Firm Watch
Morrison & Foerster: MANAGEMENT CALLS HALT TO SALARIES IN LOCK STEP
By Karen Coleman
After holding out for four months, Morrison & Foerster announced April 9 that the San Francisco firm doesn't have any 2001...
Firm Watch
McCutchen Doyle: THREE PATENT ATTORNEYS ABANDON SHIP LAST MONTH
By Karen Coleman
In what everyone says are two unrelated departures, a pair of patent litigators and a patent prosecutor from the Palo Alto off...
Solo and Small Firms
ANDERSON & KRIGER RECRUITS HOMEOWNER-GROUPS LAWYER
By Staff Writer
San Diego's Anderson & Kriger, a firm specializing in construction defect and homeowners associations, has recruited Kenne...
The Los Angeles business litigation shop of Fairbank & Vincent has recruited Richard Gluck as of-counsel. Gluck, former ge...
Entertainment & Sports
Tactical Error May Haunt Lawyer in Franchise Case
By Contributing Writer
Larry Stein of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan had a burning question last Monday before a hearing in Los Angeles federal...
Townsend and Townsend and Crew has recruited three lateral associates for its San Francisco headquarters: Nancy Tompkins, Slad...
Transactions
Farella Braun: RAVENSWOOD OF SONOMA GOES TO NEW YORK RIVAL
By Victoria Newman
Constellation Brands Inc. will acquire Ravenswood Winery Inc. for $148 million cash. Fairport, New York's Constellation brands...
"The President ... shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the Supre...
On Nov. 29 Jennie Stern suffered a hemorrhagic stroke - a blood vessel burst in her brain - that caused permanent damage. She ...
Transactions
Paul Hastings: INTERNET RIVALS MERGE FOR DEAL VALUED AT $14 MILLION
By Victoria Newman
Autobytel.com Inc. will buy rival Autoweb.com Inc. The stock deal is worth more than $14 million. Irvine's Autobytel is an Int...
Los Angeles' Reish & Luftman has changed its name to Reish Luftman McDaniel & Reisher. Managing partner Fred Reish say...
The economy may be cooling off here in the states, but it's warming up on the other side of the Pacific, at least for law fi...
Transactions
McCutchen Doyle: SAN JOSE'S VOLERA TAKES IN FINANCING FROM INVESTORS
By Victoria Newman
Volera Inc. has received $83 million in initial financing from investors Novell Inc., Nortel Networks Corp. and Accenture. For...
Transactions
Loeb & Loeb: CHATSWORTH'S SONICPORT ACQUIRES SOFTWARE FIRM
By Victoria Newman
Sonicport.com Inc. has acquired US Dataworks Inc. in a stock deal, the value of which was not disclosed. Chatsworth's Sonicpor...
Transactions
Cravath Swaine: JOHNSON WILL DELIVER STOCK FOR MOUNTAIN VIEW'S ALZA
By Victoria Newman
Johnson & Johnson will buy Mountain View's Alza Corp. for $10.5 billion in stock. New Brunswick, N.J.'s Johnson & John...
Firm Watch
Foley & Lardner: LONGTIME WULFBERG REESE LAWYER DIES AFTER SURGERY
By Karen Coleman
Peter Ferris, a civil litigator who spent most of his career at what was then Oakland's Wulfsberg Reese Ferris & Sykes die...
Sarah O'Dowd, a partner at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in Menlo Park, likes corporate work, especially mergers and acq...
Firm Watch
Paul Hastings: SHOP RECALLS FOUNDING PARTNER CHARLIE WALKER
By Karen Coleman
Charlie Walker, who became the fourth partner at Los' Angeles Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker back in 1962, died April 7 o...
Antonia Hernndez, president and general counsel of one of the nation's most powerful Latino civil rights groups, still calls h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The corridor leading to the Alumni Reception Center at Hastings College of the Law is lined with the photograp...
Transactions
Munger Tolles: UNIVERSAL AGREES TO BUY EMUSIC FOR $26 MILLION
By Victoria Newman
Universal Music Group has agreed to buy Emusic.com Inc. for $26 million in cash. New York's Universal is a subsidiary of Viven...
Once a month Julie Akins, her husband and two step-children wake up early on Saturday morning and head out the door by 5 a.m. ...
Todd Gattoni, a business litigation partner at Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May, recently was elected president of the ...
Yakub Hazzard, 36, blames his mother for thwarting his career as a rock star. "I played the drums when I was younger, for a lo...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman: SHOP BEGINS AD CAMPAIGN, HIRES LAWYER IN SAN DIEGO
By Karen Coleman
No, it's not Houston's Vinson & Elkins or New York's Venable. The firm that wants you to think of it when you see a big re...
Marketing no longer is the four-letter word it once was, equated with selling used cars. There is an understanding that law fi...
RIVERSIDE - Concluding a case marked by a series of unusual judicial twists, a woman has been sentenced to 25 years to life in...
LOS ANGELES - For the first time that she could remember, Abby Leibman stood speechless behind a podium - if only for a moment...
Law Practice
Lawyer Accused of Fraud Will Face Charges
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Friday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against Glendora lawyer John Franklyn Wa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy proceedings involving Pacific Gas & Electric Co. have no effect on the ability of the state...