It has been 20 years since the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles held its first three-day convention in Las Vegas,...

"Hard," "good" and "smart." That's how most people describe Skip Brittenham, a founding partner who has been a deal-making for...

Soft-spoken celebrity lawyer Sam Fischer has earned a gentlemanly reputation in a business where such kudos are rare. "He's th...

Intellectual property attorney Arlyn Alonzo has joined McDermott, Will & Emery as a partner in the firm's Irvine office. S...

Ken Ziffren has a habit of popping up in some unlikely places. But the results are usually the same. In 1986, he helped media ...

Orlando Jones, star of 7-Up commercials and the film "The Time Machine," recently did a charity guest appearance on a comedy e...

Another bench vacancy will be created in the Los Angeles Superior Court when Judge Reginald Dunn retires at the end of October...

Kimon Manolius, the top administrator in the San Francisco city attorney's office, has left to join Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, ...

Every year at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' popular Las Vegas Convention, there is one panel that is more...

Biotech company Versicor Inc. of Fremont and Italy's Biosearch Italia are breaking out the vino, celebrating their cross-Atlan...

Although he billed himself as the "People's Lawyer" in late-night television advertisements, Richmond City councilman and atto...

You can expect to see a lot more red Union Bank of California signs popping up all over the state, if things go according to p...

Jamie L. Johnson has joined the Santa Monica office of St. Louis' Bryan Cave as partner in the labor and employment group. Joh...

Psssst. Want to know a secret? Those maps to the stars they sell on Hollywood street corners? They're a rip. They tell you to ...

The Marin County district attorney's office has a new chief investigator. He is Rob Guidi, who spent 16 years as a police offi...

Dark wood paneling, hunter green carpet and art of the firm's founders made way years ago for a modern, sleek design at most C...

Domestic guru Martha Stewart seems equally at home baking gingerbread cookies in the kitchen or ringing the opening bell at th...

Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has lured away the chair of Kaye Scholer's antitrust practice group. Richard M. Steuer ...

Cecily Dumas, a corporate reorganization partner with San Francisco's Murphy Sheneman Julian & Rogers, has been elected ma...

Three Los Angeles-area court commissioners were appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to the Los Angeles Superior Court Aug. 8. Commiss...

A growing number of firms have established practice groups in the nation's capital to handle Supreme Court and other appellate...

Oakland attorney Scott Cole has filed suit in San Bernardino Superior Court in two cases on behalf of seven employees of Coca-...

LOS ANGELES - A judge will decide Tuesday whether Los Angeles County will have to pay a $12.3 million medical malpractice judg...

LOS ANGELES - Services for Donald E. Biederman, entertainment attorney and law professor, took place Monday morning at the Ste...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would punish corporate executives and others in key positions who are aware of financial fraud in the...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield were scheduled to begin their eighth day of deliberations today after ...

WASHINGTON - It was only a few weeks ago that Roscoe Trimmier Jr., the man in charge of the American Bar Association's vetting...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - At long last, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared up the confusion and contra...

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar has revoked the right of two San Francisco lawyers to practice after finding clear and convincin...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court is investigating claims that a Los Angeles prosecutor gave jurors in two separate...