Los Angeles' Irell & Manella assisted Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. in its June 24 initial public offering that brought in ne...
On the first Friday in June, Richard Odom boarded a plane in Los Angeles bound for San Francisco. Odom, chairman of San Franci...
The former general counsel to a San Diego clothing company jumped to Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch as of-counsel. M...
Firm Watch
Archer Norris Distributes Six to Southern California Offices
By Staff Writer
Walnut Creek-based Archer Norris is going for statewide appeal with its latest Southern California moves. The litigation and b...
LOS ANGELES - One of three African-Americans in a racial profiling trial against the Los Angeles Police Department testified F...
LOS ANGELES - One-time civil rights attorney A. Thomas Hunt, who resigned from the State Bar in 1993 with charges pending, has...
Judges and Judiciary
Lancaster Judge's Absence Creates Problem for Court
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County judge charged by the Commission on Judicial Performance four years ago with the improper us...
SAN FRANCISCO - Merger talks between San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew and Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon are dead....
SAN JOSE - A former Santa Clara County sheriff's lieutenant who avoided state prison time for molesting two teenage girls in h...
Labor/Employment
Thorough Sexual Harassment Investigation Can Limit Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Javier H. Van Oordt - Individuals define sexual harassment in many different ways. However, identifying the ...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Many family law judicial officers like to conduct business in chambers. Many attorneys lik...
From Tower Snow's perch in an aerie in San Francisco's Financial District, he has the kind of Bay Bridge view that inspires dr...
SANTA ANA - A recent appellate decision against managers of Sav-On Drugstores, who sought to sue as a class for unpaid overtim...
SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California and the Central Valley - two regions whose pollution historically has been overshadowed by...
SAN FRANCISCO - The handful of oil companies still defending their use of the controversial gas additive MTBE in a landmark ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bankruptcy reform legislation nearing congressional approval will make it harder for lawyers to represent clie...
Making the move 120 miles south, white-collar criminal defense lawyer Yvonne Dutton has joined Allen Matkins Leck Gamble &...
Firm Watch
Greenberg Starts Brand Media Division at Los Angeles Outpost
By Staff Writer
If you've got a brand name but you just can't break into television or film, Miami's Greenberg Traurig has the answer. The fir...
Firm Watch
Partner Quits Orrick Herrington To Try Computer Products Post
By Staff Writer
A Laguna Beach-based computer products company has lured Doug Kari to be its general counsel and senior vice president of busi...
Cooley Godward has announced a substitution in the not-so-coveted position of business department chairman. Mark Tanoury, 47, ...
The biggest merger in biotech history has closed, with Latham & Watkins representing Amgen Inc. in its $17.7 billion acqui...
San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has nabbed two attorneys: Philip Gregory for its San Jose office and Gerald Kna...
Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory promoted five associates to partner effective July 1. The new partners ar...
Litigation
Cotkin Collins Relocates Office Along Same Downtown Street
By Christina Landers
The law firm of Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg is moving its downtown Los Angeles offices to 300 South Grand Avenue effective ...
Paul Sanner, the former senior corporate counsel to Bay Area engineering firm URS Corp., joined the San Francisco firm Thelen ...
The Tower Snow-led exodus of partners from San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison to London-based Clifford Chance Rog...
Firm Watch
New Partner-in-Charge Takes the Reins at Heller Ehrman's L.A. Office
By Liz Valsamis
Quickly rising to the upper echelons of management, Jerry L. Marks was named partner-in-charge of Heller Ehrman White & Mc...
Firm Watch
Public Interest Firm Chooses Investigator to Climb on Board
By Staff Writer
Public Counsel, the largest public-interest pro bono law firm in the country, elected James Barnes to its board of directors. ...
Firm Watch
San Francisco's Steefel Levitt Opens Outpost in Los Angeles
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss is officially open for business in Los Angeles. The 80-attorney firm began operati...
San Jose's 40-lawyer corporate and litigation firm Hopkins & Carley has doubled the size of its estate and tax planning de...