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Schinner Law: S.F. TRAVEL BUSINESS LANDS $10 MILLION FROM INVESTORS
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San Francisco-based Unexplored Inc. has raised $10 million in second series funding. The financing's lead investors included W...
It is hard to conceive of a case more different than the Supreme Court's last decision on the very same issue in 'Medtronic.' ...
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Paul Hastings: SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE TAPS EPA LAWYER AS OF-COUNSEL
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The environmental lawyers at Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker have brought some top-notch regulatory advice in...
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Simpson Thacher: BLUM CAPITAL PARTNERS BUYS EL SEGUNDO'S RICHARD ELLIS
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San Francisco's Blum Capital Partners has agreed to buy El Segundo's CB Richard Ellis Services Inc. The cash and assumption-of...
As a group, we often take ourselves too seriously. Lawyers should strive to be approachable, accessible and understandable. Be...
Katrina Foley, a partner at Irvine's Lents & Foley, will lead the Costa Mesa Planning Commission. In a 5-0 vote, the commi...
Kathleen Carpenter has spent 14 of her 15-year legal career as a "dirt" lawyer. Although her feet are still firmly planted in ...
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Littler Mendelson: LITIGATOR TO LEAD 22-MAN OFFICE IN SILICON VALLEY
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While San Francisco's Littler Mendelson was busy opening its two new Pennsylvania outposts earlier this year, partner Dennis B...
Colleen McAndrews, a name partner at Bell McAndrews Hiltachk & Davidian, an election-law boutique in Sacramento, has been ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was among those who honored the work of the Jewish Federation's Legal Division at its 53rd Annual Dinner...
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Hogan & Hartson: CHICAGO REIT HEADS WEST WITH MENLO PARK PURCHASE
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Chicago's Equity Office Properties Trust will buy Spieker Properties Inc. of Menlo Park. The cash, stock and assumption-of-deb...
Last year, corporate lawyers worked fast and furious to meet the tight deadlines set by their clients selling or buying a busi...
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Greenberg Traurig: MENLO PARK VENTURE GIVES $1 MILLION TO BIOHEART
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Bioheart Inc. has raised $11 million in a first round of funding. Of that amount, $1 million came from Menlo Park's Tyco Ventu...
Our federal government is not known for its ability to take quick action. For instance, it took almost 50 years of pleas from ...
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Liner Yankelevitz: SANTA MONICA BUSINESS FIRM ADDS TWO LAWYERS IN MARCH
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Continuing its rapid growth, Santa Monica corporate firm Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has added two more lawye...
The Children's Institute International, a local child-abuse prevention agency, recently honored Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Bu...
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Skjerven Morrill: IP LITIGATOR REBOUNDS AFTER THREE YEARS AT HOWARD RICE
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Intellectual property lawyer Joe Greco returned to San Jose's Skjerven Morrill & MacPherson as of-counsel on March 16 afte...
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Brobeck Phleger: ASSOCIATES TAKE TIME OUT TO ADVISE NEW LAWYERING SHOW
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The ubiquitous San Francisco firm Brobeck Phleger & Harrison furnished two consultants and a big-firm backdrop for televis...
Joan Haratani has been elected president of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. She was inducted at th...
Al Pepin's retirement in the peaceful Napa Valley town of St. Helena was a dream come true. He had lived and worked in San Fra...
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Wilson Sonsini: UTAH'S NOVELL TO GIVE STOCK FOR CAMBRIDGE TECHNOLOGY
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Network software provider Novell Inc. will buy Cambridge Technology Partners Inc. The stock deal is worth $266 million. Provo,...
When Spieker Properties Inc. decided to sell all its holdings to Equity Office Properties Trust, the company reached for a fam...
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Wilson Sonsini: LAWYERS VOTE SONSINI SON INTO CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP
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Thirty-five years after Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati corporate and securities department head Larry Sonsini stepped in...
Jason Schauer, 31, appears to be a rising star. With roles in musical productions like "Crazy for You," "42nd Street" and "Cha...
J. Tim Konold, a partner at San Diego's Higgs Fletcher & Mack, was elected president of the American College of Mortgage A...
Joseph Genshlea, a founding partner of Sacramento's Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Sproul, has been inducted into the Trial Lawyer...
Los Angeles-based Murchison & Cumming has elevated Bryan Weiss and Thomas Dias to associate partner. It has also promoted ...
SANTA ANA - A judge refused Friday to reduce bail for a Buena Park man awaiting retrial on a murder charge for allegedly shoot...
SAN DIEGO - Lawsuits that state legislators and the media filed to force disclosure of California's electricity purchase agree...
SANTA ANA - Prosecutors want to choose their own psychiatrist to evaluate an Orange County man who is seeking release from a s...