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 ...
A patent gives its owner a right to stop others from making, using and selling the methods and items covered by the patent. Bu...
Hollywood's writers are staring a May 1 contract expiration in the face, but their recent vows to strike are hardly the first ...
For Ryerson Babcock, transferring from Inacom Corp.'s New York office to its Maitland, Fla., branch seemed like a great opport...
Nobody likes a quaint farmers' market more than I do. Along with my purchases of organic sprouts, strawberries and pomelos, I ...
Corporate
Poking Good-Natured Fun at Those on Unemployment Line
By Contributing Writer
When Adam Tratt was laid off from his dot-com marketing job in October, he joined the legions of Internet company workers who ...
Using the novel approach of offering online music files legitimately, a reincarnated Scour plans to avoid the billion-dollar ...
Recently, an appellate court held that an initiative totally banning oil drilling applied to a pre-existing project because it...
SANTA ANA - The city of San Diego, slammed with a $94.5 million jury verdict in an inverse condemnation case, filed an appella...