LOS ANGELES - Citing mistakes by the trial court that kept Latinos off the jury, the state Supreme Court overturned a death se...
A series of fraudulent items, and some encouraging court decisions, have convinced eBay to monitor its Internet auction list...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dead celebrities got a boost from the California Supreme Court on Monday in a ruling that makes it harder for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state announced Monday that it has agreed to pay more than $114 million to the federal government to settl...
LOS ANGELES - Stanford University law school Dean Kathleen Sullivan has been incommunicado in recent days. Her office says Sul...
LOS ANGELES - Two recent and apparently contradictory appellate rulings regarding the rights and liabilities of out-of-state l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Napster may have to give up the media limelight for a while as oral arguments in another closely-watched Inter...
LOS ANGELES - Sears, Roebuck and Co. and MemberWorks Inc. have agreed to pay a combined $2 million in civil penalties for what...
Among actions announced Monday, April 30, 2001 by the justices were:
LOS ANGELES - After 30 years in the business, film distributor Tom Bernard thought he had seen and heard it all. Of course, fo...
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Wilson Sonsini: San Carlos' Natus Medical Sets Initial Public Offering
By Staff Writer
San Carlos' Natus Medical Inc. is going public in an initial offering valued at $172 million. Natus Medical develops tests tha...
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Farella Braun: Group Leases Space in Historic Ferry Building
By Victoria Newman
San Francisco's Ferry Building Investors has acquired a ground lease in the city's historic Ferry Building and plans to renova...
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Arter & Hadden: Litigator Plans to Tackle Strategy in Pair of Cities
By Karen Coleman
Arter & Hadden litigator Kim West has taken on an interesting new role as chair of two of the firm's six California office...
The voice on the other end of the phone line was my editor, a perpetually cranky woman we'll call Cruella. She seemed to draw ...
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Milbank Tweed: Hong Kong Partner Seeks Attorneys for Palo Alto
By Karen Coleman
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is the most recent law firm to stake a claim in Silicon Valley. The 500-lawyer firm, which h...
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Sidley & Austin: Fraud Prosecutor Moves Into Of-Counsel Position
By Karen Coleman
Kim Dunn, former public corruption and fraud section chief for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, shifted into private...
A federal grand jury indicted Crosby Heafey Roach & May patent department head Mal Wittenberg for insider trading on April...
By 2002, 90 percent of employees will be covered by alternate dispute resolution programs, including binding arbitration. This...
Too many ignore the childhood precept of owning up and believe that the "adult thing" to do is to try to get away with paying ...
Elysie Marie Pahler was 15 when she was raped, tortured and murdered by three boys who say they were inspired by their favorit...
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Nida & Maloney: Los Angeles' Jamdat Mobile Finds $10 Million Funding
By Victoria Newman
Wireless entertainment company Jamdat Mobile Inc. has received $10 million in second-round financing from Patricof & Compa...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council Friday voted to give $400,000 to a former Police Department officer who sued the de...
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Brobeck Phleger: Investors' Funds Stream Into San Diego's AirFiber
By Victoria Newman
AirFiber Inc., a telecommunications equipment supplier, has received $50 million in third-round, equity financing. New York's ...
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Gray Cary: Maxtor Pays $1 Billion For Quantum's Disk Drive Group
By Staff Writer
Maxtor Corp. has bought Quantum HDD, the Hard Disk Drive Group of Quantum Corp., for $1 billion in stock. Maxtor, based in Mil...
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Orrick Herrington: Veteran Sets Sights on London For New Growth
By Karen Coleman
Now that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is firmly entrenched in the United States, the San Francisco-based firm is looking ...
LOS ANGELES - A deputy court clerk at the Pomona Courthouse who suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome has sued Los Angeles Super...
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Paul Hastings: New Building's Skeleton Rises, Heading for 2002
By Karen Coleman
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is getting busy at both ends of the state. The firm is slated to move into a spanking new ...
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O'Melveny & Myers: Chief FTC Lawyer Returns to Private Practice May 1
By Karen Coleman
Federal Trade Commission lawyer Debra Valentine is coming back to O'Melveny & Myers after six years with the government. V...
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Littler Mendelson: New Employment Partner Forsakes Wilson Sonsini
By Karen Coleman
Senior Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lawyer Christy Richardson took her employment practice over to a firm that ought t...
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Fenwick & West: Corporate Group Takes Serial Startup Veteran
By Karen Coleman
After several years of hopping from startup company to startup company, former Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich partner Dan Do...