The issue that has been left out of this election is the abysmal failure of our child-labor laws. A society can face no more s...

Cleveland-based Arter & Hadden has added seven lawyers to its San Diego office from Hillyer & Irwin, also in San Diego...

Steve McHolm and Dan Winton, a pair of real estate lawyers who've been law partners for 18 years, won't have to part when thei...

Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly plans to acquire the Palo Alto patent and trademark boutique Hickman Coleman &am...

Jostra AG has completed a purchase of the Bentley Cardio Pulmonary Division of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. The deal is valued a...

James Brosnahan, a partner at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has been honored with the Samuel E. Gates Litigation Aw...

Minor slights and changes in employment conditions are not actionable discrimination. ...

Joel Mark, of-counsel to Oxnard's Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton, has been appointed to the California State Bar Committee...

Frederick Allen and Michael Matkins, name partners at Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, have earned the ti...

The Alliance for Children's Rights, an organization that provides free legal representation and social services referrals to c...

The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission will hold a public hearing Thursday to receive comment on a proposal to require officeh...

Call him shy, call him modest. Either way, Rod Berman refuses to talk about himself. When asked about his most recent deal for...

Richard Mosk, a name partner at Century City's now defunct Sanders Barnet Goldman Simons & Mosk, has become a full-time me...

After 13 years away from California, John Grosvenor returned on Nov. 1 as a corporate partner in the Los Angeles home-office o...

Former Immigration and Naturalization Service official Allen Erenbaum has joined Mayer Brown & Platt as a senior associate...

The fifth annual "Vision in Philanthropy Awards" were hosted by the Freeman Freeman & Smiley Foundation Nov. 2 in Beverly ...

Statutes and regulations have too many words, too many convolutions and redundancies, too many exceptions to exceptions. Democ...

Lance LaBelle is making a comeback - a musical comeback. "For years the lawyer has consumed the musician," says LaBelle, a par...

Semiconductor production equipment maker Novellus Systems Inc. is acquiring GaSonics International Corp., a maker of semicondu...

Two mediators are moving up in the world, literally. Charles G. Bakaly Jr. and former U.S. District Judge John G. Davies are m...

Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro announced a partnership of sorts to the business and legal community at the L...

Van Nuys' Cherokee Inc. is licensing its trademark apparel to Paris-based Carrefour Group. The companies did not disclose the ...

Snap Appliances Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. San Jose's Snap Appliances makes file se...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Administrative Office of the Courts has appointed former Southern California lawyer Susan Hough as its new...

The Legislature passed AB2182 to prevent public agencies from using bid alternates to shift competitively bid public-works con...

None of the demonstrations I attended in the 1960s prepared me for the experience of marching with 1 million Cubans last month...

It's political wonk Tracy Hickman's job to spread the word about the Bar Association of San Francisco, particularly all the pr...

The Atlanta-based labor and employment firm Fisher & Philips has merged its three-lawyer Redwood City office with the four...

Law.com has acquired DocumentForum.com Inc. The companies have not disclosed the financial terms of the deal. Law.com, a priva...

Continuing their trend, attorneys and law firms have given more money to the 2000 presidential and congressional races than an...