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Riordan & McKinzie: ATLANTA FOOD FIRM COOKS A $183 MILLION OFFERING
By Victoria Newman
Atlanta's AFC Enterprises Inc. has completed an initial public offering that brought in $183 million. Goldman Sachs & Co.,...
Firm Watch
Baker & McKenzie: ENVIRONMENTAL TROOP GOES WITH BUSINESS LAW GROUP
By Staff Writer
A troop of environmental partners in the San Francisco office of Chicago's Baker & McKenzie marched over to local business...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to become an intellectual property powerhouse on the West Coast, McDermott, Will & Emery has snared...
Firm Watch
O'Melveny & Myers: FIRST SILICON VALLEY SHOP SETS UP ACROSS THE STREET FROM LATHAM
By Staff Writer
Eleven lawyers from Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers are moving into new Menlo Park digs just across the freeway from the lo...
Entertainment & Sports
VENTURA D.A. MAKES CLEVER MOVE IN BROCKOVICH CASE
By Contributing Writer
As long as we're on the subject of aggressive prosecutors, Ventura County Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Frawley score...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently that a hospital's drug testing of pregnant women at the direction of the police and the ...
Three months ago, Carson City attorney Thanayi Lindsey was surfing the Web and stumbled across a curious site: MyCounsel.com. ...
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Friday denied a defense attorney's request to sanction the Los Angeles district attorney's office for...
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of Michael J. Fanghella, accused by the Securities and Exch...
SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime court reporter for former San Francisco Superior Court Presiding Judge Alfred G. Chiantelli has bee...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bar Governors Table Bid for Death Penalty Moratorium
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - Tossing a political hot potato back where it came from, the State Bar Board of Governors tabled a request Frid...
LOS ANGELES - The attorney for convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz filed a discovery motion late last week seeking informati...
Criminal
Boy Recounts the Fatal Mauling of His Friend
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BARSTOW - Ten-year-olds Cash Carson and Daniel Gonzales walked toward a Newberry Springs home last year to ask its occupants f...
LOS ANGELES - Terry Friedman, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, has been named this year's recipient of t...
If you aren't prepared to go all 15 rounds, then you shouldn't get into the ring, according to courtroom warrior A. Barry Capp...
Law Practice
'Sore-Loser' Attorney E-Mailed Threats to Colleagues, Feds Say
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer repeatedly sent threatening e-mail messages to opposing counsel after losing a price-fixing class actio...
SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement of an important Central Valley agriculture case that could come soon will help clear the way for ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city's three-year-old legal dispute over its business-tax framework will reach a critical point today when...
LOS ANGELES - In the wake of San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas and Electric's bankruptcy filing, the state's bankruptcy ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The rare reversal of a murder conviction last week by a sharply divided 1st District Court of Appeal panel rev...
SAN FRANCISCO - The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to seek bankruptcy protection rather than a political ...
The food and the decor at the hundreds of eateries owned by restaurant chain Buffets Inc. haven't changed in the last year - a...
Despite the common perception that the federal government seeks only the acquisition of big-ticket items, such as rocket engin...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Munger Tolles & Olson has added renowned legal scholar Lawrence Lessig to its 150-attorney rost...
Technology & Science
Web Site Spotlights Wacky Inventions That Flopped
By Contributing Writer
In these days when biotechnology and high-tech companies live and die based on the breadth of their intellectual property port...
Affirmative action has been back in the news and the subject of talk shows and student demonstrations since University of Cali...
Members of the criminal-defense profession have long recognized the extraordinary achievements of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the ...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Harold "Hal" Rosenberg, Van Nuys criminal defense attorney and former president of...
Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has dropped its appeal of a case it brought against an Irvine-based manufacturer...
Every weekday, with the exception of election-snafu litigation, which seems to flourish on the weekends, many of us litigators...
