In San Francisco, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George and U.S. District Chief Judge Marilyn Hall Patel are am...
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Heller Ehrman: SECOND MENLO PARK OFFICE OPENED TO FIT MORE LAWYERS
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San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe spent the Christmas holiday weekend wrapping up the move of its Menlo Park...
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Thelen Reid: SAN JOSE OFFICE GRABS NINE FROM IP BOUTIQUE BREAKUPS
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The San Jose office of San Francisco's Thelen Reid & Priest picked up a quick nine intellectual property lawyers in the wa...
California Law Business assembled a dozen legal experts, representing the state's various geographic and practice specialties,...
LOS ANGELES - After being termed out of the California State Assembly, former Republican minority leader Scott Baugh has agree...
Laguna Beach's Levin & Hawes has recruited Randall Reed as of-counsel. He was of-counsel to Plattsburgh, N.Y.'s, Stafford ...
Santa Barbara's Hatch & Parent has hired two recent law school graduates -both with impressive environmental backgrounds -...
Lawyers should consider broadening their metaphorical category beyond the typical notions or war and sports. Instead, they sho...
The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach has named local resident Jennifer Hagle to its board of directors. A partner in the ...
In a cold-blooded and cruel decision issued on Dec. 4, the California Supreme Court literally and figuratively has crushed our...
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Sonnenschein Nath: STEPTOE LABOR LAWYER SIGNS ON WITH LOS ANGELES OFFICE
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Lloyd Loomis, one of the country's top labor and employment lawyers, is ringing in the new year as a partner in the Los Angele...
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Crosby Heafey: LAMB LABOR LAWYER LANDS AT LA OUTPOST OF OAKLAND FIRM
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Back in October, labor lawyer Ann Kotlarski left a partnership at the 14-lawyer Los Angeles firm Lamb & Baute for an of co...
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Lewis D'Amato: FIRM SCOOPS UP 11 RELIANCE STAFF COUNSEL LAWYERS
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In a move that's rare for law firms , Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has acquired all the lawyers from a l...
SACRAMENTO - The state Supreme Court has appointed an 18-member panel led by bar officials to study and recommend whether atto...
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Gray Cary: EIGHT LIMBACH LAWYERS LAND IN SAN FRANCISCO, PALO ALTO
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Palo Alto-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has come out the winner in the Northern California firms' scramble for Limbac...
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Paul Hastings: ORANGE COUNTY TAX GROUP SNAGS A CHICAGO RECRUIT
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When Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker was looking for a few good estate planning lawyers earlier this year, Re...
The Department of Defense wastes billions of taxpayer dollars each year on a corrupt procurement and acquisition system that i...
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O'Melveny & Myers: SPANISH NETWORK TUNES IN FOR CHANNELS IN ENGLISH
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Univision Communications Inc. will buy USA Networks Inc.'s broadcast group for $1.1 billion cash. Univision Communications of ...
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Wilson Sonsini: POLYCOM PREPARES TO BUY ITS RIVAL FOR $339 MILLION
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Polycom Inc. will acquire Accord Networks Ltd. for $339 million. Milpitas' Polycom makes broadband appliances. Its multimedia ...
The Friends of the University of California, Los Angeles, Armenian language and culture studies program elected sole practitio...
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Crosby Heafey: CENTURY CITY OFFICE GRABS TRIO FOR SECURITIES WORK
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Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited three of the eight attorneys at Brand Farrar & Buxbaum, a corporate, real est...
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Procopio Cory: REAL ESTATE PARTNER MOVES INTO MANAGEMENT POSITION
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Tom Turner, former real estate practice group head at Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch, now leads the whole 71-lawyer Sa...
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McCutchen Doyle: REMAINING NAME PARTNER DIES 70 YEARS AFTER JOINING
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Ham Enersen, once a prominent water lawyer and a name partner at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, died on ...
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Brobeck Phleger: BROADCOM GOES OVERSEAS AND BUYS ISRAELI COMPANY
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Broadcom Corp. has agreed to purchase VisionTech Ltd. The deal is valued at $777 million. Irvine's Broadcom makes integrated c...
The 'Aas' court concentrated on the foreseeability of harm and the degree of certainty that the plaintiff suffered injury. ...
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Wilson Sonsini: AGGREGATION SERVICES WILL UNITE YODLEE, VERTICALONE
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Yodlee.com Inc. is buying VerticalOne Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Redwood Shores' Yodlee provides personal account aggreg...
SAN JOSE - In what is believed to be the first criminal forfeiture of a Web site in an intellectual property case, two Los Ang...
Most days, the three partners of Los Angeles litigation boutique Solomon Saltsman & Jamieson argue on behalf of their clie...
It was time to say hello to the Bar Association of San Francisco's new president, Doug Young, and goodbye to his predecessor, ...
A desire to get more involved in the fate of his clients' businesses has determined the course of Richard Chernicoff's career....