By Matt SmithAn apparent upwelling of holiday good cheer has destroyed two of San Francisco's oldest law firms, which had thrived during much of the past century by exploiting greed, jealousy, fear, malice and other non-holiday sentiments.
Thelen LLP, begun in 1924 and until recently one of America's biggest law firms, ceased to exist Dec. 1, thanks in part to the non-appearance of what was expected to be a rash of securities litigation accompanying the recent markets collapse, The Economist rep
Down -- but, locally, far from outA flagging economy hasn't yet led to the Shakespearian situation of killing all the lawyers -- at least not in San Francisco (and, again, not yet). Despite some hard-to-ignore setbacks for the city's providers of legal services, a recent report by the legal consulting firm Hildebrandt International states that San Francisco's law firms are way better off than their colleagues in other cities. The study notes an 8 percent drop nationwide in the demand for legal s
Too often, the S.F. law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein strikes settlements that give the firm millions of dollars in legal fees -- and its class action clients too little
The international soap opera that surrounds the crumbling San Francisco landmark that was center stage for the incomparable "King of Torts," Melvin Belli
The State Bar of California has taken over the law firm of Mitchell Roth, who had, in partnership with convicted felon Paul Noe II, convinced more than 2,000 troubled homeowners to fall for an apparent "foreclosure assistance" scam.The apparent swindle, fist described in the September, 2008 SF Weekly column "Facing foreclosure? Con man Paul Noe II has a deal for you," involved a boiler room of agents who would contact Spanish-speaking homeowners behind on their mortgage payments. Roth's canvasse
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