O Melveny Myers

The recent coverage on law firms highlighted O'Melveny & Myers as one of the largest in the country. We at O'Melveny Elementary School believe they are also one of the nicest. Our school has been "adopted" by the firm as part of the Los Angeles Unified School District Adopt-a-School program. In the past two years, they have provided funds for students to take field trips and for a series of cultural awareness programs at the school. Key personnel have taken time to come to the school and speak to the sixth-grade students as part of our career awareness program.

Los Angeles County should pay a couple $2,075,000 for their luxury home, which was ground to rubble in the destructive 1983 landslide at Big Rock Mesa in Malibu, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jack T. Ryburn decided Wednesday in the first of about 230 lawsuits that threaten to cost the county as much as $500 million. Margaret and August Hansch sought $2.3 million from the county, which on Oct.

Henry Ortega figured that it would take a dollar from each of the 25,000 or so graduating seniors in the Los Angeles school district to pay for his freshman year at Brown University. Either that or a miracle. But the 17-year-old San Fernando High School senior, the son of a machine operator, won't have to beg for his Ivy League education. His angel showed up in a three-piece suit.

Los Angeles-based law firm O'Melveny & Myers on Tuesday joined the merger trend sweeping the legal profession, announcing its intention to combine its practice with that of New York-based O'Sullivan, a boutique firm specializing in private equity work. If approved by partners at both firms, the new practice would have more than 800 lawyers, bolstering its position as one of the largest in the country. O'Melveny saw profit rise 34% last year on 17% growth in revenue.

After the coffee. Before flying to Russia to join the Pussy Riot protests. The Skinny: This was a long week and yet I can't remember one thing about it. Isn't aging wonderful? Friday's headlines include profiles of Marvel chief Ike Perlmutter, previews of the weekend box office and a chat with Robert Pattinson (I'm trying to score more young female readers). Daily Dose: Mark Easton, the deputy general counsel atWarner Bros., is exiting the studio after just over a year there to return to O'Melveny & Myers as a partner specializing in sports and media as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Six years ago, a big downtown law firm made a promise to sixth-graders at San Fernando's O'Melveny Elementary School: Stay in school, get good grades, and when it comes time for college, a $12,000 scholarship will be waiting. Those sixth-graders are now high school seniors ready to take the lawyers of O'Melveny & Myers up on the offer. Students for whom college was once out of reach demonstrate that dreams sometimes just need a little help.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in cases stemming from failed thrifts in Orange County and Texas, made it harder for federal regulators to sue lawyers and accountants on malpractice claims and cut off most lawsuits that are not filed within state-mandated deadlines. The nation's high court decided unanimously that state common law, not a small area of federal common law, should be used in most lawsuits brought by regulators against professionals.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in cases stemming from failed thrifts in Orange County and Texas, made it harder for federal regulators to sue lawyers and accountants on malpractice claims and cut off most lawsuits that are not filed within state-mandated deadlines. The nation's high court decided unanimously that state common law, not a small area of federal common law, should be used in most lawsuits brought by regulators against professionals.

For many students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, making it to a school like Stanford, Harvard or Berkeley is a distant hope. Even if they break through the tough admission standards, high tuition fees can be a major obstacle for economically disadvantaged families. On Friday, 10 high-achieving sophomores came closer to realizing their dreams. The teenagers from low-income families were selected by the L.A.

Lurline (Lucky) Hemphill closed the deal of her life over lunch this summer, winning hundreds of thousands of dollars for her "clients" from the head of one of the city's largest law firms. "It almost brought tears to my eyes to hear Lucky talk about her school," said Warren Christopher, chairman of the law firm O'Melveny & Myers. "I said, 'How can we help?'