Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two precedential opinions that address the pre-filing inve...
Like most people, attorney Doug Cogen regularly places long-distance phone calls without giving any thought to how his calls g...
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Morgan Lewis: BLACK HILLS GETS NEW JOLT AT A PRICE OF $200 MILLION
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Las Vegas' Black Hills Nevada, subsidiary of Black Hills Energy Capital Inc., of Rapid City, S.D., acquired Southwest Power of...
Savannah, Ga.-based Marshall House Inc., an affiliate of London's UBS Warburg, sold The Marshall House to HLC Hotels Inc., als...
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Fenwick & West: VERISIGN VENTURES INTO WORLD OF LONG DISTANCE
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Mountain View's VeriSign Inc. has announced its intention to acquire Lacey, Wash.-based Illuminet Holdings in a transaction va...
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Foley & Lardner: CARDEN ASSUMES MANAGING ROLE IN CENTURY CITY OFFICE
By Toni Vranjes
Venerable health law firm Foley & Lardner has tapped Douglas L. Carden as its new managing partner in Century City. Carden...
Seyfarth Shaw will hold its 2001 West Coast Labor & Employment Law Symposium on Oct. 25. Held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, ...
When Robert Brown Jr. took over at the University of West Los Angeles, he saved it from the brink. But it still is suffering f...
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Hughes & Luce: CGI WILL OFFER TECHNOLOGY SERVICES TO FIREMAN'S FUND
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Montreal's CGI Group Inc. has entered into a 10-year outsourcing contract with Novato-based Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., a su...
Suicide Rocks is not exactly a confidence-inspiring name. Nor is it one that would seem likely to draw many visitors. And for ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
BAR ASSOCIATION ADDS ONE TO CIVIL LITIGATION GROUP
By Staff Writer
The American Bar Association has chosen George Koelzer as the newest member of its Civil Litigation Institute. Koelzer, a part...
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Kaye Scholer: PLATINUM EQUITY EXPANDS ITS BROADBAND CAPABILITIES
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Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity Holdings has acquired the Access Products Division and Broadband Wireless Group from ADC Tel...
Lawyers in today's high-tech world must stay on top of new methods of doing business. Case-specific information for clients on...
The Euro-American Lawyers Group, an international association of law firms, has invited Los Angeles' Friedmann O'Brien Goldber...
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Foran Glennon: LITIGATION BOUTIQUE OPENS WITH CALIFORNIA PRESENCE
By Toni Vranjes
Be in control of your own destiny. That's the philosophy of Matthew S. Ponzi , who recently helped found a new law firm. The y...
As the legal proceedings against Andrea Yates move forward, one would think that, from the support she has been receiving, tha...
While Gibson Dunn & Crutcher continues to espouse that it's not a Republican law firm, recent headlines tell a much differ...
Crosby Heafey Roach & May is teaming up with the University of California, Irvine, to present a two-day seminar on medical...
San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps is donating $25,641 to the American Red Cross National Relief Fund to assist t...
Zarate & Vega covers its pro bono work by offering to Hispanic-owned businesses legal services in business law, contracts,...
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Rutan & Tucker: ORANGE COUNTY SENATOR JOINS PUBLIC-LAW PRACTICE
By Toni Vranjes
Rutan & Tucker 's public law department is gaining the real-world expertise of State Sen. Dick Ackerman , who joined the f...
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Gibson Dunn: CREDIT-CARD PROVIDER BUYS ONLINE AUTO-LOAN COMPANY
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The Capital One Financial Corp. of Falls Church, Va., has agreed to acquire San Diego's PeopleFirst Finance for 3.7 million sh...
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Latham & Watkins: QUARTET OF STATE SHOPS RANKS BUSIEST IN M&A
By Toni Vranjes
Four California-based law firms ranked among the Top 25 legal advisers for U.S. mergers and acquisitions deals announced this ...
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have caused many lawyers to revisit their priorities and the ideals they once expressed upon en...
SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller finally got a break when a judge moved their trial to Los Angeles, according ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
NHBA's Newest Board Member Proud of Scholarships
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - Maribel Delgado is thrilled to be a board member of the National Hispanic Bar Association , even if she was a ...
No one could imagine the shock John Bicknell would feel were he to pull up outside the towering downtown Los Angeles headquart...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury begins deliberations today in a case in which renowned cancer research center ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has overturned a kidnapping and rape conviction because the prosecution's expert witne...
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing due process concerns over a death sentence issued by a marijuana-smoking judge, a federal appeals court...
