Government
Supreme Court Reviews Perjury Allegations in Double-Murder Trial
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court is reviewing allegations by state investigators that high-ranking state prosecuto...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler on Monday ordered the district attorney's office to turn over documents rel...
Personal Injury & Torts
Judge Allows Refinery-Blast Victims to Sue Their Employer
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Contra Costa County judge has allowed two victims of a deadly refinery explosion to proceed with a novel law...
Litigation
City Council Deliberates Over Facets of Police Reform Package
By Chris Ford
The Los Angeles City Council began deliberations Monday on how best to present the city's case in final negotiations with the ...
This deal stinks. That's what both sides seem to be saying in a Los Angeles Superior Court fight over the nearly $50 million b...
A San Diego Superior Court judge has been granted disability retirement - despite having told court officials she would not be...
A federal judge Monday refused to throw out a confession that white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. allegedly made to the FBI...
Real estate and finance attorney Patricia T. Sinclair will leave Latham & Watkins to become the first general counsel and ...
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Gunderson Dettmer: ADEXA GOES PUBLIC WITH OFFERING FOR $75 MILLION
By Staff Writers
Los Angeles-based Adexa Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $75 million. Adexa develops and sells the iCollabo...
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Heller Ehrman: OAKLAND'S DOUBLETWIST SEEKS $86 MILLION MORE
By Staff Writers
Oakland-based DoubleTwist Inc. has filed an initial public offering worth just over $86 million. The company's Web site, Doubl...
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Cooley Godward: DRUG COMPANY PRESCRIBES $57 MILLION DOSE OF IPO
By Staff Writers
Sunnyvale's AeroGen Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $57 million. The company makes pulmonary drug-delivery...
Summing up a string of high-profile deals, Cooley Godward senior associate Carl Sanchez offers modestly, "I've been on a roll,...
Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has recruited two litigation associates for its 40-attorney Irvine office. Laura Baskurt and ...
Big Brother might not be watching your every move yet, but he apparently has designs on your pets. A proposal the Los Angeles ...
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Brobeck Phleger: TELECOM HARDWARE FIRM FILES A $115 MILLION IPO
By Staff Writers
Optical Communication Products Inc. has filed an initial public offering worth $115 million. The Chatsworth-based company make...
With associate turnover reaching some of its highest levels in recent years, law firms are constantly looking to hire associat...
Municipal law attorney Richard Terzian has left the Los Angeles office of New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, where h...
He coulda been a contender. Palo Alto senior corporate finance associate Jim Bucher had it all planned out. Last year at this ...
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Buckingham Doolittle: NUTRISYSTEM GETS TASTE FOR SOME SWEET SUCCESS
By Staff Writers
Nutrisystem.com Inc. has acquired Nestle USA Inc.'s Sweet Success diet meal replacement product line. The stock deal is valued...
Walnut Creek's Morgan Miller & Blair has recruited three new associates: Eric McLaughlin, Jean Hurricane and Kevin Brodehl...
Firm Watch
Katten Muchin: ACQUISITION OF LOS ANGELES TIMES SHAKES OUT IN-HOUSE DEPARTMENT
By Staff Writer
The former intellectual property director of Los Angeles' Times Mirror Co. has joined Katten Muchin Zavis, also in Los Angeles...
Today's law firm technology offers wonderful opportunities for clients, but it also brings with it hidden challenges, which ca...
The court held that a council member can appeal if authorized by the local code as long as due process is not violated. ...
By Christopher J. Kuczynski. In an article titled "ADA Creates Barriers to Jobs for the Handicapped" by Julie Hofius (Forum, A...
Business attorney Adam Streltzer has left Encino's Cantor & Weinshenk. He opened a solo practice in Brentwood on Sept. 1. ...
Firm Watch
Crosby Heafey: LITIGATION PARTNER REUNITES WITH JACKSON TUFTS GROUP
By Staff Writer
Ken Philpot finally gave in to his destiny as a Jackson Tufts Cole & Black alum. After a short stint at Preuss Shanagher Z...
Kathleen Smalley heads the legal department of Catellus, a company that actively salvages and cleans up environmentally plague...
The Foundation of the State Bar of California will host its 10th anniversary gala at the St. Regis Hotel in Century City on Oc...
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Cooley Godward: APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS IS TAKING ON MCC NETWORKS
By Staff Writers
Applied Micro Circuits Corp. will acquire MMC Networks Inc. The deal is valued at $4.5 billion. Applied Micro Circuits makes h...
The termination of representation involves adherence to a number of intricate ethical rules in order to avoid a malpractice cl...