Friedemann O'Brien & Zarian's name just got a bit longer, thanks to Steven Goldberg. Goldberg has joined the Los Angeles-b...
Santa Clara County, the home of Silicon Valley, seems to have it all: money, fame, and an overabundance of residents who under...
On the first floor of what was once a television studio, near the corner of Vine Street and Fountain Avenue in Los Angeles, th...
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart: LUMINENT STOCK OFFERING WILL BRING IN $144 MILLION
By Staff Writers
Chatsworth's Luminent Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at about $144 million. The company's line of fiber ...
SAN JOSE - The disabled Alameda woman and her attorneys who lost her civil rights lawsuit against actor-director Clint Eastwoo...
Los Angeles' Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey has recruited the national adoption director of the Alliance For Childre...
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Fenwick & West: VERISIGN GETS INTO NAME GAME WITH NEW PURCHASE
By Staff Writers
VeriSign Inc. has bought GreatDomains.com for an undisclosed amount. VeriSign, based in Mountain View, provides security softw...
Dana was as happy as could be when she became the foster mother to a 2-year-old baby girl. She had no idea when the girl's mo...
Judges and Judiciary
USF Teaches ADR in Cambodia, a Land Without Property Title
By Contributing Writer
The writer, a recent graduate of the University of San Francisco Law School, assisted this summer in the school's overseas pro...
This week, the Daily Journal devotes its pages to a discussion of access-to-justice issues. Coincidentally, the Supreme Court ...
I supported Proposition 36, the initiative that mandated treatment programs for first-time drug possessors. It is a needed fir...
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Kirkland & Ellis: INVESTMENT FIRM BUYS MACADAMIA NUT COMPANY
By Staff Writers
The Shansby Group has acquired the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The ...
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Gunderson Dettmer: SUNNYVALE'S SONICWALL SECURES $279M ACQUISITION
By Staff Writers
SonicWALL Inc. has acquired Phobos Corp. for $279 million in cash and stock. Phobos, based in Salt Lake City, makes Internet t...
Never in her wildest dreams did Julie Su expect that, her first year out of law school, she would be meeting clients held behi...
Tim Curry, partner in the Palo Alto office of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, has represented high-tech compan...
Firm Watch
Cooley Godward: NEW YORK OUTPOST LOSES PALO ALTO PATENT PRO
By Staff Writer
After months of socking new intellectual property partners into its own Northern Virginia outpost, Cooley Godward has found an...
San Diego's Luce Foward Hamilton & Scripps has recruited a New York lawyer for its Los Angeles office. Allison Gotsch come...
A Los Angeles man has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-felon Rafael A. Perez,...
Legal aid organizations bring justice and hope to thousands, providing crucial services to those whose only payment is gratitu...
Sacramento's Weintraub Genshlea Chedial & Sproul has recruited its fourth patent attorney. John Costello joins the firm's ...
Firm Watch
Crosby Heafey: APPEALS LAWYER TO PLY HER SPECIALTY IN BIG-FIRM GROUP
By Staff Writer
After 10 years with Encino appeals-only shop Horvitz & Levy, partner Tina Imre has moved into that practice area at a full...
Two attorneys at Philadelphia-based Morgan Lewis & Bockius have started their holiday shopping early, thanks to an impress...
Electronic Frontier Foundation protects privacy and free speech on the Internet and pursues precedent-setting cases where ques...
SAN JOSE -- Ever since Varian Medical Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against two of its former employees for caustic messa...
Copyright owners enjoy a separate cause of action against those who gain unauthorized access to their encrypted digital entert...
The Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange County has elected Julianne Sartain as its first woman president. Sartain is a ...
When Rose Bird died from breast cancer last December, her legacy was widely distilled to two events - in 1977, she was the fir...
Five new law school graduates have accepted offers from New York-based Condon & Forsyth. The associates joined the firm's ...
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Orrick Herrington: NOVATEL WIRELESS CONNECTS WITH $56 MILLION OFFERING
By Staff Writers
Novatel Wireless Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $56 million. San Diego's Novatel Wireless develops wireless Int...
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Chadbourne & Parke: INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP LAYS TRACKS FOR PUBLIC OFFERING
By Staff Writers
Conexant Spinco Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Newport Beach's Conexant Spinco is a who...
