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
By Staff Writer
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...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: NEW YORK AND BAY AREA OFFICES LAY OFF 10 STAFF
By Staff Writer
Pillsbury Winthrop has laid off three staff members in San Francisco and seven in New York, the firm confirmed June 25. It als...
Paracor Surgical Inc. completed its second-round venture financing June 25. The round brought in $16 million. Pequot Ventures ...
Firm Watch
Greenberg Glusker: GROUP'S SIZE MATTERS, REAL ESTATE GURU SAYS
By Staff Writer
Michael Berk has joined the litigation practice of Los Angeles' Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella as p...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven Van Sicklen presided at the enrobing ceremony Friday for four new judges...
LOS ANGELES -On Labor Day 12 years ago, a mother and her teen-age daughter were arguing in the kitchen of their Los Angeles ho...
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake asked the Court of Appeal on Friday to force Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash to ...
Forum Column - By David Steinberg - Recently, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Pledge of Allegiance violate...
Intellectual Property
Mergers, Acquisitions Raise Intellectual Property Issues
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Focus Column - By Louis R. Dienes - Intellectual property assets are an increasingly significant portion of the value that buy...
LOS ANGELES - If a patient is treated in a hospital by a doctor who commits malpractice, the patient can sue the hospital for ...
Entertainment & Sports
Sitting in Class at Boalt, Who Thought It Could Be This Fun?
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall graduate Jonnie Jacobs took her legal knowledge and turned it into a series of mysteries about a No...
WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is set to chair the confirmation hearing July 18 for one of President Bush's mor...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Runs Proposition 36 Court With Stern Compassion
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Walking into the courtroom of Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Erick L. Larsh, one is struck with an on...
Government
Religious Beliefs May Moot Case on Pledge of Allegiance
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge who wrote the holding that the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutio...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Public Utilities Commission ran into a major snag last week in its battle to win approval for its al...
Xenia P. Kobylarz Daily Journal Staff Write SAN FRANCISCO - Edwin A. Heafey, Jr., chairman and name partner of Crosby Heafey R...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gerald Edelstein, a malpractice attorney who worked for Safeco Insurance Co. for 3...
LOS ANGELES - A funeral Mass will take place today for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Martin J. Blake Sr. Bl...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. is looking forward to traveling and meeting with his col...
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous critics of Sonoma County's $1 million settlement in the Maria Teresa Macias litigation have mounted ...
Judges and Judiciary
Orrick's Jeffrey White Going to U.S. Bench, Sources Say
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - The White House has selected Jeffrey S. White, a litigation partner at Orrick Harrington & Sutcliffe in Sa...
Column by Sela Seleska - Implementing a quality summer program requires that firms coordinate many pieces and parts to create ...
Intellectual Property
Owners Can Forfeit Trademark Rights If They Don't Exercise Quality Control
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Focus Column - By Robert B. Burlingame - Trademark owners and their attorneys beware! As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. The state is f...