A Los Angeles City Council member has taken the Police Department to task for recruiting from parts of the country that she sa...
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Wilson Sonsini: LOUDCLOUD FILES OFFERING FOR $150 MILLION IN STOCK
By Staff Writers
Sunnyvale's Loudcloud Inc. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at $150 million. Loudcloud is an Internet ...
In some quarters, the recently defeated referendum to limit the non-Swiss portion of Switzerland's population to 18 percent ra...
Two Internet greeting card companies with nearly identical monikers have settled their legal disputes, with the firm that los...
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McKenna & Cuneo: STORIED LITIGATOR MAKES HOME AT SAN DIEGO OFFICE
By Staff Writer
In what could be the understatement of the year, McKenna & Cuneo 's San Diego managing partner and litigation group head, ...
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Pillsbury Madison: TAXING PARTNERS JOIN UP AS L.A. PARTNER MOVES ON
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro recently brought aboard two tax partners, Victor Penico and Keith Gercken. The f...
Representing the father-and-son team of Jefferson and Donald Christal in the sale of their indoor tanning products company tur...
Many midsize firms are closing their doors or giving up the ghost in mergers with larger firms. Some blame it on a hostile eco...
Important evidentiary protections exist for sexual-assault victims pursuing civil lawsuits. ...
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Wilson Sonsini: SUN MICROSYSTEMS PUTS DOWN $2 BILLION IN DEAL
By Staff Writers
Sun Microsystems Inc. will acquire Cobalt Networks Inc. in a stock-for-stock merger valued at $2 billion. Palo Alto-based Sun ...
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Orrick Herrington: WEST COAST HOUSING FIRMS PLAN TO MEET IN A MERGER
By Staff Writers
Schuler Homes Inc. has announced that it will merge with privately held Western Pacific Housing. The combined company will hav...
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Morrison Cohen: TWO TANNING COMPANIES ENTER INTO A GOLDEN DEAL
By Staff Writers
California Tan Inc. has bought California SunCare Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Los Angeles' California Tan,...
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Farella Braun: CHALONE OBTAINS PRIVATE FINANCING FOR VINEYARDS
By Staff Writers
Napa's Chalone Wine Group Ltd. has obtained private financing to purchase three vineyards. The unsecured loan is valued at $30...
Seyfarth Shaw ranks 42nd in the state, but its image tends to run beige. To rectify its lack of recognition, the firm has emba...
As difficult as it may be to believe, there really is sexual-harassment insurance coverage. Employment-practices liability ins...
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Cooley Godward: BIOTECH COMPANY MERGES TO IMPROVE CAPABILITIES
By Staff Writers
South San Francisco's Exelixis Inc. has agreed to acquire Agritope, based in Portland, Ore. The stock-for-stock transaction is...
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Paul Hastings: CONTRA COSTA SKYSCRAPER COSTS GROUP $55 MILLION
By Staff Writers
Contra Costa's tallest building, One Concord Center, has been sold in a deal worth $55 million. TrizecHahn Corp., a real estat...
The corporate legal department has become the holy grail of a legal career, with attendant respect, and a leader and an associ...
Terrorist groups are still targeting defense attorneys in Northern Ireland despite the desire of its citizens to put the Troub...
The White House, the symbol of the executive branch that enforces our federal laws, has been financed illegally and in direct ...
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Skadden Arps: L.A. CORPORATE ATTORNEY CROSSES TO INVESTORS CO.
By Staff Writer
The Los Angeles arm of New York giant Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom lost corporate attorney Brian McCarthy to an execu...
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Stutman Treister: BANKRUPTCY LAW PIONEER, FIRM FOUNDER DEAD AT 86
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Stutman Treister & Glatt, one of the country's leading bankruptcy firms, is mourning the loss of founder Jack...
For the past year, former lawyer Mary Mocine has made a practice of getting attorneys' attention with simple but revolutionary...
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Morrison & Foerster: CHARLES SCHWAB COUNSEL AND BOUTIQUE EXILE JOIN
By Staff Writer
Morrison & Foerster has added one partner to its Irvine office and another to its San Francisco headquarters. The most rec...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Pasadena law firm Robert L. Re...
SANTA ANA - Three Southland residents were convicted last week on federal fraud and money laundering charges after bilking som...
RIVERSIDE - The Welsh Choir of Southern California has something to sing about after a judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging it m...
Northrop Grumman Corp. paid the U.S. government $1.4 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the company of ov...
Technology & Science
New Law Makes Business Transactions Easier Online
By Daniel Evans
You can get just about anything you want on the Internet these days: books, music, cars ... legal representation. With the Ele...
A federal appeals court has vacated the arson-for-profit conviction of retired San Francisco police Officer William Parenti on...