SAN JOSE - In a legal victory for the notorious motorcycle club, a federal judge has ruled authorities lacked probable cause t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The chairman of the state's Independent System Operator, one of Gov. Gray Davis' top advisers on the energy cr...
Criminal
Sentencing Snafu for Rampart Figure Adds Up to Criminal Justice Fiasco
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - I'm apparently not supposed to know this, but late last week Rafael Perez, the cocaine-stealing LAPD officer who...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a Washington s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a Washington st...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Internal Revenue Service program that helps international companies abide by agency rules will set up its ...
BIG SKY, Mont. - Boosting federal judicial pay and a potential increase in hourly rates paid to appointed criminal lawyers dre...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Wilson Sonsini Partner Creighton Goes to FTC Position
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner Susan Creigton, one of the country's most outspoken critics of Mi...
SAN FRANCISCO - At the behest of Attorney General Bill Lockyer, lawmakers have undertaken the first significant changes to Pro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a male Washing...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Friday dismissed eavesdropping and conspiracy to commit eavesdropping charges against Glend...
Firm Watch
Arter & Hadden: PARTNERS SAY NOTHING AMISS IN WOODLAND HILLS OFFICE
By Karen Coleman
Harriet Welch, managing partner for the Los Angeles office of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, isn't sure where the rumors abou...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: EDISON POWER PRODUCER TURNS ON FINANCING DEAL
By Victoria Newman
Edison International's independent power producer, Edison Mission Energy, through its holding company Mission Energy Holding, ...
Transactions
McCutchen Doyle: THREE CALIFORNIA BANKS GO PUBLIC SANS UNDERWRITERS
By Victoria Newman
Directors and executive officers of three California banks have helped their businesses go public without underwriters. Premie...
Firm Watch
McCutchen Doyle: MERGER TALKS WITH PIPER COLLAPSE, BOTH STILL LOOKING
By Karen Coleman
San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen and fiance Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe called off their merger plans...
It is not safe to assume that a license is actually open-source code until you have reviewed the terms. ...
Shortly after World War II ended, the United States reneged on a promise to provide medical and pension benefits to Filipinos ...
Arriving at Bangkok International Airport, former assistant U.S. attorney Marc Greenberg hadn't anticipated that U.S. Embassy ...
Firm Watch
Littler Mendelson: EMPLOYMENT PARTNER WRITES SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR BOSSES
By Karen Coleman
Littler Mendelson partner Alan Levins, of course an employment lawyer, has his name blazoned across the cover of a new book, "...
Transactions
Sheppard Mullin: PICKENS FUEL UNITES WITH CANADIAN GAS SUBSIDIARY
By Victoria Newman
Two energy companies have formed a new alternative-fuel enterprise. Oilman T. Boone Pickens' Pickens Fuel Corp. and BCG eFuels...
Transactions
Riordan & McKinzie: LOS ANGELES BUYOUT FIRM ACQUIRES IDAHO PC OUTFIT
By Victoria Newman
Gores Technology Group, through its affiliate GTG PC Holdings, has bought computer manufacturer Micron PC from its parent, Mic...
Entertainment & Sports
Franchise, Morgan Creek Duke It Out In Dual Suits
By Contributing Writer
It sounds like a Century City version of Ultimate Lawyer Fighting Championship. So let's hide the women, children and Jaguar c...
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Kaye Scholer: NEWPORT BEACH BUSINESS WILL SELL FOR $400 MILLION
By Victoria Newman
Private equity firms J.W. Childs Associates L.P. and Halifax Group L.L.C. will buy diagnostic-imaging company InSight Health S...
Firm Watch
White & Case: BAKER & MCKENZIE GROUP JOINS BAY AREA SATELLITE
By Karen Coleman
San Francisco executive-compensation lawyer Virginia Gibson joined the partnership at New York's White & Case on July 9. G...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Milstein Felder & Steiner has welcomed back corporate lawyer John G....
The future of movies is digital. Digital production and distribution of motion pictures is inevitable. Lately, you cannot pick...
SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the powerful creditors' committee in the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy, who are also majo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Six students and a faculty member from the University of San Francisco School of Law are spending the summer i...
Shouldn't drug users who cause harm to others raise different questions, and answers, than users such as Robert Downey Jr. who...
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McCutchen Doyle: MONOLITHIC OF SUNNYVALE COMPLETES $50 MILLION IPO
By Victoria Newman
Sunnyvale's Monolithic System Technology Inc. went public June 28 with an initial offering worth $50 million. Monolithic licen...