ADR Practitioner Column - By Richard Chernick, This is the second part of the 2001 review of significant developments in ADR p...

LOS ANGELES - In a decision long awaited by employment lawyers, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has ruled in an unpublished o...

SAN FRANCISCO - James Pooley, one of Silicon Valley's preeminent intellectual property litigators, has left the well-establish...

SAN JOSE - Bill Priest fell just short two years ago in his bid to win election to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. This...

SAN FRANCISCO - Real estate law expert Harry Miller, of Miller Starr & Regalia in Walnut Creek, died Friday after a two-ye...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court ruled Monday that, when a defendant who is out on bail pleads guilty, the court must either c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court cracked down hard Monday on a Sacramento civil litigator for failing for more tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has ordered a halt to a state-financed program to reduce fire danger in California fores...

Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - It is said that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. In a recent article ti...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated they will reject the claim by a group of landowners around Lake Ta...

Column by Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh continues to thump the living daylights out of Mickey Mouse in their epic, largely se...

Family Law Practitioner Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Marriage creates a fiduciary relat...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will be held Wednesday for Thomas Berkley, who had a long and varied career as a lawyer, pu...

Dicta Column - By Tim Hallahan - Stories try to make order out of chaos. They shape our lives. They instruct us. They connect ...

Dicta Column - By Anne Bothwell - Dear Anne: I have been given the responsibility of being marketing partner at the firm, whic...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Dolores Y. Leal - Congratulations to Sacramento legislators and Gov. Gray Davis for passin...

Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins has eliminated the $10,000 stipends that it customarily gives to its incoming first-year att...

Stanley Young has replaced Michael Charlson as managing partner of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 's Menlo Park office. Y...

In the largest biotechnology merger in the United States, Amgen Inc. has acquired Immunex Corp. The stock and cash deal, annou...

Imediation acquired arcadiaOne Inc. in a stock and cash deal that closed Nov. 12. The terms of the deal are undisclosed. Paris...

Cynthia Pevehouse joined Ask Jeeves Inc. as its general counsel in January 2000 when the company was still swelling with succe...

Minneapolis-based Metronic Inc. has acquired Endonetics Inc. of San Diego in a deal announced Dec. 19. Medtronic provides prod...

Jeffrey Berman, 55, never intended to be an employment lawyer. In fact, he didn't give much thought to life after the Bar Exa...

Saying it was becoming increasingly difficult to serve his major clients as a sole practitioner, David Roseman has joined Pill...

Boston Scientific Corp. has acquired Smart Therapeutics Inc. the companies announced Dec. 13. The deal terms were not disclose...

One of Orange County's oldest and largest law firms, Cooksey Howard Martin & Toolen , has kept pretty quiet about its reva...

Edward F. Fernandes , a litigator at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison , hopes to open more doors for the African-American commun...

Harriet Welch Firm: Arter & Hadden in Los Angeles Practice Area: Public finance, securities and municipal bonds Age: 47 We...

Music attorney Jay Cooper , formerly of Manatt Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles, now heads the Los Angeles entertainment p...

South San Francisco's Imatron Inc. has merged with Waukaesha, Wis.-based General Electric Medical Systems. The deal, which clo...