Entertainment & Sports
Los Angeles' Lawyers Could Score Big With XFL Brawls
By Contributing Writer
He Hate Me? He Hate You! It was supposed to be a feel-good story. The idea was to interview longtime Los Angeles lawyer-turned...
Most lawyers are not sharks, Latham & Watkins' Tim Crudo says. The San Francisco litigation partner is proof that many law...
Manufacturers always are concerned about the risk of product liability lawsuits and often go to great lengths to be proactive ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gallop Johnson: LMI Aerospace Buys Assets of Two Sun Valley Concerns
By Victoria Newman
LMI Aerospace Inc. has bought the operating assets - machinery, equipment and inventory - of Sun Valley companies Tempco Engin...
Irvine-based insurance defense boutique Wesierski & Zurek donated computer equipment to Fountain Valley's Coastline Commun...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Singapore Business Group Names MoFo Partner Chair
By Victoria Newman
Morrison & Foerster partner Cedric Chao has been elected chairman and president of the Northern California Chapter of the ...
As a child growing up Los Angeles, Cecilia Estolano never lived more than five miles from the ocean. "The beach was my way of ...
Before heading off to the office, Catherine Atkin drops her 2-year-old son, Max, off at day care. She knows she's one of the l...
A sponsorship by Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in San Diego will enable a 4-year-old girl, who is waiting for a kidney tran...
Transactions
Brobeck Phleger: Investors Pour $7 Million Into Tunable Photonics
By Victoria Newman
Pasadena's Tunable Photonics has received $7 million in private equity financing. San Francisco's Blueprint Ventures led the f...
When it comes to protecting intellectual property, Skechers U.S.A. in-house lawyer Philip G. Paccione isn't shy. "We have a ne...
Public Interest
California's Bankers Honor Pillsbury Winthrop Partner
By Victoria Newman
The state's largest banking organization, the California Bankers Association, has presented Los Angeles' Deborah Thoren-Peden ...
In Hollywood, 38-year-old Carlos Goodman is the lawyer who represents the top independent talent. A partner at Los Angeles' Li...
"Most of the regular longtime posters have no idea who Tom is, but that doesn't really matter," one longtime Silicon Valley In...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gibson Dunn: Santa Monica's Thebrain Receives $16 Million Boost
By Victoria Newman
Santa Monica's TheBrain Technologies Corp. has received a $16 million equity investment from a group of investors led by GE Eq...
The California Supreme Court has appointed appellate attorney Barbara Ravitz to a newly formed committee which recommends cand...
Transactions
McCutchen Doyle: Merger Talks With Piper Get Going After Retreat
By Karen Coleman
While the partners at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen were plotting strategy and tee times at their annual...
Entertainment & Sports
Singer Paid Big Bucks to Take Heat for Hollywood Stars
By Contributing Writer
To borrow a hoary sports clich, Martin Singer of Lavely & Singer had a bad month on one day, April 26. That morning, New T...
Solo and Small Firms
Latino Law Group Honors Four at Gala Celebration
By Victoria Newman
With former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso as the keynote speaker, San Francisco's La Raza Lawyers Association ...
Entertainment & Sports
Fresh-Faced Filmmakers Grace Firm's Client Roster
By Contributing Writer
Sometimes, the longest journey is the three inches one takes in the pilgrimage from the darkness of the lower brain to the lig...
At 37, Intel Corp.'s Suzan A. Miller, or "Sam" as her family and friends call her, could pass for a software programmer. Inste...
The Manduley decision was logical and sound. The court recognized that by giving prosecutors the sole discretion to fil...
Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services has elected Irell & Manella partner James Adler to a one-year term as its president...
The 2000 presidential election put the practice of election law on the national map. "Before that, I had to continuously expla...
As corporate transactions in the Internet world are cooling down, new types of litigation still are heating up. Lori Schechter...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: Top Partner Sanders Wins Award Named for Judge Learned Hand
By Karen Coleman
The Los Angeles chapter of the American Jewish Committee honored Latham & Watkins international business partner Barry San...
During on-campus interviews at Duke University Law School in 1990, Jonathon Kaplan told law firms that not only did he expect ...
The lack of a college degree certainly hasn't hampered the success of Gary Dordick, 39. The Beverly Hills litigator has won mo...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Brobeck Phleger: Intel Acquires Lightlogic in $400 Million Stock Deal
By Victoria Newman
Santa Clara's Intel Corp. has agreed to buy Newark's LightLogic Inc. The cash deal is worth $400 million. Intel is the world's...
Anyone who thinks that government lawyers don't come with pedigrees should meet John Hueston, head of the U.S. attorney's offi...