Firm Watch
Coblentz Patch: SAN FRANCISCO SHOP HIRES CROSBY HEAFEY ATTORNEY
By Staff Writer
After nearly 10 years at Crosby Heafey Roach & May , commercial litigator and bankruptcy lawyer Gregg M. Ficks has left to...
Sean Hayes, one of the stars of NBC sitcom "Will & Grace," had a manager before he found fame as "Jack," the flamboyant ga...
California's Continuing Education of the Bar named Janet Reese, partner at Oxnard's Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton, to its...
The San Francisco Ethics Commission elected Paul Melbostad as its chair June 10. Melbostad, partner in San Francisco's Goldste...
The Association of Legal Administrators named Erica Tamblyn, director of administration for the Los Angeles office of Milbank ...
Legal Aid Society of San Francisco honored Caroline Mitchell, of-counsel at San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop, with the Roll...
To win work from lawyers, law firm librarians have worked hard to master the various electronic databases, such as LexisNexis,...
The Burton Foundation celebrates lawyers who write for the common people. On June 18 at the New York Palace Hotel, in New York...
The Contra Costa Council awarded Walnut Creek's Archer Norris the Contra Costa Medal on June 13. This award is presented each ...
Advanced Medical Optics Inc. closed a $200 million bond offering June 20 and a $135 million credit facility June 21, in prepar...
Business Engine announced June 21 that it has raised $22 million in its recent round of financing. Oak Investment Partners led...
Boalt Hall Alumni Board named Charlene Shimada, partner at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, president. Shi...
The Council of the American Law Institute re-elected its incumbent officers to another one-year term May 12. Michael Traynor, ...
The California Bankruptcy Forum elected Penelope Parmes, partner at Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker, vice president. She began...
Allergan Inc. hired partner Cary Hyden to handle its spinoff of Advanced Medical Optics Inc. The most recent aspect of this sp...
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has agreed to acquire the managed hosting business of Loudcloud Inc. for $64 million. Electronic...
Enticed by the firm's acquisition last week of New York-based Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman , corporate lawy...
Judges and Judiciary
East Bay Judges Receive Mixed Reviews From Lawyers
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - While most of the Alameda County judges fared well in the county bar association's most recent judicial evalua...
LOS ANGELES - The garden at the house on Stockwell Street overflows with collard greens, lacy baby tears and pink flowers; ins...
SAN FRANCISCO - The filing by San Francisco prosecutors of a notice of appeal of the trial judge's grant of a new murder trial...
LOS ANGELES - As Los Angeles County enters its second year of implementing Proposition 36, the drug-treatment initiative, thos...
LOS ANGELES - Twelve days after being informed of Kerry Brooks' death by a confidential source, the Daily Journal petitioned t...
Forum Column - By Richard C. Dieter - Just before Anthony Porter's scheduled execution in Illinois, his lawyers had little id...
RICHMOND - Usually, judges get to step into the pool one pinkie toe at a time. Not George Spanos. When Spanos took the bench i...
The Los Angeles office of McKenna Long & Aldridge has lost complex business litigator Joel Goldman to Russ August & Ke...
Forum Column - By Michael Rushford - The U.S. Supreme Court announced in Atkins v. Virginia that executing the mentally...
Focus Column - By William D. Wick - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals plunged twice into the murky waters of TMDLs - the w...
Unlike many parents, the mother of Michael D. Seplow didn't want an attorney for a son. "My mom would always make jokes that s...
LOS ANGELES - The owners of a private background investigative service pleaded no contest Wednesday to bribing court clerks to...
A mentally ill man from Los Angeles languished in a New York prison for two years because he was mistaken for an escaped convi...