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Alschuler Grossman: REAL ESTATE DUO JOINS AS LUNA FOUNDERS SPLIT UP
By Staff Writer
The 80-lawyer Los Angeles business firm Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has added two lawyers. Partner James Richman and ...
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Schinner Law: S.F.'S UNEXPLORED BUYS TAHOE'S RESORT AUTOMATION
By Staff Writer
Unexplored Inc. has acquired Resort Automation Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $6 million. San Francisco's Unexplored ...
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Latham & Watkins: PAUL HASTINGS ATTORNEY SIGNS ON AT HEADQUARTERS
By Staff Writer
Roxanne Christ, an intellectual property lawyer with experience that ranges from entertainment to media and education, joined ...
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Townsend and Townsend: ASSOCIATES RUN AMOK AND TURN OFFICE UPSIDE DOWN
By Staff Writer
After working too late the night before, associates Angus MacDonald, Kathleen Weaver, Bijal Vakil and Mehrnaz Boroumand of San...
Helene Hahn wears a lot of labels: the ultimate Cinderella story, behind-the-scenes nemesis of Disney's Michael Eisner and one...
Tax and estate planning attorney George Short has merged his practice - Short & Associates - with Santa Barbara's Hatch &a...
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Latham & Watkins: LIVINGSTON'S FOSTER FARMS PLUCKS EL MONTE'S ZACKY
By Staff Writer
Foster Farms will acquire the chicken operations of Zacky Farms Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Livingston's F...
Metatags are a nifty tool for getting Internet users to visit your site. Metatags are HTML code contained in a Web site but no...
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Winston & Strawn: LABOR LAWYER WILL HEAD INFANT LOS ANGELES SHOP
By Staff Writer
Chicago's Winston & Strawn picked labor and employment partner Laura Petroff to head its not-quite-2-year-old Los Angeles ...
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Greenberg Glusker: HAPPIEST-PLACE-ON-EARTH PRACTITIONER MOVES OVER
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After a short hop to Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, former Disney lawyer Miriam Claire Beezy moved over to Cent...
While most of us dutifully write the check for our income-tax bill due today, most of Charles Bowman's clients haven't paid ta...
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Gordon & Rees: SAN DIEGO'S WD-40 SLIDES INTO GLOBAL BRANDS DEAL
By Staff Writer
WD-40 Co. has agreed to buy with Global Household Brands for $69 million. The San Diego's WD-40 manufactures industrial lubric...
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Paul Weiss: PITNEY BOWES SENDS CASH FOR ALYSIS OF EMERYVILLE
By Staff Writer
Pitney Bowes Inc. will acquire Alysis Technologies Inc. in a cash deal valued at $24 million. Pitney Bowes, based in Stamford,...
Ian Ballon, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, has published a three-volume legal treatise on Internet la...
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Riordan & McKinzie: RIVALS OFFER REAL ESTATE LISTINGS ON ONE WEB SITE
By Staff Writer
Internet real estate rivals PropertyFirst.com Inc. of San Francisco and LoopNet Inc. of Alhambra have merged. The value of the...
"Beauty contests" are the lawyer's version of a Survivor episode, as firms compete for a corporate client's business. But clie...
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Brobeck Phleger: IRVINE RECRUITS TAX STAR, CORPORATE GURU LEAVES
By Staff Writer
The San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger & Harrison welcomed a new executive compensation tax partner into its Irvine offic...
Solo and Small Firms
THREE PARTNERS LATERAL TO SIDEMAN & BANCROFT IN S.F.
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Sideman & Bancroft has brought aboard three lateral partners: S. Kendall Patton, Paul Gutierrez and Vincen...
Although the Internal Revenue Code is primarily business-driven, values-based considerations also come into play. For example,...
Andy Schwartz left Bank of America's 156-lawyer legal department shortly after it merged with North Carolina's NationsBank in ...
Downey Brand Seymour & Rohwer, a full-service firm in Sacramento, has recruited environmental associate Thomas Adams. Adam...
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Sedgwick Detert: LITIGATORS ENTER LONE STAR STATE IN NEW DALLAS OFFICE
By Staff Writer
Just months after plunking down roots in Newark, N.J., San Francisco litigation shop Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold is ste...
The American Jewish Committee will honor Barry A. Sanders, a partner with Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins, at the 22nd annua...
SAN DIEGO - The seventh lawyer for a rape suspect has asked to be removed from the case after his client butted him in the fac...
NEWPORT BEACH - An Orange County judge who previously suppressed tape-recorded statements given to sheriff's investigators by ...
SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors on Friday called premature a defense claim that a 15-year-old boy charged in the shooting deaths of tw...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court has ordered the suspension from the practice of law of Arlo H. Smith, son of the forme...
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has turned down a wealthy physician's attempt to divide his marriage assets under Islami...
Criminal
Accused Molester's No-Contest Plea Brings Five Years' Probation
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a Van Nuys criminal defense attorney to five years' probation Frida...
LOS ANGELES - In the first courtroom trial of a tire tread-separation lawsuit since the Ford-Firestone recall, jurors on Frida...