Appellate court justices, staff and clerks tire quickly of lawyers who bombard them with questions easily answered by looking ...

The agreement should provide for minimum performance targets or goals by dollar amount, unit sales or market penetration. ...

Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey litigator C. Dennis Loomis has left the firm for the Los Angeles office of Chicago's ...

The grand lady of Los Angeles retail commerce turned into a center of legal learning has earned its owner, Southwestern Univer...

Americans have an inviolable right to pursue happiness by peaceable means, which includes gambling. ...

Just like on the TV show 'Survivor,' alliances with other lawyers are critical to one's success at The Firm. ...

Morrison & Foerster, one of California's largest law firms and a major player internationally, announced Monday that it ha...

SACRAMENTO - Darrell Steinberg, the new chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, was a second-year law student at the Uni...

Both candidates for Superior Court judge in the Alhambra Judicial District have violated the Los Angeles County Bar Associatio...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - After two years of heated litigation, San Bernardino County prosecutors announced a resolution Monday of th...

Garo Mardirossian is Los Angeles' Trial Lawyer of the Year 2000. The board of governors of the 2,500-member Consumer Attorneys...

SAN FRANCISCO - Class counsel may find it harder to win fat fees thanks to a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that sa...

Sports attorney Marvin Demoff said his job as a deputy public defender representing indigent criminal defendants prepared him ...

Reporter's Notebook Criminal Law - Robert Selna Linda Klee, District Attorney Terence Hallinan's new criminal division chief, ...

Sunnyvale's Synplicity Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $34 million. Synplicity supplies design automation soluti...

A discharged attorney may not necessarily be entitled to his or her full contractual contingent-fee amount when the case settl...

It's that time of year again. All around the state, law firms are announcing their new class of partners for 2000. Below are j...

Geoffrey Yarema is not only helping to lay down rail tracks; he also is finding new ways of doing it. As head of Nossaman, Gut...

Hayward's Kosan Biosciences Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $70 million. Kosan Biosciences is a development-stag...

Canadian winemaker Vincor International Inc. has completed a tender offer for R.H. Phillips Inc. The deal is valued at $105 mi...

Burbank and Glendale judges will put themselves on the witness stand Tuesday night to answer questions from the public about w...

A dozen lawyers from another powerhouse boutique in Los Angeles, the venerable Tuttle & Taylor, have signed on to a new fi...

Federal lawsuits seeking compensation for forced labor by POWs during World War II recently were dismissed by a California jud...

The court in Interstate Non-Ferrous has applied the Superfund Recycling Equity Act to past recycling activities. ...

According to new business and technology attorney Kerry Smith, corporate law in the Bay Area was enough incentive for him to h...

"Educationese" is the only language in which "zero tolerance" translates to "head up in lock." The phrase illustrates what so-...

Manatt Phelps & Phillips announced that Craig Moyer of Los Angeles' Demetriou Del Guercio Springer & Moyer joined the ...

Gov. George W. Bush had a memorable line in the final presidential debate: "If this were a spending contest, I would clearly c...

IRVINE - Services were held for David L. Kelly, an Irvine lawyer who served as an environmental legal consultant to waste indu...

State and local bond money has fueled a spate of school construction and refurbishing projects, resulting in busy times for la...