Unless lawyers want to be perceived as greedy hypocrites, they should contribute some of their time and money to helping peopl...

Intellectual property lawyer Terry McMahon left the Menlo Park office of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe to become the West ...

Morrison & Foerster partners Rachel Krevans and Karl Kramer each became managing partner of one of the firm's offices on J...

San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has added three associates to its staff of over 150 attorneys. "We are very exc...

Thanks to the Internet, where even brick-and-mortar companies publish content, media law is booming. It's also becoming intert...

The Century City family law boutique of Zolla & Meyer has dissolved, Marshall Zolla, senior and managing partner of the fi...

San Francisco's Macromedia Inc. has agreed to buy Boston's Allaire Corp. The stock deal is worth $360 million. Macromedia make...

Amy Leinen has moved from the Phoenix headquarters of Snell & Wilmer to the firm's Irvine office. The four-year attorney, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - West Group has pulled a bit of a coup over the competition at the Lexis-Nexis Group by announcing that it has ...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton litigation partner Ted Russell died on Jan. 13 while skiing near Norden. Russell was 57,...

Zelman Retail Partners Inc. has purchased a 105-acre property from the Lockheed Martin Corp. for $70 million. Los Angeles' Zel...

When visual artist Andrew Leicester signed a contract in 1989 with R&T Development Corp. to design artwork in connection w...

Steve Haasis, a business and technology litigator from the now-defunct San Diego firm of Haasis Haasis Pope & Correll, joi...

The Los Angeles chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women, also known as CREW-LA, has named as its new president Sonia J. Ransom...

In Hollywood, using original artwork in movies for set decoration is not only aesthetically desirable, it's cheap. Or at least...

Utah resort developer Private Residence Club Associates LLC has completed the purchase of land and obtained financing for its ...

SAN DIEGO - Speaking at a conference on juvenile delinquency and the courts, Attorney General Bill Lockyer warned Thursday tha...

SANTA ANA - In what appears to be the first decision of its kind, a federal administrative law judge has reversed the terminat...

Sincerity is not a word often attributed to Hollywood actors, directors, writers or, particularly, lawyers. However, the word ...

LOS ANGELES - Lowering fees and offering rebates on secondary-student loans is just "good public policy," the U.S. Department ...

SAN FRANCISCO - "Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy" has become a staple media phrase in California's utility crisis, but un...

SANTA BARBARA - All John Roberts knew as he drove to the Simi Valley home of criminal defense attorney Stephen M. Hogg one nig...

LOS ANGELES - O.J. Simpson may have reached the end of his game. An appellate court Friday rejected the former football star's...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward managing partner Lee Benton is stepping down after four years of leading the Palo Alto firm thr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Union-organizing efforts by San Francisco legal couriers may have hastened the demise of Express Network Inc.,...

What happens when a defendant decides not to show up for trial or behaves so badly that he or she is ejected from the courtroo...

Jump the Shark Inc. pinpoints the precise moment when nearly 2,000 shows, spanning the last 50 years, took a turn for the wors...

The past year has seen several developments in federal and state legislation related to entertainment law. Among the more nota...

Late last month, the Department of Health and Human Services issued new federal regulations intended to protect the privacy of...

Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, in his Daily Journal article ("Righteous Reform," Forum, Nov. 17), discussed what he perceived to...