The formation of the federal Office on Women's Health a decade ago has brought immeasurable benefit to American women through ...

The Justice Department says there is legal precedent for President Bush's order of secret military tribunals for noncitizens s...

LOS ANGELES - A former insurance company for the Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. will not have to foot the bill for a recent $24...

Voir dire in state court civil cases typically is the first opportunity a trial lawyer has to speak directly to the jury. Howe...

Civil litigator Joann Selleck has taken the helm at the three California offices of Philadelphia-based Cozen O'Connor . Sellec...

A loud sigh of relief could be heard emanating from the offices of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 's new chairman, Richard Odo...

San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe unveiled its own AIDS memorial quilt on Dec. 3, during AIDS Awareness Week...

MedImmune Inc. announced Dec. 2 its acquisition of Aviron. The deal was worth $1.5 billion in stock. Gaithersburg, Md.-based M...

Berger Kahn Shafton Moss Figler Simon & Gladstone has made a resolution for the new year: get bigger. The three-attorney f...

Interlaw Ltd. named Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro partner William Capps "Interlawyer of the Year." Capps re...

In the evening, those who commute from Los Angeles north to Santa Clarita by train have several departures to choose from. On ...

Terence Floyd Cuff, partner at the Century City office of Los Angeles' Loeb & Loeb, received the V. Judson Klein Award for...

Menlo Park's Venture Law Group has taken another bold step, this time decreasing all associate base salaries by $20,000 to $30...

San Francisco's Avolent Inc. announced Dec. 3 that it received $40 million in its latest round of financing. New York's Rho Ve...

London-based Cable & Wireless announced Nov. 30 the acquisition of certain assets from Santa Clara's Exodus Communications...

Victor Hsu, partner at Los Angeles' Fulbright & Jaworski, worked the deal of his career recently, according to his 5-year-...

Whizzing around a circular track on a bike without brakes at speeds up to 40 mph sounds nuts. But Luce Forward Hamilton & ...

The Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County recently installed Rita Gunasekaran as president. She will se...

Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro is moving from the posh Fox Plaza Tower in Century City back to the nearby hi...

Paring partners and veteran attorneys from one Los Angeles firm and merging with a San Francisco boutique, Philadelphia's Drin...

The litigation section of the American Bar Association appointed Yuri Mikulka to the board of the bar's Woman Advocate Committ...

OSI Pharmaceuticals will acquire Gilead Sciences' assets from its oncology business. OSI will acquire Gilead's clinical candid...

The end of 2001 is nearing and the weather is beginning to chill. And with more advertisements for sales than actual news in y...

A series of departures has left Haight Brown & Bonesteel's San Diego office operating at bare-bones capacity. The two most...

The big 7-0 has arrived for the Beverly Hills Bar Association. But the group isn't fretting about the extra candles on its bir...

The YMCA of San Francisco announced James Colopy, a new partner at San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, as its Mission ...

The San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program honored Timothy Pestotnik, a partner at San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps...

San Francisco's Finaplex Inc. closed its second round of financing on Nov. 28, this time bringing in $17.1 million. The lead i...

Calabasas-based The Right Start Inc. acquired certain assets of FAO Schwarz in a deal closed Nov. 19. The Right Start will acq...

La Jolla's Global Renewable Energy Partners Inc. created a joint venture with Dallas-based The Mesa Group to create PowerStar....