SAN FRANCISCO - Tenants and cities with rent control laws got a win Monday when the California Supreme Court ruled that landlo...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA WILL HONOR ANGELA OH WITH AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
By Staff Writer
The American Bar Association will honor Angela Oh with its Inspirational Award of Excellence at its midyear meeting in San Die...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights honored U.S. District Court Senior Judge Thelton Henderson...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ford was right about Ford, a California appellate court said Friday. The same judge who told Ford Motor Compan...
Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited an experienced appellate and litigation attorney for its Los Angeles off...
Firm Watch
Mayer Brown: CHICAGO BIGGIE SAYS 'OUI' TO CORPORATE PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Chicago's Mayer Brown & Platt acquired a certain je ne sais quoi with its Jan. 1 addition of the Paris corporate boutique ...
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Weil Gotshal: CHIP MAKER INTEL LAYS OUT $784 MILLION FOR XIRCOM
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Intel Corp. has agreed to acquire Xircom Inc. in a deal valued at $748 million. Santa Clara's Intel Corp. is the world's large...
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Manatt Phelps: POLICY, LAND USE PLANNER JOINS AS FULL-TIME ADVISER
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Vivian Rescalvo, a land use planner who has worked for the city and county of Los Angeles and the city of Torrance, joined the...
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Pillsbury Winthrop: NEWLY MERGED SHOP ADDS LATERALS IN TWO BRANCHES
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Pillsbury Winthrop, that San Francisco and New York amalgam established this year, has added five California lawyers in its fi...
The TV commercials for Intel's Pentium processors, which are as hip as they are ubiquitous, don't paint a complete picture of ...
Meeting a challenge issued by the American Bar Association and Georgetown University Law Center, Latham & Watkins donated ...
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Brobeck Phleger: PORTLAND'S TRIPWIRE WINS THIRD ROUND OF FINANCING
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Tripwire Inc. has secured $24 million in third-round venture financing led by private-placement group Deutsche Banc Alex.Brow...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn & Crutcher held a private art sale at the firm on Thursday to benefit at-risk inner...
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Akin Gump: HEALTH WEB SITE GETS DOSE OF $9.4 MILLION FINANCING
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Naturalhealthlink.com Inc. has secured $9.4 million in venture financing led by MDS Capital Corp. Los Angeles' Naturalhealthli...
Jong Han Kim, a corporate lawyer specializing in Korean business transactions and the politics that govern them, returned as o...
Family law mediator David Price discusses the role of mediation and how it can ease the conflict between contending parties in...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court has appointed Judge David Yaffe to a four-year term on the Board of Trustees of the L...
Richard Zaitlen has developed a new appreciation for the comfortable life that often is taken for granted. In November, Zaitle...
There is much more to being a lawyer than just bottom lines and billable hours, which is why classes in justice need to be a p...
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Ropes & Gray: RIVERSTONE NETWORKS IN SANTA CLARA FILES FOR IPO
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Santa Clara's Riverstone Networks Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $108.6 million. Riverstone provides ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Thursday for Donna Suzan Bowers, a longtime federal court reporter and the wi...
In its largest turnout to date, more than 1,500 lawyers, judges, politicians and corporate executives from the Los Angeles ar...
An attorney must pack his bag with plenty of facts - and evidence to back them up - before he takes the next train to the cour...
Tulane Law School in New Orleans has a new course, thanks to the entertainment and iLaw practice groups of Los Angeles' Loeb &...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Friday commended the nearly 200 lawyers and crime experts the Board of Police Co...
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Christensen Miller: MGM AGREES TO MOVE BASE TO CENTURY CITY HIGH-RISE
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. has signed an agreement with JMB Realty Corp. under which JMB Realty will construct a new off...
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Piper Marbury: FIRST WEST COAST OUTPOST JAMS INTO OLD TROOP DIGS
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Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolf is the latest law firm office to sprout from the ashes of Los Angeles' Troop Steuber Pasich R...
Six new lawyers joined the Los Angeles-based Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan during the first two weeks of 2001. David Gu...
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McCutchen Doyle: IP PARTNER CHANGES OVER WITH CLOSURE OF BOUTIQUE
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Also in early January, San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen added Patricia Coleman James to its 30-lawyer intel...
The town of Coyote is little more than a glorified truck stop in south San Jose. Caltrain, Highway 101 and Monterey Avenue cut...