NEWBERRY SPRINGS - In this windswept outpost of the Mojave Desert, the sand moves constantly, forming dunes and covering road ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles may not have a National Football League team. The XFL may be tanking faster than Bill Clinton can ha...
Among actions announced Monday, Feb. 26, 2001 by the justices were:
Entertainment & Sports
Singer Waiting For Premiere Story Before Making Move
By Columnist
Libel! Defamation! Slander! Invasion of privacy! A journalist tagged often enough with these dangerous words can expect a one-...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Jones Day: Web Site Receives Warm Greetings From Cleveland
By Staff Writer
AmericanGreetings.com has agreed to acquire Egreetings Network Inc. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. Cleveland's ...
Lisa Specht, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, assumed the presidency of the Los Angeles Coliseum Commis...
Firm Watch
Akin Gump: LOS ANGELES OFFICE PLANTS STAKE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW GROUP
By Staff Writer
Three months after acquiring a high-powered Washington, D.C, environmental boutique, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, is ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Emeryville environmental consultant has been fined $10,000 and required to perform 200 hours of community s...
It's quite a leap from "Helter Skelter" to boleros, Vincent Bugliosi admits. But the famed prosecutor of serial killer Charles...
Community development expert Daniel Tellalian has joined the Santa Monica real estate shop of Harding Larmore Kutcher & Ko...
Firm Watch
Davis Wright: Labor Attorney Travels South For Media Clients
By Staff Writer
Labor lawyer Keith Jacoby joined Los Angeles' Davis Wright Tremaine on Feb. 7 with the hopes of further refining his labor and...
Ever close a $2.6 billion deal? How about in eight days? Didn't think so. Those bragging rights belong to corporate and securi...
LOS ANGELES - John Lucas, former associate general counsel for Arco, joins the 80-lawyer Los Angeles office of Morgan Lewis &a...
Transactions
Cooley Godward: IPO Will Inject New Funds Into San Diego Drug Firm
By Staff Writer
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. has planned an initial public offering worth $70 million. Based in San Diego, Acadia develops drug...
Justice Antonin Scalia wants to have it both ways. While he claims to have the only objective theory of constitutional interpr...
Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish has brought aboard water management expert Gregory Zlotnick. H...
Firm Watch
Paul Hastings: Real Estate Practitioner Leaves Sheppard Mullin
By Staff Writer
After 10 years of working across the table from Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, real estate lawyer Frank Iaffaldano hoppe...
Transactions
Nixon Peabody: WINEMAKER POURS MONEY INTO SEBASTIANI LABELS
By Staff Writer
Canandaigua Wine has agreed to buy assets of Turner Road Vintners. The stock and debt-assumption deal is valued at $295 millio...
Firm Watch
Gordon & Rees: Past Hillyer Partner Now Heads Real Property Pack
By Staff Writer
Brian Frasch joined the growing club of former Hillyer & Irwin partners Nov. 20 when he moved over to the San Diego office...
Rintala Smoot Jaenicke & Rees, a Los Angeles litigation and employment law boutique, has recruited a new associate. Heathe...
Entertainment & Sports
DOCUMENTARY PROMISES TO GIVE REAL BROCKOVICH STORY
By Contributing Writer
Fans of the excellent "Erin Brockovich" film should set their television dials for a documentary scheduled by the A&E cabl...
Transactions
Orrick Herrington: New York's IVillage Buys Rival Women's Network
By Staff Writer
IVillage Inc. has agreed to acquire Women.com Networks Inc. in a transaction valued at about $47 million. New York's iVillage ...
We stand today at the threshold of a new attitude and approach to the issue of illegal drugs in American society. The change i...
Business attorney Laura McAvoy has moved to Irvine-based Jackson DeMarco & Peckenpaugh. She joined the firm as partner las...
Every legal recruiter has a story to tell about the competition. Almost none of them is flattering. Partner A picks up the pho...
California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk once reiterated the old axiom that "hard cases make bad law." In re Earley
Deborah Klein is an exception to the rule that entertainment lawyers hit their stride in their mid-40s. She hit hers much soon...
Sulmeyer Kupetz Baumann & Rothman, a Los Angeles bankruptcy and business firm, has announced that Angela Sousa has joined ...
Transactions
McCutchen Doyle: Mountain View's NetLogic Finishes Second Financing
By Staff Writer
NetLogic Microsystems Inc. has completed an $18 million second round of financing led by Sevin Rosen Funds. Mountain View's Ne...
There are important strategic benefits to having the court question jurors about potential racial prejudices. ...