Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg, It is time to reconsider the division of labor in California's civil courts. In many of the...

Forum Column - By Sean Carter, W.C. Fields once said, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again; then quit - there's no u...

LOS ANGELES - Fine-tuning the scope of the California Arbitration Act, an appellate court has ruled that parties to an arbitra...

Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz, With advances in medicine, you may find that it is entirely possible to spend 30 years in reti...

LOS ANGELES - William J. Birney is particularly proud of the part he played in two legal accomplishments. They are his sons, l...

Public Storage Inc. priced a public offering of 6 million depositary shares on Jan. 15. The offering brought in $150 million. ...

Robert Sloss , an intellectual property partner at General Counsel Associates , has left the Mountain View firm to join Farell...

BY MYLENE MANGALINDAN Dow Jones Newswires Silicon Valley continues to make gains in productivity and has made progress in add...

The high priests of "good writing" are trying to convince lawyers to change the way they write. They want us to organize our t...

Thomas Lambert is finishing up his first month as managing partner of Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp , a 125-att...

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. agreed to acquire Synapse Technologies Inc. in a deal announced Jan. 14. This cash-and-stock deal...

Setting its sights on bigger and better things in San Diego, Manning & Marder Kass Ellrod Ramirez is moving to an office s...

BY JOHN P. TRONSON The real estate brokerage industry has evolved, and those brokers and agents who refuse to accept it are d...

At last week's Real Estate Conference Group in Los Angeles, keynote speaker and Equity Group Inc., LLC Chairman Sam Zell appl...

Transportation attorney and consultant Sarah L. Catz has brought her expertise to the Irvine office of Nossaman Guthner Knox &...

In a year when many California law firms saw their corporate work evaporate into thin air, Latham & Watkins managed to sta...

Longtime law firm consultant Peter Zeughauser is launching a new consulting business, The Zeughauser Group , this month. Joini...

Searching for a partner to establish a West Coast insolvency practice, the Los Angeles office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosen...

By Diane Winocur We've done our due diligence and drawn up our plans. Now it's time for the California Real Estate Journal to...

Century City's Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro is welcoming the return of Robert P. Baker , a litigation partner who worke...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has appointed a new co-chair of its business crimes and investigations p...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for John Robert Flandrick, who was the city attorney for nine Southern California citi...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman, There is a continuing apoplexy in the land, even more pronounced abroad, about President Bu...

Criminal Law Practitioner Column - By Laurie L. Levenson, The Department of Justice has finally filed charges against the so-c...

LOS ANGELES - In a letter written two weeks before the fatal mauling of a college lacrosse coach by two vicious dogs, one of t...

Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli, Almost two years ago, the California Supreme Court was set to decide an important issue r...

SANTA ANA - An appeals court on Friday demanded an explanation for the behavior of an Orange County Superior Court judge who q...

LOS ANGELES - Rafael Perez made a return appearance in criminal court Friday to testify about the alleged misdeeds of a former...

WASHINGTON - An on-the-record briefing by a justice in the Supreme Court pressroom - a retirement, perhaps? No, the extremely ...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn, No evidence is more damning than the confession of a defendant in a criminal case. The U.S. g...