Trio of Patent Litigators Joins Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe continues to expand its intellectual property practice at a rabid pace. On ...
Oppenheimer Wolff Forms New Nanotechnology Practice Group
By Staff Writer
Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has made it easier for clients working at the molecular level - think atoms...
Legal Pioneer
By Christina Landers
Workers' compensation attorney Pauline Nightingale works out of her Los Angeles condominium, just blocks from the bustling, up...
Assistant Sues Director for Pregnancy Bias
By Staff Writer
James Cameron's former executive assistant has sued the director of big-budget Schwarzenegger vehicles for pregnancy discrimin...
Dorsey Recruits Patent Expert From Cooley
By Joel Rosenblatt
Dorsey & Whitney has lured prominent patent prosecutor Ann M. Pease away from Cooley Godward's Palo Alto office. For sligh...
Waiting Too Long for Tenants to Pay?
By Columnist
BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN There is a delicate balance between overly aggressive rent collection and being too passive. Some owne...
Latham & Watkins Hires Three East Coast Securities Litigators
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins has added three securities litigators to its East Coast shops. David M. Brodsky joined ...
Kring & Chung Elects Partner From Its Corporate Department
By Staff Writer
Ross E. Shanberg is the latest partner at Irvine's Kring & Chung. The firm announced Shanberg's election to the partnershi...
Weissman Wolff Recruits New Corporate Securities Lawyer
By Staff Writer
Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall of Los Angeles has added corporate and securities lawyer Howard Hart, t...
See the Light
By Columnist
BY KATE ZOCCHETTI Commercial property owners increasingly are adopting solar energy systems to manage energy demands and help...
Bench Officer Gains New Post as Presiding Judge for Los Angeles
By Leslie Simmons
On Sept. 11, Assistant Presiding Judge Robert Dukes became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court. and Nor...
Waiting for the Turn
By Michael Gottliebn
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Gloom about the economic downturn y is giving way to guarded optimism for San Francisco re...
Manatt Generates Lending Pact for Electricity Company
By Toni Vranjes
Under a multifaceted financing agreement, BluePoint Energy Products Inc. has received a $500,000 loan and could get an additio...
Tax Expert Moves to McDermott's Palo Alto Outpost
By Joel Rosenblatt
Michael Gosk, formerly a corporate tax partner at accounting and consulting firm KPMG, has brought his international and offsh...
'Lawyer's Lawyer' Berne Rolston Moves His Offices to Beverly Hills
By Staff Writer
Berne Rolston, the self-proclaimed lawyer's lawyer, has moved his shop from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills. Rolston, whose new ...
Four Take Their Finance Practice to Loeb & Loeb
By Liz Valsamis
After only 18 months with New Jersey's Lowenstein Sandler, Miriam Cohen and three partners have taken their corporate finance ...
Manatt Nabs White-Collar Crime Authority
By Liz Valsamis
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has lured away the co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's business crimes and investigations ...
Piper Rudnick Forms Strategic Alliance With The Cohen Group
By Staff Writer
Piper Rudnick has formed a strategic alliance with consulting firm The Cohen Group to combine its legal services with the busi...
Fast Times at the Sherman Oaks Galleria
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer It's as if the Valley Girl had grown up, gotten a job and learned to speak proper Englis...
Going Topless
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor It is hard to imagine today, but the Santa Monica Place indoor mall was designed t...
Calpine Gets $106 Million To Help Build Power Plant
By Toni Vranjes
Calpine Corp. has obtained $106 million to help finance the construction of a power plant near Denver, Colo. Credit Lyonnaise ...
Write It Down
By Contributing Writer
In Closing Column - By Dennis L. Sharp and John M. Seitman - While there are many advantages to contractual arbitration, perh...
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Adds Partner to Handle International Tax
By Staff Writer
In the nation's capitol, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw added another international tax partner to its ranks Sept. 4. Hal Hicks,...
Our Lady Comes to Life
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor For the first time since excavation began in 1998 for Our Lady of Angels Catholic ...
Levene Neale Handles Gadzoox Reorganization
By Toni Vranjes
A Los Angeles law firm is representing Gadzoox Networks Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Northern California. ...
MicroVention Attracts Venture Capital
By Toni Vranjes
Venture capital money continues to flow into Orange County medical device manufacturer MicroVention Inc. The Aliso Viejo-based...
ADR Panels Stand Out at State Bar's Annual Meeting
By Christina Landers
In the six years since the State Bar of California first developed a committee on alternative dispute resolution, continuing e...
International Price-Fixing Conspiracy Case Settles
By Joan Osterwalder
After three years of litigation, an international price-fixing conspiracy class action brought by livestock producers and feed...
Superior Court Judge Draper Retires After Serving 16 Years
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge William B. Draper Jr. has retired after more than 16 years as a trial judge. His final assign...
Appligent Software Lets Firms Control Classified Information
By Stefanie Knapp
Appligent Inc. has released new software that allows law firms to redact sensitive information from portable document format, ...