Bet Tzedek Legal Services will hold its sixth annual Justice Ball on July 20 for young professionals. The event will take plac...
Thelen Reid & Priest donated $125,000 to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund on June 5. The fund provides college sch...
The Heart of Los Angeles Youth received support in May from Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. The Los Angeles office ho...
Gail Hashimoto, partner at San Jose's Hopkins & Carley, and the other 19 members of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce trave...
Odyssey Pharmaceuticals Inc. nabbed $15 million in its second round of funding, the San Ramon company announced June 24. HBM P...
Each year, 2,000 bicyclists ride through the Colorado Rocky Mountains, braving a grueling seven-day trip which expands 489 mil...
Health Care Property Investors Inc. brought in $250 million from its senior unsecured note offering announced June 20. Merrill...
Golden State University School of Law gave Angela Bradstreet, partner at San Francisco's Carroll Burdick & McDonough, an h...
Baker & McKenzie started a new tradition June 8 with its first Habitat for Humanity Day in Service event. Volunteers from ...
Golden Gate Capital has agreed to acquire Peregrine Systems Inc.'s supply chain enablement business. The deal was announced Ju...
Firm Watch
Steptoe & Johnson: FOLEY PARTNER BRINGS HEALTH CARE PRACTICE
By Staff Writer
Business litigator and health care partner Darryl Cordero has defected from Foley & Lardner to join the downtown Los Angel...
Firm Watch
Coblentz Patch: SAN FRANCISCO SHOP HIRES CROSBY HEAFEY ATTORNEY
By Staff Writer
After nearly 10 years at Crosby Heafey Roach & May , commercial litigator and bankruptcy lawyer Gregg M. Ficks has left to...
Sean Hayes, one of the stars of NBC sitcom "Will & Grace," had a manager before he found fame as "Jack," the flamboyant ga...
California's Continuing Education of the Bar named Janet Reese, partner at Oxnard's Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton, to its...
The San Francisco Ethics Commission elected Paul Melbostad as its chair June 10. Melbostad, partner in San Francisco's Goldste...
The Association of Legal Administrators named Erica Tamblyn, director of administration for the Los Angeles office of Milbank ...
Legal Aid Society of San Francisco honored Caroline Mitchell, of-counsel at San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop, with the Roll...
To win work from lawyers, law firm librarians have worked hard to master the various electronic databases, such as LexisNexis,...
The Burton Foundation celebrates lawyers who write for the common people. On June 18 at the New York Palace Hotel, in New York...
The Contra Costa Council awarded Walnut Creek's Archer Norris the Contra Costa Medal on June 13. This award is presented each ...
Advanced Medical Optics Inc. closed a $200 million bond offering June 20 and a $135 million credit facility June 21, in prepar...
Business Engine announced June 21 that it has raised $22 million in its recent round of financing. Oak Investment Partners led...
Boalt Hall Alumni Board named Charlene Shimada, partner at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, president. Shi...
The Council of the American Law Institute re-elected its incumbent officers to another one-year term May 12. Michael Traynor, ...
The California Bankruptcy Forum elected Penelope Parmes, partner at Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker, vice president. She began...
Allergan Inc. hired partner Cary Hyden to handle its spinoff of Advanced Medical Optics Inc. The most recent aspect of this sp...
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has agreed to acquire the managed hosting business of Loudcloud Inc. for $64 million. Electronic...
Enticed by the firm's acquisition last week of New York-based Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman , corporate lawy...
Judges and Judiciary
East Bay Judges Receive Mixed Reviews From Lawyers
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - While most of the Alameda County judges fared well in the county bar association's most recent judicial evalua...
LOS ANGELES - The garden at the house on Stockwell Street overflows with collard greens, lacy baby tears and pink flowers; ins...