By Toni Vranjes Pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. has purchased Solana Beach's Bridge Medical Inc., which ma...
Intellectual Property
Co-Branding, Done Correctly, Makes Great Marketing
By Tanya Rothman
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams It's happening across many industries. You've probably seen the ads -...
Personal Injury & Torts
Screenwriter's Harassment Lawsuit Fails to Sway Jury
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Academy Award winning screenwriter Nancy E. Dowd knows how to tell a good story. But when she claimed at a...
Firm Watch
McDermott Will Gains New L.A. Partner in Intellectual Property
By Staff Writer
Michael Oleinik jumped at the chance to be a partner in the Los Angeles office of Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery, join...
By Erik Cummins Dechert's newest office is small and focused. Unlike some firms that open offices with large groups represent...
By Stefanie Knapp There's a tradition that the president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel must uphold...
By Erik Cummins Reed Smith Crosby Heafey chose a Crosby Heafey lifer and a former law firm managing partner as the leaders of...
By Liz Valsamis The day after Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton hooked four entertainment partners from Ak...
By Liz Valsamis Bryan Cave appointed Jeffrey W. Morof as the new managing partner of the St. Louis-based firm's Santa Monica ...
By Toni Vranjes Trizec Properties Inc., a Chicago-based real estate investment trust, has sold the posh Paseo Colorado shoppi...
Litigation
Hooters Franchise Escapes Liability in Holiday-Party Injury
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder A Hooters corporate Christmas party was no joyous celebration for a San Diego security guard. Evan Johnso...
By John Ryan John Quinn was pretty happy with how things were going in 1988. The four-attorney trial shop he founded two year...
By Toni Vranjes The parent company of high-end toy retailer FAO Schwarz tapped a Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique to handle it...
The National Association for Law Placement Inc., known through the legal community as NALP, has hired a new executive directo...
Firm Watch
Real Estate Practitioner Moves to Piper Rudnick's Chicago Satellite
By Staff Writer
Washington, D.C.'s Piper Rudnick has added real estate attorney Rick Wendy to its Chicago office, the firm announced Jan. 14....
Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian stepped down early from her interim post as acting administrative presiding justice of th...
Firm Watch
Private Equity Lawyers Flock to Thelen Reid's N.Y. Headquarters
By Staff Writer
Thelen Reid & Priest has added a pair of private equity lawyers to its New York headquarters, the firm announced Jan. 13....
By Toni Vranjes Technology company S2io Inc. of Cupertino has raked in $18 million in its second round of financing. New inve...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop Brings in Trio of Partners for London, New York
By Staff Writer
Pillsbury Winthrop has added three new partners around the globe: Ashley Winton in London and Kenneth W. Taber and Maria T. G...
LOS ANGELES - The days of crack addicts giving birth on couches, security guards dealing drugs, prostitutes openly selling th...
Forum Column - By Margaret C. Crosby - On January 23, 1973, the day after the Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 (1973), decisi...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in a week, a San Francisco appeals court has dinged Attorney General Bill Lockyer for his...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 160 partners at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison will give up $26 million in personal earnings to retire s...
Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - As we mark the life and times of Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate his life this month, i...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Defendants sentenced to life in prison under California's three-strikes l...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has tossed out a $425,000 jury award to a former Locke High School art teacher who claimed s...
SAN DIEGO - From her office on the 19th floor of a high-rise, Dana Schwartz occasionally broke from her legal work and watched...
LOS ANGELES - The Fresno Superior Court today opened its Self-Help Education and Information Center for Spanish-speaking litig...
SAN DIEGO - A memorial service is scheduled for Janeen Kerper, a California Western School of Law professor and international...
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court panel has reversed the death sentence of the oldest inmate on California's death row, sa...