Lawyers can help clients keep their carefully packaged marketing morsels from degenerating into distasteful "spam," thus avoid...
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Loeb & Loeb: ENTERTAINMENT LAW SEES ACQUISITIONS AS BIG COUP
By Staff Writer
Los Angles' Loeb & Loeb considers its most recent lawyer acquisitions, both from the corporate world, to be a coup for the...
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Squire Sanders: JAPANESE BAR FOUNDATION CONTINGENT PAYS U.S. VISIT
By Staff Writer
Squire Sanders & Dempsey, the big national firm out of Cleveland, recently hosted a contingent of 80 lawyers from Japan at...
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Coudert Brothers: RECRUITS TO NEW YORK GROUP CHANGE OFFICES IN SAME BUILDING
By Staff Writer
The demise of an 18-year-old San Francisco intellectual property boutique means five new lawyers and another patent agent for ...
Amid reports that another county worker may have contracted Legionnaires' disease, union officials charge that the county down...
Stephen Yagman just doesn't know when to quit. This is how the Los Angeles civil rights lawyer and renowned gadfly recently co...
To promote justice, all members of the bar should stay informed about rule-of-law issues here and abroad and speak out in favo...
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Fenwick & West: INTERWOVEN WILL ACQUIRE BOTH METACODE AND AJUBA
By Staff Writer
Sunnyvale's Web content management software maker, Interwoven Inc., has agreed to acquire two companies: San Francisco's Metac...
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Sullivan & Cromwell: $35,000 BONUSES WAIT FOR FIRST-YEAR N.Y. ASSOCIATES
By Staff Writer
Sullivan & Cromwell, a big New York firm with 45 lawyers in Los Angles, lit a fire under East Coast year-end bonuses when ...
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Pillsbury Madison: CHEVRON, TEXACO PREPARE FOR A $36 BILLION MERGER
By Staff Writer
Chevron Corp. has agreed to acquire Texaco Inc. for $36 billion. Chevron also will acquire $7 billion of Texaco's debt. San Fr...
Terry Kee, corporate and securities partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco, is a little weary of the media ...
Attorney Stephen Kaufman is a political junkie, the Smith Kaufman name partner practicing the arcane art of campaign and elect...
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O'Melveny & Myers: GOLDMAN LAYWER PETROCELLI SWITCHES PRACTICES IN L.A.
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers isn't one to shrink from the limelight. Litigator Dan Petrocelli, whose name became a house...
Sliding easily from bar to clustered armchairs and back again, they paused from time to time to graze from trays laden with go...
Santa Rosa's Lanahan & Reilley has doubled in size in three years. "We're not doing it to be a large law firm," Daniel Lan...
New Wage Orders will effect the rules that law firms must follow on such diverse topics as overtime, alternative workweeks, me...
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Haight Brown: OUTPOST WILL MOVE FROM SANTA MONICA TO AIRPORT
By Staff Writer
Southern California's Haight Brown & Bonesteel announced plans to move its Los Angeles office closer to the Los Angeles In...
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Sidley & Austin: LOCAL SATELLITE TAKES BITE OF SQUIRE SANDERS IN KOREA
By Staff Writer
In a deal both firms say was sealed some time ago, the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Sidley & Austin has acquired three ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar Board of Governors voted unanimously - and happily - on Friday to cut bar dues by $50 for next y...
Former murder defendant O.J. Simpson did not want any television viewers to see "American Tragedy," a made-for-television movi...
In one day, voters must choose between Los Angeles' two-term District Attorney Gil Garcetti and challenger Steve Cooley. Thoug...
SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 13, the property tax-cutting initiative that remains loved and loathed in the state 22 years after...
Following through on his pledge to sign the consent decree if the Los Angeles City Council passed it, Mayor Richard Riordan ap...
Citing witness intimidation by a corrupt immigration agent, a federal judge has ordered a new trial for a man convicted in an ...
While implementation of a consent decree placing the Los Angeles Police Department under the eyes of a federal monitor could c...
Lawyers for four Los Angeles Police Department officers on trial in the Rampart scandal probably will rest their case today. O...
The most important political question you can ask yourself on election day is simply this: Do you want smaller government? Do ...
Lawyers spend so much time with time, maybe we should do something about the time spent hanging around the courts. ...
After winning a $10.5 million verdict in September, plaintiff Abel Vargas should be happy, right? Think again. The 39-year-old...
Education
Opposition to School Choice More Political Than Practical
By Contributing Writer
As the debate rages over Proposition 38, the school-choice voucher initiative in California, supporters of educational choice ...