SAN FRANCISCO - Federal law governing the safety of food, drugs and cosmetics does not preempt California's Proposition 65, a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Who came out on top in John Walker Lindh's surprise plea bargain Monday - federal prosecutors or San Francisco...
LOS ANGELES - Business and banking lawyer George R. Richter, the last living member of the Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampt...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hopkins & Carley, a 40-lawyer corporate and litigation firm, has added two veteran estate planning lawyers...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - The California Coastal Commission is constructed in a way that threatens freedom by defying...
Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - Defenses based on various immunity doctrines arise in innumerable civil rights cases agains...
Public Interest
Public Interest Law Provides Indigent People With a Voice
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Forum Column - By Lew Hollman - More than a generation ago, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that due process of law required...
Firm Watch
Morrison & Foerster: DA'S OFFICE LOSES TOP TRADEMARK LITIGATOR
By Staff Writer
Lee Hwang has joined the intellectual property litigation group at the Los Angeles office of San Francisco-based Morrison &...
After 31/2 years of saying no, seasoned litigator Debbie Miede finally accepted a partnership at Los Angeles' Buchalter Nemer ...
Law Practice
In-House Counsel Don't Trust Their Fire-Fighting Skills Until Crises Arise
By Liz Valsamis
Vincent Gonzales remembers the phone call he got on June 10, 1999, from an Atlantic Richfield Co. refinery worker. A 400-mi...
A pioneer of California legal recruiting who scaled back his business several years ago, Gregg Ziskind has returned to headhun...
Large Firms
Sept. 11, Economic Slump Keep Legal Recruiters Busier Than Ever
By Toni Vranjes
Associate layoffs, staff hiring freezes and sluggish per-partner profits - no one in the legal community seems immune from the...
It's been a frenzied year in the law business, with California firms gobbling up lateral talent at a fast and furious pace. Th...
The Chumash Indian Tribe closed a $150 million note offering July 3. Banc of America Securities served as the sole manager. Th...
Expanding its appellate practice, Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld hired constitutional and civil rights lawyer...
Large Firms
Jumping Ship Entails Ethical Responsibility on Part of Lawyers
By Toni Vranjes
Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's controversial ouster of Tower Snow Jr. in May for allegedly orchestrating the defection of 17...
Solectron Corp. has acquired Magnetic Data Technologies in a cash deal that closed June 11. The deal was worth $70 million. Mi...
FullAudio Corp. announced its third round of funding June 19. It brought in $14 million for the company. New Enterprise Associ...
Firm Watch
Hogan & Hartson: IP VETERAN JUMPS SHIP DESPITE MERGER MANIA
By Staff Writer
As San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen merged with Boston-based Bingham Dana , the former chairman of McCutche...
Firm Watch
Carr & Ferrell: BROBECK PARTNER WANTS DIFFERENT TYPE OF WORK
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John Montgomery , a corporate partner at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison who billed $10 million in the past two...
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw partner Philip Recht is a refugee of the Bill Clinton administration - and a proud one at that. Whi...
DiCarta Inc. closed a $19 million round of funding June 25. Menlo Ventures led the round. Needham Capital Partners, Sequoia Ca...
Salmedix Inc. completed its Series B financing June 19. The San Diego company brought in $28 million. CMEA Ventures Life Scien...
Conexant Systems Inc. has acquired GlobespanVirata's video compression business in a deal that closed June 24. Conexant has ag...
PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest Corp. closed a private placement debt financing June 6 that brought in $100 million. As p...
Firm Watch
Lewis Brisbois: LOS ANGELES SHOP LURES 15 SEDGWICK ATTORNEYS
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Los Angeles' Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has pared five partners and 10 associates from San Francisco-based Sedgwick D...
Recently spun off from parent Allergan Inc. , eye-care company Advanced Medical Optics Inc. in Santa Ana has tapped Aimee Weis...
Corporate partner Sean McAvoy led Francisco Partners in its takeover of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services, a dea...
The Closer - By Dov Seidman - A lawyer and chief executive officer who recently served as UCLA's commencement speaker offers h...
Francisco Partners has agreed to an $800 million leveraged buyout of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services. The deal...