Meanwhile, outside the studio gates, entertainment lawyers are dealing with the above-mentioned security precautions. Jill Coh...

He is the highest-ranking legal officer of one of the major studios. For years, he has been an integral part of an operation t...

Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott has nabbed longtime litigator Carol Rene Brophy from the San Francisco office of Foley &am...

San Jose's Hynix Semiconductor America Inc., subsidiary of South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc., has raised $115 million in ...

Sometimes, getting out of the office is nice. In good economic times or bad, arranging for outside meeting space can make the ...

New York's DoubleClick Inc. agreed to acquire the technology assets of Marina del Rey-based L90 Inc. Neither company would dis...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a rare appeal of a dog's death sentence, a panel of Court of Appeal justices has seemed disinclined to gra...

La Mirada's Berkley Industries recently completed its acquisition of Santa Fe Springs-based Omni Plastics Inc. Neither company...

Terrorists. Truck bombs. Anthrax. Mass casualties. Is this any way to throw an awards show? As assistant general counsel, Scot...

Christopher Brearton calls his immersion into the world of entertainment finance a "baptism by fire." After graduating from th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The district attorney of Plumas County has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after police found hi...

LOS ANGELES - An American Indian boy should remain in the custody of his Hispanic foster parents because the child has no dire...

LOS ANGELES - Keeping a group of alleged gang members shackled together during their murder trial painted a "chain gang" imag...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles jurors said Friday that they suspect that an exclusive West Hollywood eatery used a nonexistent dres...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal narcotics agents with drawn guns recently burst through the front door of attorney Dale Schafer's medi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A whopping $14 million fee request for the first four months of legal work on the Pacific Gas and Electric Co....

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 took a heavy toll on the confidence of law firms throughout California if layoffs in recent ...

It is said that there are no atheists in the trenches, and the same can probably be said for civil libertarians. If an unconst...

WASHINGTON - More than 800 people have been detained in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but few are believed ...

"I'd rather appear in public half-dressed than half-prepared." George Bernard Shaw. Behind every great, seemingly effor...

FAIRFIELD - A Solano County judge on Thursday invalidated a California law that imposes criminal liability for knowingly maki...

SAN FRANCISCO - Holland & Knight has announced the addition of former U.S. Rep. Douglas H. Bosco as partner and new head ...

When a disaster strikes, attorneys often are among the first ones called. And although attorneys are accustomed to listening a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The publisher of Hustler magazine has filed suit against California's attorney general, claiming the state ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just weeks after it laid off 13 associates, Oakland's Crosby Heafey has acquired all six partners and 10 asso...

LOS ANGELES - Officials evacuated several offices at the Los Angeles County Courthouse for 45 minutes Thursday morning after a...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Joseph F. Troy, a renowned practitioner of business and corporations law w...

VENTURA - For the third time in less than a year, an appellate court has intervened on behalf of Ventura County defendants all...

SACRAMENTO - A San Francisco appeal court has ruled that insurers must make public state-mandated reports about where they do...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carlos R. Moreno officially joined the California Supreme Court on Thursday after a swearing-in ceremony in w...