Focus Column - Law Practice - By Daniel Zohar - In starting your own practice, you will confront virtually nothing that others...

Forum Column - By Liliana M. Garces and Jayashri Srikantiah - The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether mandatory detention...

It was one small step in the mire of patent infringement litigation worldwide - but a victory all the same. Manufacturer TDK S...

Litigation Column - By Julie Campanini - As employment cases continue to flourish across the country, counsel is constantly tr...

Last week was moving week for Thelen Reid & Priest, the 425-lawyer firm that had the unfortunate task of moving its New Yo...

Nol Nino joined San Francisco's TMC Development as its lone general counsel Nov. 4. Until the hiring of Nino, TMC outsourced ...

The most sought-after neutrals in California sure have a lot of friends. Hundreds of attorneys from a variety of legal markets...

Calling all soccer-playing lawyers. Those lifelong dreams of slicing a perfect shot into the corner of the goal or drilling a...

Microchip technology meant macro dollars for Intergraph Corp. Intergraph, a Huntsville, Ala.-based computer services company, ...

Harry Low took a two-year break from his work as a highly paid neutral at JAMS. But it wasn't a peaceful rest. Gov. Gray Davis...

A Los Angeles judge is expected to give preliminary approval Dec. 6 to a settlement of a nationwide class action that accused ...

This was a newspaper war of another sort. Outdoor advertiser City Solutions Inc. sued its former business partner, Eller Media...

Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish has established an insurance counseling and litigation group. Richar...

It came as no real surprise when, on Nov. 15, Cooley Godward laid off 46 associates and staff members, and Fenwick & West ...

Grant T. Langton has left intellectual property boutique Christie, Parker & Hale for Los Angeles' Jeffer, Mangels, Butler ...

The Arizona law-firm scene is undergoing a bit of reshuffling - at least as far as the attorneys at two Phoenix firms are con...

Pasadena's Brown & Kellner has opened a second office in Las Vegas. The three-attorney firm intends to use the office as ...

After 11 years, the expansion of the BART system to the San Francisco airport is finally complete. With so many bumps along t...

How's business? "We are one of the healthiest markets in the United States. That has to do with the ports without a question....

It's rare, if not unprecedented, for a corporate associate to get involved in one-on-one dealmaking in the first year or two o...

Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, plans to increase its presence in California by acquiring ...

Entrepreneurs want it. But they're having a hard time getting it. With lingering concerns about the economy, young companies a...

LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles parolee Charlie Jones and other repeat criminal offenders with mental illness and a history of ...

LOS ANGELES - John Marshall High School's run for top honors in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 25th annual Mock Trial ...

SAN DIEGO - Convicted child murderer David A. Westerfield's woes likely will include a civil lawsuit as he whiles away years i...

LOS ANGELES - The regents of the University of California have recovered $11 million from contractors and an insurance company...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the fate of California's three-strikes law, the key votes li...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Waukeen McCoy looked forward to a long and prosperous relationship with Angela Alioto, his lawyer co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Albert Kent Johnson can't win for losing. First, he was convicted in 1992 of a rape he didn't commit - all bec...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County law clerk who was told by the U.S. Supreme Court that he couldn't be his own appellate lawyer h...