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New York publishing giant Random House has agreed to purchase Newport Beach-based Books on Tape Inc. The deal is valued at $22...


Attorney Patricia P. Hollenbeck has moved her litigation practice to the San Diego office of Buchanan Ingersoll , bringing all...


Law Practice


The Faces of Power

Oct. 30, 2001
By Tanya Rothman

They are all white, and they are all men. In a state featuring such lawyers as Patricia Glaser, Johnnie Cochran and Kathleen S...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The Hispanic National Bar Association has elected Maribel Delgado, a senior associate at McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enerson i...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The California Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates has awarded Morrison & Foerster partner James J. Brosnahan...


Santa Clara's Virata Corp. and Globespan Inc. of Red Bank, N.J. have agreed to a merger. The stock-for-stock transaction is va...


Pillsbury Winthrop added two new partners in San Diego on Monday as part of an effort to expand its corporate and intellectual...


San Jose-based Symmetricom Inc. announced the acquisition of certain assets and products from Telmax Communication Corp. of Fr...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The American Corporate Counsel Association honored two California in-house lawyers at its annual meeting earlier this month. T...


Law Practice


And Then There Were 11

Oct. 30, 2001
By Tanya Rothman

The California Law Business staff is not a group known for keeping its opinions to itself. So you can imagine our frustration ...


State Bar & Bar Associations


The State Bar has appointed Neil J. Wertlieb, a partner at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, as ...


One of the most charismatic leaders of the Silicon Valley's law-firm boom will be stepping down in a matter of months. Tower S...


Silicon Valley's Bergeson Eliopoulos has named its first female managing partner. Marily P. Lerner , a partner who joined the ...


Transactions


Facilitating Merger for Global Equals

Oct. 30, 2001
By Staff Writer

With headquarters in Santa Clara, operations centers in seven countries, officers based in the company's original London headq...


Los Angeles-based Dial-Thru International Corp. has completed its acquisition of technology assets from Atlanta's Rapid Link C...


Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has been busy. While its Los Angeles office picked up new partner Tin Kin Lee from Manat...


Cirrus Logic Inc. of Austin, Texas, completed its acquisition of El Dorado Hills-based ShareWave Inc. The deal was valued at $...


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Menlo Park-based Deltagen Inc. has secured $10 million in capital through an equity investment by Dr. George B. Rathman, the c...


Criminal


Eagles, the rock group known for a string of '70s hits including "Hotel California" and "Desperado," have donated $100,000 to ...


Corporate


Gap Fillers

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Sara Smith knew her business inside and out. She even understood many of the relevant legal issues, based on her years of expe...


State Bar & Bar Associations


Everybody's Here

Oct. 30, 2001
By Erik Cummins

"Everyone's here tonight," one attorney remarked during the Oct. 16 celebration for Drucilla Stender Ramey, the departing dire...


Personal Injury & Torts


Potent Weapon

Oct. 30, 2001
By Columnist

Business & Professions Code Section 17200 is a broadly construed series of statutes that can have a tremendous impact on ...


Corporate


The Face of Corporate Patriotism

Oct. 29, 2001
By Columnist

America is witnessing patriotism to a degree that few people younger than 60 can remember. And American corporations are exhib...


LOS ANGELES - Many members of state's legal and political elite enjoyed the Daily Journal's and California Law Business's annu...


Large Firms


Greenberg Traurig Nabs Bryan Cave Trio

Oct. 29, 2001
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - The Santa Monica office of Greenberg Traurig has recruited three partners from Bryan Cave, also in Santa Monica....


Judges and Judiciary


SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis has elevated Superior Court Judge Richard M. Aronson to the 4th District Court of Appeal and appoi...


Public Interest


Lawyer Activist Returns To Social-Justice Roots

Oct. 29, 2001
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES - The lives of Roger Lowenstein Esq. have unreeled across six decades and two coasts as replete with delicious dra...


Litigation


The dilemma facing all lawyers, and certainly trial lawyers, is the question of how to behave toward one's opponent during tri...


Entertainment & Sports


Bazaar Wars

Oct. 27, 2001
By Columnist

The war against digital piracy has entered a new phase. Earlier this month, litigation was commenced against several popular I...


Law Practice


A Merciless Media

Oct. 27, 2001
By Columnist

When it comes to dealing with the news media, even confident lawyers can feel wary and defensive. The rough-and-tumble world o...