SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the judge's "unique 'joking' relationship" with his accuser, a divided Commission on Judicial Performan...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco-based Pillsbury Madison & Sutro has raised associate salaries to match the massive increases...
Mergers & Acquisitions
East West Completes Buy of American International
By Emma Varesio
East West Bancorp Inc. recently completed its acquisition of American International Bank for an all-cash value of $33.1 millio...
Sal Torres, a partner at Gutierrez & Associates, spends many of his weekend hours cutting ribbons. As the new mayor of Dal...
By Jonathan Meretsky Banks are highly regulated, primarily to ensure the safety of the public's deposits. In this era of Inte...
State Farm Insurance Co. did not low-ball a Simi Valley condominium owners' association with its estimate of damage to the com...
Beverly Hills-based Freshman, Marantz, Orlanski, Cooper & Klein, a general practice boutique with 17 attorneys, will merge...
Litigation
DA Accused of Marrying In-House to Get Ahead
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - During testimony in which he was grilled for the actions of his office during his tenure as the county's head pros...
In Rich v. Southern California IBEW-NECA Pension Plan, 73 Cal.App.4th 419, (2nd Dist. 1999), the court held that, if an...
Los Angeles-based DVD Express and Las Vegas' Maximum Holdings Inc. are merging in a transaction valued at more than $500 milli...
By Linda Dakin-Grimm The Jan. 3 issue of California Law Business reported that the percentage of female law school students a...
Peabody, Mass.-based ScanSoft has agreed to acquire Los Gatos' Caere Corp. in a deal worth more than $140 million. The transac...
Todd Piccus, in-house counsel at Mattel Inc.'s software division, joined Pasadena-based HomePage.com as the fledgling company'...
Murphy Sheneman Julian & Rogers, a 40-attorney San Francisco firm, has elevated four associates to partner, effective Jan....
By Thomas W. Casparian The Belmont School firestorm has turned property owners' attention once again to the enormous expense o...
San Mateo's iScribe Inc. acquired eMedicus Inc., as well as the technology of eMedicus' Windows CE-based system for prescripti...
San Francisco-based Gordon & Rees has acquired four attorneys, elevated two to partner and named a new managing partner fo...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Acquisition Launches NVS Into Digital Media World
By Emma Varesio
Santa Monica-based Launch Media Inc. completed its acquisition of Anaheim's NVS for an undisclosed amount. ...
Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl & Young has opened a Wilmington, Del., office and changed its name to Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, You...
SAN FRANCISCO - An appeal court has publicly scolded a Los Angeles judge and removed her from a murder case since her "imparti...
San Jose's inSilicon Corp. recently conducted an initial public offering valued at $44.3 million. ...
By Leslie A. Gordon While many law firms are scoping out the client market in Silicon Valley, New York's Silicon Alley and oth...
Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips has recruited two assistant U.S. attorneys, Jack DiCanio and Anthony Pacheco, and ha...
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday refused a change of venue motion in the wrongful- death case against Glendale Advent...
Assistant Los Angeles County Public Defender Robert E. Kalunian late Friday expressed concern about possible errors made in ca...
Los Angeles-based Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey added nine new associates to its corporate, insurance coverage, ent...
Wasting no time in pursuing its strategic plan to be a leader in intellectual property litigation, the newly merged firm of Wa...
Patent and intellectual property litigators Edward F. O'Connor and Jan P. Weir have joined Newport Beach's Stradling Yocca Car...
SACRAMENTO - With little campaign cash to spend, the battle over the March 7 juvenile justice ballot initiative has become a p...
The Rampart scandal continued to spin out of control Friday as defendants got their first look at a listing of those cases pos...