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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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. ...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin: Practice in San Francisco Takes Lawyer From Justice
By Staff Writer
The fallout from the Clinton administration continues, and for San Francisco's Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton that mean...
SACRAMENTO - As a student at San Juan High School in Citrus Heights, D. Robert Shuman began to dream of a career in the law. T...
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Gunderson Dettmer: Ariba Procures Agile With $2.6 Billion Stock Swap
By Staff Writer
Ariba Inc. is buying Agile Software Corp. in a stock swap valued at $2.55 billion. Mountain View's Ariba is a business-to-busi...
Need a good headhunter, but don't know how to choose from the legions that cold-call your office every day? Look no longer; we...
The Hecker Law Group, an intellectual property boutique in Los Angeles, has hired Karim Elaagouby as a senior scientist. Elaag...
Firm Watch
Townsend & Townsend: Post-Limbach Of-Counsel Tries Larger IP Boutique
By Staff Writer
Joel Ackerman, who was of-counsel at San Francisco's Limbach & Limbach when the partners decided to disband late last year...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruling indirectly shores up Gov. Gray Davis' efforts to keep convicted killer Robert Ros...
Government
Judge Reissues Restraining Orders Against Prosecutor
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - An Orange County sex crimes prosecutor accused of attacking his estranged wife's boyfriend was barred by a judge F...
Criminal
Judge Grants New Trial to Alleged Killer of Teen-ager
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Less than two months ago, Brandon Ketsdever's family and friends rejoiced over the conviction of his suspected kil...