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
Foran Glennon: YOUNG LAW FIRM ALREADY NEEDS MORE OFFICE SPACE
By Staff Writer
Formed just seven months ago, Foran Glennon Palandech & Ponzi has already set its sights on Orange County expansion. The C...
PayPal Inc. has gone public with a Feb. 14 offering of $70 million. The lead manager was Salomon Smith Barney. Co-managers wer...
ESS Technology Inc. brought in $107 million in its follow-on public offering of Feb. 6. Needham & Co. managed the offering...
Nike Inc. announced Feb. 22 that it will acquire Hurley International. The companies have not disclosed the terms of the deal....
Firm Watch
Sidley Austin: NEW PARTNER GIVES OFFERS TO FIVE WILSON ASSOCIATES
By Staff Writer
Three associates have left Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in the last two weeks to join litigator Timothy Sc...
Three partners have moved their environmental practices less than a mile away to Morgan Lewis & Bockius' office in downtow...
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...
Baxter International acquired Fusion Medical Technologies Inc. in a deal announced Feb. 27. The stock-for-stock merger is wort...
Firm Watch
Littler Mendelson: NEW MANAGING PARTNER TAKES OVER IN SAN DIEGO
By Staff Writer
The nation's largest employment boutique has selected a new leader for its San Diego branch. San Francisco-based Littler Mende...
The Titan Corp. will acquire Science & Engineering Associates Inc. The stock deal, announced Feb. 25, is worth $72 million...
In the coming months, the California Supreme Court will decide how employers can treat employees on the move and the enforceab...
Yahoo! Inc. has acquired HotJobs.com Inc. The Feb. 12 deal is worth $436 million. Sunnyvale's Yahoo! is an Internet search eng...
Corporate
Welcoming Risk, One Corporate Lawyer Finds Her Work Niche in Hotel Business
By Liz Valsamis
Madeleine Kleiner remembers the phone call that led her down the in-house career path. The Beverly Hill's Hilton Hotels Corp. ...
King led Sunnyvale's Yahoo! Inc. in its hostile takeover of New York-based HotJobs.com Inc. HotJobs had entered into a merger ...
When Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich acquired a nine-attorney regulatory boutique in Washington, D.C., last Janua...
Entertainment and sports attorney Kristine Lefebvre has joined the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Lord Bissell & Brook as...
Pluris Inc. has completed its fifth round of funding, which brought $53 million to the Cupertino company. The deal closed Feb....
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has denied a request by former Compton Councilwoman Leslie Irving to stay a decision that ouste...
Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins worked on three of the 10 largest mergers and acquisitions announced in 2001, including the ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Demise of Open Primaries Puts Parties Above Voters
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Forum Column - By Richard L. Hasen - Many people think that the only election the Supreme Court decided in 2000 was the choice...
SAN FRANCISCO - Business at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison might depend on economic cycles, but there's no boom and bust for t...
LOS ANGELES - Even before the San Francisco dog-mauling trial of husband-and-wife attorneys began, the buzz about a particular...
DENVER - Attorneys across the nation are studying the final rules for the federal fund to compensate victims of the Sept. 11 a...
OAKLAND - U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken looked bemused when a prospective juror denounced government workers as slackers....
Focus Column - By William D. Wick - Some parties who sent very small quantities of waste or household-type garbage to federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Americans with Disabilities Act covers prison parole hearings, so inmates who are former drug addicts cann...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County court interpreters went back to work Friday and held a meeting with a judge they had labeled "ab...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $4.35 million Friday to a Pacific Palisades high-school teacher who cl...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company, in an effort to quell some of the opposition to its bankruptcy reorganizatio...