Summer associates at large firms used to spend the summer learning how to write research memos, get along with partners and se...
Just about the only topic of conversation among California legal observers in recent weeks has been the turbulence at San Fran...
First Community Bancorp will acquire Marathon Bancorp for $20 million. The deal was announced May 14. In addition, Marathon Ba...
Kyphon Inc. went public May 16, bringing in $90 million for the company. U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc. managed the offering....
Deltagen Inc. offered more than 5 million shares to private investors. This offering brought in $25 million for the Redwood Ci...
LOS ANGELES - Like most attorneys, Elwood Kendrick treks to his office each working day to puzzle through his cases. He logs o...
LOS ANGELES - Entertainment transactional attorneys Henry Holmes and Steven Katleman have joined the Los Angeles office of Mia...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two partners have left Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian's Austin, Texas, office to...
LOS ANGELES - A Filipino lawyer who claims he took part in a treasure hunt in the Philippines more than 30 years ago is not en...
Forum Column - By Lee Casey - President Bush's decision to "unsign" the 1998 treaty establishing an International Criminal Cou...
Appellate Practice
A Premartial Injury Cannot Give Rise to a Claim for Loss of Consortium
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Focus Column - By David E. Stanley and Carrie M. Hemphill - When a husband and wife take each other "for better or for worse ....
Focus Column - By Nathaniel T. Trelease and Andrew W. Swain - One of the biggest challenges for Internet-based vendors in comi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A record drop in trademark application filings is forcing the Patent and Trademark Office to lay off more than...
Management Column - By Bobbie McMorrow and Gina Airey - In this article, we put the examination of reality in the context of s...
All 20 associates and partners who remained in Skjerven Morrill 's Austin, Texas, and Newport Beach offices before they closed...
Bruce E. MacMillan, 51, joined Mountain View's Caliper Technologies Corp. as general counsel and vice president last month. Ma...
Law Practice
Attorneys at Brobeck Continue To Jump Ship After Clifford Deal
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The attrition continued at San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison following last week's deal sending 20...
Judges and Judiciary
Davis Puts Family Law Attorney On Bench in Sacremento Court
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Family law specialist Jerilyn L. Borack, the sister of State Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, has been appoi...
LOS ANGELES - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold has lost its Los Angeles-based labor and employment practice group with the...
Personal Injury & Torts
Defender's Accuser Did Not Act With Malice, Panel Says
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent criminal defense attorney Patrick Hallinan cannot prevail on a malicious prosecution suit against fo...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal Environmental Protection Agency has the power to set limits on the total amount of pollution that ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Fresno Superior Court Judge Gene M. Gomes has won easy confirmation as an associate justice on the 5th Distric...
SAN JOSE - After more than four years of pretrial maneuvering, a lawsuit by former International Business Machines Inc. worker...
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Just about every law, lobbying and public relations firm worth its salt now boasts a "c...
SANTA BARBARA - David Attias' behavior at University of California, Santa Barbara, was so erratic and bizarre that fellow stud...
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The International Criminal Court will be up and running next year. Although virtually every ...
From his humble beginnings as a teen-age office clerk feeding key-punch cards into the first mass-produced computer, retired S...
SAN FRANCISCO - The committee representing creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy has cautiously recommend...
Focus Column - By Sharon Lybeck Hartmann - Effective July 1, 2002, all California arbitrators must follow mandatory ethics sta...
Column by Diane Wayne and Godfrey Isaac - Every legal practitioner is acutely aware of the differences in individuals and comp...