Judges and Judiciary
Colleagues Testify at Judge's Disciplinary Hearing
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, accused of playing hooky from the bench while attending a Ca...
Technology & Science
Boalt Opens Law, Technology Clinic, Hires Expert as Director
By Jill Boekenoogen
LOS ANGELES - In its continuing push to build hands-on opportunities for its students, Boalt Hall opened its law and technolog...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Chinese machinery company that sailed four giant cranes into the port of Oakland illegally hired two dozen C...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Southern California Edison will be back in court Wednesday morning, attempting to get a judge to blo...
Constitutional Law
High Court to Review 9th's 'Virtual' Child Porn Decision
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a 1996 law criminalizing the distribution of sexually explicit image...
LOS ANGELES - Troy Newman had been waiting for President Bush's inauguration for eight years. "I'm excited to get a guy out of...
SAN FRANCISCO - A super-sensitive, Band-Aid-style drug testing device known as a sweat patch is being used increasingly as a s...
Large Firms
IP Star Leaves Orrick Herrington For McDermott Will & Emery
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Terry McMahon, a prominent intellectual property litigator, will join the Menlo Park office of Chicago's McDer...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown intends to appoint Kimiko Burton-Cruz as interim public defender when Jeff Brown resigns to...
Government
Smoking Gun Drops From Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - With the last-minute flurry of plea deals and pardons of the Clinton administration and the inauguration of Pres...
Personal Injury & Torts
Paralyzed Man Wins $15M in Roll-Over Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In a judgment believed to be the largest personal injury verdict in San Bernardino County history, a jury h...
Among actions announced Monday, Jan. 22, 2001 by the justices were:
Transactions
Brobeck Phleger: BROADCOM PAYS $1.7 BILLION IN A DEAL WITH SERVERWORKS
By Staff Writers
Broadcom Corp. has agreed to acquire ServerWorks Corp. in a deal valued at $1.74 billion. Irvine's Broadcom makes integrated c...
Firm Watch
Graham & James: CREDITORS SEEK CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY LIQUIDATION
By Staff Writer
The fact that San Francisco's Graham & James has closed its doors hasn't dissuaded three creditors from pressing for the i...
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O'Melveny & Myers: HEARME SCORES $20 MILLION IN SALE OF ONLINE GAME SITE
By Staff Writers
GameSpy Industries Inc. will buy the HearMe Web site, Mplayer. The cash, promissory note and stock deal is valued at $20 milli...
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Gibson Dunn: NORTHROP GRUMMAN PLANS TO BUY LITTON INDUSTRIES
By Staff Writers
Northrop Grumman Corp. is acquiring Litton Industries Inc. In consideration, Northrop will pay $3.8 million in cash and assume...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa County Supervisor Gayle Bishop has avoided state prison but will serve six months in count...
Dallas' Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld added bankruptcy partner Peter Gurfein to its Los Angeles office on Jan. 1. Gurfein...
Firm Watch
Brobeck Phleger: AD AND SALARY SPENDING COMMEMORATE BOOM YEAR
By Staff Writer
After chalking up $195 million in profits last year, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison decided to throw some money around. On Jan...
Steve Brick, a longtime corporate litigation partner at San Francisco-based Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, yielded to a hi...
Firm Watch
Jeffer Mangels: LAND USE, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY GROUP ADDS TRIO
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro recently welcomed a string of new lawyers that will expand the firm's 14-lawy...
SANTA ANA - When Orange County supervisors sued over Measure H, their beef was that the voter-approved law, which earmarked mi...
Encino's Michelman & Robinson has opened an office in Anaheim. Mona Hanna joins the firm from Irvine's Pivo Halbreich Cahi...
Firm Watch
Foley & Lardner: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DUO LEAVES NORTH FOR SAN DIEGO
By Staff Writer
In San Diego, Milwaukee's ever-sprawling Foley & Lardner lured a pair of partners from the local offices of two name-brand...
Firm Watch
Gray Cary: SECOND PRACTICE STEPS UP WITH ASSOCIATE PAY HIKES
By Staff Writer
Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich also goosed its associate pay. The move came hours after Brobeck Phleger & Ha...
Oxnard plaintiffs' boutique Hiepler & Hiepler has hired an experienced defense attorney as a senior litigation associate. ...
When Ed Wes heard on Jan. 12 that Brobeck Phleger's associate salary raises were for real, he decreed that it be so for the Sa...
San Diego gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender boutique Lynn Stock & Stephens has hired its first associate. Jason Barsi...
The fable "Rock Soup" reminds a litigator of the essence and importance of discovery: collecting scraps of information to put ...
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Wilson Sonsini: LANTRONIX SCANS DEAL FOR SOFTWARE FIRM INTO BOOKS
By Staff Writers
Lantronix Inc. has agreed to buy United States Software Co. for $7 million. Irvine's Lantronix Inc. makes servers that enable ...