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Latham & Watkins: RANDOM HOUSE GETS AN EARFUL WITH ACQUISITION
By Contributing Writer
New York publishing giant Random House has agreed to purchase Newport Beach-based Books on Tape Inc. The deal is valued at $22...
Firm Watch
Buchanan Ingersoll: ATTORNEY SWITCHES OUTFITS, BRINGS LITIGATION EXPERTISE
By Staff Writer
Attorney Patricia P. Hollenbeck has moved her litigation practice to the San Diego office of Buchanan Ingersoll , bringing all...
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
NATIONAL MINORITY GROUP TAPS BAY AREA ASSOCIATE
By Staff Writer
The Hispanic National Bar Association has elected Maribel Delgado, a senior associate at McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enerson i...
State Bar & Bar Associations
STATE LAWYERS LAUD MOFO TRIAL ATTORNEY BROSNAHAN
By Staff Writer
The California Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates has awarded Morrison & Foerster partner James J. Brosnahan...
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Wachtell Lipton: PAIR OF DSL PROVIDERS TEAM UP WITH MERGER OF EQUALS
By Columnist
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...
Firm Watch
Pillsbury Winthrop: IP AND CORPORATE PARTNERS SIGN UP IN SAN DIEGO OFFICE
By Staff Writer
Pillsbury Winthrop added two new partners in San Diego on Monday as part of an effort to expand its corporate and intellectual...
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Pillsbury Winthrop: SYMMETRICOM PURCHASES TELMAX MODEM TECHNOLOGY
By Columnist
San Jose-based Symmetricom Inc. announced the acquisition of certain assets and products from Telmax Communication Corp. of Fr...
State Bar & Bar Associations
IN-HOUSE ATTORNEYS HONOR TWO CALIFORNIA MEMBERS
By Staff Writer
The American Corporate Counsel Association honored two California in-house lawyers at its annual meeting earlier this month. T...
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
MILBANK TWEED PARTNER WILL GUIDE CORPORATE BAR
By Staff Writer
The State Bar has appointed Neil J. Wertlieb, a partner at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, as ...
Firm Watch
Brobeck Phleger: DYNAMIC CHAIRMAN DECIDES NOT TO RUN FOR THIRD TERM
By Staff Writer
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...
Firm Watch
Bergeson Eliopoulos: A WOMAN TAKES THE TOP SPOT AT SILICON VALLEY BOUTIQUE
By Staff Writer
Silicon Valley's Bergeson Eliopoulos has named its first female managing partner. Marily P. Lerner , a partner who joined the ...
With headquarters in Santa Clara, operations centers in seven countries, officers based in the company's original London headq...
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Troutman Sanders: DIAL-THRU AIMS FOR RAPID SERVICE WITH PURCHASE
By Columnist
Los Angeles-based Dial-Thru International Corp. has completed its acquisition of technology assets from Atlanta's Rapid Link C...
Firm Watch
Sheppard Mullin: SAN DIEGO, L.A. OFFICES ADD THREE ATTORNEYS TO FOLD
By Staff Writer
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has been busy. While its Los Angeles office picked up new partner Tin Kin Lee from Manat...
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White & Case: ELECTRONICS CHIP MAKER BUYS WIRELESS CAPABILITY
By Columnist
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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Orrick Herrington: DELTAGEN SECURES CAPITAL THROUGH SALE OF STOCK
By Contributing Writer
Menlo Park-based Deltagen Inc. has secured $10 million in capital through an equity investment by Dr. George B. Rathman, the c...
Eagles, the rock group known for a string of '70s hits including "Hotel California" and "Desperado," have donated $100,000 to ...
Sara Smith knew her business inside and out. She even understood many of the relevant legal issues, based on her years of expe...
"Everyone's here tonight," one attorney remarked during the Oct. 16 celebration for Drucilla Stender Ramey, the departing dire...
Business & Professions Code Section 17200 is a broadly construed series of statutes that can have a tremendous impact on ...
America is witnessing patriotism to a degree that few people younger than 60 can remember. And American corporations are exhib...
Law Practice
California Law Business Celebrates Achievements of Legal, Political Elite
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Many members of state's legal and political elite enjoyed the Daily Journal's and California Law Business's annu...
LOS ANGELES - The Santa Monica office of Greenberg Traurig has recruited three partners from Bryan Cave, also in Santa Monica....
SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis has elevated Superior Court Judge Richard M. Aronson to the 4th District Court of Appeal and appoi...
LOS ANGELES - The lives of Roger Lowenstein Esq. have unreeled across six decades and two coasts as replete with delicious dra...
The dilemma facing all lawyers, and certainly trial lawyers, is the question of how to behave toward one's opponent during tri...
The war against digital piracy has entered a new phase. Earlier this month, litigation was commenced against several popular I...
When it comes to dealing with the news media, even confident lawyers can feel wary and defensive. The rough-and-tumble world o...