American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. went public on Dec. 13. The initial offering raised $144 million. The lead manager was C...

Movie Review - By Stephen Zager, "I am Sam" features fantastic performances by both Sean Penn and 7-year-old Dakota Fanning bu...

Becoming Ice Cream Partners USA's sole owner, Nestlé USA acquired the remaining 50 percent of the ice cream company from Gener...

The San Francisco Bar Association has given Duane Musfelt, managing partner of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard's San Fra...

In early December, California Law Business reported that the state's law firms had elevated 92 associates to partner. The prom...

After nearly 15 years at the Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 's downtown Los Angeles office, insolvency partner Tom Patterson ...

Aristos Logic Corp. raised nearly $16 million in its second round of financing. The deal closed on Dec. 10. The lead investors...

The Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha Society, an honorary land economics society, has awarded Edward Steefel, name partner ...

Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. closed an $86 million securities offering on Jan. 10. The lead underwriter was Banc of America Secu...

One of the country's oldest African-American bar associations, the John M. Langston Bar Association, has announced its officer...

To JoAnn Dean, her fight against her former employer is just one more case of an alternative dispute resolution system mired i...

LOS ANGELES - In the latest round in a controversial murder case, a state appeals court has ruled that Gov. Gray Davis doesn't...

LOS ANGELES - From his sixth-floor office in Houston, attorney Mark Haedicke remembers the Enron Corp. of yesteryear. In 2000,...

Barry Langberg is all riled up. Or at least, as agitated as the soft-spoken celebrity libel lawyer is likely to get. Langberg,...

Column by Garry Abrams - Tardy tears of regret and sorrow flowed like Niagara Falls on Friday at the sentencing of Sara Jane O...

SAN FRANCISCO -Asserting that "no good deed goes unpunished," a state appellate court has wiped out a $512,900 judgment won by...

LOS ANGELES - Chicago-based Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal has recruited insolvency expert Michael Lubic to anchor the fir...

SAN FRANCISCO - As part of the secret settlement of the nation's largest employment-related racial bias jury award, attorneys ...

LOS ANGELES - WhenCooley Godward became the first large firm in the Bay Area to ax associates last year, it never could have e...

International Law Practitioner Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson, Speech today finds expression and is made highly accessible t...

Focus Column - By Gideon Kracov and Joseph F. C. DiMento, Recognizing the growth of global trade and economic interdependence,...

Most experienced trial lawyers think of voir dire as the opportunity to ask a series of questions at the outset of a trial tha...

Once counsel have decided that mediation is appropriate for resolving an elder abuse case, the next step is the selection of a...

When Chapman University School of Law opened its doors in 1995, one of its goals was to teach its students to litigate. They s...

Although the plantiff had a history of making sophisticated investments, her attorney emphasized her age and memory problems t...

Often, when parties appear at mediation, they approach the process as an opportunity to "hammer" the other side. Their concept...

Employment Column - By Lynda Stevens and Geoffrey Crisp, There is a new world order in the legal field, or at least in Orange...

Despite having little regard for higher education as a teen-ager, Southern California attorney Jennifer L. Keller ended up def...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County couple has sued Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton for $68 million, claiming the law firm ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It might have been just a fading memory, an insignificant incident, that first brief meeting in El Centro betw...