Firm Watch
Crosby Heafey: CENTURY CITY OFFICE GRABS TRIO FOR SECURITIES WORK
By Staff Writer
Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited three of the eight attorneys at Brand Farrar & Buxbaum, a corporate, real est...
Firm Watch
Procopio Cory: REAL ESTATE PARTNER MOVES INTO MANAGEMENT POSITION
By Staff Writer
Tom Turner, former real estate practice group head at Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch, now leads the whole 71-lawyer Sa...
Firm Watch
McCutchen Doyle: REMAINING NAME PARTNER DIES 70 YEARS AFTER JOINING
By Staff Writer
Ham Enersen, once a prominent water lawyer and a name partner at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, died on ...
Transactions
Brobeck Phleger: BROADCOM GOES OVERSEAS AND BUYS ISRAELI COMPANY
By Staff Writers
Broadcom Corp. has agreed to purchase VisionTech Ltd. The deal is valued at $777 million. Irvine's Broadcom makes integrated c...
The 'Aas' court concentrated on the foreseeability of harm and the degree of certainty that the plaintiff suffered injury. ...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: AGGREGATION SERVICES WILL UNITE YODLEE, VERTICALONE
By Staff Writers
Yodlee.com Inc. is buying VerticalOne Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Redwood Shores' Yodlee provides personal account aggreg...
SAN JOSE - In what is believed to be the first criminal forfeiture of a Web site in an intellectual property case, two Los Ang...
Most days, the three partners of Los Angeles litigation boutique Solomon Saltsman & Jamieson argue on behalf of their clie...
It was time to say hello to the Bar Association of San Francisco's new president, Doug Young, and goodbye to his predecessor, ...
A desire to get more involved in the fate of his clients' businesses has determined the course of Richard Chernicoff's career....
The Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha, the honorary land economics society, selected Joan Story as one of 22 individuals to ...
SAN JOSE - Clint Eastwood has won another small victory in his legal battle with a disabled Alameda woman who filed a civil ri...
Transactions
Hogan & Hartson: CIENA LAYS OUT $2.6 BILLION FOR PRIVATELY HELD CYRAS
By Staff Writers
Telecommunications equipment maker Ciena Corp. is purchasing Cyras Systems Inc. for $2.6 billion, comprised stock and debt ass...
LOS ANGELES - The state Senate has confirmed former West Los Angeles attorney Steven Gourley as director of the Department of ...
LOS ANGELES - Private services will be held for Robert H. Volk, attorney and former state commissioner of corporations whose r...
SAN FRANCISCO - Three corporate officers of one of the country's biggest title companies have tentatively settled an unusual f...
LOS ANGELES - California's legal community lost hundreds of practitioners and jurists in 2000. What the year will most be note...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Friday held in contempt a whistle-blower who gave court-sealed files concerning alleged spousal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - As a true judicial insider who has worked with judges for nearly 30 years, Constance Dove has some invaluable ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Unless death row inmate Robert L. Massie has a last-minute and highly unlikely change of heart, a federal judg...
Judges and Judiciary
Contra Costa's Mark B. Simons Appointed to 1st District
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Mark B. Simons, a judicial educator and author of two legal reference...
SACRAMENTO - A constitutional challenge to a new law that extends binding arbitration to labor disputes involving police and f...
LOS ANGELES - Crosby Heafey Roach & May has recruited three of the eight attorneys at Brand Farrar & Buxbaum, a corpor...
The law is ill-equipped to deal with terrorism. Although we have strict laws against the terrorists who are caught, current la...
Labor/Employment
GOAL!! Coach Defeats Injunction Bid by Former Employer
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - In Silicon Valley, there is nothing too unusual about an employer going to court to prevent a departing worker from...
LOS ANGELES - An unemployed truck driver charged in two drunken-driving accidents that claimed the lives of two people last ye...
While the value of many people's stock holdings plunged last year, insiders at technology firms sold their shares at opportune...
Two recent decisions potentially have opened the floodgates for malicious-prosecution actions arising from contractual arbitra...
The partisan cries of judicial bias that ripped through the Florida courts since the election have split the nation into two g...
A favorite topic of conversation in Silicon Valley is trying to figure out which technologies and companies will become the ne...