As a child growing up Los Angeles, Cecilia Estolano never lived more than five miles from the ocean. "The beach was my way of ...

Before heading off to the office, Catherine Atkin drops her 2-year-old son, Max, off at day care. She knows she's one of the l...

A sponsorship by Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in San Diego will enable a 4-year-old girl, who is waiting for a kidney tran...

Pasadena's Tunable Photonics has received $7 million in private equity financing. San Francisco's Blueprint Ventures led the f...

When it comes to protecting intellectual property, Skechers U.S.A. in-house lawyer Philip G. Paccione isn't shy. "We have a ne...

The state's largest banking organization, the California Bankers Association, has presented Los Angeles' Deborah Thoren-Peden ...

In Hollywood, 38-year-old Carlos Goodman is the lawyer who represents the top independent talent. A partner at Los Angeles' Li...

"Most of the regular longtime posters have no idea who Tom is, but that doesn't really matter," one longtime Silicon Valley In...

Santa Monica's TheBrain Technologies Corp. has received a $16 million equity investment from a group of investors led by GE Eq...

The California Supreme Court has appointed appellate attorney Barbara Ravitz to a newly formed committee which recommends cand...

While the partners at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen were plotting strategy and tee times at their annual...

To borrow a hoary sports clich, Martin Singer of Lavely & Singer had a bad month on one day, April 26. That morning, New T...

With former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso as the keynote speaker, San Francisco's La Raza Lawyers Association ...

Sometimes, the longest journey is the three inches one takes in the pilgrimage from the darkness of the lower brain to the lig...

At 37, Intel Corp.'s Suzan A. Miller, or "Sam" as her family and friends call her, could pass for a software programmer. Inste...

The Manduley decision was logical and sound. The court recognized that by giving prosecutors the sole discretion to fil...

Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services has elected Irell & Manella partner James Adler to a one-year term as its president...

The 2000 presidential election put the practice of election law on the national map. "Before that, I had to continuously expla...

As corporate transactions in the Internet world are cooling down, new types of litigation still are heating up. Lori Schechter...

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Jewish Committee honored Latham & Watkins international business partner Barry San...

During on-campus interviews at Duke University Law School in 1990, Jonathon Kaplan told law firms that not only did he expect ...

The lack of a college degree certainly hasn't hampered the success of Gary Dordick, 39. The Beverly Hills litigator has won mo...

Santa Clara's Intel Corp. has agreed to buy Newark's LightLogic Inc. The cash deal is worth $400 million. Intel is the world's...

Anyone who thinks that government lawyers don't come with pedigrees should meet John Hueston, head of the U.S. attorney's offi...

As any experienced litigator knows, a motion for summary judgment or summary adjudication is one of the most significant that ...

Once the "citadel of capitalism," San Francisco's art deco Stock Exchange Tower recently played host to The Impact Fund, a Ber...

Dennis Doucette, a corporate partner at San Diego's oldest firm, never has had a problem with numbers. As a child, Doucette me...

SG Asset Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French banking giant Societe Generale Group, is buying 70 percent of Los Ang...

Go the extra mile, Justin Brooks counsels young lawyers. Practicing what he preaches, Brooks goes the extra mile each day figh...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Lyons, one of two managing partners for the Bay Area offices of New York's Shearman & Sterling, is h...