Entertainment & Sports
DOCUMENTARY PROMISES TO GIVE REAL BROCKOVICH STORY
By Contributing Writer
Fans of the excellent "Erin Brockovich" film should set their television dials for a documentary scheduled by the A&E cabl...
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Orrick Herrington: New York's IVillage Buys Rival Women's Network
By Staff Writer
IVillage Inc. has agreed to acquire Women.com Networks Inc. in a transaction valued at about $47 million. New York's iVillage ...
We stand today at the threshold of a new attitude and approach to the issue of illegal drugs in American society. The change i...
Business attorney Laura McAvoy has moved to Irvine-based Jackson DeMarco & Peckenpaugh. She joined the firm as partner las...
Every legal recruiter has a story to tell about the competition. Almost none of them is flattering. Partner A picks up the pho...
California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk once reiterated the old axiom that "hard cases make bad law." In re Earley
Deborah Klein is an exception to the rule that entertainment lawyers hit their stride in their mid-40s. She hit hers much soon...
Sulmeyer Kupetz Baumann & Rothman, a Los Angeles bankruptcy and business firm, has announced that Angela Sousa has joined ...
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McCutchen Doyle: Mountain View's NetLogic Finishes Second Financing
By Staff Writer
NetLogic Microsystems Inc. has completed an $18 million second round of financing led by Sevin Rosen Funds. Mountain View's Ne...
There are important strategic benefits to having the court question jurors about potential racial prejudices. ...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin: Practice in San Francisco Takes Lawyer From Justice
By Staff Writer
The fallout from the Clinton administration continues, and for San Francisco's Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton that mean...
SACRAMENTO - As a student at San Juan High School in Citrus Heights, D. Robert Shuman began to dream of a career in the law. T...
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Gunderson Dettmer: Ariba Procures Agile With $2.6 Billion Stock Swap
By Staff Writer
Ariba Inc. is buying Agile Software Corp. in a stock swap valued at $2.55 billion. Mountain View's Ariba is a business-to-busi...
Need a good headhunter, but don't know how to choose from the legions that cold-call your office every day? Look no longer; we...
The Hecker Law Group, an intellectual property boutique in Los Angeles, has hired Karim Elaagouby as a senior scientist. Elaag...
Firm Watch
Townsend & Townsend: Post-Limbach Of-Counsel Tries Larger IP Boutique
By Staff Writer
Joel Ackerman, who was of-counsel at San Francisco's Limbach & Limbach when the partners decided to disband late last year...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruling indirectly shores up Gov. Gray Davis' efforts to keep convicted killer Robert Ros...
Government
Judge Reissues Restraining Orders Against Prosecutor
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - An Orange County sex crimes prosecutor accused of attacking his estranged wife's boyfriend was barred by a judge F...
Criminal
Judge Grants New Trial to Alleged Killer of Teen-ager
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Less than two months ago, Brandon Ketsdever's family and friends rejoiced over the conviction of his suspected kil...
SAN JOSE - In what officials say is the first program of its kind in the nation, Santa Clara County has launched a juvenile me...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ever since the appearance of online file sharing technologies such as Napster, the copyright industry has shif...
Personal Injury & Torts
Business Takes Another Run at Damage Limits In Sacramento
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - While the Supreme Court addresses an important punitive damages issue, a tort reform group in California is spons...
Intellectual Property
Justices Will Ponder Review of 'Excessive' Punitive Damages
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Tim Leatherman, co-founder and president of Portland, Ore.-based Leatherman Tool Group, got an unpleasant surpris...
Emotions run pretty high when people talk about Napster. Either you love the service, finding yourself losing sleep to the und...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place for retired Los Angeles attorney Gloria J. Farquar Van Dyk. Van Dyk died Feb. 3 of cong...
The ability to listen to and download music over the Internet currently is one of the hottest topics in the entertainment indu...
Mike Tribble is just the kind of man high-tech companies want on their side. As a software developer, Tribble writes programs ...
SACRAMENTO - In an austere room lacking the nail-biting spectators, balloons and flashing lights that typically accompany a s...
PASADENA - A memorial service will take place Saturday for retired Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Samuel L. Laidig. Laidig die...
SAN FRANCISCO - A hearing officer Thursday ordered the destruction of Hera, one of the dogs involved in the mauling death of ...