Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker has added two new lawyers from the neighboring city of Irvine. Earlier this month, Rutan recru...

First Community Bancorp has agreed to acquire First National Bank of San Diego for $142 million. The deal was announced April ...

After seven years at Higgs Fletcher & Mack , Charles Berwanger has joined Gordon & Rees as a San Diego partner. Berwan...

Wanting to expand her employment and law practice, labor litigator Susan Fillichio has left Pillsbury Winthrop for Morgan Lewi...

Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo might be gaining a 150-lawyer Atlanta outpost in the future. The firm is in merger ...

Foley & Lardner has named public agency lawyer Greg Moser to manage the firm's two San Diego offices. Moser, who was appoi...

Patent partner David Weitz has left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to join a client, biotechnology company Syrrex Inc. o...

Antitrust veteran Eliot Disner has left Beverly Hills' Ervin Cohen & Jessup to head the advocacy and litigation division a...

JMI Realty and Omni Hotels Corp. have secured financing to build the Omni San Diego Hotel, which will be adjacent to a new bal...

When attorney Mark Rochefort first heard the principles of the DuPont Legal Model, he thought the corporation had devised an ...

As stated, while Bonne Bridges reorganizes its department, Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard is bringing new talent into i...

Partner Greg Conklin led his client, Cadence Design Systems Inc., in its acquisition of Simplex Solutions Inc. The stock deal ...

Two California partners were among the 60 attorneys that lost their jobs during firmwide layoffs April 30 at Tampa-based Holla...

Hyundai Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler AG and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. have formed a new company, Global Engine Alliance. The terms...

Column by Donald E Griffith - New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles lawyers have powerful feelings of aversion for ...

Cisco Systems Inc. has two merger deals in the works. It agreed to acquire Hammerhead Networks Inc. for $173 million in stock....

Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp has recruited partner Evan M. Kent for its intellectual property and technology p...

Stuart Lipton is conspicuously out of the limelight, and he likes it that way. Never one to seek publicity, the managing part...

No law firms are involved yet in the battle royale over the Hollywood sign between the proposed city of Hollywood and Los Ange...

Schering AG Germany has agreed to acquire the LEUKINE business from Immunex Corp., which is merging with Amgen Inc. The deal, ...

Since California Law Business published its last partnership roster in late January, the state's law firms have promoted 75 mo...

SAN FRANCISCO - When he tightened the tie around his neck and choked the blood flow to his brain, Gerald Alan Padfield sought ...

OAKLAND - Earth First leaders were violent hypocrites who used pacifism as a cover tactic, City of Oakland defense lawyer Mari...

Focus Column - By Beth A. Schroeder and Barry M. Appell - Although some businesses and industries have begun to report improve...

VENTURA - You might think being photographed in a harness and spanked with a riding crop would be all in a day's work at an ad...

LOS ANGELES - Partner Grant Finlayson has left San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to launch a marketing and co...

LOS ANGELES - Having been the golf pro at Rancho Park Golf Course for more than 30 years, Ronald Weiner can recall a time of s...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Cassuto , associated with San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass , is on a quest to save the We...

LOS ANGELES - The highly anticipated court battle of seven legendary surfers against Abercrombie & Fitch over use of their...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dog mauling trial defense attorney Nedra Ruiz has accepted a judge's fine for violating a gag order during the...