Practitioner Column - Intellectual Property - By William R. Hart and David C. Baker - According to American essayist and poet ...

The Bay Area's wilted economy isn't dissuading Baker & McKenzie from beefing up its corporate and securities practice. Joh...

Real Estate Partner Joins Practice At Reed Smith's Los Angeles Shop Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has recruited real e...

Aristos Logic, which develops network storage processors, has raised $20 million from investors in third-round financing. New ...

In Closing Column - By Traci Stuart - While TV ads and high-end trinkets are the most touted of law firm marketing tools, the ...

Riordan & McKinzie has added a trio of associates. Christina N. Lebedeff has joined the firm's Costa Mesa office, and Step...

Although the Consumer Attorneys of California was founded in 1961 as an organization dedicated to educating its members, the g...

A California Native American tribe has borrowed $140 million to finance its ambitious plans for its casino business. The Agua ...

California lawmakers have introduced more bills targeted at scandal-plagued corporate America. Last year, following the scanda...

The scenario is straight out of a Tom Clancy novel. The Hague in Netherlands, center of international justice, prepares to try...

With an uncertain economy and some law firms struggling to survive, Thomas Igoe Jr. hates to think what would have happened if...

Jim Harrowell, a lawyer from Sydney, Australia, will be the next chairman of Interlaw Ltd., a consortium of 64 law firms locat...

"It ain't over till it's over" could be attorney Mark Goodman's motto. The Barger & Wolen lawyer in San Francisco has repr...

BANKRUPTCY - Craig Millet (Irvine) of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher represented bankrupt Advanced Tissues Sciences, which filed ...

A San Bernardino sport utility vehicle rollover suit took a nasty turn last month for the plaintiffs' attorneys when a trial j...

A Silicon Valley company and a Massachusetts firm have won a patent infringement case that could have changed e-commerce had t...

Jim Brooks and his colleagues at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe faced a trial with the cards stacked against them represen...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips continues to bulk up its health care expertise with the recent hire of litigation partner Gregor...

Following a few months serving as a consultant for Unocal Corp., a company where he was general counsel until Dec. 4, Dennis P...

Apparently you can take the lawyer out of Pillsbury but you can't take the Pillsbury out of the lawyer. Sixteen former Pillsbu...

Papers about the Consumer Attorneys of California and the group's upcoming convention lay scattered all over my desk. I had to...

From updates on insurance bad-faith law to tips on maximizing damages for plaintiffs, this year's convention for the Consumer ...

The Parisian theme for the 7th Annual Silver Tongue Competition to benefit San Diego's McAllister Institute was set many month...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Ted Roth and Charles Rosenblatt - Over lunch, three lawyers agree to merge their practices an...

Forum Column - Business Law - By John W. Brooks and Mark Webber - Manufacturers of goods often engage independent sales agents...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Mara G. Daz - What would child protective services or the district attorney's office do if...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ronald Sacco, who was sentenced to prison a decade ago as the biggest sports bookmaker in the United States, h...

LOSE ANGELES -Some people might have used $1 million in California lottery winnings to buy a Ferrari or tour the world. But Ra...

MARTINEZ - It turns out that Cary Verse wasn't eligible for release from a state mental hospital under California's Sexually V...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy has no authority to order a $1 billion nuclear ...