Interlaw Ltd. named Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro partner William Capps "Interlawyer of the Year." Capps re...
In the evening, those who commute from Los Angeles north to Santa Clarita by train have several departures to choose from. On ...
Terence Floyd Cuff, partner at the Century City office of Los Angeles' Loeb & Loeb, received the V. Judson Klein Award for...
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Venture Law: PRACTICE BECOMES FIRST TO DECREASE ASSOCIATES' PAY
By Staff Writer
Menlo Park's Venture Law Group has taken another bold step, this time decreasing all associate base salaries by $20,000 to $30...
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Brobeck Phleger: SAN FRANCISCO'S AVOLENT GETS $40 MILLION IN FUNDS
By Stefanie Knapp
San Francisco's Avolent Inc. announced Dec. 3 that it received $40 million in its latest round of financing. New York's Rho Ve...
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Cleary Gottlieb: INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER BUYS BANKRUPTED EXODUS
By Stefanie Knapp
London-based Cable & Wireless announced Nov. 30 the acquisition of certain assets from Santa Clara's Exodus Communications...
Victor Hsu, partner at Los Angeles' Fulbright & Jaworski, worked the deal of his career recently, according to his 5-year-...
Whizzing around a circular track on a bike without brakes at speeds up to 40 mph sounds nuts. But Luce Forward Hamilton & ...
The Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County recently installed Rita Gunasekaran as president. She will se...
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Jeffer Mangels: ATTORNEYS DITCH CENTURY CITY DIGS FOR BETTER RENT
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro is moving from the posh Fox Plaza Tower in Century City back to the nearby hi...
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Drinker Biddle: PENNSYLVANIA GROUP SETS UP SHOP IN GOLDEN STATE
By Staff Writer
Paring partners and veteran attorneys from one Los Angeles firm and merging with a San Francisco boutique, Philadelphia's Drin...
The litigation section of the American Bar Association appointed Yuri Mikulka to the board of the bar's Woman Advocate Committ...
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Mintz Levin: OSI PHARMACEUTICALS WILL ADOPT FOSTER CITY COMPANY
By Stefanie Knapp
OSI Pharmaceuticals will acquire Gilead Sciences' assets from its oncology business. OSI will acquire Gilead's clinical candid...
The end of 2001 is nearing and the weather is beginning to chill. And with more advertisements for sales than actual news in y...
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Haight Brown: SAN DIEGO OUTPOST CARRIES ON WITH ONLY ONE ATTORNEY
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A series of departures has left Haight Brown & Bonesteel's San Diego office operating at bare-bones capacity. The two most...
The big 7-0 has arrived for the Beverly Hills Bar Association. But the group isn't fretting about the extra candles on its bir...
The YMCA of San Francisco announced James Colopy, a new partner at San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, as its Mission ...
The San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program honored Timothy Pestotnik, a partner at San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps...
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Orrick Herrington: BANKING SOFTWARE MAKER NABS ROUND OF FINANCING
By Stefanie Knapp
San Francisco's Finaplex Inc. closed its second round of financing on Nov. 28, this time bringing in $17.1 million. The lead i...
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Fulbright & Jaworski: BUYERS SEE RIGHT STUFF IN FAO SCHWARZ TRANSACTION
By Stefanie Knapp
Calabasas-based The Right Start Inc. acquired certain assets of FAO Schwarz in a deal closed Nov. 19. The Right Start will acq...
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Kaye Scholer: JOINT VENTURE PUTS WIND INTO POWERSTAR'S SAILS
By Stefanie Knapp
La Jolla's Global Renewable Energy Partners Inc. created a joint venture with Dallas-based The Mesa Group to create PowerStar....
Each year, California Law Business takes a peek at the world of real estate law. This year, we present 12 real estate lawyers ...
SAN JOSE - The circus goes on trial today. Mark Oliver Gebel, a senior animal trainer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bai...
LOS ANGELES - Monique McCord of Geragos & Geragos took mighty swings during the Landau Lawyers Coed Division championship ...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Catherine Anne Gallagher presides over one of the most difficult courtrooms in Santa Clara County. She mak...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last Monday, Contra Costa County Court Commissioner Judith Sanders ruled that a defendant in an Internet libel...
FONTANA - Christy Phillips' confession to the murder of an elderly Rialto woman was enough to chill even the most hardened of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city of Oakland has tentatively agreed to pay $195,000 to settle one of dozens of police malfeasance suits...
As the war on terrorism enters another phase, government lawyers will be taking a detour from fighting terrorists to deciding ...
The attorney-client privilege is the oldest of the privileges for confidential communications known to the common law. The pri...