As the case proceeds against 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams for the murder of two schoolmates and the wounding of 13 othe...
Brown Winfield & Canzaneri of Los Angeles brought aboard Donna R. Black as a partner on Feb. 1. Black, 53, was previously ...
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Wilson Sonsini: PALM OFFERS $264 MILLION STOCK FOR BOISE COMPANY
By Staff Writer
Palm Inc. has agreed to acquire Extended Systems for $264 million in stock. The deal should close by July 2001. Santa Clara's...
Firm Watch
Arter & Hadden: LAWYERS MOVE TO LOCAL LAW FIRMS AFTER SHAKEUP
By Staff Writer
Four lawyers at Arter & Hadden's Los Angeles office have decided leave for new gigs. The loss comes just two months after ...
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Morgan Lewis: LOS ANGELES' ADEXA BOUGHT FOR $380 MILLION IN STOCK
By Staff Writer
Online software auctioneer FreeMarkets Inc. has agreed to buy e-commerce software company Adexa Inc. The stock deal is worth $...
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Wilson Sonsini: LABTEC TO MERGE WITH SWISS RIVAL FOR STOCK AND CASH
By Staff Writer
Logitech International will acquire Labtec Inc. in a stock and cash deal valued at approximately $125 million. Logitech Inter...
Solo and Small Firms
VENTURA TRIAL LAWYERS GIVE GRANT TO LOCAL LAW LIBRARY
By Staff Writer
The Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association presented the Ventura County Law Library with a $1,000 contribution at the assoc...
Third-generation Long Beach attorney Cheryl Lackman Feinberg was installed as president of the Long Beach Bar Association on F...
San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop called upon veteran partner Robert Sullivan to guide longtime client, Vodafone Group, throu...
Although Sam Sheldon says he's not an emotional man, he was nearly moved to tears the day Serena Nunn was reunited with her fa...
The San Fernando Valley Bar Association's 75th Anniversary Judges' Night drew some of the biggest names in local politics. ...
While Richard Marmaro's courtroom strategy is not unique or flashy, it certainly is successful. Peers who have litigated with ...
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Latham & Watkins: AVIRON FINANCING IS FIRST OF ITS KIND IN BIOTECH INDUSTRY
By Staff Writer
Biotechnology company Aviron has completed a $400 financing deal, consisting of both debt and equity. It is the first such fi...
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Greenberg Traurig: SAN JOSE'S SYNAPTICS PLANS FOR FIRST PUBLIC OFFERING
By Staff Writer
Synaptics Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $50 million. The San Jose company develops human interface ...
SACRAMENTO - In the state Senate, the person to see on Proposition 36, the voter-approved drug treatment measure, is now Micha...
LOS ANGELES - Several Los Angeles lawmakers Friday called for an independent report on the merits of offering police officers ...
LOS ANGELES - In a decision that prosecutors may appeal, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday overturned a jury's guil...
SANTA ANA - Eric Bechler, convicted last month of first-degree murder after bludgeoning his wife, Pegye, to death and then dum...
SANTA ANA - A Buena Park man recently granted a retrial in the killing of a teen-ager who stole a plastic pumpkin from the man...
ANAHEIM - Administrators will return a biographical book series on notable gays and lesbians to the shelves of an Orange Count...
SANTA ANA - In a little hamlet in Peru stood a bridge that Justice Thomas F. Crosby Jr. helped build in the late 1960s, when h...
Government
In Briefs, Key Rampart Players Give Mixed Reviews to Decree
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - In briefs filed last week, key players in the Rampart scandal criticized the proposed consent decree's failure t...
Just about everyone could use a stiff belt or two at the end of a stressful day. One or two were never enough for Marin attorn...
SAN FRANCISCO - Using a strategy political consultants say will be remembered either as foolhardy or brilliant, San Francisco ...
SAN BERNARDINO - Infected with HIV at birth, Brianna Richardson probably would have died young, no matter how well her father ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Kleve's on-again, off-again 1989 murder conspiracy conviction is on again following a second affirmance...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gender politics in a nationally watched federal civil rights lawsuit alleging police failure to respond to dom...
LOS ANGELES - Courthouses throughout Los Angeles were empty on President's Day, a government holiday. That didn't deter Los An...
LOS ANGELES - Along the halls of the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles hang framed drawings by Compton schoolchildren, all...
Intellectual property drives American business, especially in the world's new electronic economy. Protecting its intellectual ...