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Discipline


Caught in Conflict

Mar. 12, 2002
By Contributing Writer

What does it mean to say you supervise other attorneys or to say you are supervised? Does it mean they will obey your orders o...


Firm Watch


Formed just seven months ago, Foran Glennon Palandech & Ponzi has already set its sights on Orange County expansion. The C...


Transactions


E-PAYMENT FIRM RECEIVES VALENTINE OF $70 MILLION

Mar. 12, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

PayPal Inc. has gone public with a Feb. 14 offering of $70 million. The lead manager was Salomon Smith Barney. Co-managers wer...


Transactions


FREEMONT CHIP MAKER BRINGS IN $107 MILLION

Mar. 12, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

ESS Technology Inc. brought in $107 million in its follow-on public offering of Feb. 6. Needham & Co. managed the offering...


Transactions


NIKE WILL TARGET TEENS WITH HURLEY PURCHASE

Mar. 12, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Nike Inc. announced Feb. 22 that it will acquire Hurley International. The companies have not disclosed the terms of the deal....


Three associates have left Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in the last two weeks to join litigator Timothy Sc...


Firm Watch


Three partners have moved their environmental practices less than a mile away to Morgan Lewis & Bockius' office in downtow...


Solo and Small Firms


Small-Firm Blues

Mar. 12, 2002
By Contributing Writer

Read any law periodical, and it is easy to find a story about the 20, 50 or 100 top major law firms. There is a wealth of info...


Transactions


BAXTER LETS STOCK FLOW FOR PURCHASE OF FUSION

Mar. 12, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Baxter International acquired Fusion Medical Technologies Inc. in a deal announced Feb. 27. The stock-for-stock merger is wort...


The nation's largest employment boutique has selected a new leader for its San Diego branch. San Francisco-based Littler Mende...


Transactions


TITAN WILL MERGE WITH ENGINEERING PROVIDER

Mar. 12, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

The Titan Corp. will acquire Science & Engineering Associates Inc. The stock deal, announced Feb. 25, is worth $72 million...


Labor/Employment


Competing Interests

Mar. 12, 2002
By Contributing Writer

In the coming months, the California Supreme Court will decide how employers can treat employees on the move and the enforceab...


Transactions


YAHOO! BUYS HOTJOBS SITE FOR $436 MILLION

Mar. 12, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Yahoo! Inc. has acquired HotJobs.com Inc. The Feb. 12 deal is worth $436 million. Sunnyvale's Yahoo! is an Internet search eng...


Madeleine Kleiner remembers the phone call that led her down the in-house career path. The Beverly Hill's Hilton Hotels Corp. ...


Transactions


Heating Up the Market With a Hostile Takeover

Mar. 12, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

King led Sunnyvale's Yahoo! Inc. in its hostile takeover of New York-based HotJobs.com Inc. HotJobs had entered into a merger ...


Technology & Science


Making Capital

Mar. 12, 2002
By Staff Writer

When Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich acquired a nine-attorney regulatory boutique in Washington, D.C., last Janua...


Firm Watch


Entertainment and sports attorney Kristine Lefebvre has joined the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Lord Bissell & Brook as...


Transactions


PLURIS NETS $53 MILLION IN FIFTH-ROUND FUNDING

Mar. 12, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

Pluris Inc. has completed its fifth round of funding, which brought $53 million to the Cupertino company. The deal closed Feb....


Government


Woman Fails in Bid To Lift Her Life Ban

Mar. 12, 2002
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has denied a request by former Compton Councilwoman Leslie Irving to stay a decision that ouste...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Class Wars

Mar. 12, 2002
By John Ryan

Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins worked on three of the 10 largest mergers and acquisitions announced in 2001, including the ...


Administrative/Regulatory


Forum Column - By Richard L. Hasen - Many people think that the only election the Supreme Court decided in 2000 was the choice...


Large Firms


Mission High, Coached by Brobeck, Wins Big

Mar. 12, 2002
By Matthew King

SAN FRANCISCO - Business at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison might depend on economic cycles, but there's no boom and bust for t...


Criminal


LOS ANGELES - Even before the San Francisco dog-mauling trial of husband-and-wife attorneys began, the buzz about a particular...


Government


Some Lawyers Criticize Rules of Sept. 11 Fund

Mar. 12, 2002
By Charles Asbhy

DENVER - Attorneys across the nation are studying the final rules for the federal fund to compensate victims of the Sept. 11 a...


Judges and Judiciary


Calling Them As She Sees Them

Mar. 12, 2002
By John Roemer

OAKLAND - U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken looked bemused when a prospective juror denounced government workers as slackers....


Environmental


Focus Column - By William D. Wick - Some parties who sent very small quantities of waste or household-type garbage to federal ...


Civil Rights


SAN FRANCISCO - The Americans with Disabilities Act covers prison parole hearings, so inmates who are former drug addicts cann...


Judges and Judiciary


Interpreters Cancel Protest

Mar. 12, 2002
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County court interpreters went back to work Friday and held a meeting with a judge they had labeled "ab...


Litigation


Teacher Harassed By Pupils Wins Damages

Mar. 12, 2002
By Erin Carroll

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $4.35 million Friday to a Pacific Palisades high-school teacher who cl...


Bankruptcy


SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company, in an effort to quell some of the opposition to its bankruptcy reorganizatio...