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Wilson Sonsini: INDIGO PURCHASE BOLSTERS HP'S PRINTING AND IMAGING
By Staff Writer
Palo Alto's Hewlett-Packard Co., agreed to buy the Netherlands' Indigo N.V., in a deal valued at $882 million in stock and cas...
Santa Clara University School of Law, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, is supplying a smaller world of law firms with more ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Professor Armin Rosencranz is a bit of an over-achiever. Between teaching international environmental policy a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four candidates have made the short list to become the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, ...
Government
Arab-American Supporters Fault FBI for Aggressive Questioning
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Support groups for Arab-Americans have turned to civil libertarians for help in dealing with what they character...
SAN FRANCISCO - When California voters passed Proposition 36 last year, San Francisco seemed particularly well-positioned to i...
SAN FRANCISCO - First came the terrorist attacks. Then the stock market collapse. Like everyone else, managers at California ...
Immigration
Rights Group Builds Network, Gathers Data, Soothes Victims
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Following last week's terrorist bombing and a backlash of racial hatred, Michel Shehadeh has reason to be wary o...
SAN FRANCISCO - The potential for a legal train wreck over the bankruptcy reorganization plan filed last week by Pacific Gas ...
An inconsistency is created if one provision will frustrate a policy stated in a second provision and there is no commitment t...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a major overhaul, San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has created three new management positions...
Construction
Desert Reserve Wins $1.2 Million Settlement Against Palm Springs
By Matthew Heller
INDIO - The city of Palm Springs has agreed to pay $1.2 million in compensation for developing a golf course on land donated f...
All too often, attorneys perform only future, or strategic, planning to cover the next few months only. Most attorneys rarely ...
The employment of temporary or contract lawyers, both for law firms and corporate law departments, may be the solution to an u...
RIVERSIDE - In the first hate-crime prosecution in Riverside County since last Tuesday's terrorist attacks, the district attor...
What do you do when cross-examination produces an answer to your questions that actually aids your case? Startlingly enough, t...
SEATTLE - Oregon's largest law firm, Portland's Stoel Rives, will nose its way into the California market Oct. 1 when it acqui...
SAN DIEGO - Federal judges in the Southern District, hopeful that a Senate committee will ease a judicial emergency by approvi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge said Thursday he will probably certify a class consisting of millions of California scho...
SAN FRANCISCO - The last war on American soil was between the Union and the Confederacy. Then, as with the terror attacks now,...
Judges and Judiciary
First Woman Takes Helm of Los Angeles Federal Court
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall was sworn in Thursday as the first woman to hold the post of chief judg...
LOS ANGELES - In a chilling foreshadowing of last week's terrorist attack, former FBI Director Louis Freeh in 1993 ordered the...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. may accomplish through the bankruptcy court what state utility regulators thwarte...
SAN FRANCISCO - Although Judge James R. Browning did more than any other judge to usher the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney's office on Wednesday petitioned the state Supreme Court for a review o...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Pleads Not Guilty to Misdemeanor Abuse Charges
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego Superior Court judge entered a not-guilty plea through his attorney Wednesday to misdemeanor charges...
The transfer of assets and liabilities from one corporation to another may give rise to the transfer of insurance benefits by ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for James A. Watkins, a retired Torrance attorney described by colleagues as an ...