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Morgan Lewis: EDISON'S MISSION ENERGY PENS NEW POWER PURCHASE
By Victoria Newman
Edison International's independent power producer, Edison Mission Energy, has signed a long-term power-purchase agreement with...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health Care Expert Joins Board of Medical Center
By Contributing Writer
The Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center of Los Angeles has appointed Kevin Kroeker, a partner at Los Angeles' Konowie...
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 's latest growth spurt has hit Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner close to home. Since Oc...
Firm Watch
Perkins Coie: RECENTLY RE-DUBBED GROUP SIGNS WITH SATELLITE IN S.F.
By Karen Coleman
The Greekly named Iota Pi Law Group became the first San Francisco Bay Area patent prosecution practice for Seattle's Perkins ...
Firm Watch
McDermott Will: CENTURY CITY LITIGATOR JUMPS TO IRVINE OFFICE
By Karen Coleman
Aggressively growing McDermott Will & Emery announced July 9 that Steve Aaronoff joined the Chicago firm's Irvine office a...
In its upcoming October term, the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will continue their trend of increased interest in First ...
The latest ruling in the Microsoft antitrust saga saved the company from a remedy that would have sliced the company in two. B...
Firm Watch
Hogan & Hartson: LOS ANGELES OFFICE NABS RIORDAN LITIGATION CHAIR
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie, which has had a string of high-profile departures since its failed merger talks with Palo...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Software Giant Eases Up Its Licensing Practices
By Katherine Gaidos
It's as if O.J. Simpson, in the middle of his murder trial, had agreed to take anger management courses. Microsoft, following ...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 50 years after George Marshall convinced U.S. leaders that heavy investment in postwar Europe would ...
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Wilson Sonsini: GOTO RAISES $142 MILLION IN ITS SECONDARY OFFERING
By Victoria Newman
Pasadena's GoTo.com Inc. has raised $142 million in a secondary stock offering. The company sold 3,162,500 and stockholder ide...
On May 19, Greg Brown completed his first Ironman triathlon - a grueling race that combines a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike r...
On July 15, Gov. Gray Davis had California's top employment legal enforcement lawyer removed from his post for issuing a well-...
Solo and Small Firms
Weston Benshoof Will Host Minority Job Fair
By Contributing Writer
Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish will host the eighth annual DuPont Legal Minority Job Fair on ...
By their own accounts, Edwin Train Caldwell, James F. DeMartini and Dolores Chong have found success as sole practitioners. Re...
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Loeb & Loeb: MALIBU PUBLISHER BUYS LUXURY PRODUCTS MAGS
By Victoria Newman
CurtCo Robb Media has acquired Robb Report and Showcase monthly magazines from Luxury Media Corp. The parties did not disclose...
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Brobeck Phleger: VALUECLICK SNAPS UP STOCK PURCHASE OF MEDIAPLEX INC.
By Victoria Newman
Westlake Village's ValueClick Inc. will buy San Francisco's Mediaplex Inc. for $47.4 million in stock. ValueClick is an online...
The American Bar Association has appointed Joan Haratani, a partner in Crosby Heafey Roach & May's Oakland headquarters, v...
Firm Watch
Allen Matkins: SHOP SIGNS SONNENSCHEIN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYERS
By Karen Coleman
An environmental law duo from the local office of Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal joined the environmental and nat...
Constitutional Law
Vouchers Let Schools Foster Morality, Preserve Country
By Columnist
Earlier this month, on the Fourth of July, our nation celebrated the 225th anniversary of its independence, declared in a docu...
Mosk's legacy illustrates the limits of judicial power in a society that over the years has become harder on crime and crimina...
Firm Watch
Hopkins & Carley: STRATEGIC PLAN ENTICES PARTNER TO COME HOME
By Karen Coleman
Richard McDonald knows it helps to have a plan. The veteran commercial litigator returned July 1 to his old stomping grounds, ...
In its recent decision, Tyler v. Cain, 2001 U.S.LEXIS 4909 (June 28, 2001), the Supreme Court held that its prior holdi...
Firm Watch
Venable Baejter: FORMER CALIFORNIA AG LUNGREN GOES TO D.C.
By Karen Coleman
It looks like Dan Lungren, former California attorney general and legislator, once again is getting comfortable inside the Bel...
Solo and Small Firms
Santa Monica Litigator Receives 'Royal' Citation
By Contributing Writer
The Royal Society of Health has awarded a special citation to George A. Peters, a name partner in Santa Monica's Peters & ...
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Brobeck Phleger: CENTERPOINT BROADBAND BUYS CROSS-TOWN ZAFFIRE
By Victoria Newman
San Jose's Centerpoint Broadband Technologies will acquire Zaffire Inc., also of San Jose. The companies did not disclose the ...
When George Gonzalez went to see the summer blockbuster "Pearl Harbor," a three-hour World War II epic, he was one of the few ...
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Wilson Sonsini: SUN MICROSYSTEMS PLANS TO BUY TORONTO'S ISOPIA INC.
By Victoria Newman
Computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc. will buy online training-system developer Isopia Inc. The companies did not disclose the ...
By most accounts, the practice of law is neither kind nor gentle. So perhaps it's appropriate that the California Bar Exam res...
LOS ANGELES - In an unusual turn of events, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge took the witness stand Friday in a murder case....