Firm Watch
Tuttle & Taylor: A BIG-LEAGUE LOS ANGELES PRACTICE TO CLOSE ITS DOORS BY END OF THE YEAR
By Staff Writer
Now that they've decided to shutter their 59-year-old practice, lawyers practicing under the Tuttle & Taylor name will be ...
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O'Melveny & Myers: LITIGATOR BECOMES FIRST L.A. HEADQUARTERS HEAD
By Staff Writer
Now that O'Melveny & Myers' new firm chair will be based in Washington, D.C., someone will have to stand atop the firm's L...
Legal matchmaking has invaded the Web, with a number of lawyers developing sites designed to link professionals with potential...
Firm Watch
Sidley & Austin: TOP PARTNER TAKES NAME, SHINGLE TO CHICAGO FIRM
By Staff Writer
Ed Poplawski of the Los Angeles' intellectual property shop Pretty Shroeder & Poplawski recently scraped his name off the ...
The digital age has been a boon to the entertainment industry, but it is also the bane of copyright owners. As entertainment c...
Transactions
Cooley Godward: FOR $975 MILLION, SIEBEL WILL BUY CANADIAN LEADER
By Staff Writers
Siebel Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Janna Systems Inc. The transaction is valued at $975 million. San Mateo-based Siebel...
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Nossaman Guthner: FOUR-OFFICE SHOP SELECTS INITIAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
By Staff Writer
After nearly eight months at the helm of Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott, managing partner Scott DeVries is h...
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Brobeck Phleger: FOSTER CITY'S EFI MAKES $150 MILLION ACQUISITION
By Staff Writers
Foster City's Electronics For Imaging Inc. will acquire Splash Technology Holdings Inc., based in Sunnyvale. The deal is value...
GetThere Inc. didn't need to sell out in order to survive. Its initial public offering last November had raised an impressive ...
The application-service-provider model minimizes the firm's day-to-day responsibility for its information-system infrastructur...
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Fried Frank: SABRE HOLDINGS WILL GAIN BUSINESS TRAVEL WEB SITE
By Staff Writers
Sabre Holdings Corp. will acquire GetThere Inc. in a cash deal valued at $757 million. Sabre, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is t...
The "one final judgment" rule states that an appeal lies only after a final judgment that disposes of all issues between the p...
Firm Watch
Farella Braun: LONGTIME SECURITIES STAR, MENTOR, 59, DIES OF CANCER
By Staff Writer
William Moran, of-counsel to San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, died Sept. 15. Moran, who succumbed to cancer at 59, ...
Business litigator Richard Burdge Jr. has parted ways with his longtime firm Dewey Ballantine and joined the Los Angeles offic...
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Wilson Sonsini: SAN DIEGO'S NUMERITECH OBTAINS CANADA'S CADABRA
By Staff Writer
Numerical Technologies Inc., also known as NumeriTech, has acquired Cadabra Design Automation Inc. The stock deal is valued at...
From the tony stores of South Coast Plaza to the yacht-lined shores of Balboa Island, Orange County has no shortage of wealth....
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Wilson Sonsini: SAN JOSE'S TESSERA FILES ITS FIRST PUBLIC OFFERING
By Staff Writers
San Jose's Tessera Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Tessera provides Chip Scale Packaging tec...
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Manatt Phelps: STEVE GOLDBERG RETURNS AFTER 12-YEAR DALLIANCE
By Staff Writer
Steve Goldberg is returning to his old stomping grounds at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips after a dozen years of do...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler may rule today on a prosecutor's motion to amend a grand jury indictment of t...
SPOKANE, Wash. - America's judges are not participating in the global legal dialogue, a justice of the Canadian Supreme Court ...
Proskauer Rose is not a law firm, it's a phenomenon. OK, everything's a phenomenon these days - we're living in the Internet a...
WASHINGTON - The nine Supreme Court justices this morning will stride down the court's marble corridors to gather around their...
SANTA ANA - Stephanie George, the deputy district attorney who defeated former Orange County District Attorney Michael R. Capi...
LAGUNA BEACH - The charitable arm of the Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach has filed a lawsuit against the festival's board of ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Washington Bar Agrees to Add Minority Seat
By Staff Writer
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association has voted to add one seat designated for a min...
Javier Ovando, who was paralyzed in a home invasion shooting by Rampart division officers Rafael Perez and Nino Durden and ser...
A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner Friday gave a reprieve to a former law student who faces a murder charge with a spec...
Civil Rights
Panel Discounts Perez's Testimony, Acquits Officers of Excessive Force
By Anne La Jeunesse
While disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez' testimony holds weight with criminal prosecutors, the rogue co...
KENNETH S. GELLER Geller, 53, has argued "around 40" cases before the Supreme Court, first as a member of the U.S. solicitor g...
SAN FRANCISCO - Raising new free speech concerns, a federal appellate court has kept in place the preliminary injunction preve...