By Dick Goldberg. Score one for the geezers. Down by three runs in their final at bat, a motley team of self-styled "old guys"...
A proposal to bolster the investigative capabilities of the inspector general's office and possibly other city of Los Angeles...
Wear latex gloves when swabbing blood samples from puddles on the street. Plastic baggies are handy not only for storing blood...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court Monday upheld a $4.65 million damage verdict against Southern California's Metrolink...
Buford O. Furrow Jr., the avowed white supremacist accused of shooting up a Granada Hills Jewish center and killing a Filipino...
SAN FRANCISCO - Without resolving whether free exercise of religion trumps civil rights protections, a federal appellate court...
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Milbank Tweed: $85 MILLION PURCHASE IS MUSIC TO STEINWAY'S EARS
By Victoria Newman
Steinway Musical Instruments Inc. has agreed to acquire Elkhart, Ind.'s United Musical Instruments Holding Inc. The deal is va...
Mannis & Phillips, a Century City family law boutique known for representing high-profile clients, from Hollywood stars to...
Firm Watch
Holland Knight: FLORIDA OUTFIT GAINS A BASE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
By Tamara Scott
Tampa-based Holland & Knight has acquired the Los Angeles and Tokyo offices of New York-based Whitman Breed Abbot & Mo...
Reeves has settled the circuit split on a discrimination plaintiff's burden of proof, endorsing a common-sense approach instea...
Constitutional Law
Censoring Religious Student Talk Violates Free Speech Rights
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By Jay Sekulow. Wrangling over the proper rules for church-state relations seems never-ending, especially when it involves all...
Firm Watch
Foley Lardner: CORPORATE BOUTIQUE ADDS TO BAY AREA EXPANSION
By Tamara Scott
Nobody likes to miss the boat - especially the S.S. Technology Practice - and Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner is no exception....
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Skadden Arps: PURCHASE EXPANDS PLUM CREEK'S TIMBER EMPIRE
By Victoria Newman
Plum Creek Timber Co. is acquiring the Timber Co. unit of Georgia-Pacific Corp. The deal, valued at $4 billion, is expected to...
With business driving the homeless from Skid Row, activists like lawyer Dan Marlmalefsky and the Rev. Alice Callahan are fight...
International corporate attorney Joseph M. Barbeau, an 18-year veteran of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has defecte...
Fighting a retaliation claim requires showing that whatever happened to an employee was unrelated to the employee's earlier pr...
Gregg Noel, like many corporate attorneys these days, is used to burning the midnight oil. His representation of Plum Creek Ti...
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Zevnik Horton: HISPANIC COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY GOES PUBLIC
By Victoria Newman
Hispanic communications giant Entravision Communications Corp. went public today in an offering initially valued at about $7....
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Wilson Sonsini: KABIRA TECHNOLOGIES FILES IPO WORTH $57 MILLION
By Victoria Newman
San Rafael's Kabira Technologies Inc. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at about $57 million. Kabira i...
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Brobeck Phleger: NUSPEED PURCHASE PART OF CISCO BUYING SPREE
By Victoria Newman
Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is buying NuSpeed Internet Systems. The stock deal is valued at $450 million. Sa...
Law schools are experimenting with ways to produce a new breed of lawyers who can figure out how to apply a body of law writte...
Norbert M. Seifert, formerly general counsel and corporate secretary of Imperial Credit Commercial Mortgage Investment Corp., ...
An independent, responsible judiciary is slowly emerging in Eastern European countries from what has traditionally been hamstr...
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Cleary Gottlieb: NORTEL NETWORKS ACQUIRES ALTEONWEB FOR $7.3 BILLION
By Victoria Newman
Nortel Networks Corp., the world's No. 2 network equipment supplier, has bought Web switch developer AlteonWeb Systems Inc. Th...
Firm Watch
Crosby Heafey: SANDERS BARNET HEADS FOR CROSBY'S CENTURY CITY OFFICE
By Tamara Scott
Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has lured Century City's Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk to join its Cent...
Membership Privileges Government Faces Major Hurdles in Credit-Card Case Whether the government can show injury to consumers, ...
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted to delay until April placing a measure on the ballot that would strengthen the po...
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's attorney Rachel Lehmer Claus is forced to deal with a change of rules that are interferin...
Michael Stolzberg, a retired workers' compensation judge, died Monday from a lung infection. He was 86. According to retired c...
Sherrald Reed, LaRonda Burton, Mercedes Knox, Denise Reed, Rosslynn Mitchell and Barbara Becker - all convicted of drug offens...