Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Dolores Y. Leal - Congratulations to Sacramento legislators and Gov. Gray Davis for passin...

Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins has eliminated the $10,000 stipends that it customarily gives to its incoming first-year att...

Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 's Menlo Park office. Y...

In the largest biotechnology merger in the United States, Amgen Inc. has acquired Immunex Corp. The stock and cash deal, annou...

Imediation acquired arcadiaOne Inc. in a stock and cash deal that closed Nov. 12. The terms of the deal are undisclosed. Paris...

Cynthia Pevehouse joined Ask Jeeves Inc. as its general counsel in January 2000 when the company was still swelling with succe...

Minneapolis-based Metronic Inc. has acquired Endonetics Inc. of San Diego in a deal announced Dec. 19. Medtronic provides prod...

Jeffrey Berman, 55, never intended to be an employment lawyer. In fact, he didn't give much thought to life after the Bar Exa...

Saying it was becoming increasingly difficult to serve his major clients as a sole practitioner, David Roseman has joined Pill...

Boston Scientific Corp. has acquired Smart Therapeutics Inc. the companies announced Dec. 13. The deal terms were not disclose...

One of Orange County's oldest and largest law firms, Cooksey Howard Martin & Toolen , has kept pretty quiet about its reva...

Edward F. Fernandes , a litigator at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison , hopes to open more doors for the African-American commun...

Harriet Welch Firm: Arter & Hadden in Los Angeles Practice Area: Public finance, securities and municipal bonds Age: 47 We...

Music attorney Jay Cooper , formerly of Manatt Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles, now heads the Los Angeles entertainment p...

South San Francisco's Imatron Inc. has merged with Waukaesha, Wis.-based General Electric Medical Systems. The deal, which clo...

Apartment Investment and Management Co., also known as AIMCO, has acquired Casden Properties Inc. in a deal worth $2.1 billion...

Sept. 11 was a baptism by fire for the newly merged Pillsbury Winthrop, says John Pritchard, a New York partner who witnessed ...

Irvine's Cardiac Science Inc. has completed private placements totaling $38 million. Lead contributors for the deal were Houst...

Is "On the Road Again" your personal anthem? Is the airport's baggage claim area your home away from home? If the answer is ye...

Continuing to expand its young Los Angeles office, Kirpatrick & Lockhart has recruited toxic tort and environmental partne...

Eric Landau sees himself as a doctor for corporations, and in his new role at McDermott Will & Emery , he hopes to make mo...

A 37-year era ended last week at Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn & Crutcher when Ronald Beard, who served as the firm's chairman ...

Washington, D.C.-based Howrey Simon Arnold & White has not grieved over the slowdown in corporate work. With balanced foc...

Stephen Meyer has come a long way since 1978 and his first year as an associate at Downey Brand Seymour & Rowher. Today, t...

Orange County's Rutan & Tucker has acquired Fish & Associates of Fullerton, boosting the firm's intellectual property ...

Howard Squadron , philanthropist and founding partner of New York-based Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld , has died. ...

Paris based-BNP Paribas acquired United California Bank from Tokyo's UFJ Holdings Inc. in a deal worth $2.4 billion. BNP Parib...

Column by By Karen Nobumoto - Today's streamlined and more responsive State Bar is working closely with the Legislature and t...

The California Educational Facilities Authority recently closed a bond transaction with Pomona College. The deal refinanced $1...

Bolstering its intellectual property expertise, Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has recruited pate...