LOS ANGELES - Somewhere, Dionne Warwick and her friends must be smiling. A Santa Monica hearing examiner has plumbed the metap...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would effectively overrule two recent family law decisions by the California Supreme Court and place ...

LOS ANGELES - Thursday night's Landau Lawyers League "C" division final between O'Melveny & Myers and Quinn Emanuel figure...

LOS ANGELES - Although the Los Angeles public defender has complained to a state judicial watchdog agency about a Superior Cou...

Homestore.com Inc. has agreed to buy Iplace Inc. from MemberWorks Inc. The cash-and-stock deal is worth $150 million. Westlake...

Media conglomerate Walt Disney Co. is buying children's cable network Fox Family Worldwide Inc. from News Corp. Ltd. and telev...

Foley & Lardner has opened a second office in the San Diego area to better serve the needs of its clients, particularly th...

Traditionally concerned with real estate matters, Safeway's 22-attorney in-house law department has become increasingly involv...

San Bruno payroll-service company InLeague Inc. has secured $10 million in Series B funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures and the...

When Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act in 1973, members of Congress proudly proclaimed to voters how the act was goi...

Given the current economic climate in the Silicon Valley, Sullivan & Cromwell partner Matthew Hurd is pleasantly surprised...

Ah, Northern California. The land of the Golden Gate Bridge, vast redwood forests ... and soon, a new office for Best Best &am...

SANTA ANA - The Stork Club has lost its first member. While her six pregnant colleagues from the Orange County public defender...

LOS ANGELES - An African-American family has sued Denny's, claiming racial discrimination by staff at a Torrance outlet of the...

Royal Philips Electronics N.V. has completed its acquisition of the Healthcare Solutions Group from Palo Alto's Agilent Techno...

A small shareholder defeats a corporation's chairman and CEO for his seat on the board, a despite contentious campaign includi...

"Look, we're all reasonable men here; we don't have to give assurances as if we were lawyers." This is a line from the film, "...

Manatt Phelps & Phillips is growing in Southern California. The firm has reached an agreement to take over four additional...

Flash back to last September. After a very jittery run, the stock market seemed to stabilize. Sure the "Internet bubble" had b...

Audible Magic Corp. has secured $3 million in Series C financing from Florida Silicon Partners of Naples, Fla. Audible Magic o...

Ten years ago this month the communist government of Russia fell. Russia's new leadership promised freedom and a dynamic econo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland City Attorney's office has announced the addition of two new lawyers to its litigation team. Arlen...

Amidst the black suits and gray dresses, the woman of the hour - attorney Karen S. Nobumoto - was easy to spot. She is preside...

Intellectual property attorney Ed Lynch arrived at Coudert Brothers on Aug. 15, and he says that the transition has been smoot...

Let's make multijurisdictional practice the rule, not the exception, and craft a disciplinary system that protects clients by ...

Use of a small hand-held device has helped Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker receive an award for innovation. And developmen...

The phone rings in Hillary Bibicoff 's Century City office and suddenly she's talking to a client traveling on a Russian resea...

With the advent of new techniques in DNA testing, a countrywide movement has been afoot to determine if defendants have been w...

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The defendants who are most likely to obtain attorney fees are those who can become aggressive investigators and prosecutors a...