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Brobeck Phleger: TEXAS FIRM RECEIVES NEARLY $10 MILLION FROM INVESTORS
By Columnist
Xalted Networks of Plano, Texas, has sold $9.7 million worth of series B securities. Investors BlueStream Ventures Limited Par...
Firm Watch
Jeffer Mangels: L.A. LAW FIRM CELEBRATES TWO DECADES WITH BIG BASH
By Donna Huffaker
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro celebrated 20 years in business Nov. 1 with a party at its Century City office. With plent...
The Anti-Defamation League has presented its Daniel R. Ginsberg Leadership Award to Thomas Leanse, a litigation partner in the...
Firm Watch
LeBoeuf Lamb: L.A. FOUNDER RETURNS TO EXPAND CORPORATE GROUP
By Staff Writer
Fifteen years after Gary Apfel founded the Los Angeles office of New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae , the corporate l...
The U.S. Act to Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, or PATRIOT Act, the Bush Administratio...
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Pilsbury Winthrop: SILICON VALLEY'S LOGICVISION CLEARS $41 MILLION WITH IPO
By Columnist
LogicVision Inc. has raised nearly $41 million in its first public offering. The San Jose firm sold 4.5 million shares of comm...
Boston research firm BTI Consulting Group Inc. has awarded Judith Droz, a partner with Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May...
Solo and Small Firms
REAL ESTATE ATTORNEYS AID SANTA MONICA'S HOMELESS
By Staff Writer
Upward Bound House, a nonprofit community service organization in Santa Monica, has honored two attorneys from Harding Larmore...
IPrint Technologies Inc. of Menlo Park has merged with Wood Associates, subsidiary of Santa Clara's Wood Alliance Inc. Terms o...
In these trying days, the game of golf provide practical lessons on managing life both on the course and in the office. ...
The Sonoma County bar gathered last month at the ninth annual "Careers of Distinction" dinner to honor two men lauded for upho...
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Squire Sanders: PALO ALTO PARTNER TAKES TOP MANAGEMENT POSITION
By Toni Vranjes
Squire Sanders & Dempsey has named Silicon Valley partner Nicholas Unkovic to its national management committee, making hi...
The pressures of motherhood and lawyering can be daunting, but being a mother in law also can be rewarding and even lead to th...
The Practicing Law Institute has released the sixth annual supplement to the treatise "Likelihood of Confusion in Trademark La...
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Alschuler Grossman: MUSIC LITIGATOR MOVES FROM BOUTIQUE TO CENTURY CITY FIRM
By Staff Writer
Music litigator Mark Passin has hopped from Los Angeles music-law boutique Engel & Engel to Century City's Alschuler Gross...
The Legal Marketing Association's Bay Area chapter has awarded Debra Fischer its annual Rella Lossy Professional Achievement A...
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Gordon & Rees: HAIGHT PARTNER DELIVERS CROSS-BORDER EXPERTISE
By Staff Writer
International business partner George R. Gonzalez , whose legal work helped make the summer blockbuster "Pearl Harbor" a reali...
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Procopio Cory: ANOTHER LYON ASSOCIATE DECIDES TO PLAY ELSEWHERE
By Staff Writer
Stephen Beuerle is the latest San Diego attorney to move from Lyon & Lyon to Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch . Beue...
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O'Melveny & Myers: LOS ANGELES REIT RAISES $61 MILLION IN OFFERING
By Contributing Writer
Los Angeles' Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. has raised $61 million by selling 6.1 million shares of its common stock. Jolson Merch...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
JAMS RECRUITS THREE NEW NEUTRALS AROUND STATE
By Staff Writer
Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has recruited three new neutrals in the past two months. William McDonald, 65, ha...
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Latham & Watkins: SAFEWAY CHECKS OUT WITH $400 MILLION IN FINANCING
By Columnist
Pleasanton-based Safeway Inc. has raised $400 million through the sale of investment-grade debt securities. Deutsche Banc Alex...
LOS ANGELES - A former Latham & Watkins associate has returned to the Los Angeles-based firm as a partner. John Flynn move...
Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has asked the nation to perform a balancing act: become better prepared for terrorist...
Juvenile
Foster-Home Teens Tell of Their Lives, Haunted by Violence, Fear
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The message was simple. In families, violence begets violence, and kids taken from violent homes don't always f...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Says Opponent Is Running in Retaliation
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Hesperia attorney Robert J. O'Connor is challenging San Bernardino County Presiding Judge Roberta McPeters in...
LOS ANGELES - Henry Liang has a lot to learn before he sits down behind the newly installed information desk at the entrance o...
SAN FRANCISCO - Olympic Community College, in Bremerton, Wash., violated the free speech and free exercise of religion rights ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Who owns the ball? In sports bars and tort classes, it's the question of the moment. Who is the legal possesso...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Kimberly Ryan graduated from high school in 1974, she didn't go to college. "We just didn't do it in my f...
One of the most significant pieces of environmental legislation adopted this year is the California Land Environmental Restora...