Practitioner: Entertainment Law By John M. Genga Copyright interests continue to prevail in lawsuits challenging uncompensated...
Mergers & Acquisitions
DEALS: MERGER DOUBLES SIZE OF PEREGRINE SYSTEMS
By Melissa Onstad
San Diego's Peregrine Systems Inc., a business infrastructure software provider, has acquired Atlanta-based Harbinger Corp., w...
Firm Watch
NEWS: JAMS ADDS EIGHT MEDIATORS TO OFFICES AROUND THE STATE
By Melissa Onstad
Alternative dispute resolution firm JAMS, based in Irvine, has added eight mediators to offices throughout the state, includin...
On the Move: Palo-Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has recruited two lateral partners for its 366-attorney corporat...
Government
Latino Organization Seeks Probe of 'Hate Group'
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - The League of United Latin American Citizens, a national organization advocating civil rights for Hispanics, is ac...
SANTA ANA - Lori Jensen, a former Orange County midwife accused of causing the stillborn birth of a baby by unlawfully adminis...
As everything else is linked to the Web, so is charity, according to Cynthia Rowland, partner in San Francisco's Coblentz, Pat...
Mergers & Acquisitions
DEALS: PLATINUM EQUITY NOW HOLDS PROCESS SOFTWARE
By Melissa Onstad
Platinum Equity Holdings, a Los Angeles-based, privately held company specializing in acquiring Internet technology companies,...
SAN DIEGO - Three Mexico City men, one of them apparently an attorney, were arrested early this month in Chula Vista for defra...
Kenneth N. Klee, acting professor at UCLA School of Law , has been given the 11th annual Frederic P. Sutherland Public Interes...
Silicon Energy Corp. has acquired Energy Concepts Inc. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. ...
By Thomas Edward Wall The cause of child abuse prevention received a major boost when the California Supreme Court unanimously...
Mergers & Acquisitions
DEALS: SANTA CLARA'S VERIDICOM BUYS GERMAN CONCERN
By Melissa Onstad
Santa Clara-based Veridicom Inc., which provides security software for use in business-to-business online transactions, has ac...
Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Gamble Leck & Mallory has promoted six associates to partner in its Irvine, Los Angeles, W...
An executive from a Silicon Valley start-up was shocked when he talked to Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati - the region'...
The Closer: By Stanley W. Lamport Mark Twain once said, " Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." The world arou...
Plenty of busy attorneys rise each morning before the sun. But the alarm clock of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Jonathan Moshe...
The Beverly Hills Bar Association will honor the justices of the state Supreme Court at its annual luncheon June 6 at the Cent...
Heller Ehrman will receive the American Bar Association's 2000 Pro Bono Publico Award at the association's annual meeting July...
Bottom Line: By Gary S. Wong Technology has permeated the day-to-day operation of most law firms, and the cost of this technol...
A court on Friday gave Glendale police until October to provide evidence that a former respiratory therapist may have committe...
The city of Los Angeles has launched a program to reduce the volume of nonemergency calls fielded by 911 operators and to cons...
Legislation to make it easier for some Laotian Vietnam War veterans and their families to take citizenship tests was awaiting ...
After 27 years with Cooley Godward, corporate and securities lawyer Alan C. Mendelson - a founding partner of Cooley's Palo Al...
The Los Angeles office of San Diego-based Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has recruited corporate and transactional attorn...
Firm Watch
FIRM WATCH: PARTNER LEAVES TO START TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
By Meredith Alexander
Gary L. Reback , a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner who initiated one of the earliest legal fights against Microso...
Labor/Employment
Professional Sports Need Attorneys on Playing Field
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - If you've visited the ballpark recently, you may have admired the quick spin of a well-turned double play and ...
Crisis? What Rampart crisis? In a decidedly minority opinion, outspoken police defense attorney Ira Salzman believes that the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - This phenomenon is for real: Large Silicon Valley firms are so overwhelmed by the demand for their time, they ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orange County's supervising criminal courts judge and the alternate public defender's office broke the law whe...