SAN FRANCISCO - A hung jury was declared Monday in the trial of a Bernal Heights man accused of murdering his girlfriend. Dist...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a Riverside man to 36 months' probation Monday for throwing a piece...
SAN JOSE - U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel on Monday avoided, for the moment, making any major decisions in a dispute a...
LOS ANGELES - A Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech has vowed to appeal a decision that it says has sucked the lifeblood from its p...
LOS ANGELES - Three Interior lawyers from the Clinton administration have joined Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. ...
LOS ANGELES - Bet Tzedek drew its largest crowd ever - 1,500 people - to its annual fund-raiser Saturday night at the grand ba...
Appellate Practice
Medi-Pot Case Wends Its Way To 4th District Court of Appeal
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A medical marijuana case is heading to the 4th District Court of Appeal after being dismissed, reinstated and then...
LOS ANGELES - Services have been conducted for William Hesser Pavitt Jr., name partner at Culver City's Beehler & Pavitt. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Colleagues Testify at Judge's Disciplinary Hearing
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, accused of playing hooky from the bench while attending a Ca...
Technology & Science
Boalt Opens Law, Technology Clinic, Hires Expert as Director
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - In its continuing push to build hands-on opportunities for its students, Boalt Hall opened its law and technolog...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Chinese machinery company that sailed four giant cranes into the port of Oakland illegally hired two dozen C...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Southern California Edison will be back in court Wednesday morning, attempting to get a judge to blo...
Constitutional Law
High Court to Review 9th's 'Virtual' Child Porn Decision
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a 1996 law criminalizing the distribution of sexually explicit image...
LOS ANGELES - Troy Newman had been waiting for President Bush's inauguration for eight years. "I'm excited to get a guy out of...
SAN FRANCISCO - A super-sensitive, Band-Aid-style drug testing device known as a sweat patch is being used increasingly as a s...
Large Firms
IP Star Leaves Orrick Herrington For McDermott Will & Emery
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Terry McMahon, a prominent intellectual property litigator, will join the Menlo Park office of Chicago's McDer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown intends to appoint Kimiko Burton-Cruz as interim public defender when Jeff Brown resigns to...
Government
Smoking Gun Drops From Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - With the last-minute flurry of plea deals and pardons of the Clinton administration and the inauguration of Pres...
Personal Injury & Torts
Paralyzed Man Wins $15M in Roll-Over Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In a judgment believed to be the largest personal injury verdict in San Bernardino County history, a jury h...
Among actions announced Monday, Jan. 22, 2001 by the justices were:
Transactions
Brobeck Phleger: BROADCOM PAYS $1.7 BILLION IN A DEAL WITH SERVERWORKS
By Staff Writers
Broadcom Corp. has agreed to acquire ServerWorks Corp. in a deal valued at $1.74 billion. Irvine's Broadcom makes integrated c...
Firm Watch
Graham & James: CREDITORS SEEK CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY LIQUIDATION
By Staff Writer
The fact that San Francisco's Graham & James has closed its doors hasn't dissuaded three creditors from pressing for the i...
Transactions
O'Melveny & Myers: HEARME SCORES $20 MILLION IN SALE OF ONLINE GAME SITE
By Staff Writers
GameSpy Industries Inc. will buy the HearMe Web site, Mplayer. The cash, promissory note and stock deal is valued at $20 milli...
Transactions
Gibson Dunn: NORTHROP GRUMMAN PLANS TO BUY LITTON INDUSTRIES
By Staff Writers
Northrop Grumman Corp. is acquiring Litton Industries Inc. In consideration, Northrop will pay $3.8 million in cash and assume...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa County Supervisor Gayle Bishop has avoided state prison but will serve six months in count...
Dallas' Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld added bankruptcy partner Peter Gurfein to its Los Angeles office on Jan. 1. Gurfein...
Firm Watch
Brobeck Phleger: AD AND SALARY SPENDING COMMEMORATE BOOM YEAR
By Staff Writer
After chalking up $195 million in profits last year, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison decided to throw some money around. On Jan...
Steve Brick, a longtime corporate litigation partner at San Francisco-based Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, yielded to a hi...
Firm Watch
Jeffer Mangels: LAND USE, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY GROUP ADDS TRIO
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro recently welcomed a string of new lawyers that will expand the firm's 14-lawy...
SANTA ANA - When Orange County supervisors sued over Measure H, their beef was that the voter-approved law, which earmarked mi...