Where has collegiality gone? Why is there so much disharmony in the courtroom? What can be done to arrest the marked decline i...
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Skadden Arps: RIVAL EQUIPMENT MAKERS MERGE IN $1.6 BILLION DEAL
By Staff Writer
SM Lithography Holding N.V. will buy rival chip-equipment maker Silicon Valley Group Inc. of San Jose. The stock deal is value...
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Orrick Herrington: ELLIE MAE BUYS GENESIS IN A DEAL WORTH $20 MILLION
By Staff Writer
Ellie Mae Inc. has acquired Genesis 2000 Inc. The cash, stock and assumption of debt deal is worth $20 million. Pleasanton's E...
Twenty-three county and city prosecutors were among those honored Friday for their work on domestic violence cases. ...
San Diego law professor Bryan Wildenthal has just returned from a 1-week trip to South Africa, where he and other legal profes...
So you want to be among the 10 most powerful lawyers in California? No problem. Just follow these simple steps. You must do on...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman: EXPLOSIVE GROWTH FORCES MOVE TO BIGGER QUARTERS
By Staff Writer
Management at San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe says that its office in San Diego's Golden Triangle has seen...
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Brobeck Phleger: PRO BONO EFFORTS GARNER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARD
By Staff Writer
Despite ballooning salaries and more work than its lawyers can handle, San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison managed ...
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Cooley Godward: SURF'S UP FOR ENDWAVE IN $84 MILLION OFFERING
By Staff Writer
Sunnyvale's Endwave Corp. has gone public in an initial public offering valued at $84 million. Endwave designs components for ...
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Shearman & Sterling: SILICON VALLEY HIRES ONE PARTNER, RECRUITS MORE
By Staff Writer
According to Bay Area co-managing partner Bruce Czachor, the Menlo Park office of New York's Shearman & Sterling is back o...
A few clear themes that distinguish between those individuals who made the Top 100 list and those who came close emerged in th...
Wylie Aitken Santa Ana's politically minded trial lawyer. Aitken, who in 1960 campaigned for John F. Kennedy, remains committe...
Influence. This entire issue of California Law Business is devoted to it. Who has it, who wants it, who's lost it. And, while ...
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Latham & Watkins: SEMPRA ENERGY ACQUIRES ASSETS IN ARGENTINA
By Staff Writer
Sempra Energy International has completed the purchase of Dominion Resources Inc.'s natural gas and electricity assets in Arge...
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Morrison & Foerster: Keith Wetmore Rises to Chairmanship on Nov. 1
By Staff Writer
Effective Nov. 1, senior Morrison & Foerster finance partner Keith Wetmore will become the new chairman of the 965-lawyer,...
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Orrick Herrington: MERGING DRUG COMPANIES CREATE POWERFUL TEAM
By Staff Writer
Corixa Corp. has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Coulter Pharmaceutical Inc. The deal is valued in excess of $900 ...
California law firms are counting up their annual meeting ballots, and naming new partners by the scores. Now is also the time...
While young lawyers may be adept at legal subjects, they are showing a decline in general knowledge. ...
One hundred million dollars a year in state funds may seem like a lot of money, especially when it took two lawsuits and 20 ye...
The widespread backlash against the Boy Scouts of America has vindicated his 10-year legal battle, a former New Jersey scoutma...
A bogus report of a man aiming a rifle at a group of school children Friday morning marred a county event to kick off a new pr...
It makes business sense to encourage accessibility, for then a whole additional segment of the population can have access to t...
WASHINGTON - Over a 31-year period, Andre Brigham Young has been convicted of six violent rapes. He was released from prison a...
SAN DIEGO - An American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit contends that the Boy Scouts shouldn't be allowed to lease public land b...
TUSCON, Ariz. - When Tucson attorney John Messing admits to being "heavily involved in something called XML," it may sound lik...
Flashbacks and nightmares of a brutal and traumatic childhood began intruding on the present when Donna Friess, a community co...
One confirmed and two suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported among county employees working in a Wilshire...
Stuart Eppsteiner of Solana Beach's Eppsteiner & Associates is tired of insurance companies calling the shots. He says tha...
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Fenwick & West: NEW INTERNET COMPANY TARGETS SMALL BUSINESS
By Staff Writer
BigVine.com Inc. and SmallBusiness.com. have combined operations, creating a new Internet company targeting small businesses. ...
Appellate Practice
Hour to Hour We Rot and Rot, and Thereby Hangs a Tail
By Sherri Salzman
The law, like baseball, is a game of inches and tradition. In the case of Robert Earl Olmsted, it was just 1/32 of an inch an...