LOS ANGELES - An 80-year-old San Bruno card room named after a mild-mannered gourmet vegetable wants to become The Little Shop...

Burnham Brown, a litigation firm in Oakland, has hired three litigators from San Jose's Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. Par...

Labor and employment lawyer Angel Gomez has moved to a firm that's as well-known as he is for that practice area, New York's E...

I stopped by the Sunset Room, Hollywood's hottest nightclub since it opened in Fall 1999. I had a good talk with co-owner Brad...

Ken Lamb, a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, is going off to head mergers and acquisitions g...

Tom Cruise! Nicole Kidman! Going, going gone! Oh, Lawdy! Reeling from the announcement that the showbiz twosome of the decade ...

Ethan Feffer wants to take his clients' success to the next level. That's why the new partner with Brobeck Phleger & Harri...

Four lawyers from Los Angeles' Pretty & Schroeder decided to forgo the boutique lifestyle after theirs merged with the Pas...

UMember.com has acquired the Success Companies for $75 million. Los Angeles' uMember.com is an online discount shopping servic...

CarsDirect.com is buying online rival Greenlight.com. The terms of the stock deal will not be disclosed. Culver City's CarsDir...

San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass has added three attorneys to its ranks: a former assistant public defender, an...

Curiale Dellaverson Hirschfield Kelly & Kraemer, a 30-lawyer San Francisco employment and labor law boutique, opened a thr...

SAN JOSE - Lawyers for a San Jose attorney who is accusing the California Highway Patrol of racial profiling have tried to per...

He wasn't complaining for the past 15 years, but partner Robert Fischer says that the Los Angeles office of Houston's Fulbrigh...

The folks who help run the career of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger read last month's column on the legal and financial situation...

In 1989, when the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles lacked the manpower to handle its heavy case load, the U.S. ...

Every year, thousands of hopefuls across America leave their small towns in search of fame and fortune in Hollywood. Most do n...

After a dozen years in public service, Michael Yaki found himself forced back into the law-firm game by San Francisco voters. ...

Responding to the Jan. 29 news item on the dissolution of family law boutique Zolla & Meyer, partner Lisa Helfend Meyer an...

Alameda biotech firm Xenogen Corp. has applied for an initial public offering estimated at $296 million. The company develops,...

LOS ANGELES - Beneficiaries of 1940s pin-up girl artist Alberto Vargas have settled their financial differences over the late ...

La Mesa construction defect firm Anderson & Krieger has hired litigation associate Ralph W. Peters. Peters, 46, works out ...

The large and growing gap between general population and law school graduates is a matter of great concern to almost everyone ...

Fred M. Whitaker has returned to Newport Beach's Cummins & White after a seven-year absence. He first joined the firm afte...

Acacia Research Corp. has obtained $19 million in private equity financing. Pasadena's Acacia Research develops and operates l...

SAN DIEGO - The city of Del Mar cannot tax the state organization that holds recreational activities at the Del Mar Fairground...

After four years and more than a 100 percent increase in number of lawyers and profits per partner, Cooley Godward managing pa...

San Jose's Skjerven Morrill MacPherson picked up two partners from its neighbor, Berliner Cohen, also in San Jose. The pair, R...

Pircher Nichols & Meeks, a real estate boutique in Los Angeles, has hired a new law school graduate. Heather Marble Smith,...

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats children. The way children are mistreated by the ...