The American Civil Liberties Union recently filed a landmark case against the state of California for failing to provide publi...
The failure of videotaped evidence to prove a Costa Mesa man participated in a gate-kicking incident at an anti-fur rally duri...
In his book, John J. Miller explains that multiculturalism threatens the cohesiveness of the United States by discouraging new...
The Los Angeles City Council today will consider whether to ask that the state attorney general convene a task force to examin...
SANTA ANA - Former Orange County attorney Leonard Basinger has pleaded not guilty to charges that he embezzled more than $300,...
SEATTLE - Gov. Gary Locke has rejected a State Bar recommendation that he study the death penalty in Washington. Reaffirming h...
Yet another high-profile deal maker is leaving one of California's top law practices to join a financial institution. ...
A San Diego law school professor is asking law schools to rethink their training of lawyers who handle capital cases, citing t...
Commercial Law
Dead Celebs Cannot Control the Income of Their Immortality
By Garry Abrams
Princess Diana may have been a candle in the wind. But her estate burns cash. In a case about the power of a dead celebrity to...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Hires More Minorities But Fewer Women as Clerks
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Following protests at the U.S. Supreme Court urging the hiring of more minority law school graduates for prestigi...
In his four years at the helm of Gray Cary, Irish charmer Terrence O'Malley has used his executive skills to great effect, the...
Transactions
Skadden Arps: INKTOMI AND FASTFORWARD MERGE IN $1.3 BILLION DEAL
By Staff Writers
Foster City's Inktomi Corp. is buying FastForward Networks of San Francisco. The $1.3 billion stock deal should close by year'...
Firm Watch
Paul Hastings: OFFICE CHAIR, 55, SUCCUMBS AFTER A YEARLONG ILLNESS
By Staff Writer
Farella Braun is not the only law firm in the last several weeks to mourn the passing of a colleague and friend. Paul Hastings...
SAN FRANCISCO - Arizona Judge Mary Schroeder of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday she will assume the post o...
Firm Watch
Tuttle & Taylor: A BIG-LEAGUE LOS ANGELES PRACTICE TO CLOSE ITS DOORS BY END OF THE YEAR
By Staff Writer
Now that they've decided to shutter their 59-year-old practice, lawyers practicing under the Tuttle & Taylor name will be ...
Firm Watch
O'Melveny & Myers: LITIGATOR BECOMES FIRST L.A. HEADQUARTERS HEAD
By Staff Writer
Now that O'Melveny & Myers' new firm chair will be based in Washington, D.C., someone will have to stand atop the firm's L...
Legal matchmaking has invaded the Web, with a number of lawyers developing sites designed to link professionals with potential...
Firm Watch
Sidley & Austin: TOP PARTNER TAKES NAME, SHINGLE TO CHICAGO FIRM
By Staff Writer
Ed Poplawski of the Los Angeles' intellectual property shop Pretty Shroeder & Poplawski recently scraped his name off the ...
The digital age has been a boon to the entertainment industry, but it is also the bane of copyright owners. As entertainment c...
Transactions
Cooley Godward: FOR $975 MILLION, SIEBEL WILL BUY CANADIAN LEADER
By Staff Writers
Siebel Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Janna Systems Inc. The transaction is valued at $975 million. San Mateo-based Siebel...
Firm Watch
Nossaman Guthner: FOUR-OFFICE SHOP SELECTS INITIAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
By Staff Writer
After nearly eight months at the helm of Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott, managing partner Scott DeVries is h...
Transactions
Brobeck Phleger: FOSTER CITY'S EFI MAKES $150 MILLION ACQUISITION
By Staff Writers
Foster City's Electronics For Imaging Inc. will acquire Splash Technology Holdings Inc., based in Sunnyvale. The deal is value...
GetThere Inc. didn't need to sell out in order to survive. Its initial public offering last November had raised an impressive ...
The application-service-provider model minimizes the firm's day-to-day responsibility for its information-system infrastructur...
Transactions
Fried Frank: SABRE HOLDINGS WILL GAIN BUSINESS TRAVEL WEB SITE
By Staff Writers
Sabre Holdings Corp. will acquire GetThere Inc. in a cash deal valued at $757 million. Sabre, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is t...
The "one final judgment" rule states that an appeal lies only after a final judgment that disposes of all issues between the p...
Firm Watch
Farella Braun: LONGTIME SECURITIES STAR, MENTOR, 59, DIES OF CANCER
By Staff Writer
William Moran, of-counsel to San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, died Sept. 15. Moran, who succumbed to cancer at 59, ...
Business litigator Richard Burdge Jr. has parted ways with his longtime firm Dewey Ballantine and joined the Los Angeles offic...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: SAN DIEGO'S NUMERITECH OBTAINS CANADA'S CADABRA
By Staff Writer
Numerical Technologies Inc., also known as NumeriTech, has acquired Cadabra Design Automation Inc. The stock deal is valued at...
From the tony stores of South Coast Plaza to the yacht-lined shores of Balboa Island, Orange County has no shortage of wealth....