Firm Watch
Howard Rice: Two Tax Lawyers Bring Business Planning Skills
By Karen Coleman
Two lawyers from two different firms joined San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin on May 14. The pai...
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Preston Gates: Riordan Attorney Joins Corporate Department
By Staff Writer
While many a Riordan & McKinzie lawyer has been spooked into leaving by the firm's merger talks, former Riordan partner Ba...
As suggested in the title of his article, "Habitat Hindrance: Mushrooming Federal Interference Dooms Development in State," (F...
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Proskauer Rose: Litigators Leave Manatt to Work With Their Guru
By Staff Writer
A pair of litigation partners from the Los Angeles home office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips joined the local outpost of New...
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Gray Cary: Financing Round Infuses $26 Million Into MaXXan
By Victoria Newman
MaXXan Systems Inc. has received $26 million in first-round, venture financing. Venrock Associates and U.S. Venture Partners w...
Solo and Small Firms
Consumer Attorneys Elect Berding Partners to Board
By Staff Writer
Partners Michael Hughes and Daniel Rottinghaus of construction litigation boutique Berding & Weil have been elected to the...
The Hopper case most likely will cause municipalities with city hall public art exhibits to re-evaluate their selection...
LOS ANGELES - There's a reason why they call it the Landau "Lawyers" League. The team from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips disco...
His latest deal is a "roll up" with national significance, Andrew Erskine says. Erskine's client, Founders National Bank, whic...
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Gibson Dunn: Cash and Stock Seal Deal for Silicon Valley Merger
By Victoria Newman
Pleasanton's PeopleSoft Inc. has agreed to buy SkillsVillage Inc. of Sunnyvale. The cash and stock deal is worth $32 million. ...
Despite the detailed rules and guidelines many law firms enlist to keep confidential information from leaking, firms continue ...
As a teen-ager, Vicki Shapiro dreamed of being an actor but later found her Hollywood niche by becoming general counsel to the...
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Crosby Heafey: Orqis Medical Business Closes Second Financing
By Victoria Newman
Orqis Medical Corp. has received $9 million in second-round financing. The Lake Forest company closed its first round of finan...
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Sidley Austin: Managing Partner Will Supervise Los Angeles, San Francisco Offices
By Staff Writer
Ted Miller, the former Los Angeles managing partner for Chicago's Sidley & Austin, is now in charge of two offices for the...
A growing number of the managers and associate managers who work in retail and fast-food across the state have a beef with the...
Doug Barton isn't apt to divulge per-partner profits of his firm, Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy. He's equally evasi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Suzanne McKechnie Klahr gave a bag of electronic gadgets to the students who came to her after-school business...
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Hoge Fenton: Coach Guides Trial Team to High Finish in Contest
By Staff Writer
Jim Towery, a litigation partner at San Jose's Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, took a team of eight high-schoolers all the way ...
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Wilson Sonsini: Chip Maker Triquint Plans Acquisition of Design Firm
By Victoria Newman
Communications chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. will buy Sawtek Inc., a wireless-component designer. The stock deal is w...
Solo and Small Firms
Law Firm Foundation Gives Money to Local Nonprofits
By Staff Writer
The Konowiecki & Rank Foundation, a charitable institution created by the Los Angeles law firm of Konowiecki & Rank, i...
Do you want your clients to doubt your value, mistrust you or speculate whether your bills are padded or fraudulent? All this ...
The ACLU's Torch of Liberty Awards attracted 400 movers and shakers, there to honor music manager Jeffrey Kwatinetz and vetera...
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Christensen Miller: L.A.'s Gores Technology Will Purchase Verifone
By Victoria Newman
Investment firm Gores Technology Group has agreed to buy VeriFone Inc., a maker of credit card payment systems, from Hewlett-P...
The practice of law is performance-based, Karen Pang says. That is why the Crosby Heafey Roach & May attorney polishes her...
LOS ANGELES - Stephen E. Foster has won his first court case - even before he's made the transition from aspiring lawyer to pr...
LOS ANGELES - It is nearly impossible to determine how many lawsuits MacLaren Children's Center is defending. And those in cha...
SAN FRANCISCO - As the sixth anniversary of Jerry Garcia's death approaches, and the probate fight drags on among remaining me...
Entertainment & Sports
Tangled, Temporal, Legal Legacy Ends for Begelman
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Somewhere, the ghost of David Begelman is smiling. Meanwhile, his accountant here on earth has reason for a ruef...
LOS ANGELES - Dependency Court Referee Valerie Skeba needed someone who spoke Punjabi to help sort out the perplexing tale of ...
LOS ANGELES - The senior boy's classroom at MacLaren School had the feel of any high school: rumpled kids, who looked like the...