• January 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    Prop 8 Defense Seeks to Show Gays Have Power

    SAN FRANCISCO — After two weeks of witnesses called by plaintiffs challenging Proposition 8, the defense's case finally got under way Monday. Kenneth Miller, a political science pr

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  • October 3, 2000 |

    Proactive Lawyers Needed to Counsel Startups

    Counseling a startup company presents many challenges. Lawyers must provide complex legal and business advice for aggressive and eager companies. To compound this challenge, startups often req

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  • September 17, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Biovail Rehires Kasowitz Benson

    Biovail Corp. has taken a page from the George Steinbrenner/Billy Martin playbook in order to reignite its well-publicized conspiracy suit against short-sellers and analysts. The Canadian drugmaker

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  • September 10, 2007 | The Recorder

    SEC Stumbles on Privilege Waivers

    By the middle of last month, Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers were growing frustrated with running into claims of attorney-client privilege in their probe of troubled chipmaker Marvell Te

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  • November 28, 2001 | New York Law Journal

    Federal Judge Rejects Recusal Motion in IPO Suits

    Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin said Wednesday she would not recuse herself from the more than 1,000 cases involving the allocation of initial public offerings that were consolidated before her

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  • October 24, 2007 | The Recorder

    Calif. Wildfires Drive Lawyers From Homes, Offices

    As a brown haze shrouded Southern California on Tuesday, law firms in San Diego's Carmel Valley region remained shuttered, and more and more local attorneys were forced to leave their homes.

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  • March 14, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Treatment patent type disallowed

    special to the national law journal The stakes in the Rochester, N.Y., courtroom were high. At issue: who owned the rights to Celebrex and Bextra, two best-selling painkillers, with U.

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  • February 1, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    BP Asset SalesBP p.l.c. has been on a selling spree. In October the company struck a deal to sell its 50 percent stake in TNK–BP, Russia's third

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  • July 5, 2000 | The Recorder

    Green Giants

    If you need any more evidence that Bay Area law firms are on a winning streak, look no further than their performance on the 1995 Am Law 100.The 10 Bay Area firms on the list grossed $

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  • July 11, 2011 | National Law Journal

    THE 2011 MIDSIZE HOT LIST

      ATKINSON, ANDELSON, LOYA, RUUD & ROMO Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo remained profitable during the economic downturn by maintaining a div

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