SOFTWARE MAKER GETS $19 MILLION IN SUPPORT
By Stefanie Knapp
DiCarta Inc. closed a $19 million round of funding June 25. Menlo Ventures led the round. Needham Capital Partners, Sequoia Ca...
DRUG COMPANY BRINGS IN $28 MILLION IN FINANCING
By Stefanie Knapp
Salmedix Inc. completed its Series B financing June 19. The San Diego company brought in $28 million. CMEA Ventures Life Scien...
Rats! Designation Could Derail San Bernardino Distribution Center
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 33,295 acres of San Bernardino and Rivers...
CONEXANT PAYS CASH, STOCK FOR VIDEO FIRM
By Stefanie Knapp
Conexant Systems Inc. has acquired GlobespanVirata's video compression business in a deal that closed June 24. Conexant has ag...
PG&E SUBSIDIARY FINDS $100 MILLION PRIVATELY
By Stefanie Knapp
PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest Corp. closed a private placement debt financing June 6 that brought in $100 million. As p...
Instant Community
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The already influential city of Irvine is looking to add to that influence with the addi...
Lewis Brisbois: LOS ANGELES SHOP LURES 15 SEDGWICK ATTORNEYS
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has pared five partners and 10 associates from San Francisco-based Sedgwick D...
IN MOTION
By Liz Valsamis
Recently spun off from parent Allergan Inc. , eye-care company Advanced Medical Optics Inc. in Santa Ana has tapped Aimee Weis...
Sharing Good Quotes and Goodwill
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor "The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of rece...
Nailing Leveraged Buyout in Auction Structure
By Stefanie Knapp
Corporate partner Sean McAvoy led Francisco Partners in its takeover of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services, a dea...
Do the Right Thing
By Tanya Rothman
The Closer - By Dov Seidman - A lawyer and chief executive officer who recently served as UCLA's commencement speaker offers h...
GE AND FRANCISCO MAKE $800 MILLION EXCHANGE
By Stefanie Knapp
Francisco Partners has agreed to an $800 million leveraged buyout of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services. The deal...
Pillsbury Winthrop: NEW YORK AND BAY AREA OFFICES LAY OFF 10 STAFF
By Staff Writer
Pillsbury Winthrop has laid off three staff members in San Francisco and seven in New York, the firm confirmed June 25. It als...
U.S. Building Activity Climbs 4% in May
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT U.S. new construction starts increased 4 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $496.6 billi...
SUNNYVALE'S PARACOR CLOSES SECOND ROUND
By Stefanie Knapp
Paracor Surgical Inc. completed its second-round venture financing June 25. The round brought in $16 million. Pequot Ventures ...
Greenberg Glusker: GROUP'S SIZE MATTERS, REAL ESTATE GURU SAYS
By Staff Writer
Michael Berk has joined the litigation practice of Los Angeles' Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella as p...
Judge Enrobes Four New Bench Officers
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven Van Sicklen presided at the enrobing ceremony Friday for four new judges...
Casualties of Reporting Errors
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES -On Labor Day 12 years ago, a mother and her teen-age daughter were arguing in the kitchen of their Los Angeles ho...
Blake Wants 'Special Circumstance' Tossed
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake asked the Court of Appeal on Friday to force Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash to ...
Outside the Text
By Columnist
Forum Column - By David Steinberg - Recently, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Pledge of Allegiance violate...
Mergers, Acquisitions Raise Intellectual Property Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Louis R. Dienes - Intellectual property assets are an increasingly significant portion of the value that buy...
Hospital's Liability Reaches Nonstaff Docs
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - If a patient is treated in a hospital by a doctor who commits malpractice, the patient can sue the hospital for ...
Sitting in Class at Boalt, Who Thought It Could Be This Fun?
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall graduate Jonnie Jacobs took her legal knowledge and turned it into a series of mysteries about a No...
Feinstein May Target Nominee on Abortion
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is set to chair the confirmation hearing July 18 for one of President Bush's mor...
Jurist Runs Proposition 36 Court With Stern Compassion
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Walking into the courtroom of Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Erick L. Larsh, one is struck with an on...
Religious Beliefs May Moot Case on Pledge of Allegiance
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge who wrote the holding that the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutio...
Bad News for PUC's PG&E Plan
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Public Utilities Commission ran into a major snag last week in its battle to win approval for its al...
Edwin Heafey, Firm Chair, Mentor to Lawyers, Dies
By Xenia Kobylarz
Xenia P. Kobylarz Daily Journal Staff Write SAN FRANCISCO - Edwin A. Heafey, Jr., chairman and name partner of Crosby Heafey R...
Dental Malpractice Expert Loved Animals
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gerald Edelstein, a malpractice attorney who worked for Safeco Insurance Co. for 3...
California Needs to Prepare Inmates for Life After Prison
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. The state is fa...