An era at Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has come to an end with the passing of name partner Lee G. Paul Mar...

Partner Allen Hubsch led Heller Financial Inc., a division of General Electric Capital Corp., in its $90 million loan to Ameri...

Eight San Francisco lawyers will hold management positions at New York's Nixon Peabody , the firm announced March 26. They inc...

Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish 's women lawyers, calling themselves the Women of Weston, held their first ...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton is getting some recognition for its pro bono service. Last year, the firm's downtown San...

Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has nabbed two senior attorneys for its Santa Monica and San Francisco offices. M...

Network Associates Inc. will acquire all the outstanding shares of McAfee.com Corp. for $215 million. The deal was announced M...

Hundreds of millions of people around the world heard Oscar winner Halle Berry thank her lawyer, Doug Stone, while receiving t...

The Irvine law firm Kring & Brown recently changed its name following the departure of partner Gregory Brown . On March 18...

After eight years at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood , real estate partner Jay Rockey is ditching his firm's downtown office fo...

Schering, a 12 percent owner of Collateral Therapeutics Inc., has bought the remaining ownership interests in the San Diego dr...

A major client, England's Vodafone, inspired Los Angeles litigator Gregory Evans to leave 200-lawyer McKenna & Cuneo for t...

SmartPipes Inc. closed its fourth round of funding, bringing in $51 million. The deal was announced March 25. Redwood City's S...

To accommodate a boon in its litigation practice, Washington D.C.-based Howrey Simon Arnold & White is adding 37,000 squar...

Playa L & M Enterprises and Furama Los Angeles Inc. closed the sale of the Furama Hotel and surrounding properties March 1...

In the late 1990s, Higgs Fletcher & Mack managing partner John Morrell watched from the sidelines while other law firms ag...

Ameris Acquisition Inc. has borrowed $90 million in a revolving and fixed loan to purchase Children's Comprehensive Services I...

Polaris Networks Inc. completed its second round of funding, bringing in $52 million. The San Jose company announced the deal ...

Corporate finance partner Tracy Edmonson will manage Latham & Watkins ' corporate practice group in San Francisco, the fir...

Red stands for courage, says San Diego immigration attorney Lilia Velasquez, known to many as the "flame of justice." To embod...

Avanex Corp. will acquire Oplink Communications Inc. for $305 million in stock. The deal was announced March 19. Fremont's Ava...

The practice of law is filled with pain and agony and empathy for people who are under great strain and pressure. The pathos f...

Surprise, not all recruiters are the same. Here are some tips on how to distinguish experience and differences among recruiter...

Loeb & Loeb , a 185-lawyer firm with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville, has nabbed intellectual property part...

Mentor Graphics Corp. has agreed to acquire IKOS Systems Inc. in a deal worth $103 million. The deal was announced March 12. W...

Manatt Phelps & Phillips ' global consulting arm made a pitch to international business associates last month as it launc...

SACRAMENTO - Millions of dollars originally intended to clear up the state's huge backlog of unsolved rape cases will now prob...

Forum Column - By Phillip Carter - Suicide bombers and snipers now duel in the Middle East while ambassadors and envoys wait ...

LOS ANGELES - California soon may have to alter its approach to death-penalty cases, according to experts awaiting a U.S. Supr...

One case stands out for San Diego-based civil litigation boutique Thorsnes Bartolotta & McGuire. The satisfied client gave...