Law Practice
Experts Believe Olson Deal Couldn't Be Worse, Predict Life in Prison
By Garry Abrams
The deal that Sara Jane Olson, 54, copped to last week is so abysmal that the 1970s Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Olson s...
The resolution of 'Musser' and 'Beck' will have a profound effect on the liability theories that may be asserted against a Cal...
Firm Watch
Arter & Hadden: LITIGATOR SELECTED CHAIR OF EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
After five years as a team player, Sue Bendavid-Arbiv has become a team leader. The 38-year-old employment litigator in Arter ...
Keith Rooney, entertainment associate with Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro in Century City, speaks the language of Hollywo...
Entertainment & Sports
TV EXECUTIVE TAKES ON SONY FOR WRONGFUL TERMINATION
By Columnist
Synergy lives! Television executive Helene Michaels' lawsuit against her former employer channels the spooky vibes of China's ...
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 ...
Firm Watch
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....
Transactions
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...
Firm Watch
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...
Transactions
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...
Transactions
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...
Firm Watch
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...
Transactions
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...