Firm Watch
Howard Rice: FIRM MOURNS PASSING OF YOUNG REAL ESTATE STAR
By Karen Coleman
Lawyers and staff at San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin bade a sad farewell to partner Gary Bruhn...
Firm Watch
Wilson Sonsini: STOCK EXCHANGE CHOOSES NAME PARTNER FOR BOARD
By Karen Coleman
Now that public-company work is rare and initial public offerings virtually nonexistent, top Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Ro...
Transactions
Cooley Godward: SANTA CLARA'S NUCORE GETS THIRD ROUND OF INVESTORS
By Victoria Newman
Santa Clara's NuCORE Technology has received $20 million in its third round of financing. To date, NuCORE has raised equity f...
Transactions
Fredrikson & Byron: MEDTRONIC PLANS BUYOUT OF LOCAL MEDICAL-DEVICE FIRMS
By Victoria Newman
Cardiovascular device supplier Medtronic Inc. will acquire two separate but related medical device manufacturers. The Minneap...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: PALO ALTO BIOTECH COMPANY COMPLETES EQUITY OFFERING
By Victoria Newman
Biotech company CV Therapeutics Inc. has completed an equity offering of common stock worth $100 million. SG Cowen Securities...
Pillsbury Winthrop corporate associate Warren Binford got more than she bargained for during a recent sea kayaking trip. In a...
Each year, Michael O'Callaghan competes in one of the West Coast's most rigorous rough-water races, the 1.5 mile Alcatraz Sha...
Firm Watch
Kirkland & Ellis: LOCAL BOUTIQUE EXTENDS BANKRUPTCY GROUP WEST
By Karen Coleman
Lawyers and staff of Century City bankruptcy boutique Wynne Spiegel Itkin became the first West Coast bankruptcy practice for...
Firm Watch
Milbank Tweed: TROUBLED-COMPANY GURU JOINS LOS ANGELES OFFICE
By Karen Coleman
New York's Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has added four new lawyers who will help corporate clients in the Los Angeles of...
The Anti-Defamation League presented its 2001 Distinguished Jurisprudence Award to Raymond Marshall, a litigation partner at ...
Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian has helped young, low-income entrepreneurs hook up ...
If you met Justice Stanley Mosk, you might have thought he was a small man. You would be wrong. In a career in public service ...
Happening on a furry, three-toed sloth and finding a giant cockroach in your room come with the territory when you're in Cost...
Jeffrey Lefstin, an associate at San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew, has received the 2000 Ladas Memorial Student...
The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce has recognized real estate attorney Tom Larmore for his work fighting Santa Monica's pro...
While there is a growing consensus about how 'Apprendi' should be applied, there are also areas of disagreement. ...
Latham & Watkins litigator Will Fitton is no tomb raider, but he does know his way around Cambodian ruins. In March, the ...
Appellate Practice
Lawyers Battle for Fifth Extension in Olson Case
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Like a ball of twine with a mysterious, possibly hollow center, the murder conspiracy case against former Symbio...
Judges and Judiciary
Orange County Jurists Pick Presiding Judges
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - Orange County's Superior Court judges have elected their new presiding judges for the coming year. Judge Frederic...
SAN JOSE - The former Cadence engineer whose theft of his employer's software code led to the discovery of substantial trade-s...
Entertainment & Sports
Summer Film Series Looks at Lawyers in Celluloid
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - This is the state of film and law classes today: Hours-long discussions parsing Glenn Close's use or misuse of...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney-elect Rocky Delgadillo named the members of his two-tiered transition team Friday, surrounding him...
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over who will get five of Jerry Garcia's celebrated guitars will stay in probate court, says...
SAN FRANCISCO - The head of San Francisco Superior Court has shuffled the magisterial deck, reassigning about half a dozen jud...
SAN DIEGO - The city attorney on Friday filed misdemeanor spousal abuse charges against Superior Court Judge Geary D. Cortes. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mom or Dad must be told they may counsel their child before federal agents start asking questions, the 9th U.S...
SAN DIEGO - From the beginning, it was a contest of stamina - increasing the surprise when a tiny San Diego law office outlast...
SAN BERNARDINO - Struck by polio before his second birthday, Dennis L. Stout got an early lesson in adversity that, years late...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marina Grauberger thought she would take home $63,500 from the settlement of her auto accident injuries. But t...
SANTA ANA - Citing insufficient evidence, a judge Friday threw out the more serious of two charges against a former Orange Cou...