Amidst rumors that Troop Steuber's days as one of Los Angeles' most successful firms are dwindling, the firm has added a new c...
Jacobson, White, Diamond & Bordy of Beverly Hills has added two more names to its letterhead. Gina Tatsios Savioloa and Pa...
Eight-day weeks are nothing out of the ordinary for Mark Holscher, who has accomplished what seemed impossible several months ...
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Brobeck Phleger: DIGITAL ISLAND PURCHASES SOFTAWARE IN LOS ANGELES
By Staff Writers
Digital Island Inc. has acquired SoftAware Inc. of Los Angeles. The stock deal is valued at $280 million. San Francisco's Digi...
Access to resources and experts can be as important as the right to counsel itself. Only by making resources available to the ...
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Arnold & Porter: IRVINE'S EXULT LANDS $200 MILLION CONTRACT
By Staff Writers
Irvine's Exult Inc. has won a seven-year contract to provide Web-based human resource services for Unisys Corp. The deal is wo...
Working People's Law Center founder Art Goldberg is putting his 30 years of community-based legal experience on the line and w...
Firm Watch
Wilson Sonsini: LAW FIRM OR INCUBATOR FOR BUDDING CAPITALISTS?
By Staff Writer
Barry E. Taylor is shedding his Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati practice to head up a Menlo Park office for New York's Wa...
Jan Handzlik, partner at the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis, will chair the American Bar Association's n...
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Debevoise & Plimpton: BRITAIN'S SPIRENT PICKS UP ZARAK SYSTEMS FOR STOCK
By Staff Writers
British telecoms testing company Spirent Plc is buying Sunnyvale's Zarak Systems Corp. in a stock deal worth $404 million. Spi...
SAN FRANCISCO - An experiment in appellate mediation at the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco has settled nearly h...
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Testa Hurwitz: TERADYNE AGREES ON PAIR OF CIRCUIT BOARD LEADERS
By Staff Writers
Teradyne Inc. has agreed to buy Herco Technology and Synthane Taylor for a nine-figure sum. The deal took less than two months...
In the latest development in a seemingly never-ending and bitter legal saga, a tentative agreement to settle the North Hollywo...
A speech Friday by Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. to criminal prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office raised more than a few eyebrow...
The Los Angeles City Council opened the way Friday to ensure two newly created police-related positions do not carry civil-ser...
It's the best of times, it's the worst of times. Law firms are raking in record profits. Associates are raking in record salar...
Emily Shappel Edelman will become president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association at the group's annual installation and awards...
As another legislative session draws to a close in Sacramento, California's judicial branch has much to celebrate. An 8.5 perc...
Appellate Practice
Buyers, Businesses Battle Over Arbitration Clauses in Contracts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Larketta Randolph just wants her day in court. The Alabama resident contends that, when she bought her $39,000 mo...
SACRAMENTO - The high-profile parole case of Richard Rosenkrantz has landed on the desk of Gov. Gray Davis, with a finding fro...
JOSHUA TREE - To the teen-agers living around this High Desert town, it was just another way to get high, a clear, salty liqui...
Judges and Judiciary
Conservative George Court Plays It Safe Politically
By Peter Blumberg
Malcolm Lucas learned the hard way that state lawmakers do not take kindly to courts that clip their wings. In 1991, Californi...
Acquired building to undergo 'creative use' renovation Beverly Hills - A six-story office structure in Beverly Hills known as...
Supermarket, housing could save garden Sacramento - Local developer Paul Petrovich has proposed a $20 million project at 18th...
Forell/Elsesser Engineers added Irene D. Lauren as director of business development. Previously Lauren served for years as an...
Riverfront all-suites hotel breaks ground Sacramento - Embassy Suites Hotels broke ground on a 242-suite hotel at 200 Capital...
By Julie Nakashima Brokers are sounding optimistic about the downtown Los Angeles office market. This is nothing new for a pr...
By Julie Nakashima The adage that "nobody walks in L.A." will be tested in the coming years, as a major urban revitalization ...
In Los Angeles, Equity Office Properties Trust named Susann Ventzke managing director for more than 5 million square feet of ...
By John McCloud The majority of articles written about commercial real estate lending focus on major national and internation...