In three short years, Santa Barbara neutral Louise LaMothe has distinguished herself as someone with a comprehensive grasp on ...
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Cooley Godward: EBAY PLACES WINNING BID FOR PASADENA ONLINE SITE
By Staff Writer
Online auction site eBay Inc. has acquired HomesDirect of Pasadena. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. San Jose's eBay ...
For most employers, the prospect of losing a valued employee to a competitor conjures up an unappetizing cocktail of emotions:...
Our paternalistic Legislature has decided we're better off with eight-hour workdays, eliminating our ability to mold work hour...
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Manatt Phelps: BAY AREA HOLDING COMPANY RAISES CASH WITH OFFERING
By Tanya Rothman
Palo Alto's Greater Bay Bancorp. has completed a public offering of $103 million in trust preferred securities. The shares wer...
Law Practice
Lawyers Try Stress-Reduction Class Despite Doubts of Bar
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A ballroom full of lawyers gently waving their arms in the air and bouncing from the knees during the State Bar ...
Firm Watch
Perkins Coie: LITIGATOR BECOMES LATEST WILSON SONSINI IP RECRUIT
By Tanya Rothman
After spending a decade at Silicon Valley stalwart Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , intellectual property litigator Kenn...
LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Daniel Didier ordered the release Friday of a teen-ager convicted of an armed...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Bar Association, acting on what it described as unjust criticism of judges in the news media,...
Hollywood litigator Ed Kubec is just two years shy of 40, but he's already collected a lifetime supply of conversation topics ...
Entertainment & Sports
TV CONTRACT BATTLES JUST ANOTHER L.A. SUMMER RITE
By Contributing Writer
Summertime is rife for TV contract disputes. This year the supporting casts of "The West Wing" and "Becker" caused the firewor...
Despite mass layoffs at Cooley Godward , the firm's San Diego lawyers have decided they need more elbow room. Cooley leased ne...
In 1993, the Legislature established the Unified Program for the purpose of consolidating and coordinating the implementation ...
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Wilson Sonsini: SOLECTRON AGREES TO TRADE SHARES WITH CANADIAN FIRM
By Tanya Rothman
Solectron Corp. has agreed to merge with Montreal's C-MAC Industries Inc. in a $2.7 billion stock swap. Solectron, based in Mi...
A party who voluntarily cleans up is barred from pursuing a CERCLA action if that party is not already a defendant or the subj...
Twenty-three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered the famous decision in Regents of the University of California v. B...
Litigation
Courts Can Serve as Force for Change, Reno Tells Attorneys
By Don De Benedictis
ANAHEIM - Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told a group of female lawyers Thursday that courts can be "one of the great...
SAN FRANCISCO - After 25 years as a French professor at Columbia University, Susan Tiefenbrun recently moved from New York to ...
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Greene Radovsky: MADERA POWER GETS A JOLT FROM NEW PLANT PURCHASE
By Tanya Rothman
Madera Power of Firebaugh has bought a 28-megawatt power plant from San Joaquin Valley Energy Partners and relaunched the faci...
International
Double-Jeopardy Rule Could End in Britain, Barrister Says
By Don De Benedictis
ANAHEIM - The British government has proposed some remarkable changes in the criminal justice system, including getting rid of...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Albert Lee Stephens Jr., who was named to the federal bench in Los Angeles in 1961, died Thursday while on...
SAN FRANCISCO - The extremely limited judicial review of binding arbitration decisions has forced Southern California Gas Co. ...
Government
Plan Tries to Cut Latino Political Clout, Voting Challenge Alleges
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - On behalf of a coalition of Latino and Asian organizations, a voting-rights expert has filed a challenge with th...
SAN FRANCISCO - The story of California's unhappy relationship with MTBE is now unfolding in state courtrooms in a remarkable ...
SAN FRANCISCO - With a judicial stroke of the pen, the 17-year-old federal mandatory minimum sentencing law has been tossed on...
Solo and Small Firms
Widow Loses Saveri & Saveri Family Feud Over Old Fees
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The widow of a San Francisco litigator is not entitled to half the fees from cases he worked on, a judge has r...
Entertainment & Sports
Prayer for a Field Goal Is Now a Prayer to the Court
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - The wonders of TiVo Inc.'s "personal television services" have been promoted aggressively in commercials that tout ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Responding to a rising number of church- and cross-burnings, attacks against gays and racially motivated murd...
We probably all have known someone who left a job only to wish later that he or she had never made the move. We probably also ...
What if that opportunity arose that would allow you to stop being an attorney and start a new career? What would happen if the...