Abgenix Inc. sold $200 million worth of notes that will be converted into stock in 2007. The deal closed March 4. Abgenix refu...
Stalking cases, especially those involving celebrities, have caught the attention of the state and the media for years. ...
Gary Olson led Thousand Oaks-based Amgen Inc. in its offering of zero coupon senior convertible notes, which will mature in 30...
ActionPoint Inc. will acquire Captiva Software Corp. in a stock-for-stock deal that is worth $10 million. The deal was announc...
Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. closed its offering of more than 9 million shares March 5. The deal is worth $98 million. The lead ...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: BILLING RATES, CONTRARY FOCUSES SPUR DEPARTURE
By Staff Writer
The real estate practice group at the Orange County office of Pillsbury Winthrop has office space to spare. Five of its lawyer...
Loudcloud Inc. will acquire Frontera Corp. The stock deal, announced Feb. 28, is worth $13 million. Sunnyvale's Loudcloud mana...
Law Practice
Attorney's Novel Approach to Job Hunting Raises Brows
By Katherine Gaidos
Peter Thottam has a résumé to make ambitious corporate associates drool. During the heady dot-com days of the late 1990s, he ...
My husband has a theory about airport security. "It's to keep the elephants out," he explained solemnly, as we waited in an in...
Identix Inc. and Visionics Corp. agreed to merge on Feb. 22. The stock deal is worth $600 million. Los Gatos-based Identix mak...
Firm Watch
Fenwick & West: SILICON VALLEY SHOP DOES BETTER THAN MOST IN 2001
By Staff Writer
All things considered, 2001 was not a bad year at Fenwick & West , says Gordon Davidson , chairman of the 300-lawyer Palo ...
Two years ago, a young partner in the tech boomtown of Reston, Va., spoke to me with unbridled confidence about the expansive ...
Amgen Inc. has agreed to sell 30-year senior notes that will be converted into Amgen stock. Amgen expects to raise $2.8 billio...
Firm Watch
Steptoe & Johnson: LUCE PARTNER WILL HEAD L.A. INSOLVENCY PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Washington, D.C.'s Steptoe & Johnson has recruited Los Angeles bankruptcy veteran Barry Glaser to complete its West Coast ...
Genesis Microchip Inc. will acquire all the assets of VM Labs Inc., including patents, trademarks and other intellectual prope...
It's not a bad time to be a white-collar defense lawyer, as Walter Brown proved two weeks ago when he left San Francisco's The...
Firm Watch
McDermott Will: SILICON VALLEY OUTPOST NABS FENWICK FOURSOME
By Staff Writer
Continuing its Silicon Valley growth, Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added four lawyers who specialize in complex an...
Compass Group will acquire Bon Apptit Management Co. Inc. The cash deal is worth more than $155 million and was announced Marc...
Law Office Automation
New York's Weil Gotshal Came to the Valley And Made 21st-Century Technology Livable
By Staff Writer
REDWOOD SHORES - Stepping into Weil Gotshal & Manger's new Silicon Valley office is a distinctly unlawyerly experience, an...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has upheld the highly unusual decision of a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner to jail a c...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Hostage Negotiator Speaks at Masters Forum
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - "I'm nothing." The phrase comes straight from the mouth of a man who has devoted his life to hostage negotiation...
SAN FRANCISCO - Just two months ago, the California Supreme Court decided it wasn't ready to tackle the question of whether a ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's largest health care workers' union goes to court today to fight a class action by a nationa...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Three years ago tonight, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner H. George Taylor and his wife, Lynda, were...
Forum Column - By Charles B. Craver - The collapse of Enron has demonstrated that most employees exercise no control over issu...
Criminal
Citing Lawyer's Need to Prepare, Court Grants Convict New Trial
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - While representing himself in a burglary trial, Narcisco Medina put the trial judge in what an appellate court cal...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bruce Eads , an associate with the Oakland firm of Donahue Gallagher Woods & Woods , has been named Volunt...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco Assistant District Attorney James Hammer, the lead prosecutor in the fatal dog-mauling trial, has ...
LOS ANGELES - Roger's story of sexual abuse by an adult male relative is ugly, but not uncommon. From the time the boy was 9, ...
LOS ANGELES - With leaves of potted plants bursting out like fireworks all around his bench, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ...