LOS ANGELES - Richard M. Brown, the former president and chief executive officer of the Anaheim Angels baseball team, has join...
SAN JOSE - The defendants in the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case have lost their third attempt to disqualify the Santa...
SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented twist in death penalty challenges, San Francisco's top prosecutor hopes to defeat a reques...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has taken "corrective action" against a Los Angeles judge who had a three...
SAN FRANCISOCO - John Lynn Smith, a former political editor and writer for the Oakland Tribune and Sacramento Bee, is the new ...
LOS ANGELES - Kenneth White has joined Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's white-collar practice group as a s...
By eliminating certain aspects of need, the court continues to chip away at considerations upon which an award of spousal supp...
SAN FRANCISCO - The meaning of "shall" is more than a linguistic quibble to convict Robert Tindall, who's currently serving 25...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney has told the Los Angeles Board of Education to stop any action it has taken si...
The California Law Revision Commission should be commended for beginning its study of the law governing residential common int...
LOS ANGELES - Joseph E. Hall, retired Los Angeles workers' compensation and personal injury attorney whose state Supreme Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judith Mayer O'Brien, the first female partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, announced ...
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles immigration service agent was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for turning o...
WASHINGTON - Stepping into the "tobacco wars" for the second straight term, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whethe...
LOS ANGELES - As early as next week, attorneys for former Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith could begin collectin...
LOS ANGELES - Sole practitioner Rayfield Lundy, one of the first African-American attorneys to open an office in South-Central...
LOS ANGELES - Ending nine years of litigation with dissident California lawyers, the State Bar Monday abandoned its appeal of ...
LOS ANGELES - As part of a racial discrimination lawsuit against a Carson-based aerospace firm, two African-American men conte...
SAN FRANCISCO - A city fee on Los Angeles landlords that pays for housing inspections does not violate a constitutional restri...
Whether your partners are sitting in a boardroom or on a river raft, you can ensure a successful firm retreat if you first def...
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Cooley Godward: DRUG DISCOVERY COMPANY LOCATES KEY ACQUISITION
By Staff Writers
Aurora Biosciences Corp. will merge with PanVera Corp. in a $86 million deal. San Diego's Aurora Biosciences designs, develops...
Firm Watch
Carroll Burdick: AS BRADSTREET STEPS DOWN, ESHELMAN MOVES INTO MANAGING PARTNER ROLE
By Staff Writer
Litigation partner Rod Eshelman slid into the top spot at San Francisco's Carroll Burdick & McDonough on Jan. 1. He was ap...
Judges and Judiciary
Governor Fills Bench Vacancy in Riverside
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Riverside County Supervising Deputy District Attorney Helios "Joe" Hernandez as a Ri...
Firm Watch
Christie Parker: PRETTY & SCHROEDER GROUP EXPECTED TO JOIN BY FEB. 1
By Staff Writers
Pasadena patentmakers Christie Parker & Hale are adding on 15 lawyers from Los Angeles' Pretty & Schroeder. The move b...
In San Francisco, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George and U.S. District Chief Judge Marilyn Hall Patel are am...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman: SECOND MENLO PARK OFFICE OPENED TO FIT MORE LAWYERS
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe spent the Christmas holiday weekend wrapping up the move of its Menlo Park...
Firm Watch
Thelen Reid: SAN JOSE OFFICE GRABS NINE FROM IP BOUTIQUE BREAKUPS
By Staff Writer
The San Jose office of San Francisco's Thelen Reid & Priest picked up a quick nine intellectual property lawyers in the wa...
California Law Business assembled a dozen legal experts, representing the state's various geographic and practice specialties,...
LOS ANGELES - After being termed out of the California State Assembly, former Republican minority leader Scott Baugh has agree...
Laguna Beach's Levin & Hawes has recruited Randall Reed as of-counsel. He was of-counsel to Plattsburgh, N.Y.'s, Stafford ...