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Heller Ehrman: SAN FRANCISCO BIOTECH COMPANY NABS GENOMICA
By Staff Writer
South San Francisco-based Exelixis Inc. has agreed to acquire Boulder, Colo.-based Genomica Corp. in a stock transaction value...
Each of us has our own unique path through life. Some of us are fortunate enough to be able to choose our path, while others l...
First Amendment litigator Robert Vanderet fights for the rights of motion picture studios, journalists and dot-coms to speak f...
SAN FRANCISCO - If a judge's ruling stands, a man who San Francisco prosecutors charged with first-degree murder will soon go...
SAN FRANCISCO - Private law libraries have never looked leaner, but that's no cause for alarm, Bay Area law librarians insist....
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers have been washing in and out of the Bay Area offices of Baker & McKenzie like the tides in recent ...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has named five new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court, including a federal prosecutor, two...
Civil Rights
U.S. Panel Allows Trial Of a Deaf UPS Employee Who Wants to be a Driver
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime United Parcel Service worker has gotten the green light to go to trial alleging that her employer i...
Government Contracts
Minorities Face Roadblocks on Path to Contracts
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - While minority-owned companies showed tremendous growth in the past decade, they continue to struggle to compete...
LOS ANGELES - Julian Montoya had won short-term city contracts before, but in Sherman Oaks Castle he saw the opportunity of a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel has published its opinion directing the California Youth Authority to ensure that its ...
Solo and Small Firms
Lawyer Frequently Took Pro Bono Clients
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
COSTA MESA - Brian E. Lippold, a Costa Mesa attorney remembered as a practitioner with a "big heart," has died. Lippold died N...
Labor/Employment
Court Will Eye Seniority Under Americans With Disabilities Act
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Reviewing the case of a San Francisco airline employee, the Supreme Court this week will consider for the first t...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County man has been sentenced to a three-year state prison term after he was convicted of making crim...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Imparts Knowledge Patiently, On and Off Bench
By Contributing Writer
OAKLAND - Judge Leo Dorado raised his eyebrows and cocked his head. He was listening to a pro per defendant, soon to be on tri...
LOS ANGELES - Not every class action qualifies as complex litigation. That is the word from the Los Angeles Superior Court, wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Lazarus has raised and spent about half a million dollars on his campaign to become San Francisco's next c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. faces a new crop of objections filed by more than 60 creditors, including the sta...
Tort law encompasses product-liability law, which, in turn, encompasses pharmaceutical-liability law. Pharmaceutical liability...
We should be ashamed of our collective failure to provide even basic services to the children in our foster care system, many ...
One of the biggest issues that arises when an attorney decides to take on a case is the statute of limitations on the claim. E...
President George Bush's executive order merely recognizes that Osama bin Laden is a war criminal.
SACRAMENTO - When he was 4 years old, Robert E. Cartwright Jr. recalls, he swore he would never grow up to be an attorney like...
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Geary D. Cortes was sentenced in an Orange County court to three years' probation after plead...
LOS ANGELES - Celebrated palimony lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson sued the Saudi Arabian royal family Thursday on behalf of his cl...
LOS ANGELES - Seven journalists who were assaulted by Los Angeles police while covering protests at the 2000 Democratic Nation...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has entered a final judgment in a unique lawsuit filed by the city against Old Republic ...
LOS ANGELES - Patching one cracked sidewalk is a small task. But in a city the size of Los Angeles, where the spidery lines di...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles officials on Thursday announced a stepped-up effort to target child abuse complaints - requiring tha...
LOS ANGELES - A rookie attorney pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony fraud charges stemming from crimes he allegedly committe...