On a clear day, an impressive vista stretches east from the Folsom Dam overlook across the gently rising foothills to the snow...
You represent a fabulously well-to-do technology company whose software manages information in business-to-business transactio...
SAN FRANCISCO - A little more than a year after opening an office in Columbus, Ohio, Littler Mendelson is at it again, this t...
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Wilson Sonsini: NETOPIA FROM ALAMEDA WILL COST PROXIM $223 MILLION
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Proxim Inc. has agreed to acquire Netopia Inc. in a stock-for-stock merger valued at $223 million. Sunnyvale's Proxim provides...
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Milbank Tweed: 'YOU GUYS PAID HOW MUCH FOR THOSE CONSULTANTS?'
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New York's Milbank Tweed Haley & McCloy is sporting a new, pared-back moniker for its logo. Like an increasing number of n...
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Haight Brown: BANKRUPTCY PARTNER TAKES PRACTICE TO SANTA MONICA
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After managing his clients, along with the day-to-day operations of his former small practice, bankruptcy specialist Jon Hayes...
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Oppenheimer Wolff: NEWZING.COM OF PALO ALTO SECURES FIRST-ROUND FUNDS
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NewZing.com Inc. has completed an initial professional investment round of $5.25 million in financing led by Softbank Venture ...
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Bay Venture: COMMERCEFLOW SUCCEEDS WITH $7.5 MILLION FUNDING
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San Francisco's CommerceFlow Inc. closed $7.5 million in Series B funding last month, with Prism Venture Partners of Westwood,...
Nancy Smith used a new procurement strategy to close two deals for her client, the Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Con...
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McDermott Will: CHRISTENSEN MILLER PARTNER MOVES SECURITIES PRACTICE
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Corporate securities defender Eric Landau brought his litigation practice to the Irvine office of McDermott Will & Emery o...
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Crosby Heafey: OAKLAND FIRM ADDS APPEALS LAWYER TO LOS ANGELES BASE
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Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has added another appellate lawyer to its Los Angeles office. Judy Gordon, formerl...
From his low-key, quiet demeanor, it is hard to imagine that Edward Anderson is at the helm of one of Silicon Valley's fastest...
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Brobeck Phleger: $130 MILLION IN FUNDS SETS ALIGN TECHNOLOGY STRAIGHT
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Alameda's Align Technology Inc. completed an initial public offering last month valued at $130 million. The company makes invi...
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Nossaman Guthner: LOS ANGELES BLUE LINE STAYS ON SCHEDULE FOR 2003 DEBUT
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The Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority gave final approval last month to the second of two contrac...
LOS ANGELES - Based on Los Angeles City Council action last week, the quarter-million residents of a council district that inc...
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O'Melveny & Myers: TAX LAWYER GOFF, 49, DIES AT HOME AFTER CANCER BATTLE
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Greg Goff, a tax partner in the main office of Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, died Feb. 5 in his home after a two-year ba...
The Bush administration has already sent clear and chilling messages that they will threaten the reproductive rights of women ...
Job satisfaction follows when attorneys choose self-awareness. Examining their assumptions about happiness can lead dissatisfi...
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Heller Ehrman: LABOR LAWYER TAKES HELM OF SAN DIEGO POST AFTER GOVERNOR TAPS PREDECESSOR
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Labor and employment partner Dave Geerdes has stepped into the shoes of Joan Irion, the former managing partner of Heller Ehrm...
Intellectual property attorneys anxiously are awaiting an appellate court ruling that could transform the information superhig...
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Hogan & Hartson: PRETTY PATENT PARTNER LEAVES ON MERGER'S EVE
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Former Pretty & Schroeder partner Michael Crapenhoft says he didn't even know his firm was going to merge with Pasadena's ...
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart: PITTSBURGH FIRM DOUBLES L.A. INSURANCE COVERAGE GROUP
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David Schack, who was a partner at Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, is now insurance lawyer No. 2 in the local of...
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Wilson Sonsini: SANDCRAFT FLOATS WELL ON THIRD-TIME VENTURE CAPITAL
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SandCraft Inc. has raised $35.5 million in a third round of venture financing led by VantagePoint Venture Partners Inc. Santa ...
SANTA MONICA - The county Board of Supervisors Thursday approved a contract with an architect to design a new jury assembly ro...
Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher has produced a compact, firsthand account of some of the significant historical e...
At the top of his 25-year career, Palo Alto-based intellectual property litigator James Elacqua provides his take on where IP ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners continued last week with its newfound toughness toward police Chie...
SAN DIEGO - A grand jury has indicted the former chief of the district attorney's economic fraud division, charging him with 1...
RIVERSIDE - Jurors on Thursday deliberated less than two hours before recommending a death sentence for Kim Raymond Kopatz, wh...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Census Bureau claims it has reached the zenith of "The Longest Continuous Scientific Project in America...