"Most of the regular longtime posters have no idea who Tom is, but that doesn't really matter," one longtime Silicon Valley In...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gibson Dunn: Santa Monica's Thebrain Receives $16 Million Boost
By Victoria Newman
Santa Monica's TheBrain Technologies Corp. has received a $16 million equity investment from a group of investors led by GE Eq...
The California Supreme Court has appointed appellate attorney Barbara Ravitz to a newly formed committee which recommends cand...
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McCutchen Doyle: Merger Talks With Piper Get Going After Retreat
By Karen Coleman
While the partners at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen were plotting strategy and tee times at their annual...
Entertainment & Sports
Singer Paid Big Bucks to Take Heat for Hollywood Stars
By Contributing Writer
To borrow a hoary sports clich, Martin Singer of Lavely & Singer had a bad month on one day, April 26. That morning, New T...
Solo and Small Firms
Latino Law Group Honors Four at Gala Celebration
By Victoria Newman
With former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso as the keynote speaker, San Francisco's La Raza Lawyers Association ...
Entertainment & Sports
Fresh-Faced Filmmakers Grace Firm's Client Roster
By Contributing Writer
Sometimes, the longest journey is the three inches one takes in the pilgrimage from the darkness of the lower brain to the lig...
At 37, Intel Corp.'s Suzan A. Miller, or "Sam" as her family and friends call her, could pass for a software programmer. Inste...
The Manduley decision was logical and sound. The court recognized that by giving prosecutors the sole discretion to fil...
Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services has elected Irell & Manella partner James Adler to a one-year term as its president...
The 2000 presidential election put the practice of election law on the national map. "Before that, I had to continuously expla...
As corporate transactions in the Internet world are cooling down, new types of litigation still are heating up. Lori Schechter...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: Top Partner Sanders Wins Award Named for Judge Learned Hand
By Karen Coleman
The Los Angeles chapter of the American Jewish Committee honored Latham & Watkins international business partner Barry San...
During on-campus interviews at Duke University Law School in 1990, Jonathon Kaplan told law firms that not only did he expect ...
The lack of a college degree certainly hasn't hampered the success of Gary Dordick, 39. The Beverly Hills litigator has won mo...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Brobeck Phleger: Intel Acquires Lightlogic in $400 Million Stock Deal
By Victoria Newman
Santa Clara's Intel Corp. has agreed to buy Newark's LightLogic Inc. The cash deal is worth $400 million. Intel is the world's...
Anyone who thinks that government lawyers don't come with pedigrees should meet John Hueston, head of the U.S. attorney's offi...
As any experienced litigator knows, a motion for summary judgment or summary adjudication is one of the most significant that ...
Once the "citadel of capitalism," San Francisco's art deco Stock Exchange Tower recently played host to The Impact Fund, a Ber...
Dennis Doucette, a corporate partner at San Diego's oldest firm, never has had a problem with numbers. As a child, Doucette me...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Shearman & Sterling: French Banking Giant Buys TCW Group in Los Angeles
By Victoria Newman
SG Asset Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French banking giant Societe Generale Group, is buying 70 percent of Los Ang...
Go the extra mile, Justin Brooks counsels young lawyers. Practicing what he preaches, Brooks goes the extra mile each day figh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Lyons, one of two managing partners for the Bay Area offices of New York's Shearman & Sterling, is h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court's unusual, unsolicited move last week to expand its review of Proposition 21, the...
Firm Watch
Greenberg Traurig: Attorney Puts Together New Employment Group
By Karen Coleman
Diana Scott is putting together another employment practice group, not quite six years after establishing that practice area i...
Firm Watch
Liner Yankelevitz: Santa Monica Shop Raids Pair of Midwest Outposts
By Karen Coleman
The 50-lawyer Santa Monica firm Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstrief got five new litigators and a new San Francisco o...
Stuart Liner and his bearded collie, Fred, are the top dogs at Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine Weinhart & Regens...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Wilson Sonsini: Bay Area's Personify Gets $20 Million in Financing
By Victoria Newman
San Francisco's Personify Inc. has raised $20 million in new funding. ABS Ventures was the lead investor. Alloy Ventures, U.S....
Accused of spying for China, Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee was getting death threats at the tail end of 1999. More i...
SAN FRANCISCO - A month after losing six lawyers from its environmental group, the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzi...