Come September, Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips expects to open the doors on an Orange County outpost. Manatt Phelps...
It doesn't matter how you spell it or on which syllable you put the accent. For a dozen years, lawyers on both sides of the po...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William R. Hollingsworth ruled Friday that a homeless man is competent to stand...
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Pepper Hamilton: BRISTLECONE SELLS DIVISION, EMERGES WITH NEW NAME
By Victoria Newman
Santa Clara-based Internet supply-chain software and consulting company Bristlecone Inc. is selling its consulting division to...
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Fried Frank: FRENCH THALES GROUP BUYS PARTS OF ORBITAL SCIENCES
By Victoria Newman
Thales Group, a French aerospace/defense/information-technology company, has acquired Santa Clara global-positioning-system ma...
Firm Watch
Mayer Brown: CONSULTANT, PAST POLITICAL HOPEFUL JOINS IN PALO ALTO
By Karen Coleman
Patrick Shannon , a former business and political consultant who also has been a corporate executive, joined the brand-new Pal...
Firm Watch
Wilson Sonsini: SHOP WILL UNVEIL SERVICE FOR VENTURE-CAPITAL CLIENTS
By Karen Coleman
The 800-lawyer Palo Alto firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati expects to unveil a new service for its venture-capital cli...
LOS ANGELES - Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif is gaining three attorneys, continuing a trend of rapid growth for ...
Tom Paschall, a corporate associate in Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy's Los Angeles office, vowed never to be defenseless a...
Retired Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Sharp Whitmore died at 83 of congestive heart failure. Whitmore, a labor and employ...
Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a nonprofit, public-interest law firm, has honored Gibson Dunn & Crutcher as "volu...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association has awarded the Shattuck-Price Award for distinguished service to John Brinsley, a part...
Firm Watch
Lillick & Charles: NEW YORK'S NIXON PEABODY ACQUIRES BAY AREA VETERAN
By Karen Coleman
San Francisco's 104-year-old Lillick & Charles succumbed to the East-West law firm merger trend Aug. 1, when it became the...
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Morrison & Foerster: SANWA AND TOKAI BANKS FINALIZE 'UNITED' MERGER
By Victoria Newman
Sanwa Bank of California and Tokai Bank California merged last month under a new name, United California Bank. The parties did...
The law of statutes of limitations continues to evolve in California. For decades, the general rule was that the limitations p...
Large Firms
WILSON SONSINI PARTNER WILL SUPERVISE FTC'S LITIGATION
By Contributing Writer
The Federal Trade Commission has named Susan Creighton, a partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, deputy...
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Gibson Dunn: IRVINE'S EXULT WILL RAISE FUNDS IN STOCK OFFERING
By Victoria Newman
Exult Inc., a human-resource services company based in Irvine, is selling 10 million shares of common stock. In a registration...
The Los Angeles law firm of Hahn & Bolson has joined the International Business Law Consortium based in Austria. The Inter...
Judge Warren J. Ferguson used Santa Ana's Public Law Center's annual Volunteer Recognition Dinner to offer a eulogy for legen...
Solo and Small Firms
'CIVIL-PROCEDURE GEEK' JOINS STATE BAR RULES COMMITTEE
By Contributing Writer
Kathleen A. McKinley, an associate in the Richmond office of Walnut Creek's Archer Norris and a self-described "civil-procedur...
Firm Watch
Winston & Strawn: LOCAL OFFICE GETS ROOM TO GROW WITH NEW L.A. LEASE
By Karen Coleman
The Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn will stretch out in new digs this winter. The six-office Chicago firm lists 22 ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
ABA Head Urges Death-Penalty Reform in Letter to Lawmakers
By Don De Benedictis
CHICAGO - Calling the death-penalty system in America "unacceptable," the president of the American Bar Association urged cong...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge, prosecutor and defense attorney traveled to the Sacramento area Friday to preserve a dyi...
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan's liberal views on drug laws have got him into another awkward situation. T...
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurers that fell victim to a massive fraud scam in the so-called "Alliance" scandal of the 1980s may recover...
Litigation
Phillip Morris Wants New Seeks Relief From $3 Billion Jury Award
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - When lawyers for Philip Morris walk out of Superior Court today, they hope to be rid of an unwelcome distinction...
Government
Holtzman Will Not Seek City Attorney Job; 5 Still in Race
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - After months of private reflection and external consultation, Jonathan V. Holtzman, a top deputy in the San Fr...
SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission was created by reformers, but now the political watchdog stands acc...
The Legislature of California has made it clear that courts generally are supposed to order either arbitration or mediation....
The significance of the 'Musser' decision is that it creates uncertainty that did not previously exist. ...