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Brobeck Phleger: CISCO BEEFS UP ON SECURE NETWORKS WITH PURCHASE
By Victoria Newman
San Jose's Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy privately held Allegro Systems Inc. of Milpitas. The stock deal is worth $181 ...
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McCutchen Doyle: BRUCKMAN ROSSER SAMPLES TASTE OF ITALY WITH MERGER
By Victoria Newman
Corte Madera's Il Fornaio (America) Corp. has completed its merger with Manhattan Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of the New Y...
Entertainment & Sports
L.A. CITY ATTORNEY TARGETS FLIMFLAM RIP-OFF HUCKSTERS
By Contributing Writer
There are a million actors in the naked city of Hollywood. For the past century, they've been ripped off by hucksters who have...
As the debate over McCain-Feingold campaign-finance legislation heats up, another reform proposal continues to gain support: r...
In keeping with one of Hollywood's great divides, executives from Sony Corp. and free spirits from an independent production h...
Westminster attorney Lan Quoc Nguyen first heard stories about labor abuses of Vietnamese workers at a Korean-owned garment fa...
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Jeffer Mangels: CLASSIC HOTELS OF PHOENIX FINDS ITS ROOM AT LAGUNA INN
By Victoria Newman
An undisclosed affiliate of London's UBS Warburg has sold the Inn at Laguna Beach to privately-held Classic Hotels & Resor...
Entertainment & Sports
INDIE FILM GURU TELLS A SAD TALE OF THE GENRE'S FUTURE
By Contributing Writer
Fifteen years ago, he was playing the piano for tips at Chaya Brassiere on Robertson Boulevard. Now the waiters at the hip Bev...
LOS ANGELES - While the number of hate crimes in California has plateaued over the past two years and decreased nearly 5 perce...
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit alleging that two San Francisco attorneys reneged on a surrogacy contract because the birth mother r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Fram, head of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's patent litigation practice in San Francisco, has ne...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's mental health court occupies an old pickle factory. Department 95 of the Los Angeles Superi...
Law Practice
Experts Predict Tobacco Award, Cut to $100 Million, Will Survive
By Martin Bergn
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts agree that Judge Charles W. McCoy Jr. was on solid legal ground last week when he reduced a Superi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has modified his gag order in the dog-mauling murder case, allowing witnesses to talk to the media abo...
Health Care & Hospital Law
DAs Can't Seek Indictments in Juvenile Cases
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate decision Friday strengthened criminal defense attorneys' contention that prosecutors are abusi...
In a slow job market such as this, a well-written thank-you note is important. ...
In Gilbert v. The Crystal Fountain Lodge, 80 Ga. 284 (1887), Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley found the following for th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge handed down almost nine decades of prison time Thursday to one of four major racketeering defe...
Securities
Report Ranks Sidley Austin No. 1 In Corporate-Financing Counsel
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Times have been tough in the initial-public-offerings market, but corporate debt offerings have been healthy. An...
LOS ANGELES - An employment litigator with extensive involvement in the Los Angeles legal community has joined Greenberg Traur...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a stunning blow to federal prosecutors, a significant portion of the government's primary drug-fighting sta...
SAN FRANCISCO - Caregivers cannot end an incompetent patient's life without "clear and convincing" evidence that death is his ...
LOS ANGELES - The sights and sounds of last summer's Democratic National Convention - the sting of rubber bullets, the deafeni...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed longtime state prosecutor David F. De Alba to the Sacramento County bench on Thursda...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Business Times did not libel a San Joaquin County lawyer by printing an article about his "q...
On June 28, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its long-awaited decision in United State...
In 1890, the average woman made 46 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Fifty-five years later, a few members of Congress r...
LOS ANGELES - Justice William A. Masterson of the 2nd District Court of Appeal has joined the Los Angeles panel of JAMS, the I...
"Even though I'm a Republican, I'm not big on individuals owning guns. I hope no one shoots me because of this. From a legal p...