LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has nominated Latham & Watkins attorney David W. Fleming to the C...

The professional world of legal administrators has taken on a whole new shape in the last 10 years. ...

Jumping to a global platform, Marc S. Cohen has joined the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer , where he heads the firm's West...

The results are in for the National Assessment of Education Progress Test, a nationally administered mathematics exam for four...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has refused attorney J. Tony Serra's request for a restraining order to silence San Francisco narcotic...

After spending a decade with Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , Vera Elson has bid the firm adieu. Elson is th...

As the practice of law becomes increasingly gender-neutral, so do the ways attorneys approach business development. ...

Network-enabling company Lantronix Inc. has completed a second public offering of 8 million shares of common stock. The value ...

Meanwhile, in other American Bar Association news, the ABA has selected Norma Formanek, a litigation partner at San Francisco'...

The dot-com collapse has done more than put a damper on the Silicon Valley's once high-flying corporate and tech law firms. It...

A professional service firm without trust as a core value will corrode. Firm dissolutions as a result of failed relations betw...

Paul Raynor Keating is used to deals developing a lot faster than this. Keating, a partner with San Francisco-based Carroll Bu...

James J. Scheinkman has joined the Orange County office of Snell & Wilmer as a partner. Scheinkman, who joined the busines...

Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo and Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton have been courting each othe...

Eric Young is viewing a new piece of real estate each morning, now that he has joined Gordon & Rees' San Diego office. Ear...

With the continuing demise of the dot-coms, many Americans are being forced to consider relocating away from places like Silic...

BenefitPoint Holding Corp., an employee benefits business-to-business company, has acquired BenefitsAlliance, an employee-bene...

SAN DIEGO - The National Conference of State Trial Judges has presented its Award of Judicial Excellence to retired Superior C...

Retired appeals court Justice William A. Masterson has joined JAMS, the nation's largest private, alternative-dispute-resoluti...

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop is celebrating the opening of two new offices, bolstering its presence on the West and ...

Neil O'Hanlon, a partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld, took on a new leading role ...

Viet Dinh is a Vietnamese refugee. Brian W. Jones is African-American. Eugene Volokh is a Russian Jew. These three represent t...

Greenberg Traurig has lured employment attorney Katessa C. Davis to its Los Angeles office, where she joined the firm as of-co...

In other Sheppard Mullin news, the firm will expand its presence in California next month. It will acquire Santa Barbara-based...

San Diego's Nereus Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised $23.6 million in a second round of venture financing. Pacific Venture Group...

When he's not cranking out new real estate deals, attorney Rand April will be helping other Los Angeles business people find w...

Bedford, Mass.' RSA Security Inc. has agreed to buy San Francisco's Securant Technologies Inc. The cash deal is worth $136.5 m...

Anaheim's Odetics Inc. and its subsidiary, Iteris Inc., have received $11 million in financing, primarily from investors Daiml...

SAN FRANCISCO - At the annual convention of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, held last month in Montreal, San Fran...

LOS ANGELES - Two important city opinions confirm the unassailable power of the City Council president to designate committee ...