LOS ANGELES - Longtime criminal defense attorney and former Los Angeles police commission President Gerald Chaleff - fired ear...
SAN FRANCISCO - Eighty-four associates out of the 130 eligible for the buyout plan at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Ha...
The holiday season has arrived, and companies and law firms will be hosting parties for employees. Leading attorneys are urgin...
Serving in the military during wartime carries many costs, including the risk of injury or death. But military service should ...
President Bush justifies his bombing of Afghanistan as a war against terror. A twin motive, however, is to make Afghanistan sa...
We have no idea whether 40 years from now we will be worried about terrorism, the Israel-Palestine conflict or the state of ed...
I vividly remember doing my first nonjury civil trial as a judge, not because the case was unique but because it taught me how...
Government
Terrorism War's Legal Conundrums Include Idealism Under Duress
By Garry Abrams
The war against terrorism is generating a cornucopia of legal conundrums. The controversies range from the heated debate about...
In a case likely to become a leading case on support, the court in In re Marriage of Cheriton, 2001 DJDAR 10047 (Cal. A...
There usually is only one case in any law office where justice is being advanced, where the outcome promises to be dramatic. ...
Firm Watch
Knobbe Martens: LARGER QUARTERS AWAIT ORANGE COUNTY LAWYERS
By Staff Writer
Intellectual property boutique Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear soon will be on the move in Orange County. The firm has outgrow...
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Latham & Watkins: PRICE LEGACY SNATCHES UP FIVE NEW SHOPPING CENTERS
By Staff Writer
San Diego-based Price Legacy Corp. closed a deal on Nov. 28 with Swerdlow Real Estate Group Inc. to acquire five shopping cent...
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Orrick Herrington: GOLDEN STATE SETS RECORD WITH $5.7 BILLION OFFERING
By Staff Writer
The state of California has completed a $5.7 billion issuance of revenue anticipation notes, making the transaction reportedly...
The name partners at Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear face an unusual problem: They are forcing themselves out of their own int...
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Allen Matkins: FORD SIGNS 10-YEAR LEASE FOR DISTRIBUTION CENTER
By Staff Writer
Ford Motor Co. signed a 10-year lease on Nov. 8 with San Francisco's Catellus Development Corp. The lease is for a distributio...
Firm Watch
Fulbright & Jaworski: PAIR OF ATTORNEYS EXPANDS LABOR-EMPLOYMENT GROUP
By Staff Writer
With two new attorneys, Fulbright & Jaworski expanded its labor and employment practice in Los Angeles. The Houston-based ...
EM Holdings Inc. has acquired eMachines Inc. The deal, announced Nov. 20, is worth $161 million. Garden Grove's EM Holdings is...
Firm Watch
Greenberg Traurig: 500 PARTY AT NEW OFFICE TO CELEBRATE EXPANSION
By Staff Writer
About 500 people packed into the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig a few weeks ago to celebrate the firm's growth in the...
Firm Watch
Wilson Sonsini: NAME PARTNER STEPS DOWN AFTER 31 YEARS IN PALO ALTO
By Staff Writer
When John B. Goodrich joined Wilson Mosher & Martin in 1970, only eight lawyers practiced alongside him. The small Palo Al...
Firm Watch
Baker & McKenzie: OFFICE MOVES CHALKED UP AS BOTH STRATEGY AND COVER-UP
By Staff Writer
Call it smart strategic planning or a plain-old marketing spin - Peter Engstrom , the managing partner of Baker & McKenzie...
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McCutchen Doyle: THIRD ROUND OF FINANCING NETS NETLOGIC $22 MILLION
By Staff Writer
Mountain View's NetLogic Microsystems Inc. announced that it raised $22 million in its third round of financing. New York-base...
This wasn't the year to be up for partner at California's largest law firms. In 2000, San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger &...
The California energy crisis, terrorist attacks and an economic recession almost derailed the single largest municipal financi...
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Akin Gump: IT'S RAINING CATS, DOGS AND PUBLIC OFFERINGS FOR VCA
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles-based VCA Antech Inc. announced its initial public offering of 14 million shares on Nov. 20. The offering is expec...
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Morrison & Foerster: SHIPPING COMPANY SECURES SECOND FINANCING ROUND
By Staff Writer
San Carlos-based Open Harbor Inc. raised $10 million in a second round of venture capital financing. Lead investors included D...
Foley & Lardner attorney Stacy Taylor used to drive through the busy, one-way streets of San Diego to get to her office in...
Christmas came early this year for Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips. ...
SAN DIEGO - Promising to unify a divided district attorney's office and regain the confidence of police agencies, former feder...
SAN BERNARDINO - The state attorney general's office is investigating allegations by county officials that Robert J. O'Connor ...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for two Pakistani students say federal officials are unfairly punishing their clients based on their nat...