Richard Abbe, a retired 2nd District Court of Appeal justice known for the landmark 1989 decision that further secured the rig...
A Los Angeles personal injury lawyer and his former office manager pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a 71-count federal indictment...
Criminal
Glendale Man Pleads Not Guilty to Alleged Murder Plot Charges
By David Houston
A Glendale man who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill criminal defense lawyer Theodore S. Flier and his wife, Los Angel...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Bill Eliminating Baby Bar Wends Its Way to Governor
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - If three times is a charm, then an attempt to eliminate passage of the "baby bar" as a requirement for students o...
SANTA ANA - Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno was convicted Tuesday of 25 federal counts of conspiring to extort campaign c...
SACRAMENTO - For years people have been talking about bringing reciprocity in bar admissions to the Golden State so that being...
Query: 'What are the three most pressing problems facing the district attorney's office and how do you plan on solving them?' ...
Transactions
Milbank Tweed: FINANCING BLOWS SEAWEST WINDPOWER INTO WYOMING
By Staff Writers
SeaWest WindPower Inc. recently completed a $14 million financing of its Foote Creek IV wind energy project, to be constructed...
Transactions
Fenwick & West: CHIP PROCESSOR PLUGS IN A $200 MILLION OFFERING
By Staff Writers
Santa Clara's Transmeta Corp. has filed an initial public offering valued at $200 million. The company's chip, the Crusoe proc...
Transactions
Gibson Dunn: NORTEL TO ADD SONOMA IN $540 MILLION TRANSACTION
By Staff Writers
Canada's Nortel Networks Corp. is acquiring Sonoma Systems Inc. of Los Angeles. The $540 million deal should close by year's e...
THE ADVISER Employers must make appropriate classification determinations for each employee and implement employment policies ...
Law Practice
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth: Racing on the Open Sea - Yacht's the Life
By Tamara Scott
John W. Eldredge sees little difference in drafting a 150-page patent application and sailing the high seas. "Sailboat racing ...
Transactions
Wilson Sonsini: PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY GOES AFTER $31.5 MILLION
By Staff Writers
Irvine's Ista Pharmaceuticals went public in an offering valued at $31.5 million. Ista uses a naturally occurring enzyme to de...
Legal Malpractice by Alec H. Boyd and John M. Orr. The unique role played by monitoring counsel raises obvious questions regar...
DICTA By Mark B. Vezzani. Anyone who has spent time in prisons will tell you that inmates can be downright ingenious. ...
With a high-tech merger these days often looking more like a 100-yard dash than a multimillion-dollar transaction, it was K.C....
BOTTOM LINE Law firms might be surprised to learn that nonunion employees have the right to co-worker accompaniment when quest...
Transactions
Hogan & Hartson: TELETECH ACQUIRES NEWGEN IN $200 MILLION STOCK DEAL
By Staff Writers
TeleTech Co. Inc. is acquiring Newgen Results Corp. in a stock deal worth $200 million. Newgen of San Diego provides Internet-...
Firm Watch
McCutchen Doyle: TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND MAKES TWO-FOR-ONE DEAL
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen recently signed an inseparable pair of intellectual property attorneys, Mi...
Transactions
Bryan Cave: AVISTAR GOES PUBLIC WITH ITS $36 MILLION OFFERING
By Staff Writers
Avistar Communications Corp. of Redwood Shores has gone public in an offering valued at $36 million. Avistar develops, markets...
THE CLOSER The divisive nature of Proposition 22 demonstrates the judgmental behavior of those who supported and voted for it,...
Query: 'What are the three most pressing problems facing the district attorney's office and how do you plan on solving them?' ...
A hungry homeless man must spend 25 years to life in prison because he tried to break into a Los Angeles church to find food, ...
Transactions
Troop Steuber: LIBERTY DIGITAL BUYS HALF OF GAME SHOW NETWORK
By Staff Writers
Liberty Digital Inc. has agreed to purchase a 50 percent share of the Game Show Network, a division of Sony Pictures Entertain...
Firm Watch
Paul Hastings: S.F. OFFICE ADDS THREE AS LABOR BOUTIQUE IMPLODES
By Staff Writer
So far, Los Angeles-based Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is among the first firms to pick up lawyers from the breakup of ...
Firm Watch
Allen Matkins: REAL ESTATE GROUP LURES LILLICK & CHARLES VETERAN
By Staff Writer
Lillick & Charles real estate partner Lee Gotshall-Maxon hopped over to the 20-lawyer San Francisco office of the Los Ange...
Transactions
Latham & Watkins: PAN PACIFIC WILL BECOME MAJOR REIT ON WEST COAST
By Staff Writers
Vista's Pan Pacific Retail Properties has announced that it will pay $440 million to acquire its rival, Western Properties Tru...
Firm Watch
Fenwick & West: BOUTIQUE SUPPLIES THREE NEW ATTORNEYS IN PART II
By Staff Writer
Palo Alto's Fenwick & West is scooping up three more attorneys on the eve of the breakup of Schachter Kristoff. The three ...
Transactions
Pillsbury Madison: FIRM THAT IMPROVES GENES AND PROTEINS GOES PUBLIC
By Staff Writers
San Diego's Applied Molecular Evolution Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at just over $88 million. Applied Molecular...
By Karen Coleman. Last week, the Financial Services Group Inc. was established as an independent company, with 30 business pro...