LOS ANGELES - Cooley Godward and Pennie & Edmonds are discussing a merger that would create a 700-attorney top-tier compet...

SAN FRANCISCO - No means no. That's where most states draw a line between consensual sex and rape. But not here. California's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It has all the elements of an after-school TV special: partying teen-agers, drama between girlfriend and boyfr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired Kathy Patterson to build its West Coast pharmaceutical and medica...

Column by Garry Abrams - Add to the plentiful woes of the Walt Disney Co. a tearful, litigious, wealthy 81-year-old widow who ...

INDIO - Palm Desert family law specialist Basil T. Chapman was installed Friday as president of Riverside County's Desert Bar ...

LOS ANGELES - After years of waiting, victims of slave and forced-labor camps in World War II Germany and Japan got their day ...

Dicta Column - By the Rodent - Don't you wish that, just once, you got the chance to sit on the other side? Most lawyers spend...

Dicta Column - By Richard C. Neal - Most trial lawyers think the art of persuasion is their most important job skill. This bei...

WASHINGTON - The man who was convicted of the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. can collect hundreds of thousands of dollar...

Mariah Carey is singing a happy tune after scoring a legal victory in Los Angeles federal court. U.S. District Judge Christina...

After 18 years as a federal prosecutor, John S. Gordon had only one firm in mind when he decided to take up private practice. ...

The San Diego office of Baker & McKenzie has elected a new managing partner. Charles H. Dick Jr. succeeds Ali M. M. Mojdeh...

After raiding San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison for most of its 37 Bay Area lawyers, London's Clifford Chance is...

Lightconnect Inc. has 9 million reasons to celebrate, following its latest round of venture financing. The Newark-based compan...

Broadening its presence in the Golden State, Texas-based Guaranty Bank has scooped up seven bank branches. Advised by Manatt, ...

Ken Lemberger has left a 20-year career at Sony Pictures Entertainment to join the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer. "He is ...

In her 79 years on earth, Marjorie W. Day has made quite an impression, but perhaps none more lasting than as one of Orange Co...

Pure entrepreneurial ambition drove Henry Bunsow to leave his cozy home at San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest to help Howrey...

Judge William T. Garner celebrated his 69th birthday and retirement on Sept. 24. He served 12 years on the Municipal Court and...

Following the lead of several other firms with multiple offices in San Diego, Casey, Gerry, Reed & Schenk has opened its s...

Defense attorneys are fuming over a new law that gives plaintiffs more time to file lawsuits and respond to motions for summar...

Encino's Michelman & Robinson continues its slow and steady growth since its launch four years ago. The latest lateral hir...

The national legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. will have a presence in cities across Canada once its merger with Catalyst...

Yet another Lyon & Lyon partner has found a new home. Intellectual property litigator Steven D. Hemminger, who started at ...

Harris F. Brotman has closed his one-man intellectual property shop and joined San Diego's Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Sa...

Paul Webber arrived in Los Angeles 15 years ago in a used Mercury Cougar that his law firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe...

A longtime Los Angeles Superior Court judge retired in September. On Sept. 10, Robert Letteau left his 20-year job with the co...

George G. Strong Jr. has become general counsel and managing director of Cornerstone Research Inc.'s new Los Angeles office. S...

Landlords beware. Marilyn Kalman may never have attended law school, but she is a dedicated and seemingly successful attorney ...