Solo and Small Firms
Firm found its niche counseling hedge funds, large and small
By Joshua Seboldn
San Francisco firm Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP - home to seven attorneys - has mastered a legal speciality dominated by sole...
Law Practice
Brown Rudnick snags co-chair of Bingham's life sciences practice
By Alexandra Schwappach
Robert C. Funsten is the second partner to join the firm's Irvine office since it set up shop on the West Coast in April by me...
Judges and Judiciary
Cantil-Sakauye wants to spur three-strikes resentencing
By Paul Jones
Reacting to a report that 2,000 eligible inmates are still awaiting a hearing, the state Supreme Court chief justice is offeri...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gibson Dunn advises on $1.6 billion sale of Beverly Hills homebuilder
By Salvador Mares
Shapell Industries Inc. tapped attorneys in the firm's Los Angeles office for the sale of its home building business to Toll B...
The 4th annual Western M&A Forum, held Nov. 6 at the Techmart conference center in Santa Clara, brought together analysts ...
New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC announced Thursday that its newest general counsel hails from the Los An...
Litigation
Berkeley-based legal advocacy group wins New York ruling for disabled
By Saul Sugarman
Berkeley-based nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates on Thursday scored a big victory in federal court for nearly 1 million pe...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
More studies needed in nanotechnology case, 9th Circuit rules
By John Roemer
The federal appellate panel ruled Thursday that more government safety studies are needed on the application of minute silver ...
The court is stepping into a development battle in which residents claim city of Orange officials flouted land use law and ign...
Many attorneys leave themselves open to disputes by failing to take the time to properly discuss the terms of service with cli...
A judge will hear arguments Friday on why he should order the rail authority to halt work on the train until it can show that ...
Bolen Fransen LLP and Sawyers & Holland LLP merged last week to create a new finance and agricultural firm. ...
A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
The increasing popularity of online video games is giving rise to a niche area of litigation in which game developers pursue c...
Even unremitting champions of the free enterprise system are unlikely to laud the recent performance of private banks. By Pras...
City voters turned out Tuesday in strong support of a local firearm measure that experts are calling uniquely restrictive amon...
Voters recalled James F. Penman this week, closing out the lawyer's 26-year tenure with the bankrupt municipality. ...
The firm represented Long Beach-based real estate investment trust HCP Inc. in multiple sales. ...
Labor/Employment
Second phase of Lawrence Livermore age discrimination trial begins
By Laura Hautalan
Five plaintiffs say the weapons research lab inadvertently discriminated against them and other older workers in how it select...
Bankruptcy judge seems reluctant to decide battle between estate and firms ...
A prosecutor told jurors a former Stradling Yocca partner planted drugs on a school volunteer and then called the police. But ...
California Supreme Court
Would-be lawyer who fabricated stories gets chilly reception at high court
By Emily Green
Justices seemed to agree with the State Bar that Stephen Glass, a former New Republic writer who published numerous falsehoods...
A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.
California Supreme Court
VIDEO: Former head of state's judiciary tells all in new memoir
By Emily Green
Former California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George settled some old scores and detailed his storied career in an e...
Colantuono & Levin PC Los Angeles Specialties: public finance and complex litigation ...
Sabine & Morrison San Diego Specialties: sign regulation, government speech ...
County Counsel's Office Los Angeles Specialties: Public contracting, information technology, intellectual property, environm...
Best Best & Krieger LLP Riverside Specialities: eminent domain, public agency litigation ...
Best Best & Krieger LLP Sacramento Specialty: Redevelopment, public agency litigation ...