COBLENTZ PATCH ELEVATES STEINHAUER TO PARTNER Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass of San Francisco has elevated special counsel...

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BARTKO ZANKEL WELCOMES ASSOCIATES TO TWO GROUPS San Francisco's Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller has added associates Rob...

Gray Cary ANOTHER VALLEY FIRM SETS UP SHOP IN SEATTLE Palo Alto-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has opened an office i...

MILLER'S NAME IS IN THE CENTER OF LONG BEACH California State University, Long Beach has named its new library resources cent...

Morrison & Foerster SOFTBANK INVESTS $35 MILLION IN ITS RIVALS Seattle-based Rivals.com closed a $35 million equity inves...

COX CASTLE GAINS MORE MEMBERS ON ALL LEVELS Los Angeles-based Cox, Castle & Nicholson added one partner and eight associa...

Skadden Arps TUMBLEWEED ROLLS INTO COMPUTER SECURITY CO. Redwood City's Tumbleweed Communications Corp. completed its acquisi...

NORTH, EAST BAY OFFICES ADDS NEW SHAREHOLDERS San Leandro-based Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson announced that Rich...

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Gadfly Sentenced For Flier Handout WESTMINSTER - John Merzweiler, the Huntington Beach political gadfly who was prosecuted las...

Pillsbury Madison NINE PLUS S3(R) ADDS UP TO NEW PURCHASE Santa Clara-based S3(R) Inc. acquired Number Nine Visual Technology...

THE CLOSER Ethical rules ought to accommodate a public-sector attorney's special role to serve the public trust. By Richard C....

The intellectual-property and free-access communities will be watching the MP3.com lawsuits closely. Audio Stream MP3.com Chal...

Davis Wright SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE GAINS ENERGY ASSOCIATE Laura K. O'Connor , former in-house counsel to the Sacramento Munici...

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Floating a new theory to prove O.J. Simpson's innocence, a lawyer for the former football great contends in a federal lawsuit ...

DICTA Ally McBeal petitions the court of appeals to annul the marriage of a man whose ex-wife reveals that she was a lesbian. ...

Pool Investors Get Final Payout SANTA ANA - After more than five years, members of Orange County's investment pools have been ...

Charles Lynberg, the name partner at Lynberg & Watkins who was sued by two legal secretaries for sexual harassment, is fac...

An Arizona-based manufacturer of back-lighted displays used in watches, mobile phones and other electronic devices won nearly ...

Judging Amy By Michael Bergfeld Judge Amy's clerk warns her that the calendar is a tough one. Her response is, "How tough can ...

By Phyllis Schlafly In the televised presidential debates, Alan Keyes keeps reminding us that moral and cultural issues are pa...

More than 50 years after his entire family died in the Holocaust, 77-year-old Nicholas Babos will finally receive compensation...

Law & Order By Allen Bloom Have you ever had the overwhelming urge to actually pull the switch on Ted Bundy or drop the pe...

DICTA On 'The Practice,' a desperate Berluti offers another prosecutor a Faustian deal. ...