Judges and Judiciary
Mental-Health Liaisons Draw Praise, Criticism
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - "Where's Veliz?" the judge said. "We need Veliz." The invocation came one recent day from Superior Court Judge J...
Technology & Science
French Claim Against Yahoo Doesn't Seem To Sway Judge
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal judge seemed sympathetic Monday to claims that Yahoo Inc. should be shielded from a French court order in...
Government
Absentee-Fatherhood Effort Stays Alive, Despite Long-Odds Underdog Status
By Garry Abrams
While this country was reeling from the initial horror of the suicide hijacker attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., Sacra...
SACRAMENTO - Barry Goode is the perfect model of a governor's legal secretary. He's smart. He's low-key. He's unflappable. He'...
LOS ANGELES - Naren Chaganti was as disillusioned as any other American on the Friday night following the terrorist attacks on...
In a sweeping new opinion, the California Supreme Court has made it easier than ever for a plaintiff in a disability-discrimin...
Law firms tell their own side of the layoff story, taking aim at some gruesome rumors, and emphasize that the economic downtur...
On weekends you can catch attorney Bradley Small in front of his television, watching professional wrestling. But that doesn't...
Danna M. Kozerski has taken her law practice to a new piece of real estate. The attorney joined the San Francisco office of Co...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: CORPORATE RAINMAKER WILL DIVIDE HIS TIME IN SAN DIEGO
By Toni Vranjes
The recent addition of corporate attorney Craig Andrews to Latham & Watkins is part of the firm's ongoing efforts to expan...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: LAWYERS DOUBLE UP, VACATE OFFICES IN POST-ATTACK AID
By Toni Vranjes
Three California law firms have opened their doors to help New York law firms and businesses displaced by the terrorist attack...
Precisely when do "strike" priors disqualify a defendant from being eligible for probation under Proposition 36? ...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: AUTODESK IS ABUZZ WITH ACQUISITION OF BUZZSAW
By Columnist
San Rafael-based Autodesk Inc. has acquired San Francisco's Buzzsaw Inc. The transaction calls for Autodesk to pay $15 million...
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Manatt Phelps: E-MEDSOFT JOINS FORCES WITH CHARTWELL SERVICES
By Columnist
Med Diversified Inc. of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., the parent of e-MedSoft.com, recently completed its merger with Chartwell Di...
Following the massive attorney layoffs announced by Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward and Fenwick & West, California Law Busi...
In cases involving celebrities, courts often feel a pressure to cloak their proceedings from the onslaught of media coverage. ...
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Greenan Peffer: ECFOODS DIPS INTO DAIRIES WITH MASTER ACQUISITION
By Columnist
Santa Clara's ecFoods Inc., a division of ecIndustries Inc., has acquired Master Dairies of Bethesda, Md. Neither company woul...
Firm Watch
Fulbright & Jaworski: TEXAS COMPETITION DELIVERS WEST COAST HEALTH PARTNER
By Toni Vranjes
Mark A. Kadzielski is on his way to building the West Coast health care practice of Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski. Kadzie...
For the people who planned and delivered layoff notices in Silicon Valley, the past few weeks have been tough - possibly the t...
Poorly trained, if trained at all, news gatherers and writers often are unable to assess the facts properly. Lacking understan...
Last Tuesday's horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have awakened in the American people a sense of rag...
If Hewlett-Packard Co. announced its acquisition of the Netherlands' Indigo, N.V. at any other time, perhaps the deal would ha...
Getting movies out of the jokey violence business and exclusively into mom, apple pie and the movie version of "Gilligan's Isl...
Dallas-based Southwest Securities Group Inc. has acquired privately held Newport Beach-based O'Connor & Company Securities...
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Stradling Yocca: FIDELITY FINANCIAL ISSUES BONDS WORTH $250 MILLION
By Columnist
Irvine-based Fidelity National Financial Inc. recently issued $250 million in 7.3 percent 10-year bonds. Lehman Brothers Holdi...
SAN FRANCISCO - State Senate President pro tem John Burton has appointed a Sausalito woman with a background in labor dispute ...
LOS ANGELES - Harry Pregerson, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, is the patriarch of homeless shelters in Los Angeles. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An experimental mediation program at the 1st District Court of Appeal has been such a resounding success that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has ruled that the attorney representing Marjorie Knoller in the dog-mauling case violat...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angles Superior Court judges have elected referee Jeffrey N. Marckese to the position of court commissioner,...