Forum Column By Fred Silberberg The frequency with which orders concerning a party's personal conduct are issued is much high...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor accused of defrauding and embezzling funds from an NBA player while serving as his...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a jury instruction commonly given in sexual assault cases is n...

The addition of three more environmental lawyers at San Francisco's Farella Braun + Martel is welcome growth for a practice gr...

Costa Mesa's Albert, Weiland & Golden has added John D. Ott as a senior attorney. Ott, who focuses on commercial litigati...

When Jamie MacMillan was asked by a client to retool his services, he didn't expect that it would result in his own company. ...

Bankruptcy attorneys are busy practicing their ABCs. An out-of-court process known as assignment for the benefit of creditors,...

Criminal defense attorney Matthew Fletcher admits his aggressive behavior might rub some judges the wrong way. But some of Fle...

If David S. Olson is superstitious, he'll have to hope that 13 is lucky for him. Olson is joining Sherman Oak's Kulik, Gottesm...

Consumer Attorneys of San Diego presented a President's Star Award to Thomas Penfield, partner at San Diego's Casey, Gerry, R...

Successful movie producers are outspoken, passionate and aggressive. But a student at The Peter Stark Producing Program at the...

Karyn B. Zeldman, who joined Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from Dewey Ballantine in July, has been elevated to special co...

Boston intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson has acquired a group of intellectual property litigators from Phoenix'...

San Francisco attorney Arnold Levinson scored the largest-ever verdict in Marin County Superior Court last month. Levinson of ...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter and Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Walter Rogers were named outsta...

The organization behind the Grammy's, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Inc., has chosen Charles Ortner to s...

By Cassandra C. Shivers After a complaint is filed and an answer is served, the parties to any lawsuit get down to the real w...

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has filled two key administrative positions, the firm announced Jan. 21. Attorney Peter...

The three-year legal battle between Jennifer Merin and Los Angeles' Barlow Respiratory Hospital has been settled, attorneys fo...

Latham & Watkins has scored a big hire in its Washington, D.C., office with the addition of partner William R. Baker III....

Corporation Column - By Debra C. Scheufler - California's SB399, which went into effect Jan. 1, allows one business entity to...

Intellectual property boutique Townsend and Townsend and Crew has picked up two new attorneys, the firm announced Jan. 27. Ma...

Returning from their fifth anniversary wedding celebration in Laughlin, Nev., three years ago, Rosemary and David Waite were r...

When Howard Lind joined Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean in 1978, the Oakland firm had just 17 lawyers. Twenty-five years later...

By John J. Buchanan "Ms. Holloway, I have a reporter from USA Today who'd like to speak to you about your client. Can I put h...

As former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Skjerven Morrill partners scatter to find new homes for themselves and their cl...

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner has added Patrick J. Coyne to its partnership ranks, the intellectual prop...

A number of American industry titans collapsed in financial ruin last year, producing a record 12 months in corporate bankrupt...

Conrad Sabiron's jackpot at the Chumash Casino in Santa Inez allegedly was a pink slip. The former casino security guard filed...

Washington, D.C.'s Shaw Pittman has elected Stephen B. Huttler to take over the managing partner position left open when Paul...