleen S...
State Bar & Bar Associations
NATIONAL MINORITY GROUP TAPS BAY AREA ASSOCIATE
By Staff Writer
The Hispanic National Bar Association has elected Maribel Delgado, a senior associate at McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enerson i...
State Bar & Bar Associations
STATE LAWYERS LAUD MOFO TRIAL ATTORNEY BROSNAHAN
By Staff Writer
The California Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates has awarded Morrison & Foerster partner James J. Brosnahan...
Transactions
Wachtell Lipton: PAIR OF DSL PROVIDERS TEAM UP WITH MERGER OF EQUALS
By Columnist
Santa Clara's Virata Corp. and Globespan Inc. of Red Bank, N.J. have agreed to a merger. The stock-for-stock transaction is va...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: IP AND CORPORATE PARTNERS SIGN UP IN SAN DIEGO OFFICE
By Staff Writer
Pillsbury Winthrop added two new partners in San Diego on Monday as part of an effort to expand its corporate and intellectual...
Transactions
Pillsbury Winthrop: SYMMETRICOM PURCHASES TELMAX MODEM TECHNOLOGY
By Columnist
San Jose-based Symmetricom Inc. announced the acquisition of certain assets and products from Telmax Communication Corp. of Fr...
State Bar & Bar Associations
IN-HOUSE ATTORNEYS HONOR TWO CALIFORNIA MEMBERS
By Staff Writer
The American Corporate Counsel Association honored two California in-house lawyers at its annual meeting earlier this month. T...
The California Law Business staff is not a group known for keeping its opinions to itself. So you can imagine our frustration ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
MILBANK TWEED PARTNER WILL GUIDE CORPORATE BAR
By Staff Writer
The State Bar has appointed Neil J. Wertlieb, a partner at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, as ...
Firm Watch
Brobeck Phleger: DYNAMIC CHAIRMAN DECIDES NOT TO RUN FOR THIRD TERM
By Staff Writer
One of the most charismatic leaders of the Silicon Valley's law-firm boom will be stepping down in a matter of months. Tower S...
Firm Watch
Bergeson Eliopoulos: A WOMAN TAKES THE TOP SPOT AT SILICON VALLEY BOUTIQUE
By Staff Writer
Silicon Valley's Bergeson Eliopoulos has named its first female managing partner. Marily P. Lerner , a partner who joined the ...
With headquarters in Santa Clara, operations centers in seven countries, officers based in the company's original London headq...
Transactions
Troutman Sanders: DIAL-THRU AIMS FOR RAPID SERVICE WITH PURCHASE
By Columnist
Los Angeles-based Dial-Thru International Corp. has completed its acquisition of technology assets from Atlanta's Rapid Link C...