Jakks Pacific Inc. brought in $71.4 million in a public offering announced May 23. The underwriters included Bear Stearns &...
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Sonnenschein Nath: SEDGWICK PARTNER TAKES LABOR LITIGATORS ALONG
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Led by partner Donna D. Melby , a group of four labor and employment litigation attorneys has left Sedgwick Detert Moran &...
Molecular Devices Corp. has acquired Universal Imaging Corp. The $22 million cash deal was announced June 3. Sunnyvale's Molec...
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Orrick Herrington: BROBECK'S FORMER AD MAN RETURNS FROM EAST COAST
By Staff Writer
Just three months at Philadelphia's Dechert , marketing director David Geyer - the architect behind Brobeck Phleger & Harr...
Who says times are tough? Judging by this year's list of rainmakers, bad times are good for the legal business. More Californi...
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Manatt Phelps: NEW MUSIC DUO INCLUDES FORMER NAPSTER HONCHO
By Staff Writer
The music department of Manatt Phelps & Phillips grew this month, with the addition of two new attorneys. The Los Angeles-...
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Oppenheimer Wolff: LOCAL LAWYERS MOVE UP TO CO-CHAIR IP PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has named two California lawyers co-chairs of the firm's intellectual property practice: Sili...
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Heller Ehrman: L.A. PARTNER CONTRIBUTES HIS ACCOUNTING EXPERTISE
By Staff Writer
Bolstering its offering to Big 5 accounting firm clients PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche and ...
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has added attorney Brette S. Simon to its corporate practice in Los Angeles. Simon, who ...
LOS ANGELES - Almost as soon as the 14-year-old boy from Fujian province on mainland China stepped off the plane in Los Angele...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal lawsuit accuses the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department of conspiring with the Kaiser Permanent...
Judges and Judiciary
Here's the Robe, There's the Bench, Start Presiding
By Xenia Kobylarz
MERCED -To say that Merced County Superior Court Judge John Kirihara hit the ground running his first day on the bench is not ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $201,000 to settle a wrongful death suit brought by...
SAN FRANCISCO - Claire Joyce Tempongko never met Maria Teresa Macias, but the two domestic violence murder victims have a lot ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Budget Crisis Could Prevent Passage of Bill for Mentally Ill
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - State lawmakers are moving toward passage of AB1421, a measure that would expand the state's ability to treat pe...
WASHINGTON - Some new sounds will be floating soon through the Supreme Court's marble halls - the patter of little bare feet, ...
SAN DIEGO - With up to 10 more weeks to come in David Westerfield's trial on charges of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Da...
Personal Injury & Torts
9th Circuit Hears Case on Top Secret Documents
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel appeared sharply divided over how far the government can go to assert national s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two commercial litigators have resigned from Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco office to join Latham & Wa...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The American Civil Liberties Union recently has filed suit against four airlines, chargin...
SACRAMENTO - California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the state's premiere organization of criminal defense lawyers, has cho...
Gordon Bava, firm co-chairman, led a group of underwriters in their purchase of 4 million shares of Jakks Pacific Inc. for $71...
SAN FRANCISCO - Tirien Steinbach has been awarded a Post-Graduate Berkeley Law Foundation grant to work with the poor in Alame...
Forum Column - By Barry S. Willdorf - The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, "A well regulated Militia, being n...
Intellectual Property
Practice of Deep Linking Has Given Rise to a Number of Copyright Suits
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Focus Column - By Don Thornburgh - "Deep linking" is the practice of directing Web site visitors to content within a site oper...
Intellectual Property
Protecting Patent Portfolio Requires a Strategic Plan
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Focus Column - By Edward Van Gieson - Companies are increasingly recognizing the need to develop a strategic patent portfolio....
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to networking, lawyers can always lean on the usual yawners: bar association meetings, mixers, and...
Top 30 Women Litigators - Nancy Sher Cohen - Representing big business in insurance and mass tort litigation, Nancy Sher Cohen...
Top 30 Women Litigators - Lynne C. Hermle - Employment litigator Lynne C. Hermle quickly learned that as a female attorney her...
Top 30 Women Litigators - Elizabeth J. Cabraser - Dealing with legal fights over human remains can be a depressing business. B...