Firm Watch
Squire Sanders: Columbus Partner Opts For Palo Alto Relocation
By Karen Coleman
Squire Sanders & Dempsey, best known in California as the firm that acquired most of San Francisco's bankrupt Graham &...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin: Second Site, New Partner Boost San Diego Practice
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has added a fifth toe to its statewide footprint. The 300-plus lawyer firm ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wilson Sonsini: Software Corporation Simplex Makes its IPO
By Victoria Newman
Sunnyvale Simplex Solutions Inc. went public May 2 with an initial public offering worth $48 million. Credit Suisse First Bost...
John Newell likes taking a client's idea and making it happen. A partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Miller Nash: Evineyard Stocks Cellar With Web-Sites Purchase
By Victoria Newman
Portland, Ore.'s eVineyard has bought the Wine.com and Wineshopper.com Web sites from Menlo Park's Sand Hill Capital. The valu...
Energy Law
City Might Have to Foot the Bill For Bankrupt Electric Company
By Chris Ford
LOS ANGELES - Officials from the city of Los Angeles' public utility told the City Council Friday that the $180 million Pacifi...
On March 20, Chief Justice Ronald George delivered a remarkable speech to a joint session of the California Legislature. In th...
Firm Watch
Irell & Manella: Lyon & Lyon Pair Makes Move Toward Century City
By Karen Coleman
Two partners from the Los Angeles intellectual property shop Lyon & Lyon have moved over to Century City's Irell & Man...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Brobeck Phleger: Kenamea Secures Funding From Third-Round Venture
By Victoria Newman
San Francisco enterprise software company Kenamea Inc. has closed a $32 million third-round financing. San Francisco-based Azu...
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan partner James D. Richman will become chair of the real property section of the Los Angele...
Attorney Barrie Lynn Becker, executive director of San Francisco's volunteer attorney program Legal Community Against Violence...
Mergers & Acquisitions
O'Melveny & Myers: Qwest and Microsoft Form Broadband-Giants Alliance
By Victoria Newman
Broadband fiber-optic network giant Qwest Communications International Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software ...
If preparing for trial against a powerful health maintenance organization seems difficult, try commanding a Marine Corps helic...
Litigation
Suit Claims Marriott's 'Energy' Surcharge Cheats Hotel Guests
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - The $2.50 "energy" surcharge that Marriott International tacks on to its patrons' bills is fraudulent and mislea...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cravath Swaine: IBM Plans to Buy Database Subsidiary From Informix
By Victoria Newman
Computer giant IBM has agreed to buy the database business of Informix Corp. for $1 billion in cash. IBM, based in Armonk, N.Y...
Recent studies of the 2000 U.S. Census show an increase in the ethnic diversity of the United States. They also show a disturb...
SAN FRANCISCO - Old Republic Title Co. must repay $17 million to settle claims that it unlawfully pocketed interest earned on ...
Irell & Manella partner David Schwartz, who represents clients in commercial disputes, recently represented the United Sta...
A defendant's only prayer of avoiding joint-and-several liability when the United States sues for hazardous site cleanup costs...
To many employees at publicly traded dot-coms and other companies, the strategy seemed clear: Get a hold of some stock options...
Judges and Judiciary
Appointment Doubles Bench Strength of Alpine County
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - For the past year tiny Alpine County, which straddles the Sierra crest south of Lake Tahoe, has had just one judg...
Firm Watch
Gordon & Rees: Employment Lawyer Will Chair Firmwide Practice
By Karen Coleman
The hardy smallish-big San Francisco firm Gordon & Rees named employment litigator Jim McMullen director of its Southern C...
LOS ANGELES - Seattle-based Preston Gates & Ellis has scored a corporate partner for its Irvine office. Bart Greenberg lef...
David Huard, a partner at Los Angeles's Manatt Phelps, recently won election to a three-year term on the board of directors of...
In the last two years, California has witnessed the federalization of local land uses to an extent not seen in the first 150 y...
After injuring both his legs in the National League Championship Series, Kirk Gibson surprised his Los Angeles Dodgers teammat...
Criminal
Jurors Hear Arguments in Fatal Pit-Bull Attack Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BARSTOW - Jurors fidgeted uncomfortably Friday as they viewed autopsy photos of a pit bull's deep bite wounds in 10-year-old C...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of two critical utility hearings today may determine whether a federal bankruptcy judge will allow Pacific...
LOS ANGELES - Michael John Gennaco came to Los Angeles in the early 1990s to take on a police abuse case that no one else was ...
Sheri A. Bluebond, a partner at Irell & Manella, joined the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District. Bluebond repl...