In the summer of 1971, armed with one year of law school, I began my legal career with a summer job at Pine Tree Legal Assista...
Solo and Small Firms
SNELL PRACTITIONER LEADS CORPORATE 'SUPER SEMINAR'
By Stefanie Knapp
The Orange County chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, which provides educational programs for people interested i...
Firm Watch
Skadden Arps: FELLOWSHIPS HANDED OUT TO FOUR LOCAL STUDENTS
By Staff Writer
Skadden Fellowship Foundation, a public interest law foundation created by New York's Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, h...
Solo and Small Firms
REAL ESTATE DIVISION ELECTS LEADER IN CONTRA COSTA
By Stefanie Knapp
The real estate section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association has elected Clifford Horner, partner at Walnut Creek's Morg...
Firm Watch
Aschuler Grossman: IP, TECH PRACTICE ADDS DUO FROM MCCUTCHEN
By Staff Writer
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan , an 84-attorney business and entertainment litigation firm in Los Angeles, has added Vin...
Michele O'Driscoll began her one-year term as president of the Legal Marketing Association's Bay Area chapter Jan 1. O'Drisco...
KB Home closed its offering of senior subordinated notes on Dec. 14. The transaction brought in $200 million for the company. ...
Thousand Oaks' Amgen Inc. and Sunnyvale's Hysec Pharmaceuticals Inc. have entered into an agreement to develop and sell alfime...
State Bar & Bar Associations
BAR'S BANKRUPTCY SECTION TAPS SOUTHLAND LAWYER
By Stefanie Knapp
The Insolvency Committee of the State Bar business law section has named Los Angeles attorney Peter Bronson to the 25-member c...
The League of California Cities' City Attorneys Department elected Peter Brown president Dec. 18. Brown, partner at Santa Barb...
American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. went public on Dec. 13. The initial offering raised $144 million. The lead manager was C...
Entertainment & Sports
Pfeiffer's Role Depicts Every Legal Stereotype
By Catherine Cavella
Movie Review - By Stephen Zager, "I am Sam" features fantastic performances by both Sean Penn and 7-year-old Dakota Fanning bu...
Becoming Ice Cream Partners USA's sole owner, Nestlé USA acquired the remaining 50 percent of the ice cream company from Gener...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ASSOCIATION RECOGNIZES LEWIS D'AMATO MANAGER
By Stefanie Knapp
The San Francisco Bar Association has given Duane Musfelt, managing partner of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard's San Fra...
In early December, California Law Business reported that the state's law firms had elevated 92 associates to partner. The prom...
After nearly 15 years at the Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 's downtown Los Angeles office, insolvency partner Tom Patterson ...
Aristos Logic Corp. raised nearly $16 million in its second round of financing. The deal closed on Dec. 10. The lead investors...
Solo and Small Firms
STEEFEL LEVITT PARTNER GETS SOCIETY'S TOP HONOR
By Stefanie Knapp
The Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha Society, an honorary land economics society, has awarded Edward Steefel, name partner ...
Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. closed an $86 million securities offering on Jan. 10. The lead underwriter was Banc of America Secu...
State Bar & Bar Associations
AFRICAN-AMERICAN BAR ANNOUNCES NEW OFFICERS
By Stefanie Knapp
One of the country's oldest African-American bar associations, the John M. Langston Bar Association, has announced its officer...
To JoAnn Dean, her fight against her former employer is just one more case of an alternative dispute resolution system mired i...
LOS ANGELES - In the latest round in a controversial murder case, a state appeals court has ruled that Gov. Gray Davis doesn't...
LOS ANGELES - From his sixth-floor office in Houston, attorney Mark Haedicke remembers the Enron Corp. of yesteryear. In 2000,...
Barry Langberg is all riled up. Or at least, as agitated as the soft-spoken celebrity libel lawyer is likely to get. Langberg,...
Litigation
Woeful Might-Have-Beens Accompany Sara Jane Olson to Prison
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Tardy tears of regret and sorrow flowed like Niagara Falls on Friday at the sentencing of Sara Jane O...
Workers' Comp.
Off-Hours Accident Remedied Only by Workers' Compensation
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO -Asserting that "no good deed goes unpunished," a state appellate court has wiped out a $512,900 judgment won by...
LOS ANGELES - Chicago-based Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal has recruited insolvency expert Michael Lubic to anchor the fir...
SAN FRANCISCO - As part of the secret settlement of the nation's largest employment-related racial bias jury award, attorneys ...
LOS ANGELES - WhenCooley Godward became the first large firm in the Bay Area to ax associates last year, it never could have e...
International Law Practitioner Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson, Speech today finds expression and is made highly accessible t...