Firm Watch
Howrey Simon: LOS ANGELES DIGS EXPAND TO FILL TWO MORE FLOORS
By Staff Writer
To accommodate a boon in its litigation practice, Washington D.C.-based Howrey Simon Arnold & White is adding 37,000 squar...
Playa L & M Enterprises and Furama Los Angeles Inc. closed the sale of the Furama Hotel and surrounding properties March 1...
In the late 1990s, Higgs Fletcher & Mack managing partner John Morrell watched from the sidelines while other law firms ag...
Ameris Acquisition Inc. has borrowed $90 million in a revolving and fixed loan to purchase Children's Comprehensive Services I...
Polaris Networks Inc. completed its second round of funding, bringing in $52 million. The San Jose company announced the deal ...
Firm Watch
Latham & Watkins: FINANCE PARTNER WILL LEAD BAY AREA CORPORATE GROUP
By Staff Writer
Corporate finance partner Tracy Edmonson will manage Latham & Watkins ' corporate practice group in San Francisco, the fir...
Red stands for courage, says San Diego immigration attorney Lilia Velasquez, known to many as the "flame of justice." To embod...
Avanex Corp. will acquire Oplink Communications Inc. for $305 million in stock. The deal was announced March 19. Fremont's Ava...
The practice of law is filled with pain and agony and empathy for people who are under great strain and pressure. The pathos f...
Surprise, not all recruiters are the same. Here are some tips on how to distinguish experience and differences among recruiter...
Firm Watch
Loeb & Loeb: HOWARD RICE LITIGATOR WILL MANAGE TRADEMARK GROUP
By Staff Writer
Loeb & Loeb , a 185-lawyer firm with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville, has nabbed intellectual property part...
Mentor Graphics Corp. has agreed to acquire IKOS Systems Inc. in a deal worth $103 million. The deal was announced March 12. W...
Firm Watch
Manatt Phelps: GLOBAL CONSULTING ARM LAUNCHES IN LOS ANGELES
By Staff Writer
Manatt Phelps & Phillips ' global consulting arm made a pitch to international business associates last month as it launc...
SACRAMENTO - Millions of dollars originally intended to clear up the state's huge backlog of unsolved rape cases will now prob...
Forum Column - By Phillip Carter - Suicide bombers and snipers now duel in the Middle East while ambassadors and envoys wait ...
LOS ANGELES - California soon may have to alter its approach to death-penalty cases, according to experts awaiting a U.S. Supr...
One case stands out for San Diego-based civil litigation boutique Thorsnes Bartolotta & McGuire. The satisfied client gave...
LOS ANGELES - In an extraordinary late-night hearing, Superior Court Judge David Yaffe ruled that the Roman Catholic Church co...
LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services who claimed she was demoted and ...
WASHINGTON - Bucking the wishes of the White House, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. Sentencin...
SAN FRANCISCO - For more than six months, headhunters have been advising out-of-work or underworked California lawyers to seek...
SAN FRANCISCO - The country's two biggest and most profitable industries - Hollywood and high-tech - are slugging it out on Ca...
Personal Injury & Torts
Conspiracy Suit Brought By Earth First Reaches Trial
By John Roemer
OAKLAND - Abortion politics joins domestic terrorism and other hot-button issues as jury selection begins today in Oakland in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Is a Boston law firm's offer to pay $50,000 signing bonuses to qualified patent attorneys a sweet deal or an a...
Focus Column - By Jim Burroughs - Under the California Environmental Quality Act, the "fair argument standard" determines whet...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Thompson - Again, Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown has produced concise, insightful sepa...
Corporate
A Delaware C Corporation Is the Best Corporate Form for Most Start-Ups
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Focus Column - By Michele E. Beuerlein and Bryan S. Smith - When starting a new business, one of the first questions that an e...
The settlement of construction defect cases, and therefore the protection of developer defendants, depends almost entirely upo...
Steven L. Hoch recently hosted a round-table discussion at Los Angeles' Hatch and Parent to explore issues related to handling...
When Orange County Superior Court Judge James Jackman retired in 2000 and turned to private mediation and arbitration, he left...