Life sciences companies Caliper Technologies Corp. and Zymark Corp. are based on opposite sides of the country, but they're ab...

Almost every one of Baker & McKenzie's multinational deals lately has included questions about executive compensation, emp...

Nancy Newman and Susan O'Neill have known each other for years. They've attended continuing education courses and bar associat...

LOS ANGELES - Inside the small suite of offices in a building that housed a number of social-service organizations, the coffee...

San Diego law firms Schwartz Semerdjian & Haile and Gade & Cauley have joined their practices and changed their name t...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James M. Sutton Jr. has retired after 19 years in the Norwalk branch. Gov. George Deuk...

The race to have the newest and best technology invaded most industries years ago, but now even attorney-service companies hav...

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. of Canada raised $30 million in a public stock offering last month, generating legal work for s...

Column - Media Relations - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - By their nature, major-product cases can generate more media...

OCEANSIDE - What began eight years ago as a simple act of compassion for women incarcerated in San Diego's jail system has bec...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has seen an explosion of antitrust work in the Bay Area, where it has three senior lawyers focusin...

On the afternoon of July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri strode into the offices of Pettit & Martin with a .45 caliber automatic...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association has installed Robin Meadow, a partner at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, as its...

A ruling on the distribution rights to the scary Goosebumps children's TV series gave FOX a warm fuzzy. FOX won a defense verd...

While Sacramento lawmakers argue about relatively minor reforms to the state's unfair-competition law, an appellate court opin...

After 19 years as a sole practitioner, Berkeley's Berne Reuben says he was tired of being on his own. "I wanted to be part of ...

Joseph Campisi says leaving Pillsbury Winthrop wasn't so much about leaving the San Francisco firm as it was about re-examinin...

A Los Angeles jury awarded a telephone calling-card provider $4.6 million last month in its dispute with Pacific Bell Telephon...

In the 1986 film "Tough Guys," Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas play train robbers who finally are set free after 30 years in t...

Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Every day of the week, morning or afternoon, truck traffic on the Long Beach Freeway, In...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Stephen C. Seto - In these times of downsizing and declining rents, many financially healthy...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Karl Gerber - Not long ago, an employment attorney with a California Fair Employment and Ho...

RIVERSIDE - Saying he erred by making comments to the media, a judge has recused himself from the murder trial of a woman accu...

LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest whose female cousin recently testified that he molested her more than 40 years ag...

In Closing Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - One of the oldest tenets of mediation is the confiden...

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury late Thursday found a 20-year veteran investigator with the Riverside district attorney's of...

Despite laws that limit marriage to heterosexuals in 37 states and a proposed federal amendment that would do the same nationw...

WASHINGTON - Time passes quickly when you're having fun, and the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed 2002-03 term really z...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has given the green light to a lawsuit alleging that a former employee at the Lawrence Liverm...

SAN FRANCISCO - The recording industry's recent announcement that it would start suing individuals who trade songs online prov...