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• O’Melveny & Myers appoints new head for Hong Kong practice

  May 18 2012 O’Melveny & Myers’ capital markets specialist David Johnson has been appointed as the head of the firm’s Hong Kong practice. Johnson will relocate from California... more

• McKenna Long & Aldridge merges with Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps

  Mar 28 2012 The merger between Atlanta-based firm McKenna Long & Aldridge and San Diego-based firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has concluded, creating a 575-lawyer firm with... more

• Jones Day hires 3 private equity lawyers from Foley & Lardner

  Mar 20 2012 Jones Day has boosted its private equity practice with the hire of three specialists from Foley & Lardner. The firm’s San Diego office will welcome rainmaker Kenneth... more

• NY court system suffers from budget cuts

  Feb 02 2012 The New York court system is suffering the effects of the $170 million in budget cuts made in the 2011-12 period, with widespread court delays, shortages of... more

• Hogan Lovells litigator pulls out of the Megaupload litigation due to conflict

  Jan 25 2012 Hogan Lovells Robert Bennett has said that due to client conflict he is unable to defend the operators of file-sharing Web site Megaupload against charges that they... more

• The Death Penalty Dilemma Facing California

  Jan 12 2012 Should capital punishment in California be streamlined or abolished. That is the question that is reaching critical mass in this budget crunching climate. As a long... more

• Sheriff Baca — Fix the L.A. County Jails!

  Jan 09 2012 Everyone recognizes that the L.A. County’s jail system is broken. Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has been on the job for 13 years. Enough time to right a sinking... more

• California firm Irell & Manella doubles the Cravath bonus award

  Jan 06 2012 California firm Irell & Manella has once again topped the bonuses awarded by standard setter Cravath Swaine & Moore. The firm released a memo saying that it would give... more

• Irish firm A&L Goodbody set to launch in California

  Dec 22 2011 Irish firm A&L Goodbody is set to launch a new office in Palo Alto, California, relocating the firm’s IP and technology head John Whelan and tax partner Paul Fahy to... more

• International firm Bryan Cave acquires Denver firm Holme Roberts

  Dec 07 2011 The 113-year-old Denver firm Holme Roberts & Owen is set to merge with St. Louis-based Bryan Cave. Holme Roberts will bring its 150 lawyers under the banner of... more

• The right to challenge witnesses is tested in the US Supreme Court

  Dec 06 2011 Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who regularly rules against criminals, is leading the pro-defendant charge in reversing convictions for murderers, drug dealers,... more

• Washington firm McKenna Long in merger talks with California firm Luce Forward

  Nov 17 2011 Washington DC-based firm McKenna Long & Aldridge has initiated merger negotiations with Californian firm Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps. Luce was founded in 1873 and... more

• Negligence suit against McDermott Will & Emery puts spotlight on contract attorneys

  Aug 04 2011 A lawsuit brought against McDermott Will & Emery by a former client has claimed that the contract attorneys employed by the firm to review documents ‘negligently... more

• Cali firm Irell & Manella pushes ahead of the game with mid year bonuses

  Jul 26 2011 California law firm Irell & Manella has announced that it will be paying mid-year bonuses to associates. After being awarded bonuses that doubled the market... more

• New York has greatest oversupply of lawyers in the US

  Jun 30 2011 A recent study that compared the number of people passing the state bar exams with an estimate of job openings in the same year shows that New York has the largest... more

• J. Sagar Associates leads US/India software deal

  Jun 20 2011 J. Sagar Associates has taken a leading role in the acquisition of software engineering form Rofous Software by leading software developer GlobalLogic. The deal sees... more

• Cali firm Best Best & Krieger acquire Washington DC boutique

  Jun 06 2011 California law firm Best Best & Krieger has acquired boutique telecommunications law firm Miller & Van Eaton in Washington DC. This will be the first time that BB&K... more

• Bullivant to close California office

  Mar 15 2011 Bullivant Houser Bailey has announced that it will close its office in Sacramento California, after the bulk of its lawyers jumped ship for rival firm Locke Lord... more

• Things are looking up for US class-action lawyers

  Nov 10 2010 US class action lawyers will rest a little easier after argument in the Supreme Court in the case of AT&T v Conception on Tuesday. The judgment will not be handed down... more

• US firms sweeten the deal for start-ups

  Sep 09 2010 Faced with a fiercely competitive market for legal services, a number of large firms dealing with start-up clients are finding ways to make their services more... more

• IP Law suit of the year - Oracle Vs. Google: Mofo and Boies, Schiller take lead roles

  Aug 19 2010 Google, the largest search engine in the world found itself on the defensive last week when Oracle one of the biggest business software development companies sued... more

• US firm McDonough Holland & Allen to close doors

  Jun 22 2010 McDonough Holland & Allen, the second-largest law firm in Sacramento - California's state capital - is planning to close down after losing over 20 lawyers since March.... more

• Top Silicon Valley bio-tech lawyer Halluin killed in plane crash

  Feb 22 2010 Albert P. Halluin, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent lawyers, and his fiancee died when his single-engine aircraft went down west of Yosemite National Parkt.... more

• Downey Brand launches in San Francisco with two Paul Hastings hires

  Feb 10 2010 Sacramento-based Downey Brand LLP has opened a San Francisco office with two hires from Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP. Paul Hastings environmental and land... more

• White-collar lawyer John Cline leaves Jones Day

  Feb 05 2010 John Cline, a San Francisco white-collar defense lawyer who has made headlines for work in national security cases, is leaving Jones Day to start a solo practice.... more

• Large Scale False Imprisonments in Los Angeles County, California

  Jan 28 2010 Initial interest in the case management system (CMS) of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arose following the jailing and hospitalization of two senior... more

• Crisis? What Crisis? California law firms post steady profits

  Jan 28 2010 Most major Bay Area law firms saw revenues and profits remain flat in 2009, reports The Recorder. Half of the eight firms surveyed posted increases in profit per... more

• Orrick lawyer demands end to Apple tablet 'scavenger hunt'

  Jan 19 2010 Valleywag, at tech industry gossip site run by Gawker Media, announced on 13 January that it is offering up to $100,000 reward for information about Apple's... more

• Jones Day practice head James Baker joins Winston & Strawn

  Jan 15 2010 James Baker, co-head of the employee benefits and executive compensation practice group at Jones Day, has moved to the San Francisco office of Winston & Strawn, where... more

• Cyber attack hits Los Angeles law firm that sued China

  Jan 15 2010 Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, a Los Angeles law firm that filed a $2.2 billion copyright infringement suit against the People's Republic of China last week, says it was... more

• Tiger Woods hires L.A. entertainment boutique Lavely & Singer

  Dec 15 2009 Tiger Woods has hired the law firm Lavely & Singer, Hollywood entertainment boutique known for representing clients such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis... more

• Venture Law Group founder Craig Johnson dies at 62

  Oct 06 2009 Craig Johnson, the visionary Silicon Valley lawyer who founded Venture Law Group and more recently Virtual Law Partners (VLP), died from a stroke last weekend, just... more

• Cooley Godward Kronish makes second round of staff cuts

  Oct 05 2009 In the second round of staff cuts this year, technology and venture capital law firm Cooley Godward Kronish LLP laid off 58 employees - about 7 percent of the firm’s... more

• Facebook and StudiVZ reach settlement in plagiarism dispute

  Sep 11 2009 Facebook and German social network operator StudiVZ have reached a settlement in the alleged plagiarism case, with the StudiVZ paying Facebook an undisclosed sum as... more

• Wilson Sonsini loses $1m in alleged office supply scam

  Sep 07 2009 A purchasing specialist at Palo Alto law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati helped a San Francisco office supplier defraud the firm of around $1 million through... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf represents eBay on $1.9bn Skype deal

  Sep 03 2009 Just one month after hiring eBay's longtime advisers from Cooley Godward Kronish, Dewey & LeBoeuf has won a mandate to represent the acution site on its $1.9bn deal to... more

• Greenberg adds white collar expert Handzlik in Los Angeles

  Sep 01 2009 Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that Jan Handzlik has joined its Los Angeles office from Howrey LLP as a shareholder in the Litigation Group. Greenberg Traurig's... more

• Chadbourne to open second California office with Yahoo hire

  Aug 27 2009 Chadbourne & Parke plans to open a northern California office in either San Francisco or Silicon Valley. The New-York-based firm already hired Yahoo in-house IP... more

• Former L.A. city attorney Rocky Delgadillo joins Goodwin Procter

  Aug 14 2009 Former Los Angeles City attorney Rocky Delgadillo began a new career Wednesday, joining the 400-lawyer litigation department of the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP.... more

• Paul Hastings poaches Skadden patent star Jeffrey Randall

  Aug 11 2009 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has hired Jeffrey Randall, a star patent litigator from the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who is known... more

• Bingham hires former SEC chairman Christopher Cox

  Jul 21 2009 Bingham McCutchen LLP has hired Christopher Cox, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under President George W. Bush, to continue the... more

• Greenberg Traurig adds former SEC Counsel Michael Piazza

  Jul 21 2009 Michael Piazza, a former Regional Trial Counsel for the Los Angeles office of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has joined the Orange County office of... more

• Dewey hires star M&A team from Cooley

  Jul 09 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf has hired three partners from Cooley Godward Kronish, including Richard Climan, one of the Silicon Valley firm’s top rainmakers and head of Cooley’s... more

• Howrey to aquire IP boutique Day Casebeer

  Jun 23 2009 Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder is in advanced talks to be acquired by 750 lawyers-firm Howrey with a deal likely to close soon. High-end intellectual property... more

• China's largest law firm Dacheng breaks into the US market

  Jun 22 2009 China's largest law firm, Dacheng Law Offices, has opened an office in Los Angeles and entered into a strategic alliance with Matthews Wilson and Hunter, a boutique... more

• Coalition Seeks Disbarment of Bush Lawyers Over Interrogation of Terrorism Suspects

  May 19 2009 A collection of organizations, most of them left-leaning, filed complaints Monday with five State Bar associations, accusing former Attorneys General John Ashcroft,... more

• California law firm McDonough lays off 17

  May 13 2009 McDonough Holland & Allen PC, Sacramento’s second-largest law firm, has laid off four attorneys and 13 staff to cut costs as revenue continues to decline. more

• Blank Rome opens Los Angeles office

  Mar 03 2009 Philadelphia law firm Blank Rome will open an office in Los Angeles with five new partners, Lawrence Hinkle, Andrew Kim, Warren Koshofer, Glen Rothstein and William... more

• Wilson Sonsini cuts 113 jobs, freezes associate salaries

  Feb 09 2009 Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of of the largest law firms in Silicon Valley, has announced it is laying off 45 lawyers and 68 staff members.... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf to shut down San Francisco office

  Feb 04 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf will close its San Francisco office and move all attorneys and staff to East Palo Alto. The combined office will have nine partners and about 20... more

• US law firm mergers boom in 2009

  Feb 01 2009 In the first quarter of 2009, law firm merger activity has gained pace in the US. About 20 mergers nationwide are expected to close. Southern law firms recently... more

• Morrison & Foerster cuts 53 lawyers and 148 staff

  Jan 29 2009 San Francisco giant Morrison & Foerster announced it will cut 53 lawyers and 148 staff, adding to the mounting toll of out-of-work legal professionals. more

• Wilson Sonsini to lay off 45 lawyers, 68 staff

  Jan 26 2009 Silicon Valley-based firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is set to cut 45 attorneys and 68 staff from, the firm announces with "utmost regret" in an internal memo... more

• Cooley Godward lays off 52 attorneys and 62 staff members

  Jan 22 2009 Silicon Valley-based Cooley Godward Kronish is laying off 52 lawyers and 62 staff members, reports Above the Law. The high-tech corporate and litigation firm, which... more

• Ex-associate sues Nixon Peabody claiming discrimination

  Jan 14 2009 A former associate of Nixon Peabody, Henry Har, has filed an employment discrimination suit against the international law firm, contending that he was fired last year... more

• Mayer Brown loses three partners to Sheppard Mullin

  Jan 06 2009 Mayer Brown partners Bryan Daly, Charles Kreindler and Peter Morris are joining the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. The trio joins... more

• Pillsbury incubates biotech startups to gain access to new clientele

  Jan 05 2009 Carmel Valley law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw and Pittman has quietly incubated fledgling life sciences firms with promising new technologies. The firm offers them... more

• Heller Ehrman files for bankruptcy protection

  Dec 30 2008 Heller Ehrman LLP, the San Francisco-based law firm that voted to dissolve in September, was put into bankruptcy after the committee formed to wind up the business... more

• McDermott takes Heller office space in Palo Alto

  Nov 10 2008 McDermott Will & Emery LLP plans to lease Menlo Park office space vacated by failed Heller Ehrman LLP. The firm has signed a 10-year lease to for more than 80,000... more

• Thelen law firm faces threat of closing

  Oct 29 2008 Thelen LLP, a 400-attorney San Francisco firm founded in 1924, is poised to be the latest corporate-law firm forced out of business amid an industrywide slowdown.... more

• Covington announces major expansion of its patent litigation practice

  Oct 07 2008 Covington & Burling LLP is significantly expanding its national intellectual property litigation practice with the addition of approximately 50 lawyers in California... more

• Heller Ehrman Lays Off 139; Tech Law Firm Is Dissolving

  Oct 01 2008 Heller Ehrman has laid off 139 workers in its Seattle office, effective November 28, according to Washington State’s Employment Security Department. This comes on the... more

• Heller Ehrman law firm to dissolve Friday

  Sep 26 2008 The San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman will formally vote Friday to dissolve, ending a legal partnership that survived the 1906 earthquake, a depression, wars and... more

• Heller Ehrman may face dissolution as Mayer backs off

  Sep 19 2008 West coast giant Heller Ehrman appeared on the brink of dissolution, with some partners already looking to move with what amounted to tacit approval from firm... more

• Big California firms pay associates $160K to $265K

  Sep 11 2008 The “vast majority" of the 17 law firms that responded to survey by the Recorder pay their associates lockstep compensation that begins at $160,000. The firms... more

• Knobbe Martens adds nearly 50 lawyers, 30 in Irvine

  Sep 08 2008 Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP has become the county’s largest law firm after hiring nearly 50 lawyers, including 30 at its Irvine headquarters. The lawyers, who... more

• Alston & Bird to Open in Silicon Valley With Akin Group

  Jul 29 2008 Just six months after King & Spalding launched in the Silicon Valley, another Atlanta-based firm, Alston & Bird, is set to open its doors in the Bay Area. A group of... more

• Trusts & Estates Lawyer Andrew Katzenstein Joins Proskauer Rose in Los Angeles

  Jul 25 2008 Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 750 lawyers worldwide, announced that Andrew M. Katzenstein, a leading trusts and estates lawyer, has... more

• Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ

  Jul 19 2008 Facebook is pursuing social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that... more

• Singing cowboy joins Orrick as IP partner

  Jul 02 2008 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe announced that it had hired the former head of Jones Day’s Los Angeles intellectual property group, Rob Dickerson as a partner.... more

• Hunton & Williams grabs Akin Group as Part of Expansion in California, Texas

  Jul 01 2008 Hunton & Williams is opening a San Francisco office with a trio of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld labor attorneys -- part of an eight-lawyer group that's also... more

• Skadden, DLA Piper on $6.7 Life Sciences Merger

  Jun 14 2008 Skadden and DLA Piper advised two California-based companies on a $6.7 billion merger that would create one of the world's largest life sciences companies and a leader... more

• Patent Attorney at Silicon Valley law firm Wagner Blecher LLP?

  May 20 2008 Wagner Blecher LLP, a Northern California intellectual property law firm specializing in patent prosecution services, is looking for associate attorneys in its offices... more

• Lanier Law Firm opens in Palo Alto

  Apr 01 2008 The Lanier Law Firm said Monday it is moving into Palo Alto and named Christopher Banys to lead the new office. Banys comes to the firm from Palo Alto-based Howrey... more

• Federal judge sentences former Milberg Weiss partner Lerach to 2 years in prison

  Feb 12 2008 US District Judge John Walter of the Central District of California on Monday sentenced former Milberg Weiss partner William Lerach to two years in prison for his part... more

• Law school contract gives donor a say in selection of new dean

  Nov 10 2007 Under terms of his contract, a major benefactor for the new University of Irvine, California, law school could have been consulted about the selection of a dean, but... more

• California Supreme Court ruling let law firms off malpractice hook

  Oct 24 2007 The Golden State's lawyers copped a big break from the California Supreme Court in a legal-malpractice ruling last month, writes a prominent U.S. law firm. In its... more

• Denver, California Law Firms to Merge

  Oct 15 2007 An influential Denver law firm said it would merge with a California firm that specializes in water law, a move it said would position it to represent clients across... more

• Judge Tosses Calif Global Warming Suit

  Sep 18 2007 A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by California that sought to hold the world's six largest automakers accountable for their contribution to global... more

• California Bans Cell Phone Use by Teen Drivers

  Sep 15 2007 California drivers under the age of 18 will be prohibited from driving while using cell phones and other electronic devices, under a law signed Thursday by California... more