Just about every school kid knows about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Edwin C. Anderson Jr. wishes kids knew as much...
Intellectual Property
USC ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP HONORS PARTNER'S MEMORY
By Victoria Newman
Friends and colleagues of the late Roger Sherman, entertainment attorney and senior partner at Beverly Hills' Mitchell Silberb...
M. Henry Heines, a partner with San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew, has been honored by the Northern California Se...
Nancy Heinen, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Apple Computer Inc., could hardly believe her eyes recen...
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Preston Gates: MORE ATTORNEYS CHANGE FROM RIORDAN & MCKINZIE
By Karen Coleman
In what's become a steady stream of lawyers coming out of Los Angeles's Riordan & McKinzie , three corporate partners from...
Firm Watch
Farella Braun: DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS RECOGNIZE LAW STUDENTS
By Karen Coleman
San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel ponied up $10,000 in scholarship money on June 1 for the first-ever Farella Braun &...
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Baker Botts: TEXAS FIRM WILL ACQUIRE SOFTWARE MAKER IN OHIO
By Victoria Newman
Electronic Data Systems Corp. will acquire Structural Dynamics Research Corp. for $950 million in cash. Electronic Data System...
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Crosby Heafey: RECENT HIRE WILL DIRECT OUTPOST IN CENTURY CITY
By Karen Coleman
Corporate and securities partner Irwin Barnet has been named the new managing partner for the Century City office of Oakland's...
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Wilson Sonsini: HEALTH TECH COMPANIES INK $84 MILLION MERGER
By Victoria Newman
Xcare.net Inc. will acquire Healthcare.com Corp. in a $84 million stock swap. XCare.net, based in Englewood, Colo., develops s...
The Inner City Law Center in Los Angeles recently honored Tom Nolan and his law firm, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, for the...
Intellectual Property
Napster Hires Justice Official For New Fee-Based Web Site
By Marisa Navarro
LOS ANGELES - Napster Inc. has hired senior Department of Justice official Jonathan Schwartz to fill the newly created role of...
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Gordon & Rees: PARTNER BECOMES HEAD OF SHOP'S MARITIME PRACTICE
By Karen Coleman
Gordon & Rees, a San Francisco firm that's looking more and more like a San Diego native, announced May 30 that partner Ru...
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Haight Brown: L.A. OFFICE MOVES TO NEW SPACE NEAR LAX AIRPORT
By Karen Coleman
The Los Angeles headquarters of Haight Brown & Bonesteel just moved closer to transportation - the expensive private kind ...
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart: SOUTHLAND SHOE BUSINESS TAKES OVER DOT-COM LEASE
By Victoria Newman
Casual footwear company Skechers USA Inc. has taken over the commercial lease formerly held by online retailer eToys Inc., whi...
The Computer Law Association has elected Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser partner Richard Allan Horning to its board of di...
The Internal Revenue Service has appointed Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's Perry Israel to a new advisory committee establ...
Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, was passed by California voters in 1986. Health and Safety ...
This time last year, top Shearman & Sterling partner Peter Lyons was heading out to Menlo Park from his firm's New York ho...
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Gunderson Dettmer: SAN JOSE'S REDBACK OFFERS STOCK FOR MERLIN SYSTEMS
By Victoria Newman
Redback Networks Inc. of San Jose will buy Fremont's Merlin Systems for $57 million in stock. Redback's designs, develops and ...
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Arnold & Porter: HOSPITAL DOES DEAL FOR COMPUTER IMPROVEMENTS
By Victoria Newman
Computer Sciences Corp. has signed a seven-year, $100 million contract to upgrade the technology information systems of Childr...
"If [management] is not gonna [do what we want], we're gonna have to go to their, their homes ... to blow off their front porc...
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Venture Law: STARTUP BOUTIQUE IS FIRST TO ACKNOWLEDGE LAYOFFS
By Karen Coleman
At the end of May, the startup-focused Menlo Park firm Venture Law Group became the first Northern California law firm to admi...
News flash! The Internet boom is over. Hundreds of Web sites are bust. OK, so it isn't exactly breaking news. And it isn't a s...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster has added to its already strong patent practice in San Diego. Patent att...
LOS ANGELES - At least he didn't pretend he was Shaq. A man arrested Friday allegedly posed as the son of Los Angeles Lakers' ...
LOS ANGELES - Two legal secretaries in the Los Angeles office of the attorney general have filed a discrimination lawsuit agai...
SACRAMENTO - Since the 1996 passage of Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative, district attorneys have been trying ...
Personal Injury & Torts
Boy Whose Circumcision Was Badly Done Awarded $1.4M
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento jury's $1.4 million verdict in favor of a young boy who was mutilated in a botched circumcision c...
SAN JOSE - The San Jose chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club will walk into a federal courtroom today in an unusual pos...
LOS ANGELES - Congresswoman Maxine Waters switched her endorsement in the Los Angeles city attorney's race - and possibly deli...