Firm Watch
Stutman Triester: TROOP BANKRUPTCY STARS FIND A HAVEN AT TOP SHOP
By Staff Writer
Most of the bankruptcy practice from the late Troop Steuber Reddick & Tobey - two of three lawyers - have found a home at ...
San Diego's Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek has added seven associates. The full-service business and litigation firm now has 59 ...
Firm Watch
Manatt Phelps: PALO ALTO OUTPOST TAKES SENIOR COUNSEL FOR TECH
By Staff Writer
Deborah Neville became senior counsel in the Palo Alto office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips at the beginning of January afte...
Firm Watch
Wilson Sonsini: PRODIGAL PARTNER TAKES CHARGE OF VENTURE GROUP
By Staff Writer
Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati voted Jonathan Axelrad back into the partnership on Jan. 9, after his return ...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: HUGHES PLUGS INTO TELOCITY FOR ACCESS TO THE INTERNET
By Staff Writers
Hughes Electronics Corp. has agreed to buy Telocity Inc. for $180 million in cash. Hughes Electronics of El Segundo is the spa...
LOS ANGELES - The $2 million-a-year job of monitoring federally mandated reforms of the Los Angeles Police Department is suffi...
Rick Parker, managing partner of Brobeck Phleger's San Diego outpost, oversees an office growing so rapidly it has already out...
For the past 28 years, Jan. 22 has been an occasion to celebrate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Yet this year's celebration o...
David Hayes has always been on the cutting edge. To finance his law school education, Hayes worked as a computer programmer fo...
Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has added an appeals judge and a family law specialist to its Southern California...
LOS ANGELES - Southern California Edison filed suit late Friday asking the court to block the California Power Exchange from s...
Civil Rights
Judge's Order Bars Protester From Center
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge on Friday issued a temporary restraining order against a man accused in a civil complaint o...
LOS ANGELES - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati will not match the base salary set in the latest salary war initiated by Sa...
SAN DIEGO - With his jaw wired shut from his injuries, the victim of a beating so severe it left his head misshapen told a jud...
The two opinions issued last month show that courts are following the legislative direction of 'Briggs.' ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Mike (Walter L.M.) Lorimer, a renowned entertainment and labor lawyer. Lorimer die...
SANTA ANA - The owner of an Orange plasma manufacturing and distributing company pleaded guilty Friday to violating national F...
WASHINGTON - On the day before he left office, Bill Clinton once again managed to cleave opinion - this time about whether he ...
Solo and Small Firms
Family Law Specialist Quits Bar, With Charges Pending
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - After years of fighting fee complaints from clients and accusations of impropriety, family law and international c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto attorney Brandon Baum believes his brother was murdered when he was hit by a car in bizarre auto cra...
Government
Candidates Jockey for Position In U.S. Attorney Sweepstakes
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A favorite guessing game in the Los Angeles legal community these days is figuring out whom President George W. ...
Judges and Judiciary
Cordell Quits Santa Clara Bench For Stanford Administrative Post
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - LaDoris Cordell, a well-respected Santa Clara County judge who frequently courted controversy during her 18 years o...
Government
U.S. Attorney Heads to D.C. For Short Stint as DOJ's No. 2
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller III takes over the No. 2 spot in the Justice Department today on temporary assign...
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati may have taken some of the wind out of the sails of this year...
Last week we witnessed a most unfortunate spectacle, which has taken the contentiousness in our political institutions to new ...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place in Washington, D.C., Wednesday for William F. Dwyer II, a former Beverly Hills attorney...
Leave it to New Economy companies to try to change the rules again. This time around they've convinced the U.S. Patent and Tra...
SACRAMENTO - A business lawyer, a developer and a one-time social worker are among the legislators appointed to the state Asse...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court has opened a Domestic Violence Clinic at the Inglewood Courthouse. The new clinic, wh...
Twenty years since the introduction of the 401(k) plan, employers and their workers are at a crossroads. This column will look...