SAN FRANCISCO - A Monterey attorney's insurer has agreed to pay $910,000 to a Seattle woman to settle her claim that he cost h...
This month's topic is the poor relation of motion practice: the motion to reconsider. These motions are on my mind because I'm...
LOS ANGELES - A police dog named Reilly has failed to pin an arson rap on rap performer Nate Dogg. Los Angeles criminal defens...
LOS ANGELES - Damian Monroe "Football" Williams, who gained notoriety as the man who beat trucker Reginald Denny at the outset...
LOS ANGELES - A dozen employees of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services have filed a lawsuit sayi...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit pitting a Northridge apartment building owner against Allstate ...
LOS ANGELES - Kimberly A. Dunne has left her post as the chief of the public corruption and government fraud section of the U....
Large Firms
Milbank Tweed, Mayer Brown Plan New Silicon Valley Offices
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Buoyed by last year's record profits and not dissuaded by the current economic downturn, two large out-of-town...
LOS ANGELES - Relying on a Supreme Court decision that bars defendants from seeking civil-rights claims when they have an unde...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday appeared ready to curtail the sovereign immunity of Native American tribes, at least whe...
Government
Bar Group Objects to Bush's Paring Its Judge-Picking Role
By Don De Benedictis
The Bush Administration and American Bar Association appeared locked in a debate Monday over the new administration's decision...
Among actions announced Monday, March 19, 2001 by the justices were:
It's hard to tell whether Kevin Duffis' life is an example of art imitating life or life imitating art. As a boy growing up in...
SAN FRANCISCO - It looks like the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzie will need to shop for some real estate and land...
Transactions
Pillsbury Winthrop: VODAFONE BUYS STAKE IN MEXICO'S GRUPO IUSACELL
By Staff Writer
Britain's Vodafone Group is buying a one-third interest in Mexico's Grupo Iusacell. The cash deal is worth $973.4 million. Vod...
Solo and Small Firms
NEW PARTNER MAKES SIX AT IRVINE'S MARSHACK SHULMAN
By Staff Writer
Irvine's Marshack Shulman Hodges & Bastian has elevated associate Michael Kelly to partner. Kelly, 34, specializes in wro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe chairman and CEO Ralph Baxter and a 26-member contingent of leaders from law...
San Francisco's Cooper White & Cooper elected two new members - Jeffrey Wong and Keith Howard - to its management committe...
Transactions
Crosby Heafey: MEDTRONIC OBTAINS VENPRO PULMONARY PRODUCT LINE
By Staff Writer
Medronic Inc. has acquired the Contegra Pulmonary Valved Conduit product line from VenPro Corp. The terms of the deal were no...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: IP PARTNER HOPS OVER FROM SILICON VALLEY MOFO OFFICE
By Staff Writer
Intellectual property lawyer Chuck Hoyng has become partner number 12 in the 50-lawyer Menlo Park outpost of Los Angeles' Lath...
Firm Watch
Littler Mendelson: MORE BUCHANAN LAWYERS PUT LITTLER IN NEW PHILLY OFFICE
By Staff Writer
Three weeks after luring nine lawyers away to start its new Pittsburgh office, Littler Mendelson has its hand back in the Buc...
SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Sonoma County judge who was dropped from the assigned judges program following a sexual harassment c...
Trial lawyer Dale La Casella joined Pasadena's Richardson & Harmon on Jan. 8 as of-counsel. "We are fortunate to have Ms....
Firm Watch
Morrison & Foerster: FIRM'S ONLY LATIN AMERICA OUTPOST CLOSES ITS DOORS
By Staff Writer
Even though San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster is pulling out of Argentina in the next month, its eight lawyers there can...
Firm Watch
Proskauer Rose: PARTNERS WELCOME BACK KENNETH KRUG AFTER 18 MONTHS WITH DIFFERENT FIRM
By Staff Writer
After an 18-month dalliance with Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif, partner Kenneth Krug returned to...
Real estate boutique Pircher Nichols & Meeks has recruited a new associate for its Los Angeles headquarters. Mark Hulbert...
Holland & Knight is the first law firm to receive the Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service from the Points...
The California Supreme Court's recent decision in Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services authorized the use of arb...
Firm Watch
Buchalter Nemer: SMALL PRACTICE TROIKA SIGNS ON WITH ITS BIGGER NEIGHBOR
By Staff Writer
Most of Los Angeles' five-lawyer Reinis & Reinis moved over to Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger, also in Los Angeles, ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew announced the addition of two new associates to its ...