Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In a recent case, a wife's insistence on a postnuptial agreement ca...
Forum Column - By Sanjay M. Ranchod - Two weeks ago, Gov. Gray Davis signed landmark legislation that will require automakers ...
Dicta Column - By Paul French - Lawyers seeking electronic evidence through the discovery process cannot do so in the traditio...
Firm Watch
MGM Studios Inks Packman as Deputy General Counsel, Senior Vice President
By Staff Writer
Scott Packman has become senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Santa Monica's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. P...
Litigation
Moreno Is Slated as Keynote Speaker at Trial Lawyers Event
By Stefanie Knapp
Associate Judge Carlos Moreno of the California Supreme Court will be the keynote speaker Sept. 20 at the Association of Busin...
Intellectual Property
Houston Shootout Will Pit Compaq Against eMachines
By Eron Yehuda
Two California high-tech companies are prepping for a Texas shootout in a patent infringement trial in a Houston courtroom. ...
Prominent entertainment and business litigator John Gatti has joined Santa Monica's Alschuler, Grossman, Stein & Kahan as ...
San Diego's Klinedinst, Fliehman & McKillop has added two litigators to its month-old Los Angeles office. Partner Neil Gun...
Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish hosted the Dupont Legal Minority Job Fair at its Los Angeles office Aug. 3. The f...
Santa Monica's Macerich Co. has acquired a privately held real estate developer in a $1.5 billion deal, picking up 26 malls an...
Security company IntelliSec and several affiliates have selected Los Angeles-based Irell & Manella to represent them in th...
Debra Yang, U.S. attorney for the Central District, stepped up to the podium in the Loyola Law School student lounge as more t...
Add litigation to the list of practice areas handled by Baker & Hostetler's Costa Mesa office. The Cleveland-based firm pi...
Column by Jane Shay Wald & Kyhm Penfil - Although relatively few trademark matters go to full trial on the merits, we can ...
Transactions
Hodges Focuses on Intellectual Property Issues at IP Infusion
By Staff Writer
David Hodges has joined IP Infusion Inc. as vice president and general counsel. Hodges will handle general legal matters with ...
Firm Watch
Lawyer Takes Matters Into Own Hands; Opens Solo Practice in Beverly Hills
By Stefanie Knapp
Ryan Lapidus decided that big firms weren't for him. So, he made himself the boss and opened his own litigation practice last ...
Kelly Ryan, a partner at Pasadena's Russakow, Ryan & Johnson, needed a fresh approach to a stock fraud case that he was wo...
Firm Watch
Procopio Cory Moves 13 Attorneys into New Northern San Diego Office
By Stefanie Knapp
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch has opened the doors to its new office in northern San Diego County. Procopio Cory es...
Litigation
'Evenhanded' Judge Retires After 18 Years on L.A. Superior Court
By Leslie Simmons
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Theodore D. Piatt, known for running an evenhanded court, retired July 31 after 18 years on t...
Think of a fashion model, and you're likely to conjure images of exotic fashions, glittering jewelry and unbelievable amounts ...
Firm Watch
Anderson McPharlin Loses Name Founder After Battle With Parkinson's
By Staff Writer
Anderson, McPharlin & Conners, an insurance defense firm with offices in Los Angeles and Riverside, has lost one of its th...
Have associate layoffs at Bay Area firms in the past year disproportionately affected minorities and women? Though many member...
Litigation
Stock Buyers Sue HPL Technologies For Overstating Its Revenues
By Staff Writer
Attorney Timothy J. Burke of Los Angeles' Stull, Stull & Brody filed suit on behalf of certain purchasers of HPL Technolog...
In just 10 days of trial and two days of jury deliberations, plaintiffs' attorneys Larry R. Feldman and Joel N. Klevens of San...
Excuse the cliché, but sometimes good things do come in small packages. Take, for example, the nine California law firms profi...
Despite a tough environment for venture capital deals, technology company Blue Falcon Networks Inc. has managed to obtain $8.5...
Litigation
Olson Joins Team Representing Burst.com in Antitrust Lawsuit
By Stefanie Knapp
Douglas Olson of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison announced July 24 that he has joined Spencer Hosie of Hosie Frost Large &...
Litigation
Preston Gates Patent Litigators Get Dismissal in WebGain Case
By Stefanie Knapp
A team of patent litigators at San Francisco's Preston Gates & Ellis wrangled a dismissal on behalf of WebGain Inc. in a p...
While the remaining 80 attorneys at dissolving Lyon & Lyon scatter to find new homes, the New York office is fast at work ...
High-tech giant Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara has acquired Afara Websystems Inc., a privately held San Jose company tha...