LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Stanley R. Rader, a Jewish lawyer from White Plains, N.Y., who found fame, fortune...
LOS ANGELES - An attorney involved in the massive tobacco litigation for which lawyers were awarded $1.25 billion in fees by a...
SAN DIEGO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opened its three-day judicial conference Monday with a bit of irony. Everyon...
Government
In Land of Apocalypse, Inglewood Police Beating Fits Like Glove
By Martin Bergn
Column by Garry Abrams - Sometimes, the amusement factor of living in the Los Angeles region wears pretty thin - and that old ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Vernon Goodin, former managing partner at the now defunct San Francisco firm of Bronson Bronson & McKinnon...
SACRAMENTO - A government agency faced with a request for public records cannot run to the courts for declaratory relief to av...
SANTA ANA - The Orange County counsel's office is recommending three out-of-county law firms - one in Santa Rosa, one in San D...
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
By Columnist
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
By Staff Writer
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...