Everyone involved in our justice system must remember that, whether his or her role is advocate, fact-finder or facilitator, l...
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Manatt Phelps: REAL ESTATE VETERAN GOES TO CENTURY CITY BOUTIQUE
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Ron Barak, a longtime large-firm real estate attorney, packed up his expertise and moved to Century City's Silver & Freedm...
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Fried Frank: EL PASO ENERGY MOVES INTO TELECOMMUNICATION FIELD
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El Paso Energy Corp. will acquire Pontio Communications Company Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Houston's El Paso Energy Corp....
Former retail finance executive Richard S. McKinley shifted gears in a big way to become the vice president of finance and chi...
Partners at San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and its new Wall Street merger partner Winthrop Stimson Putnam &...
Investment firm Bruckmann Rosser Sherrill & Co. has agreed to buy Il Fornaio (America) Corp. The $81.4 million stock deal ...
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Shearman & Sterling: ANOTHER EAST COAST SHOP RAISES ITS ASSOCIATE PAY
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New York's Shearman & Sterling announced on Nov. 21 that it too will promise at least $40,000 in bonuses for its first-yea...
'TLC Hospitals' seemingly settles the law on recoupment of Medicare payments in the 9th Circuit. ...
Nearly a decade after state lawmakers established an industry-funded program to reduce lead poisoning among children, a San Fr...
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Wilson Sonsini: ASIAN CONNECTION COSTS SOLECTRON $2.4 BILLION
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Solectron Corp. has agreed to buy NatSteel Electronics Ltd. for $2.4 billion. Solectron, based in Milpitas, makes electronics ...
PALO ALTO - A Santa Clara County judge has ruled that a former Palo Alto medical technician must stand trial on six felony cou...
Century City's Hecker Law Group has brought in a new attorney to launch its corporate law department. Helene Pretsky will head...
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Morrison & Foerster: PASSING THE 1,000-LAWYER MARK, FIRM BECOMES THE STATE'S SECOND LARGEST
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After its most recent headcount, San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster found itself just past the 1,000-lawyer mark. The fir...
The Florida Supreme Court is profoundly wrong for analytic, institutional and pragmatic reasons. ...
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Latham & Watkins: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PAYS FOR ACHIEVEGLOBAL
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The Institute for International Research has purchased AchieveGlobal for $100 million. AchieveGlobal, a subsidiary of new-medi...
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Wilson Sonsini: $300 MILLION IN STOCK BUYS ACQUISITION FOR MICROCHIP
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Microchip Technology Inc. is acquiring TelCom Semiconductor Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $300 million. Moun...
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Brobeck Phleger: PAIR DESERTS IRVINE OFFICE FOR VENTURE CAPITAL FUND
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Come January, two corporate partners from the Orange County office of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison will be helping clients g...
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Luce Forward: EMPLOYMENT DISPUTE PUTS ATTORNEYS INTO TEST CASE
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A Los Angeles employment dispute has put Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps in an awkward position as the subject of a test c...
Cristina Arguedas, name partner at Emeryville's Cooper Arguedas & Cassman, has become a fellow of the American College of ...
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Townsend and Townsend: NEW TRANSACTIONS GROUP INCLUDES SPECIAL COUNSEL
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San Francisco's well-known intellectual property shop, Townsend and Townsend and Crew, finally is putting together a separate ...
Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has added two new members - a family law judge and a real estate attorney - to it...
San Francisco's Legal Community Against Violence , the non-profit group founded in the aftermath of the 101 California St. sho...
The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' annual Access To Justice Awards event and fund-raiser on Tuesday honored investment b...
Amanda Susskind has a theory: "You can be a good lawyer without being creative, but you cannot be a great lawyer without being...
The St. Vincent Medical Center Foundation of Los Angeles has named a local bankruptcy associate to its board of directors. Mar...
LOS ANGELES - The upcoming attempted bombing trial of ex-Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson, formerly Kathleen...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has placed owners of the Mira Mesa Inn on three years' probation and ordered them to close their business ...
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood Boulevard, just as the stars whose names adorn its "Walk of Fame," has been undergoing several face li...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Friday issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Los Angeles Police Department from u...
Someone whose free-speech rights under the California Constitution are violated cannot sue for money damages, an appellate cou...