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San Francisco Firm to Ac...uire Smaller Technology Law Firm.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003
By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 3--A large San Francisco law firm will ac...uire Venture Law Group, the Menlo Park firm known for helping incubate technology start-ups and then taking them public, in the latest evidence that the post-boom shakeout continues in Silicon Valley's legal world.
Venture Law Group's 60 lawyers will be merged with the 660 attorneys in the San Francisco firm, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliff, to create a team of about 720, the two companies said. About 300 of them will be based in the Bay Area.
Venture Law's ac...uisition comes at a time of considerable consolidation within the legal industry, driven by the region's economic downturn since 2000. The...
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