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Wilson Sonsini: SANTA CLARA'S NEW FOCUS ACQUIRES JCA TECHNOLOGY
By Staff Writer
Santa Clara's New Focus Inc. has bought Camarillo's JCA Technology Inc. The stock and cash deal is worth $363 million. New Foc...
For the hundreds of entertainment lawyers working in Los Angeles, the concept of a work stoppage has been very, very good for ...
Stormy weather doesn't often hit San Diego. If you believe the city's residents, life's a beach there, and 72 degrees all the ...
Firm Watch
Greenberg Traurig: PROMISE OF GLOBAL REACH LURES SHOW BIZ LAWYER
By Staff Writer
Vincent Chieffo, an entertainment lawyer who does both litigation and transactional work, is now a partner in the Los Angeles ...
Most employers know that it is illegal to discriminate against women on the basis of pregnancy and childbirth. However, despit...
SAN BERNARDINO - Prosecutors Friday decided to retry the mental soundness trial of a man who raped his own mother. San Bernard...
Veteran legal aid director Gregory Knoll just received a visitor from Washington, D.C. Knoll wonders what took so long. ...
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. has reached an agreement with Acqua Wellington North American Equities Fund Ltd. for an equity in...
Firm Watch
Allen Matkins: VISA TAPS MANAGING PARTNER GUY ROUNSEVILLE AS ITS G.C.
By Staff Writer
Private practice short-timer Guy Rounsaville moved to the corporate department of Visa International on March 1. The longtime ...
The state Water Resources Control Board has issued new regulations under the Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trus...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Proskauer Rose welcomed back an old friend on March 1 when Kenneth Krug returned after...
Transactions
Steefel Levitt: MOORE FOUNDATION SIGNS SHORT-TERM PRESIDIO LEASE
By Staff Writer
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has signed a short-term lease with The Presidio Trust to locate the foundation's first h...
Firm Watch
Cooley Godward: NEW YORK TECH LAWYER PLIES HIS TRADE IN SILICON VALLEY
By Staff Writer
Cooley Godward snapped up Dan Mummery , an oft-cited expert that had been in charge of the global technology transactions grou...
SAN FRANCISCO - Political considerations may have persuaded prosecutors to present the San Francisco dog mauling case to a gra...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County assistant public defender said Friday he will ask a state appellate court to reconsider its opini...
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster will be shutting down its independent Buenos Aires office in favor of a strategic alli...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca filed suit against the county Friday for allegedly depriving him of pension ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Judge Allows Plaintiffs to Use Memos in Abuse Case
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - When nursing director Erin Messet got fired from an Alzheimer's hospital in Orange County, she says she did what h...
Civil Rights
Suit Accuses San Jose Officers Of Rousting One of Their Own
By Staff Writer
SAN JOSE - The San Jose city attorney's office is defending a lawsuit filed by one of its own former investigators, an African...
Government
Former Prosecutor, DA's Office Settle Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A former Riverside prosecutor has settled a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit that she filed against the Rive...
Judges and Judiciary
Conservative Legal Gadfly Keeps Eye on L.A. Judges
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Larry Klayman, the conservative legal gadfly who brought you Chinagate, Filegate and a host of lawsuits against ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A "rolling depression" has set in at the Bar Association of San Francisco. The outfit's CLE director, Barbara ...
LOS ANGELES - A history teacher who suffered mild brain damage when a Federal Express driver accidentally knocked her to the g...
SAN JOSE - In a victory for a cable company that could have broader implications for the industry, a federal judge has rejecte...
The U.S. Supreme Court had the opportunity to rock the EPA and other agencies off their foundations but declined the invitatio...
LOS ANGELES - The Century City Bar Association recently honored three Los Angeles lawyers and the American Arbitration Associa...
Much has been written lately about the digital divide. A bunch of do-gooders are worried that too many in our society have bee...
You intend to type in Referee.com but erroneously go to eReferee.com instead. In so doing, you are stepping into a debate abou...
According to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, 225,000 cases of elder abuse occur annually in California. He estimates...
Despite running into one stumbling block after another, Semtek International Inc. will continue its long-running legal fight w...