Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has been busy. While its Los Angeles office picked up new partner Tin Kin Lee from Manat...

Cirrus Logic Inc. of Austin, Texas, completed its acquisition of El Dorado Hills-based ShareWave Inc. The deal was valued at $...

Menlo Park-based Deltagen Inc. has secured $10 million in capital through an equity investment by Dr. George B. Rathman, the c...

Eagles, the rock group known for a string of '70s hits including "Hotel California" and "Desperado," have donated $100,000 to ...

Sara Smith knew her business inside and out. She even understood many of the relevant legal issues, based on her years of expe...

"Everyone's here tonight," one attorney remarked during the Oct. 16 celebration for Drucilla Stender Ramey, the departing dire...

Business & Professions Code Section 17200 is a broadly construed series of statutes that can have a tremendous impact on ...

America is witnessing patriotism to a degree that few people younger than 60 can remember. And American corporations are exhib...

LOS ANGELES - Many members of state's legal and political elite enjoyed the Daily Journal's and California Law Business's annu...

LOS ANGELES - The Santa Monica office of Greenberg Traurig has recruited three partners from Bryan Cave, also in Santa Monica....

SANTA ANA - Gov. Gray Davis has elevated Superior Court Judge Richard M. Aronson to the 4th District Court of Appeal and appoi...

LOS ANGELES - The lives of Roger Lowenstein Esq. have unreeled across six decades and two coasts as replete with delicious dra...

The dilemma facing all lawyers, and certainly trial lawyers, is the question of how to behave toward one's opponent during tri...

The war against digital piracy has entered a new phase. Earlier this month, litigation was commenced against several popular I...

When it comes to dealing with the news media, even confident lawyers can feel wary and defensive. The rough-and-tumble world o...

After 20 years in the legal profession, I have noticed that a growing division exists in the criminal-defense brotherhood. The...

Each autumn brings with it an increase in the number of law-firm partners contemplating a change of venue, as they look forwar...

LOS ANGELES - Only one day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge declared a mistrial in the breach-of-contract case between...

LOS ANGELES - Saying that "our nation's borders have become a sieve," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called for legislation ...

WASHINGTON - President Bush is expected to sign into law today landmark legislation that will give investigators and intellige...

HAYWARD - The judge behind the first judicially-mandated auto recall gave preliminary consent Thursday to a nationwide settlem...

WASHINGTON - Being a Supreme Court justice is a great gig. Three months off in the summer and frequent two-week or monthlong r...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Thursday upheld a death sentence for the 120-pound Presa Canario dog involved in the fata...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Francis Mintz, who for 50 years served the Jewish community from the local to the ...

SAN DIEGO - Patricia Palm Rapp, a Woodland Hills attorney whose enthusiasm for the Green Bay Packers rivaled her dedication to...

In Birschtein v. New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., 2001 DJDAR 10811 (Cal. App. Oct. 9, 2001), the 1st District Court...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Fink recalls the meeting he had with a client several years ago that helped him decide to become an attor...

It is California public policy that a spouse receiving spousal support become self-supporting in a reasonable period of time. ...

Professionally speaking, litigious Southern California podiatrist Garey Lee Weber no longer has a leg to stand on. That's beca...