Firm Watch
Greenberg Traurig Opens Shops In Switzerland and Netherlands
By Staff Writer
Greenberg Traurig has joined the growing number of U.S. law firms to enter the European legal market, thanks to new offices i...
Firm Watch
Clifford Chance Announces New Partnership With Singapore Firm
By Staff Writer
Clifford Chance has joined Singapore firm WongPartnership in a joint law venture there, the London-based firm announced early...
CORPORATE By Toni Vranjes Los Angeles attorney Michael Gisser is used to working on cross-border deals, but his latest one is...
FINANCING By Toni Vranjes Seagate Technology Holdings launched an initial public offering earlier this month, which was greet...
By Erik Cummins What spelled the doom of one law firm will soon welcome another. The San Francisco Ferry Building, one of the...
Law firms fire with one hand, hire with the other. Page XX By Justin Pope Associated Press At Palo Alto's Cooley Godward, wor...
CORPORATE By Toni Vranjes After taking a beating in the stock market for the past few years, some businesses have decided eno...
By Joan Osterwalder El Nio causes more than droughts and floods throughout the world. The warm-water weather phenomenon also ...
Attorney Robert Scott Dreher fights to protect the homeless in San Diego County. Page XX. LITIGATION Eron Ben-Yehuda After a ...
FINANCING By Toni Vranjes Aliso Viejo's eEye Digital Security has picked up $9 million in its third round of financing, which...
By Liz Valsamis Prompted by a string of partner defections at their firm, two Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly litigators hav...
By Stefanie Knapp A graphic designer is suing Adobe Systems Inc. claiming that the software giant stole his technology and in...
By Erik Cummins Kirkland & Ellis finally has confirmed one of the Bay Area's worst-kept secrets. After months of speculat...
Firm Watch
Brown Raysman Hires Real Estate, Tax Expert for Senior Counsel Post
By Staff Writer
Martin Appel has joined New York's Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner as senior counsel. Appel began at the firm's ...
Her first job was research, but not what she'd thought. Page XX By Stefanie Knapp In 1984, Shannon Hansen thought that her su...
Firm Watch
State's Larger Practices Continue Rapid Pace of Associate Elevations
By Staff Writer
The flurry of associate elevations into the partnership at large law firms continues at a rapid pace. With most of the promot...
Judges and Judiciary
Two Veteran Orange County Judges Will Retire in January
By Leslie Simmons
Two veteran Orange County Superior Court judges will retire after the New Year. Judges J. Michael Beecher and Daniel T. Brice...
By Sharon E. Jackson and Sabina Bhalla Most new litigators start their careers practicing law at small firms or government of...
Judges and Judiciary
Volatile Commissioner Keeps Children's Interests in Forefront
By Jenna Bordelon
MONTEREY PARK - The scuttlebutt around the Los Angeles juvenile dependency court is that Commissioner Stanley Genser intimidat...
LOS ANGELES - Former Santa Monica attorney John Patrick Maginnis, who represented one of the men convicted in the brutal attac...
SACRAMENTO - Former San Francisco County supervisor and new Assemblyman Mark Leno has been named chairman of the Assembly Pub...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Apparently, very little shocks the judicial conscience any more. In cond...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Shelvy - In Los Angeles County, more than 30,000 abused and neglected children are in foster care p...
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rocked the country this year with just two words - "under God." Judge A...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Federal Law Has Little Impact On Religious Land Use in State
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Focus Column - Land Use - By Terence R. Boga - Local governments increasingly are having to litigate disputes involving religi...
SAN FRANCISCO - State regulators are locked in a bankruptcy court dispute with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over conditions t...
SAN JOSE - Regarded as a thoughtful jurist with a keen intellect, 6th District Court of Appeal Justice Franklin Elia can put ...
LOS ANGELES - The grandson of a Jewish woman who fled Berlin during World War II has won a temporary restraining order to keep...
SAN FRANCISCO - For a Sacramento doctor with a law degree, taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance was no miracle, just ha...
SAN FRANCISCO - State regulators are locked in a bankruptcy court dispute with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over conditions t...