LOS ANGELES - A new policy about to be adopted by leaders of the Juvenile Court was jeopardized Monday when the Los Angeles Co...
LOS ANGELES - In recent months, dark, death-dealing moments of the American past have come back to haunt this country, either ...
It was quite a feat. In just 10 days, Steve Grossman helped his client, The TCW Group, sell 70 percent of its ownership to an ...
With a father known as "The Godfather" of entertainment law, it's little wonder why Warren Dern decided to join the family bus...
Later this month, Issac Vaughn will fill some expensive shoes when he pinch hits for San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown as a spe...
The question is not, What has Theodora Lee accomplished in her young legal career? The question is, What hasn't she accomplish...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in three years, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association has named San Francisco plaint...
Firm Watch
Procopio Cory: Name-Partner Duo Helps Expand San Diego Office
By Karen Coleman
The biggest San Diego-only firm just got a little bigger, thanks to three of the five lawyers who practiced as the local Ramse...
Transactions
Mintz Levin: Pharmaceutical Company to Buy Aurora Biosciences
By Victoria Newman
Boston's Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to acquire San Diego's Aurora Biosciences Corp. for $592 million in stock. Ver...
If you thought all the successful corporate attorneys are planted in Silicon Valley, try telling that to Charles Ruck. At age ...
Entertainment & Sports
Armstrong Clients Are Real Stars of Boiler-Room Flick
By Contributing Writer
For the hundreds of fraud investigators in the Los Angeles law enforcement community who chase the crooks who set up phone boi...
Entertainment & Sports
Los Angeles' Lawyers Could Score Big With XFL Brawls
By Contributing Writer
He Hate Me? He Hate You! It was supposed to be a feel-good story. The idea was to interview longtime Los Angeles lawyer-turned...
Most lawyers are not sharks, Latham & Watkins' Tim Crudo says. The San Francisco litigation partner is proof that many law...
Manufacturers always are concerned about the risk of product liability lawsuits and often go to great lengths to be proactive ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gallop Johnson: LMI Aerospace Buys Assets of Two Sun Valley Concerns
By Victoria Newman
LMI Aerospace Inc. has bought the operating assets - machinery, equipment and inventory - of Sun Valley companies Tempco Engin...
Irvine-based insurance defense boutique Wesierski & Zurek donated computer equipment to Fountain Valley's Coastline Commun...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Singapore Business Group Names MoFo Partner Chair
By Victoria Newman
Morrison & Foerster partner Cedric Chao has been elected chairman and president of the Northern California Chapter of the ...
As a child growing up Los Angeles, Cecilia Estolano never lived more than five miles from the ocean. "The beach was my way of ...
Before heading off to the office, Catherine Atkin drops her 2-year-old son, Max, off at day care. She knows she's one of the l...
A sponsorship by Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in San Diego will enable a 4-year-old girl, who is waiting for a kidney tran...
Transactions
Brobeck Phleger: Investors Pour $7 Million Into Tunable Photonics
By Victoria Newman
Pasadena's Tunable Photonics has received $7 million in private equity financing. San Francisco's Blueprint Ventures led the f...
When it comes to protecting intellectual property, Skechers U.S.A. in-house lawyer Philip G. Paccione isn't shy. "We have a ne...
Public Interest
California's Bankers Honor Pillsbury Winthrop Partner
By Victoria Newman
The state's largest banking organization, the California Bankers Association, has presented Los Angeles' Deborah Thoren-Peden ...
In Hollywood, 38-year-old Carlos Goodman is the lawyer who represents the top independent talent. A partner at Los Angeles' Li...
"Most of the regular longtime posters have no idea who Tom is, but that doesn't really matter," one longtime Silicon Valley In...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gibson Dunn: Santa Monica's Thebrain Receives $16 Million Boost
By Victoria Newman
Santa Monica's TheBrain Technologies Corp. has received a $16 million equity investment from a group of investors led by GE Eq...
The California Supreme Court has appointed appellate attorney Barbara Ravitz to a newly formed committee which recommends cand...
Transactions
McCutchen Doyle: Merger Talks With Piper Get Going After Retreat
By Karen Coleman
While the partners at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen were plotting strategy and tee times at their annual...
Entertainment & Sports
Singer Paid Big Bucks to Take Heat for Hollywood Stars
By Contributing Writer
To borrow a hoary sports clich, Martin Singer of Lavely & Singer had a bad month on one day, April 26. That morning, New T...
Solo and Small Firms
Latino Law Group Honors Four at Gala Celebration
By Victoria Newman
With former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso as the keynote speaker, San Francisco's La Raza Lawyers Association ...