Daily Journal’s Corporate Counsel Q&A features Whittier Trust’s Steve Anderson
As featured in The Daily Journal Click here to access the Daily Journal site As the company’s sole acting attorney, Anderson works closely with clients’ in-house lawyers and accountants to help administer the trusts and estates of some of the nation’s wealthiest families. The work is as complicated and contentious as ever thanks to the [...]
Clean-Tech Ventures See Plunge in Funding
By Yuliya Chernova The Wall Street Journal Click here to read the full article Venture capital isn’t flowing into U.S. clean-technology companies like it once was, new investment figures show. The sector is suffering from overall uncertainty in the venture market, coupled with fears about investing in businesses that require a lot of capital, insiders [...]
Protections of Justice System Should Apply to Us All, Even Non-English Speakers
By Louis Provenzano Language Line Services As posted on The Huffington Post The Supreme Court of Georgia’s ruling today that defendants with limited ability to speak English have a constitutional right to court interpreters is an important victory for one in five legal U.S. residents who have trouble with the language. The American Civil Liberties [...]
Broads Circle to Host Philanthropy Forum: The Legacy of Women
Dedicated to building a network of elite professionals, Broads Circle is focused on taking women to the next and highest level in business. The circle brings together women in a variety of industries who share the same career and personal drivers to generate revenue and assume leadership positions. On November 30, members and guests will [...]
Orange County hits pay dirt with clean-tech industry
In today’s Los Angeles Times, Tiffany Hsu mentions Irvine-based FlexEnergy as one of the many greentech companies that has set up shop in Orange County: “FlexEnergy, a clean-power company, is upgrading to a 30,000-square-foot office in either Santa Ana or Irvine that will be triple the size of the original. T3 Motion Inc., a Costa [...]
Legal Advice…on a Budget
By Rob Johnson The Wall Street Journal Click here to read the full article For many entrepreneurs, phoning an attorney summons images of a ticking clock and mounting bills. Now law firms are trying to win new customers by offering deep discounts for start-ups. Some firms are offering small businesses a flat monthly fee rather [...]
Electric cars are charging into the marketplace
By Jerry Hirsch and Tiffany Hsu The Los Angeles Times Click here to read the full article Stalled for nearly a century, electric cars are about to move into the fast lane when the first of a new generation of vehicles reaches dealer showrooms next month. Every major automaker plans some sort of electric or [...]
The Risk-Taking Edge of West Coast Women
By Pamela Ryckman The New York Times Click here to view the full article When Deborah Perry Piscione moved to Silicon Valley after a career in media and foreign relations on the East Coast, it wasn’t the weather or wealth that amazed her. It was the women. “Back east, my whole network was men,” she [...]
