The screening process for PDQuick (formerly Pink Dot) employees is expected to come under scrutiny with the filing Monday of a...
The Rodent wonders where one goes to apply for a job as a legal humor scholar. ...
Our present method of collecting and transporting ballots could cause a local, state or national crisis of staggering proporti...
Criminal
Hang 'em Low Trend in War on Drugs Points to Kinder, Gentler California
By Garry Abrams
Californians, and maybe Americans as a whole, are sending signals that they're ready to take some of the bite out of the crimi...
Among actions announced Monday, November 13, 2000 by the justices were:
What if, instead of inaugurating the president-elect on Jan. 20, we inaugurate a group presidency of thousands of California p...
The issue that has been left out of this election is the abysmal failure of our child-labor laws. A society can face no more s...
Firm Watch
Arter & Hadden: SAN DIEGO OUTPOST TAKES SEVEN AWAY FROM HILLYER
By Staff Writer
Cleveland-based Arter & Hadden has added seven lawyers to its San Diego office from Hillyer & Irwin, also in San Diego...
Firm Watch
Snell & Wilmer: PARTNERS CHANGE FIRMS AS THEIR PRACTICE DISSOLVES
By Staff Writer
Steve McHolm and Dan Winton, a pair of real estate lawyers who've been law partners for 18 years, won't have to part when thei...
Firm Watch
Oppenheimer Wolff: PALO ALTO PRACTICE WILL ACQUIRE PATENT LAWYERS
By Staff Writer
Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly plans to acquire the Palo Alto patent and trademark boutique Hickman Coleman &am...
Transactions
Kirkland & Ellis: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES JETTISONS HEART DIVISION
By Staff Writer
Jostra AG has completed a purchase of the Bentley Cardio Pulmonary Division of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. The deal is valued a...
James Brosnahan, a partner at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has been honored with the Samuel E. Gates Litigation Aw...
Minor slights and changes in employment conditions are not actionable discrimination. ...
Joel Mark, of-counsel to Oxnard's Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton, has been appointed to the California State Bar Committee...
Frederick Allen and Michael Matkins, name partners at Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, have earned the ti...
The Alliance for Children's Rights, an organization that provides free legal representation and social services referrals to c...
The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission will hold a public hearing Thursday to receive comment on a proposal to require officeh...
Call him shy, call him modest. Either way, Rod Berman refuses to talk about himself. When asked about his most recent deal for...
Richard Mosk, a name partner at Century City's now defunct Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk, has become a full-time me...
Firm Watch
Manatt Phelps: HOME OFFICE LURES FORMER VERIZON V.P. BACK TO STATE
By Staff Writer
After 13 years away from California, John Grosvenor returned on Nov. 1 as a corporate partner in the Los Angeles home-office o...
Former Immigration and Naturalization Service official Allen Erenbaum has joined Mayer Brown & Platt as a senior associate...
The fifth annual "Vision in Philanthropy Awards" were hosted by the Freeman Freeman & Smiley Foundation Nov. 2 in Beverly ...
Statutes and regulations have too many words, too many convolutions and redundancies, too many exceptions to exceptions. Democ...
Lance LaBelle is making a comeback - a musical comeback. "For years the lawyer has consumed the musician," says LaBelle, a par...
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Morrison & Foerster: TWO SAN JOSE COMPANIES PREPARE FOR STOCK MERGER
By Staff Writer
Semiconductor production equipment maker Novellus Systems Inc. is acquiring GaSonics International Corp., a maker of semicondu...
Two mediators are moving up in the world, literally. Charles G. Bakaly Jr. and former U.S. District Judge John G. Davies are m...
Firm Watch
Jeffer Mangels: LOS ANGELES AND LAS VEGAS PAIR FORMALIZE ALLIANCE
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro announced a partnership of sorts to the business and legal community at the L...
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Jeffer Mangels: CHEROKEE LICENSES APPAREL TO PARIS-BASED CARREFOUR
By Staff Writer
Van Nuys' Cherokee Inc. is licensing its trademark apparel to Paris-based Carrefour Group. The companies did not disclose the ...
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Wilson Sonsini: SNAP APPLIANCES FILES IPO LOOKING FOR $100 MILLION
By Staff Writer
Snap Appliances Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. San Jose's Snap Appliances makes file se...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Administrative Office of the Courts has appointed former Southern California lawyer Susan Hough as its new...