The Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County recently installed Rita Gunasekaran as president. She will se...
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Jeffer Mangels: ATTORNEYS DITCH CENTURY CITY DIGS FOR BETTER RENT
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro is moving from the posh Fox Plaza Tower in Century City back to the nearby hi...
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Drinker Biddle: PENNSYLVANIA GROUP SETS UP SHOP IN GOLDEN STATE
By Staff Writer
Paring partners and veteran attorneys from one Los Angeles firm and merging with a San Francisco boutique, Philadelphia's Drin...
The litigation section of the American Bar Association appointed Yuri Mikulka to the board of the bar's Woman Advocate Committ...
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Mintz Levin: OSI PHARMACEUTICALS WILL ADOPT FOSTER CITY COMPANY
By Stefanie Knapp
OSI Pharmaceuticals will acquire Gilead Sciences' assets from its oncology business. OSI will acquire Gilead's clinical candid...
The end of 2001 is nearing and the weather is beginning to chill. And with more advertisements for sales than actual news in y...
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Haight Brown: SAN DIEGO OUTPOST CARRIES ON WITH ONLY ONE ATTORNEY
By Staff Writer
A series of departures has left Haight Brown & Bonesteel's San Diego office operating at bare-bones capacity. The two most...
The big 7-0 has arrived for the Beverly Hills Bar Association. But the group isn't fretting about the extra candles on its bir...
The YMCA of San Francisco announced James Colopy, a new partner at San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, as its Mission ...
The San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program honored Timothy Pestotnik, a partner at San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps...
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Orrick Herrington: BANKING SOFTWARE MAKER NABS ROUND OF FINANCING
By Stefanie Knapp
San Francisco's Finaplex Inc. closed its second round of financing on Nov. 28, this time bringing in $17.1 million. The lead i...
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Fulbright & Jaworski: BUYERS SEE RIGHT STUFF IN FAO SCHWARZ TRANSACTION
By Stefanie Knapp
Calabasas-based The Right Start Inc. acquired certain assets of FAO Schwarz in a deal closed Nov. 19. The Right Start will acq...
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Kaye Scholer: JOINT VENTURE PUTS WIND INTO POWERSTAR'S SAILS
By Stefanie Knapp
La Jolla's Global Renewable Energy Partners Inc. created a joint venture with Dallas-based The Mesa Group to create PowerStar....
Each year, California Law Business takes a peek at the world of real estate law. This year, we present 12 real estate lawyers ...
SAN JOSE - The circus goes on trial today. Mark Oliver Gebel, a senior animal trainer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bai...
LOS ANGELES - Monique McCord of Geragos & Geragos took mighty swings during the Landau Lawyers Coed Division championship ...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Catherine Anne Gallagher presides over one of the most difficult courtrooms in Santa Clara County. She mak...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last Monday, Contra Costa County Court Commissioner Judith Sanders ruled that a defendant in an Internet libel...
FONTANA - Christy Phillips' confession to the murder of an elderly Rialto woman was enough to chill even the most hardened of ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city of Oakland has tentatively agreed to pay $195,000 to settle one of dozens of police malfeasance suits...
As the war on terrorism enters another phase, government lawyers will be taking a detour from fighting terrorists to deciding ...
The attorney-client privilege is the oldest of the privileges for confidential communications known to the common law. The pri...
A false-advertising claim under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1125(a)(1)(B), can be a powerful weapon for a business that ...
Everyone is talking about "wireless," but what does it mean? Technology resource www.techweb.com defines wireless as: "Radio t...
SACRAMENTO - A state trial judge on Thursday rebuffed the State Bar's attempt to get evidence for a disciplinary probe of Pete...
RIVERSIDE - An appellate court Thursday dealt the final blow to the case of a sheriff's deputy who sued both the venue operato...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Courageous Decisions Provoked Controversy, Praise
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - G. William Dunn, a Harlem native who rose to become a Long Beach Municipal Court judge known for sticking to his...
LOS ANGELES - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison attorney William F. Sullivan has returned to a familiar post: managing partner o...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Thursday granted bail to a third Pakistani man, who, along with two Pakistani students, faces ch...
SAN JOSE - In the first lawsuit to go to trial against individuals who post caustic commentary on Internet message boards, a S...