After a decade striving for success in Los Angeles, Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis is closing the door on that office. Th...

Ever since a United Parcel Service truck knocked him down while backing up, Darrell Gosnell cannot leave his Hollywood apartme...

Scott Imler decided to starve himself to death this summer to protest federal drug enforcement action against a cannabis club....

MTV Networks is taking on additional office space in Santa Monica, its West Coast headquarters. MTV, a division of Viacom Inte...

On Aug. 12, Davis appointed James P. Kleinberg to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Kleinberg, a partner with the law fir...

Gov. Gray Davis made history last week with his latest round of judicial appointments to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench....

Micah R. Jacobs and Eric K. Ferraro, friends since law school, dreamed of owning a small, successful law firm. They achieved t...

Chief Justice Ronald M. George and the State Bar's board of governors have named nine new members to the state Judicial Counci...

Evan Y. Chuck and Nicole Janigian have bid farewell to the Los Angeles office of White & Case, where they were associates,...

Celebrities can make a pretty penny by emblazoning their names on just the right product - be it a silk blouse, as in the case...

Irvine's Endocare Inc. has agreed to acquire the prostate-treatment business of a Dallas-based urology services company for $1...

Elise Tenen-Aoki has temporarily satisfied the ravenous hunger of Greenberg Traurig's intellectual property practice. Tenen-Ao...

Kirby Wilcox, chairman of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's San Francisco office, has confirmed that the outpost has lai...

After a series of partner defections in April and subsequent rumors that the firm was considering pulling out of Southern Cali...

The Contra Costa County Bar Association women's section will hold its annual luncheon Sept. 19. The featured speaker will be C...

In Closing Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In a decision addressing an employer's refusal to hire based on a past record o...

Married couples going through divorce might find they suddenly relate to the battles waged in the 1989 movie "The War of the R...

Lawyer jokes are a dime a dozen, but advertisements for legal services may be even more fertile ground for ridicule. Obnoxious...

Burton Boltuch has moved his labor and employment practice closer to home, relocating from San Francisco's Gordon & Rees t...

Ron Oines has dumped his of-counsel title with San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster for a piece of the partnership at C...

SAN JOSE - A legal grudge match over defamatory posts on an Internet message board has taken a new twist. Oakland attorney Jon...

SAN FRANCISCO - As part of a management shake-up, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan has promoted dog-mauling ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - The conservative, resident theologian of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge John T. Noonan Jr., has ...

SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield's lawyers may call to the stand psychiatrists who specialize in the effects of alcohol on beh...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that snooping in private Web sites on the Internet does not vio...

SAN DIEGO - Services for civil litigator Thomas M. Dymott will take place Tuesday in San Diego. Dymott died Wednesday at Sharp...

Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - The Fifth Amendment may state that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case t...

LOS ANGELES - UCLA law professor and media commentator John Shepard Wiley Jr. is one of four new judges appointed to Los Angel...

Lingerie company Frederick's of Hollywood, which bared its financial problems to the world two years ago, expects to emerge fr...

Gary Kremen, owner of sex.com, sounds jaunty, speaking on his cell phone after a trip from his office in San Francisco to his ...