LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council Friday voted to give $400,000 to a former Police Department officer who sued the de...
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Brobeck Phleger: Investors' Funds Stream Into San Diego's AirFiber
By Victoria Newman
AirFiber Inc., a telecommunications equipment supplier, has received $50 million in third-round, equity financing. New York's ...
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Gray Cary: Maxtor Pays $1 Billion For Quantum's Disk Drive Group
By Staff Writer
Maxtor Corp. has bought Quantum HDD, the Hard Disk Drive Group of Quantum Corp., for $1 billion in stock. Maxtor, based in Mil...
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Orrick Herrington: Veteran Sets Sights on London For New Growth
By Karen Coleman
Now that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is firmly entrenched in the United States, the San Francisco-based firm is looking ...
LOS ANGELES - A deputy court clerk at the Pomona Courthouse who suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome has sued Los Angeles Super...
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Paul Hastings: New Building's Skeleton Rises, Heading for 2002
By Karen Coleman
Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is getting busy at both ends of the state. The firm is slated to move into a spanking new ...
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O'Melveny & Myers: Chief FTC Lawyer Returns to Private Practice May 1
By Karen Coleman
Federal Trade Commission lawyer Debra Valentine is coming back to O'Melveny & Myers after six years with the government. V...
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Littler Mendelson: New Employment Partner Forsakes Wilson Sonsini
By Karen Coleman
Senior Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lawyer Christy Richardson took her employment practice over to a firm that ought t...
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Fenwick & West: Corporate Group Takes Serial Startup Veteran
By Karen Coleman
After several years of hopping from startup company to startup company, former Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich partner Dan Do...
The cooling economy is heating up Henry Lesser's business. Since September, the co-chair of Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & F...
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McKenna & Cuneo: Santa Monica Shop Lures 13 From Haight Brown
By Karen Coleman
It was a double whammy for Santa Monica-based Haight Brown & Bonesteel, as Washington, D.C's McKenna & Cuneo lured awa...
For years artists, wrapping themselves in the cloak of the First Amendment, have avoided civil liability for their fans' crime...
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Coudert Brothers: THREE LITIGATORS ABANDON SAN JOSE'S HOPKINS & CARLEY FOR SMALLER SHOP
By Karen Coleman
A trio of litigation partners filed out of the San Jose's Hopkins & Carley and into the local office of New York's Coudert...
California's nonparental visitation statute recently was tested by the California Court of Appeal in Punsly. ...
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Manatt Phelps: Palo Alto Counsel Joins L.A. Government Group
By Karen Coleman
Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips added two new partners in April, one from in-house and one who is returning after a ...
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Pillsbury Winthrop: East-West Combo Enjoy Celebrating Centennial
By Karen Coleman
The more than 2,000 lawyers and staff of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop celebrated their first 100 days as a new firm on A...
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Morgan Lewis: Company Powers Up With Twin Enron Acquisitions
By Victoria Newman
Black Hills Energy Capital Inc. has bought two Enron North America Corp. subsidiaries: Fountain Valley Power and E-Next A Equi...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Newport Beach attorney Hallack Watts Hoag, former president of the Legal Aid ...
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that prosecutors cannot use civil discovery laws to seek an additi...
International
Ex-Lawyer Faces Prison in Faked-Death Insurance Scheme
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles attorney faces up to eight years in state prison and a $200,000 fine if convicted of partic...
SAN FRANCISCO - Computer technology has leveled the playing field for sole practitioners and small town lawyers, according to ...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz may depose a Los Angeles Times reporter who allegedly heard ...
Criminal
Judge Rejects Juvenile-Justice Challenge, Arraigns Santee Teen
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge rejected a constitutional challenge to the mandatory trial of a 15-year-old boy as an adult because of his...
HEMET - Keith Henson spent last summer brandishing placards and picketing outside a Church of Scientology film production faci...
SAN DIEGO - James Anderson Sullivan, a lawyer who spent most of his career in the Los Angeles area, died in Jacksonville, Fla....
Government
Prosecutor Will Head Sheriff's New Independent Review Office
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Michael Gennaco, who led civil rights prosecutions in the U.S. attorney's office for the past six years, was nam...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists say a Sacramento judge's ruling restores some significant clout to the state's basic statute...
FRESNO - Civil rights attorney Catherine F. Campbell and her colleagues tried to maintain a professional demeanor throughout t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Since he founded what is widely considered to be the first independent, small environmental law firm in 1976, ...
LOS ANGELES - His journey to a judgeship took more than 40 years, but at the end of that road, Superior Court Judge Richard E....