Column - Law Firm Marketing - By Elizabeth Lampert and Sheila Turner - Endless scrutiny on a marketing initiative's return on ...

Pleasanton-based software firm Documentum Inc. called on Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner David Segre for legal ad...

Following a three-month bidding war among various suitors, Cima Labs Inc. has signed a deal to merge with Cephalon Inc. Under ...

By Erik Cummins Tim Tosta thinks he's found one solution to the affordable housing crisis in San Francisco, a city where fewe...

With a recent $20 million settlement, two Santa Barbara law firms continue to battle telephone companies by filing class actio...

After the media frenzy that surrounded Jennifer Lopez's botched wedding plans, the music and film star finally has some good n...

A volunteer attorney answered the legal services hot line to find a San Diego woman on the other end of the phone. The woman's...

Attorney Linda Michaelson found her work on a recent purchase for client Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. more exciting than the...

MOORPARK - Private investors from Westlake Village have acquired a fully leased, multi-tenant industrial building from Michael...

Los Angeles' Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has added Frank Brucculeri to its Costa Mesa office. Brucculeri is the thir...

Having significant responsibilities for a single client is nice, says David Byrnes, former vice president for employee relatio...

SAN DIEGO - Accredited Home Lenders has signed a 36-month lease valued at $4.9 million of 111,000 square feet of office space ...

CORONA - Brian Hawkins and Peter Hauser of Hendricks & Partners LLC negotiated the $7.78 million sale of Corona Village, t...

Brian Kelly has joined the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips following the July closure of Fenwick & Wes...

More than 600 visitors toured the Asian Art Museum last month as guests of Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, a sponsor of the museu...

UPLAND - CB Richard Ellis recently announced that Marshalls had signed a $4.2 million, 10-year lease. The retail store, locate...

Herbalife International Inc. has hired Brett Chapman as general counsel from the Walt Disney Co., where he served as senior vi...

Aiming to rectify what he calls a "palpable" injustice, a Los Angeles attorney is seeking a new trial for an inmate who claims...

Forum Column - By William B. Rubenstein and R. Bradley Sears - The highest court in Massachusetts issued a path-breaking decis...

Forum Column - By Susan E. Seager - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer recently was asked the following trick question: ...

SACRAMENTO - In his first week in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave criminal defense lawyers and prison advocates some t...

SACRAMENTO - An advocacy group for nursing home reform hopes a study of elder abuse lawsuits will spur lawmakers next year to ...

LOS ANGELES - Another name partner from Santa Monica litigation boutique Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens has fou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawmakers intended to include all arbitrators in California's strict new ethical rules, including neutrals han...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Doug Schmidt nearly whiffed on becoming the lead defense attorney for Dan White. Schmidt said he got ...

RIVERSIDE - Criminal judges next month will start hearing trials five days a week and squeeze pretrial hearings into half a da...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two dozen creditors of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have had their first chance to grill members...

LOS ANGELES - In the 18 years that Kevin McCormick has been a prosecutor for Los Angeles County, he's successfully argued for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to pay about $9.5 million to settle claims that it wrongfully shared or sold priva...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prisons director Edward Alameida denied Friday that he was influenced by the powerful corrections union ...