20 Under 40 - Angella Padillia - Angela Padilla, a litigation partner at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, seems to hav...

20 Under 40 - Mona Patel-Sikora - Mona Patel-Sikora's job is in equal parts a legal and emotional challenge. As head of the im...

JetBlue Airways Corp. closed its initial public offering April 17. The offering brought in more than $158 million for the Kew ...

20 Under 40 - Dennis Herrera - After his election in December, Dennis Herrera wasted no time in his new role as San Francisco ...

20 Under 40 - Niall McCarthy - Niall McCarthy admits that it was unusual to make partner at one of California's best-known pla...

M-O San Francisco purchased 4 acres from Crosjean-Callaghan Investment Co. for an undisclosed amount. The deal closed Feb. 27....

Jack London Square Partners has acquired four commercial buildings from the Port of Oakland. The buildings were sold for more ...

20 Under 40 - Ariella Hyman - When the U.S. Congress passed the Welfare Reform Act in 1996, some public interest advocates com...

Sonics Inc. closed its third round of funding bringing in $26 million. The deal closed April 15. Century City's Smart Technolo...

Top Tinseltown business litigator Marshall B. Grossman received the 23rd annual Learned Hand Award for his human rights effort...

20 Under 40 - Mark Theodore - Despite generating $2 million a year in revenues for his firm and racking up a laundry list of s...

20 Under 40 - Scott Kalt - Scott Kalt, 38, always knew he'd be a dirt lawyer. Kalt, who graduated from college early, worked f...

San Francisco's Thelen Reid & Priest is on a serious recruiting spree, at least in Washington, D.C. Last week, the 400-law...

Dozens of children were introduced to the legal profession on April 25 when attorneys and staff members from Morrison & Fo...

After seven years in the Los Angeles office of Arter & Hadden, partner Craig G. Kline jumped ship for Carroll Burdick &...

20 Under 40 - John Ramirez - Years ago, John Ramirez's mentors told him to stick to one practice area and give it his all, and...

20 Under 40 - Richard Hasen - It seems like everybody wants a piece of Loyola Law School professor Richard Hasen. The election...

Ribapharm Inc., a spinoff of ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., went public April 12. Its initial public offering brought in $260 milli...

20 Under 40 - Bart Williams - From the beginning of his legal career, Bart Williams always wanted to be the guy who did the ta...

A new era in crisis communications - the most challenging but invigorating in memory - is demanding more from both attorneys a...

20 Under 40 - Pamela Burke - Howard Clowes describes Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich colleague Pamela Burke as someone who "h...

Allonn Levy, representing a client pro bono, will be helping to define the boundaries of Internet law and going up against par...

20 Under 40 - Charles Verhoeven - Three years ago, when litigation boutique Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges wanted ...

20 Under 40 - Ken Baronsky - Ken Baronsky doesn't consider himself young. At age 39, however, Baronsky has already spent three...

20 Under 40 - Monica Harris - Busloads of people work to keep the long-running television drama "Law & Order" and its spin...

LOS ANGELES - Public agency attorney Greg Moser has taken over management of Foley & Lardner's San Diego offices. Firmwide...

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. attorney Theresa J. Canepa has been appointed to the Contra Costa County Superior Court by Gov....

Bankruptcy - Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Article XX of the California Constitution mandates that the Legislature prote...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has sounded the death knell for medical marijuana clubs in Northern California by siding with ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed a case filed against the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Lo...