Firm Watch
Littler Mendelson: EMPLOYMENT PARTNER WRITES SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR BOSSES
By Karen Coleman
Littler Mendelson partner Alan Levins, of course an employment lawyer, has his name blazoned across the cover of a new book, "...
Transactions
Sheppard Mullin: PICKENS FUEL UNITES WITH CANADIAN GAS SUBSIDIARY
By Victoria Newman
Two energy companies have formed a new alternative-fuel enterprise. Oilman T. Boone Pickens' Pickens Fuel Corp. and BCG eFuels...
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Riordan & McKinzie: LOS ANGELES BUYOUT FIRM ACQUIRES IDAHO PC OUTFIT
By Victoria Newman
Gores Technology Group, through its affiliate GTG PC Holdings, has bought computer manufacturer Micron PC from its parent, Mic...
Entertainment & Sports
Franchise, Morgan Creek Duke It Out In Dual Suits
By Contributing Writer
It sounds like a Century City version of Ultimate Lawyer Fighting Championship. So let's hide the women, children and Jaguar c...
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Kaye Scholer: NEWPORT BEACH BUSINESS WILL SELL FOR $400 MILLION
By Victoria Newman
Private equity firms J.W. Childs Associates L.P. and Halifax Group L.L.C. will buy diagnostic-imaging company InSight Health S...
Firm Watch
White & Case: BAKER & MCKENZIE GROUP JOINS BAY AREA SATELLITE
By Karen Coleman
San Francisco executive-compensation lawyer Virginia Gibson joined the partnership at New York's White & Case on July 9. G...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Milstein Felder & Steiner has welcomed back corporate lawyer John G....
The future of movies is digital. Digital production and distribution of motion pictures is inevitable. Lately, you cannot pick...
SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the powerful creditors' committee in the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy, who are also majo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Six students and a faculty member from the University of San Francisco School of Law are spending the summer i...
Shouldn't drug users who cause harm to others raise different questions, and answers, than users such as Robert Downey Jr. who...
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McCutchen Doyle: MONOLITHIC OF SUNNYVALE COMPLETES $50 MILLION IPO
By Victoria Newman
Sunnyvale's Monolithic System Technology Inc. went public June 28 with an initial offering worth $50 million. Monolithic licen...
Large Firms
Coudert Brothers Moves Offices From Embarcadero Center Site
By Liz Valsamis
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of New York's Coudert Brothers continued recovering from the loss of two attorneys as...
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Venture Law: YAHOO! OFFERS $12 MILLION FOR SANTA MONICA WEB SITE
By Victoria Newman
Santa Clara's Yahoo! Inc. has agreed to buy Santa Monica-based music portal Launch Media Inc. The tender offer is worth $12 mi...
Administrative/Regulatory
Courthouse Has Yet to Address Ledge-Jump Risk
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Two weeks after a 35-year-old man jumped from the ninth floor of the Los Angeles County Courthouse - the second ...
The ultimate use of many products deviates from their intended purpose. Think back ages ago, to 1999. Remember the harmlessnes...
Talk about a sweet deal! Los Angeles' Gores Technology Group didn't have to pay a dime to Nampa, Idaho's Micron Electronics In...
Firm Watch
Thelen Reid: FIVE ATTORNEYS COME IN FROM THE COLD, SHUT TINY OUTPOST
By Karen Coleman
July is moving month for a tiny San Francisco outpost of Thelen Reid & Priest. Five emerging-companies lawyers, partner To...
NEWBURY PARK - In these days of skyrocketing energy costs and rolling blackouts, Ventura County attorney Tina Rasnow has found...
SAN DIEGO - Ashley Stewart Orr, a member of the Los Angeles patent-law bar for more than 30 years, died July 9 at his home nea...
Irell & Manella entertainment transactional attorney Eric Suddleson once vowed to have nothing more to do with Hollywood. ...
Entertainment & Sports
Magazine Spread Spurs First Amendment Fight
By Contributing Writer
The sound you heard after a federal appeals court in San Francisco reversed a notorious ruling against Los Angeles Magazine o...
Personal Injury & Torts
Amputee Wins $21 Million for Utility Accident
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Rejecting defense claims that Southern California Edison is not obligated to make power lines more visible, a Lo...
LOS ANGELES - Disgraced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael A. Perez, the key figure in the Rampart police corruption sca...
Civil-rights advocates hope that the terms of a settlement which went into effect June 15 will bring an end to alleged police ...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Internal Revenue Service program that helps international companies abide by agency rules will set up its f...
LOS ANGELES - With a powerful new ally in City Hall, opponents of the Los Angeles International Airport expansion plan have st...
SAN JOSE - In another ruling supporting the rights of California workers to switch jobs, a U.S. district judge has rejected a ...
Appellate Practice
Forget the French; Court Rules Will Be Plain English
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Declaring that the obsolete provisions, ambiguities and redundancies that have crept into California's appella...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has refused to remove an arbitrator from a case, rejecting a claim that her day job as ...