MID-SIZE FIRM JUMPS INTO ASSOCIATE SALARY GAME Another Bay Area firm is raising associate salaries, one of the few mid-size f...

Baker & McKenzie PARTNER BOLSTERS IP PRACTICE AREA Mark A. Dalla Valle has joined Baker & McKenzie as a lateral partn...

Foley & Lardner FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY JOINS WHITE COLLAR PRACTICE Thomas F. Carlucci has joined Foley & Lardner in San...

Getting Rail Hundreds of private firms and public entities have united in a one-of-a-kind partnership to develop the Alameda ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the State Bar's Board of Legal Specialization decided to create a labor and employment law specialty cert...

Perkins Coie MARKETING DIRECTOR LEAVES FOR PERKINS COIE Marketing professional Stephen Barrett has left Los Angeles' Paul Has...

ROBERT CROCKET GOES TO SCHNADER HARRISON IN S.F. Robert Crockett has joined the San Francisco office of Philadelphia-based Sc...

Gray Cary STOCK TAKES DAILY SHARE OF PROTEIN IN 5.5% NOTES Fremont's Protein Design Labs Inc. offered $150 million in the pri...

Business litigator David Stern, former name partner of Santa Monica's Stern, Neubauer, Greenwald & Pauly, has joined Centu...

LEGAL MARKETING EXPERTS ELECT DIRECTORS FOR 2000 The 1,000-member Legal Marketing Association recently elected its year 2000 ...

By Emma Varesio For Janet Lucas, law requires discipline, attention and dedication - just like aikido and karate. "In martial...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has sentenced former Social Security administrative law judge Elizabeth Price to eight months ...

PIRCHER NICOLS WELCOMES TWO BRUINS TO REAL ESTATE The Los Angeles office of Pircher, Nichols & Meeks recently gained two ...

FORUM Our economic prosperity should allow the state to subsidize child-care for the working poor. Page 6. ^^For the People^^...

When she became in-house counsel to a company manufacturing chipsets, software and satellite phones, Rhonda Wagner needed to ...

Irell & Manella EARS PERK UP AT MENTION OF VULCAN'S ACQUISITION Bellevue, Wash.-based Vulcan Ventures Inc. has agreed to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Raymond L. Marsh, a retired Alameda County Superior Court judge best known for his decision to bar prayer at a...

Kirkland & Ellis YIKES, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? WHEW, IT'S JUST AN IPO Independent film producer and The Blair Witch Project d...

STEEFEL LEVITT PROMOTES JOSEPH FLOREN TO PARTNER Steefel, Levitt & Weiss has elevated Joseph E. Floren to partner, increa...

ROSENFELD MEYER SECURES ENTERTAINMENT LAW EXPERT Beverly Hills' Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman hired Konrad L. Trope as a part...

Pillsbury Madison INITIAL STOCK OFFERING TO RECEIVE HEALING SUPPORT Redwood City's Support.com filed for an initial public of...

CARLSEN CLIMBS ON BOARD OF L.A. LIBRARY FOUNDATION The Los Angeles County Public Library Foundation recently elected Weston, ...

THE CLOSER Changes in city charters offer lawyers new opportunities to help with land-use issues. By Gail Gordon and Gordon F...

Stradling Yocca HIGH-PROFILE LITIGATORS LEAVE ORRICK L.A. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has lost two of its senior partn...

Live from the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica, it's Saturday night improv with litigator Ginger Heyman . Spending her spar...

By John M. Curtis Falling on his sword, John McCain's bid for the Republican nomination hit the skids in Virginia by lining up...

McDermott Will IPO OPENS FUNDING ARTERY FOR BIOTECH COMPANY South San Francisco's ViroLogic Inc. filed for an initial public ...

Shearman & Sterling NIKU DECIDES TO 'JUST DO IT' WITH $88 MILLION OFFERING Redwood City's Niku Corp. is releasing an init...

FRANCHISE LAW GROUP ADDS NEW LITIGATION SUPERVISOR Joel D. Siegel recently joined the Los Angeles office of Dallas-based Jenk...

^^Entertainment Law^^ Tease: Writer who contributed to the script and direction of Malcolm X not a co-author. Page 7. Phantom ...