Christopher W. Kirkham has been named a partner in the San Francico office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He joins the firm from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was formerly a corporate finance partner. Kirkham, a specialist in debt finance, joins the firm’s mergers and acquisi ...

Willkie, Farr & Gallagher reported on Friday that the firm’s gross revenue fell 5.8% to 549.5 million in 2009. Revenue per lawyer dropped 7.1% to $930,000. Profits per equity partner were $ 2 million despite dropping about 5% for the second consecutive year. Willkie, Farr & Gallagher was fou ...

Los Angeles, CA – Designer Christian Audigier’s Nervous Tattoo, Inc. is being sued by Marc Jacobs’ company for trade dress and trademark infringement over purse designs. Marc Jacobs designs apparel and accessories, including purses, and has a pending application for its random “Marc Jacobs” scrambl ...

by Roger Alford Here's a wonderful story from my friend and former student Jeff Cook on the wonderful work he is doing in Cambodia with International Justice Mission to fight child prostitution. Jeff Cook is a former law clerk to Judge Urbina in Washington, D.C. and a former associate at O'Melveny ...

In The Time Machine, Wells imagined that capitalism would divide the rich and poor into two different species. In reality, it is communism that has unleashed such collossal inhmanity on the world: Here are the two most shattering facts about North Korea. First, when viewed by satellite photograph ...

By: Jared A. Favole DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--A former employee of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) is being charged with stealing trade secrets from the pharmaceutical firm in an attempt to create a competing company in India, according to the federal government. U.S. Attorney ...

Former Senator Dan Coats intends to run against sitting Senator Evan Bayh. Yippee Kay Yay, to quote Bruce Willis. If the best the Republican Party of Indiana can do is retread old horses who put themselves out to the pasture to begin with, we’re screwed. It was, after all, Dan Coats who lef ...

A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a Cape Cora, Fla., police officer after he suffered severe head injuries during a car accident on June 2. The Fort Myers News-Press reported that Officer Damien Garcia was on duty when he was struck by a sport utility vehicle. The driver and passenger in the veh ...

Didanosine, the second drug approved for the treatment of HIV infections and one of the oldest weapons in the AIDS armamentarium, has been found to produce rare cases of potentially fatal liver disease in patients taking it for long periods, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday. Didanos ...

Didanosine, the second drug approved for the treatment of HIV infections and one of the oldest weapons in the AIDS armamentarium, has been found to produce rare cases of potentially fatal liver disease in patients taking it for long periods, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday. Didanos ...