LOS ANGELES - San Bernardino County Supervisor Jerry Eaves and Orange County businessman W. Shepardson "Shep" McCook, implicat...

RIVERSIDE - The county's Volunteers in Parole program recently honored two Riverside lawyers for their volunteer work with the...

Column by Garry Abrams - Former Death Row Records attorney David Kenner was too ill and weak to stand Monday when a federal ju...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Kelsey Grammer of "Frasier" and "Cheers" fame will have to pay his former agents $2 million in back commis...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - When I first heard the phrase "sua sponte," it was in a conversation between a lawyer a...

Dicta Column - By Paul J. Virgo - Failures to honor medical lien agreements are a very common complaint made to the State Bar....

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The policy of California is to promote the resolution of disputes outside of litigation vi...

Forum Column - By Rita Miller - My friend Gideon maintains that no first-rate private practitioner would want to become a judg...

MOJAVE - Few people know about a 6-foot-tall, metal cross that stands basically in the middle of nowhere atop a rock formation...

Focus Column - By Caroline B. Newcombe - While statute defines the term "reinsurance contract" in most jurisdictions (see Insu...

Patrick Donnici , former assistant general counsel at DHL Worldwide Express, has returned to private practice with Carroll Bur...

International tax attorney and CPA Michael Lebovitz will join Baker & McKenzie on Wednesday as a partner in the firm's Pal...

Los Angeles' leading men in law, business, politics and entertainment proved that were too sexy as they took to the runway to ...

Terry Calvani , a San Francisco antitrust lawyer who has been involved in some of the world's biggest mergers, including Chevr...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal snatched veteran bankruptcy lawyer J. Robert Nelson from LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & Macrae. N...

Standard Pacific Corp. has acquired Westbrooke Acquisition Corp. from Newmark Homes Corp. for cash and assumption of debt liab...

Michael O'Flaherty and Stephen Belgum don't agree on much these days. The December 1997 breakup of their law firm, O'Flaherty ...

Column by Matthew A. Hodel - Time limits liberate litigators from the sins of lawyerly pretensions, forcing them to stick to t...

Sabeus Photonics Inc. completed the second half of its third round of funding, bringing in $21 million. The deal closed April ...

Broadcom Corp. has agreed to acquire Mobilink Telecom Inc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal was announced Ap...

Klinedinst Fliehman & McKillop has moved into a more spacious office in Orange County. Earlier this month, the full-servic...

James Eakin , an intellectual property attorney, and Kerry Smith , a corporate securities lawyer, joined the Silicon Valley of...

Employment lawyer Scott Harman left the Pleasanton office of Rapp Kiepen & Harman after the three-attorney firm, where he ...

Managing partner Bruce Czachor represented Menlo Park's Wachovia Securities in its purchase of senior secured notes worth $57 ...

Thanks to Martha Belcher, the law department of Fannie Mae's Western Regional Office, located in Pasadena, is more than 100 ...

Column by Bobbie McMorrow - A dramatic shift occurred in the summer of 1999. New York managing partners, usually the most conf...

The head of Morrison & Foerster 's Irvine real estate group left the firm for its Orange County competitor, Bryan Cave. Re...

After 16 years at Los Angeles' second largest law firm, real estate rainmaker Pamela Westhoff decided smaller is better. The f...

Spine Wave Inc. and VERTx Inc. have merged, and the new company completed its first round of funding, bringing in $15 million....

Ameritrade Holding Corp. agreed to acquire Datek Online Holdings Corp. The stock deal is worth $1.3 billion. It was announced ...