Firm Watch
Foley Lardner: CROSBY LOSES EMPLOYMENT LITIGATOR IN DOWNTOWN L.A.
By Staff Writer
A partner at Crosby Heafey Roach & May has left the firm's downtown Los Angeles office for Foley & Lardner in Century ...
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Richards Watson: BUNKER HILL CONTINUES TO HOUSE DOWNTOWN LAWYERS
By Staff Writer
Continuing a quarter-century tradition of being headquartered on Bunker Hill, Richards Watson & Gershon will open its new,...
Thousand Oaks' WellPoint Health Networks Inc. has agreed to purchase St. Louis-based RightCHOICE Managed Care Inc. in a stock-...
Transactions
Morrison Foerster: MAKER OF X-RAY PRODUCTS GETS ADDITIONAL FINANCING
By Columnist
Los Gatos-based NexRay Inc. has received $16.8 million in venture-capital financing from investors J.P. Morgan Chase & Co....
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Gray Cary: NETRATINGS BRINGS INTERNET TRAFFIC COMPANIES TO FOLD
By Columnist
Milpitas-based NetRatings Inc. has agreed to two transactions valued at a total of $87.6 million. In the first transaction, Ne...
As Jeff Pero describes it, his latest deal was definitely a case of hurry up and wait. A partner in the Menlo Park office of L...
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Heller Ehrman: SAN DIEGO GROUP MOVES TO NEW DIGS DOWN THE BLOCK
By Staff Writer
To accommodate its recent growth, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has said goodbye to its San Diego office and completed i...
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Brobeck Phleger: SAN DIEGO'S GENEFORMATICS SECURES A ROUND OF CAPITAL
By Columnist
San Diego-based GeneFormatics Inc. has raised $22 million in a third round of venture-capital financing. Investors included Ge...
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton and McKenna & Cuneo have ended their merger discussions, but neither has abandoned t...
Despite hiring a raft of lawyers that ranged from Los Angeles litigator John Gatti of White O'Connor Curry Gatti & Avanzad...
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Mintz Levin: FINANCING IS $35 MILLION SHOT IN THE ARM FOR ALTUS
By Columnist
Cambridge, Mass.-based Altus Biologics Inc. has raised $35 million in private financing from a group of investors that include...
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart: BAY AREA PAIR BRING ERISA EXPERTISE TO LOCAL OFFICE
By Staff Writer
Two San Francisco ERISA attorneys have taken their expertise in employment benefits plans over to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart ....
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have made it clear that many people's patriotism, although dormant until then, had been there a...
At a party honoring the state's top lawyers, Reign's private VIP room, adjacent to the main restaurant, filled quickly with hi...
According to Barry Langberg , of Century City's Stroock & Stroock & Lavan , one byproduct of the terror attacks on New...
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Crowell Moring: CYTYC ADDS BREAST-CANCER DETECTION TO ITS ARSENAL
By Staff Writer
Cytyc Corp. of Boxborough, Mass., has agreed to acquire Menlo Park-based Pro-Duct Health Inc. in a stock-and-cash transaction....
SAN BERNARDINO - An appellate court may have delivered the final blow to law-enforcement efforts to apply the prostitution law...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a law student during the dot-com boom, Tania Shah couldn't see a future for herself as a junior associate h...
LOS ANGELES - A creative twist in California adoption law enabled Mary Newcombe, who is gay and unmarried, to adopt her first ...
SAN JOSE - Three California residents who volunteered to run America Online chat rooms and answer user questions have filed a ...
LOS ANGELES - Deputy Public Defender Larry H. Farinholt likely will face misdemeanor charges instead of felony charges for all...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled for the first time that California's three strikes sentencing law violates t...
SAN FRANCISCO - The New York office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop last week laid off 10 percent of its associate staff...
Appellate Practice
Conflicted Loyalties Haunt Trial In Gruesome Death-Penalty Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - When Walter Mickens Jr. went on trial in 1993 for the brutal murder and attempted forcible sodomy of 17-year-old ...
Like other business-transaction attorneys throughout the state, Cyrus Sanai has seen the tech boom come and go. But he's still...
SACRAMENTO - Bion Gregory, the California Legislature's chief lawyer for 25 years, is retiring, but he is not going to allow h...
RIVERSIDE - The 4th District Court of Appeal has found that "triable issues of fact" exist that a Denny's restaurant in Rivers...
RENO, Nev. - Federal appeals court Judge Procter Hug will retire from active service after 24 years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Co...
LAGUNA NIGUEL - The ashes of James R. Biram, a sole practitioner for 34 years and an ardent fly fisherman, will be scattered i...
To satisfy the element of causation in a product-liability case, a plaintiff must prove that the defendant's product was a "su...