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Firm Watch


Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has added a Los Angeles lawyer for added kick in its entertainment group. Step...


Firm Watch


San Diego's Hayes Simpson Greene has recruited three new attorneys for its Newport Beach office. Douglas Smith and Thomas Arno...


Government


Williams Assumes Interim Post in Merced

Mar. 6, 2001
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Jayne W. Williams, the longtime Oakland city attorney shown the door by voters last year, has been appointed t...


Real Estate/Development


Making Book

Mar. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

The story of Walnut Creek's Miller Starr & Regalia is contained in a book. A series of books, actually. The story begins i...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Good Ol' Days

Mar. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

A sudden cloudburst that flooded streets and soaked shoes in downtown San Francisco didn't dampen the spirits of those attendi...


Firm Watch


While U.S. firms were slapping the "Silicon" label onto every valley, alley, gully and gulch, Heller Ehrman White & McAuli...


Another pair of U.S. firms announced their intentions to "super-size" things in an East-Midwest merger. Chicago's Sidley &...


Firm Watch


The American Bar Association has presented its Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access to Legal Grind Inc., a coffeehouse based ...


Pittsburgh-based Kirpatrick & Lockhart has nabbed Bonnie E. Berry to launch its new entertainment practice group in Los An...


Morrison & Foerster litigation partner Tamu Sudduth , known for her big verdicts and bigger ideals, died Feb. 13 after wor...


Firm Watch


San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy has doubled the size of its Sacramento office in the past month, jump...


Large Firms


Squash Court

Mar. 6, 2001
By Claudia Rosenbaum

While some California law firms change their practice specialties based on the day's financial pages, Sheppard Mullin Richter ...


Firm Watch


Los Angeles-based litigation boutique Tatro Coffino Zeavin Bloomgarden has promoted Arthur J. Friedman to partner and hired la...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Thomson Multimedia S.A. will buy Technicolor Corp. from Carlton Communications Plc. The cash and stock deal is worth $2.1 bill...


Large Firms


Celebrating Black History, Motown Style

Mar. 6, 2001
By Lisa Madrid

What's going on at Morrison & Foerster? Last month, it was women lamenting over their boyfriends. Guys "doo-whopping" abou...


Firm Watch


Two groups of lawyers - one from Cooper White & Cooper, another from Smith Lally & Peffer - have come together to form...


What do Salt Lake City and New York City have in common? If you're a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, that's w...


Firm Watch


Federal Prosecutor Will Join Gibson Dunn

Mar. 6, 2001
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Gail Standish, a prosecutor with the office of the U.S. attorney, ended her four-year tenure on Friday. She will...


Litigation


Court Cameo

Mar. 6, 2001
By Columnist

I've experienced the joy of victories. I'm proud to have fought and won. Yet I wonder ... would I have been so courageous if I...


Solectron Corp. will acquire Centennial Technologies Inc. in a stock deal valued at $108 million. Milpitas' Solectron provides...


Transactions


Public relations firm Manning Selvage & Lee has acquired Pondel/Wilkinson Group, a corporate and investor-relations firm. ...


As the natives would say, "It's a 'burgh thing." San Francisco's Littler Mendelson should pick up the local lingo in no time, ...


In what sounds like a man-bites-dog story these days, Latham & Watkins San Diego partner Dorn Bishop left his big-firm job...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Sybase Inc. has agreed to acquire New Era of Networks Inc. in a $373 million stock-for-stock transaction. Emeryville's Sybase ...


Criminal


Prosecutors Claim Boss Killed Woman

Mar. 6, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - More than four years after a 27-year-old Houston woman plunged to her death from a balcony at the Sheraton Resor...


Contracts


Judge Says L.A. Denied Contractor's Rights

Mar. 6, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - Calling the city's claims "largely inflammatory," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that the Port of Los ...


WASHINGTON - AT&T and other giant cable-television system owners got a boost Friday in winning their legal victory against...


Criminal


Private Sector Stings

Mar. 6, 2001
By Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Alan Hirsch knew that traveling to southern California to have sex with a young girl he had met in an ...


Intellectual Property


Top of the Pops Spun In Napster Hearing

Mar. 6, 2001
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Whenever a court hearing draws at least three satellite vans, roughly 70 reporters, 11 television cameras and ...


Large Firms


BALTIMORE - James Rogan, the Republican congressman who voters ousted from office after he helped lead the impeachment of Pres...