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Farella Braun: CHALONE OBTAINS PRIVATE FINANCING FOR VINEYARDS
By Staff Writers
Napa's Chalone Wine Group Ltd. has obtained private financing to purchase three vineyards. The unsecured loan is valued at $30...
Seyfarth Shaw ranks 42nd in the state, but its image tends to run beige. To rectify its lack of recognition, the firm has emba...
As difficult as it may be to believe, there really is sexual-harassment insurance coverage. Employment-practices liability ins...
Transactions
Cooley Godward: BIOTECH COMPANY MERGES TO IMPROVE CAPABILITIES
By Staff Writers
South San Francisco's Exelixis Inc. has agreed to acquire Agritope, based in Portland, Ore. The stock-for-stock transaction is...
Transactions
Paul Hastings: CONTRA COSTA SKYSCRAPER COSTS GROUP $55 MILLION
By Staff Writers
Contra Costa's tallest building, One Concord Center, has been sold in a deal worth $55 million. TrizecHahn Corp., a real estat...
The corporate legal department has become the holy grail of a legal career, with attendant respect, and a leader and an associ...
Terrorist groups are still targeting defense attorneys in Northern Ireland despite the desire of its citizens to put the Troub...
The White House, the symbol of the executive branch that enforces our federal laws, has been financed illegally and in direct ...
Firm Watch
Skadden Arps: L.A. CORPORATE ATTORNEY CROSSES TO INVESTORS CO.
By Staff Writer
The Los Angeles arm of New York giant Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom lost corporate attorney Brian McCarthy to an execu...
Firm Watch
Stutman Treister: BANKRUPTCY LAW PIONEER, FIRM FOUNDER DEAD AT 86
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Stutman Treister & Glatt, one of the country's leading bankruptcy firms, is mourning the loss of founder Jack...
For the past year, former lawyer Mary Mocine has made a practice of getting attorneys' attention with simple but revolutionary...
Firm Watch
Morrison & Foerster: CHARLES SCHWAB COUNSEL AND BOUTIQUE EXILE JOIN
By Staff Writer
Morrison & Foerster has added one partner to its Irvine office and another to its San Francisco headquarters. The most rec...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Pasadena law firm Robert L. Re...
SANTA ANA - Three Southland residents were convicted last week on federal fraud and money laundering charges after bilking som...
RIVERSIDE - The Welsh Choir of Southern California has something to sing about after a judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging it m...
Northrop Grumman Corp. paid the U.S. government $1.4 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the company of ov...
Technology & Science
New Law Makes Business Transactions Easier Online
By Daniel Evans
You can get just about anything you want on the Internet these days: books, music, cars ... legal representation. With the Ele...
A federal appeals court has vacated the arson-for-profit conviction of retired San Francisco police Officer William Parenti on...
Immigration
Brit Facing Deportation Learns Pot Conviction Was Expunged
By Susan Mc Rae
British officials have confirmed they have no criminal record on file against an Englishwoman facing deportation from the Unit...
Criminal
Defense Attorneys Hail Hearing on DA's Discovery Policies
By Anne La Jeunesse
Criminal defense attorneys Friday hailed a judge's order to hold evidentiary hearings to probe the district attorney's office ...
SACRAMENTO - It was a year of mixed results for those fighting the problem of identity theft in California. For instance, a bi...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments on whether false statements or omissions in applications for sta...
California's civil-justice system has always been a major deterrent against increased job growth and economic development. Thi...
Many California employers, as well as members of the state's burgeoning alternative dispute resolution industry, breathed a co...
The State Bar should develop a scoring system whereby law firm wins are computed like baseball statistics. ...
The court rejected Whitfield's proposed new theory, concluding that it would be unwise to adopt a broad new theory of recovery...
After 14 years, litigation attorney Steven O. Kramer has defected from San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro to join t...
Mona Thalheimer knew whom to turn to when her rights as a deaf person were violated. She contacted one of the only deaf attorn...
The movie 'Girlfight' asks the question: Do women athletes need legal protection from being forced to compete against male ath...
More than a year after a landmark settlement promised people with disabilities better access to emergency call boxes, Carol An...