With the birth of their new, partner-only corporate boutique, Lee Weinberg and Louis Dienes say they can offer clients somethi...

IRVINE - It didn't take Dean Zipser long to figure out that he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. As a boy, Zipser of...

The fast-growing San Diego office of Philadelphia's Duane Morris kicked off the new year by adding real estate attorney Julie ...

The city of Lodi hired attorney Michael C. Donovan in 1996 to force local businesses and their insurers to pay for the cleanup...

J. Michael Shepherd is branching out. The former general counsel for Bank of New York is now monitoring the purse strings of S...

Michele Moreland, a former Cooley Godward associate joined McDermott Will & Emery's Palo Alto office as a partner Jan. 4. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Did it really require 23 attorneys and staff working 20,747 billable hours over five years to get the San Fra...

EXTRA Column - By Noelle C. Nelson - Whether you are representing plaintiff or defense, you will almost inevitably need to hir...

Redwood City-based Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley recently snagged three new attorneys, boosting its insurance and intell...

Pulling a teenager's driver's license for getting behind the wheel after ingesting a capful of Robitussin defies common sense,...

Munger, Tolles & Olson rang in the new year with a changing of the guards, as Los Angeles partners Mark Helm and Bart Will...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - WGGB Witteman Family Investments LP purchased the Cabot Design Center, a 56,295-square-foot industrial...

Veteran intellectual-property litigator Frank Bernstein recently hopped from one Silicon Valley boutique to another, leaving S...

Josh Saxe says he was "disgusted and frightened" the first time he caught a glimpse of Santa Monica storeowner Bunnie Meyers' ...

LOS ANGELES - When CBS found its reputation in tatters after its "60 Minutes Wednesday" broadcast accusing President Bush of d...

Never count out second acts in Hollywood. In a surprise $1.2 billion cash-and-debt deal announced Jan. 10, Movie Gallery Inc. ...

Five law firms have something to celebrate in the New Year as each has made Fortune magazine's 2005 list of "100 Best Companie...

Legislative Summary - Last year, the Legislature and Governor enacted 117 bills that affect the courts or are of general inter...

When Lord, Bissell & Brook offered a job to Los Angeles bankruptcy litigator Joshua Wayser, it seemed like a "match made i...

Forum Column - By Tony Biasotti - Like most big, powerful institutions, the University of California, Santa Barbara, has its d...

Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Who owns water, and why does it matter? Let me answer the second question first. A fed...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - What happens when the government destroys potentially exculpatory evidenc...

SAN DIEGO - A doctor will have his day in court to argue that an Escondido hospital retaliated for his complaint that officia...

SAN FRANCISCO - For San Mateo Commissioner Susan Greenberg, going onto the bench was a natural next step. A longtime member o...

SAN DIEGO - Mayor Dick Murphy's election should stand because thousands of ballots for a write-in candidate were correctly re...

EXTRA Feature - Phalanxes of attorneys get paid big bucks to negotiate high-priced contracts for athletes in ever-shifting mar...

RIVERSIDE - A chemical testing laboratory in Norco has been hit with a lawsuit by 100 residents who claim the facility knowing...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. and Bryan W. Wenter - In the recent case of Uniwill L.P. v. City ...