Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - After a jury is selected and the lawyers have presented their opening statements, the typic...

Dicta Column - Court Jesters - In Lussan v. Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. , 280 F.2d 491 (5th Cir. 1960), Circuit ...

Forum Column - By John C. Burton - Some news coverage of last month's American Bar Association Convention incorrectly blamed t...

Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - On July 29, the California Supreme Court issued an important decision upholding a ruling of ...

LOS ANGELES - An independent news service that videotaped the 1992 Reginald Denny beating can pursue its copyright claims agai...

At least nine partners have left Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in as many months, with the most recent departures ...

First, Kimberly Standmore alleged, her boss told her about orgies he had at the White House and how he had sex with Elizabeth ...

Frank Lindh went to the movies in Marin County one Saturday night in December, but, for the life of him, he can't remember wha...

The University of California, Davis, School of Law Alumni Association invited attorney Joan Story to serve on its 15-member bo...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association kicks off its Breakfast with Giants series Sept. 25. The first breakfast of the six-par...

When San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison selected John Benassi to manage its San Diego office, the intellectual pr...

Judge David A. Horowitz retired Sept. 5 after 22 years on the bench. Horowitz, 60, spent the last 12 years presiding over civi...

Chadbourne & Parke is pumping up its energy practice and opening an office in Houston, the firm announced Sept. 3. The off...

Arnold H. Gold might as well put on a pair of running shoes. The retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge-turned-mediat...

San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe continues to expand its intellectual property practice at a rabid pace. On ...

Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has made it easier for clients working at the molecular level - think atoms...

Workers' compensation attorney Pauline Nightingale works out of her Los Angeles condominium, just blocks from the bustling, up...

James Cameron's former executive assistant has sued the director of big-budget Schwarzenegger vehicles for pregnancy discrimin...

Dorsey & Whitney has lured prominent patent prosecutor Ann M. Pease away from Cooley Godward's Palo Alto office. For sligh...

Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins has added three securities litigators to its East Coast shops. David M. Brodsky joined ...

Ross E. Shanberg is the latest partner at Irvine's Kring & Chung. The firm announced Shanberg's election to the partnershi...

Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall of Los Angeles has added corporate and securities lawyer Howard Hart, t...

On Sept. 11, Assistant Presiding Judge Robert Dukes became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court. and Nor...

Under a multifaceted financing agreement, BluePoint Energy Products Inc. has received a $500,000 loan and could get an additio...

Michael Gosk, formerly a corporate tax partner at accounting and consulting firm KPMG, has brought his international and offsh...

Berne Rolston, the self-proclaimed lawyer's lawyer, has moved his shop from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills. Rolston, whose new ...

After only 18 months with New Jersey's Lowenstein Sandler, Miriam Cohen and three partners have taken their corporate finance ...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has lured away the co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's business crimes and investigations ...

Piper Rudnick has formed a strategic alliance with consulting firm The Cohen Group to combine its legal services with the busi...

Calpine Corp. has obtained $106 million to help finance the construction of a power plant near Denver, Colo. Credit Lyonnaise ...