Second of Five Parts. At 63, Ron Varela lives in his 1990 Toyota pickup and subsists on monthly stipends of $179 in food stamp...
Vice president and general counsel of Prime Healthcare Inc. Ontario ...
A federal appellate court has upheld a trial court decision ousting 16 people from the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, which...
California Attorney General Jerry Brown will stay put - at least in his position as a defendant in the lawsuit challenging the...
Uncertainty characterized the deal climate this year for mergers and acquisitions, regardless of size. But that dubiety was mo...
Many of California's corporate lawyers agree that mergers and acquisitions will pick up in 2010, though they expect economic f...
When Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced it was acquiring Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. for $26.3 billion, the ...
When a Korean shipbuilding company bought the German windpower subsidiary of a U.S. company this fall, it illustrated how fore...
Attorneys for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Latham & Watkins shepherded Genentech's sale to Roche for $46.8 bil...
As President Barack Obama's phantasmagoric plan to overhaul the nation's health care system nears a final vote in Congress, i...
Clean technology attracted feverish investment in recent years but weathered a tough year in 2009. Lawyers working in the sect...
First, the bad news - securing money to make films next year will probably be almost as hard as it was in 2009. Unfortunatel...
The sour economy, coupled with recent mega-mergers of big pharmaceutical companies, can actually spell opportunity for biotech...
Silicon Valley attorneys say the IPO will make a comeback after two grim years, driven by a rising market but also a fear that...
Law firms across the nation tightened their purse strings this year amid the economic slump. Many downsized their ranks, froze...
Los Angeles Police Department Inspector General Andre Birotte Jr. has been nominated by President Obama to be U.S. attorney fo...
The U.S. Senate confirmed two nominees for federal district judgeships in California: Los Angeles labor attorney Dolly M. Gee ...
Now that the financial crisis has mostly passed, Brian McCarthy and Janisha Sabnani of Skadden say corporate boards are focusi...
Whatever may come to mind when looking back on 2009, law business observers agree the year will prove to be a pivotal point in...
A rising stock market and growing optimism about future economic prospects fueled a modest revival of mergers and acquisitions...
Retired Justice of the Court of Appeal James D. Ward writes about the legal profession from a poetic point of view. ...
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First of Five Parts. Attorneys Kevin B. McDermott, left, and Joseph M. Preis, say taking military cases pro bono is a way of r...
A federal judge blasted Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley's lawyers in an order Wednesday, concluding they "wa...
Justice Barton C. Gaut of the 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside announced Wednesday that he'll retire at the end of Fe...
San Francisco law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has agreed to pay now-defunct Heller Erhman $1.5 million for work al...
Federal prosecutor Laura Duffy is rumored to be the front runner for U.S. attorney for the Southern District. ...
Attorney Andrew D. Skale is self-taught, amateur magician and member in good standing at the prestigious Magic Castle in Los A...
A Bay Area real estate attorney has created an opportunity for an audience to vote on the guilt of a murder suspect. And the v...