The dot-com collapse has done more than put a damper on the Silicon Valley's once high-flying corporate and tech law firms. It...
A professional service firm without trust as a core value will corrode. Firm dissolutions as a result of failed relations betw...
Paul Raynor Keating is used to deals developing a lot faster than this. Keating, a partner with San Francisco-based Carroll Bu...
Firm Watch
Snell & Wilmer: CORPORATE EXPERT EXPANDS IRVINE SHOP'S BUSINESS AREA
By Tanya Rothman
James J. Scheinkman has joined the Orange County office of Snell & Wilmer as a partner. Scheinkman, who joined the busines...
Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo and Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton have been courting each othe...
Firm Watch
Gordon & Rees: REAL ESTATE LAWYER MAKES LATERAL MOVE IN SAN DIEGO
By Tanya Rothman
Eric Young is viewing a new piece of real estate each morning, now that he has joined Gordon & Rees' San Diego office. Ear...
With the continuing demise of the dot-coms, many Americans are being forced to consider relocating away from places like Silic...
Transactions
Epstein Becker: BENEFITPOINT HOLDING BUYS PURCHASING COOPERATIVE
By Victoria Newman
BenefitPoint Holding Corp., an employee benefits business-to-business company, has acquired BenefitsAlliance, an employee-bene...
SAN DIEGO - The National Conference of State Trial Judges has presented its Award of Judicial Excellence to retired Superior C...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
FORMER STATE JUSTICE JOINS NATION'S LARGEST ADR FIRM
By Tanya Rothman
Retired appeals court Justice William A. Masterson has joined JAMS, the nation's largest private, alternative-dispute-resoluti...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: VIRGINIA, WESTSIDE BECOME SITES FOR SATELLITE OFFICES
By Tanya Rothman
San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop is celebrating the opening of two new offices, bolstering its presence on the West and ...
Neil O'Hanlon, a partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld, took on a new leading role ...
Viet Dinh is a Vietnamese refugee. Brian W. Jones is African-American. Eugene Volokh is a Russian Jew. These three represent t...
Firm Watch
Greenberg Traurig: LITIGATOR ADDS NEW DEPTH FOR EMPLOYMENT MATTERS
By Toni Vranjes
Greenberg Traurig has lured employment attorney Katessa C. Davis to its Los Angeles office, where she joined the firm as of-co...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin: SANTA BARBARA SHOP WILL BOLSTER CORPORATE GROUP
By Tanya Rothman
In other Sheppard Mullin news, the firm will expand its presence in California next month. It will acquire Santa Barbara-based...
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Brobeck Phleger: SAN DIEGO DRUG FIRM GOES SECOND ROUND FOR MONEY
By Tanya Rothman
San Diego's Nereus Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised $23.6 million in a second round of venture financing. Pacific Venture Group...
When he's not cranking out new real estate deals, attorney Rand April will be helping other Los Angeles business people find w...
Transactions
Hale and Dorr: RSA SECURITY WILL ACQUIRE SECURANT TECHNOLOGIES
By Tanya Rothman
Bedford, Mass.' RSA Security Inc. has agreed to buy San Francisco's Securant Technologies Inc. The cash deal is worth $136.5 m...
Transactions
Stradling Yocca: GLOBAL INVESTORS HAND $11 MILLION TO ODETICS
By Tanya Rothman
Anaheim's Odetics Inc. and its subsidiary, Iteris Inc., have received $11 million in financing, primarily from investors Daiml...
SAN FRANCISCO - At the annual convention of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, held last month in Montreal, San Fran...
LOS ANGELES - Two important city opinions confirm the unassailable power of the City Council president to designate committee ...
LOS ANGELES - Calling the murder of a former deputy public defender "incomprehensible, vicious and uncalled for," a Los Angele...
LOS ANGELES - Peter B. Covette, a supervisor with the Los Angeles city attorney's office whose multifaceted talents earned him...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge who was censured last year for grabbing his bailiff's breasts now has been relieved of h...
SACRAMENTO - Individual trial lawyers are among the top contributors this year to the political coffers of Gov. Gray Davis and...
SAN JOSE - In a ruling that could have a significant effect at metropolitan police departments nationwide, a panel of the 9th ...
Labor/Employment
Monitoring Workers' Internet Use Raises Privacy, Free-Speech Issues
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - It should have been a happy event when an employee at an East Coast company learned she was pregnant. There was ...
PALO ALTO - It was, according to attorneys who know him well, a classic Tom Nolan moment: passionate, confrontational and, per...
SANTA BARBARA - Dr. William Austin thought his 17-acre Montecito estate, complete with sandstone mansion, oak grove and formal...
SAN FRANCISCO - Proclaiming Unabomer Theodore Kaczynski sane enough to be tried, but too crazy to represent himself, turns the...