SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors have broader power to use criminal sanctions to collect long-overdue child support under a ruling ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the end, it wasn't Eben Gossage's 1975 killing of his sister that killed his chances of becoming a lawyer. ...

Mannis & Phillips, a Century City family law boutique known for representing high-profile clients from Hollywood stars to ...

Century City's Kelly Lytton Mintz & Vann has started an insolvency practice group with the help of two bankruptcy veterans...

A new banking law applies to businesses not traditionally considered financial-services companies. ...

Hand v. Farmers Insurance Exchange does not permit a judgment creditor to sue for the excess part of a judgment or to prevent ...

Talarian Corp. has gone public in an offering valued at $67.2 million. Originally a provider of command-and-control software t...

In a push for expansion, Los Angeles-based Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott has recruited four new partners in the last t...

In a deal illustrating the increased need for wireless network access, Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. has bought El Segundo's Inn...

CoSine Communications Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $140 million. By Melissa Onstad and Victoria Newman. ...

High-profile trial attorney Charles E. Patterson has left Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in Los Angeles. He joins Morrison &am...

Amanda Susskind, who took time off from practicing law to run for the State Assembly in the 42nd District last year and lost t...

Orange County sole practitioner Jerry O'Brien finds his other profession - cooking - "major stress relief." When not working a...

Dallas' Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Field has added two premiere appellate specialists in its 65-lawyer Los Angeles offic...

A veteran police officer who was assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Division pleaded guilty Friday to a fede...

Emotions can run high during the negotiation of a multimillion-dollar merger. In a recent $698 million stock deal, corporate a...

'Kraus' and 'Cortez' clarify some unfair competition law issues and sharpen others for future appellate courts. By John H. Sul...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the four elephants living just south of Sacramento at the home of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, l...

Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has welcomed lawyer-errant Norbert Seifert back after his 2 1/2-year term as corpo...

San Jose-based networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. has acquired privately held Komodo Technology Inc. in a stock-for-stock tra...

Minneapolis-based Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi has recruited four attorneys for its California offices. Cynthia LeBow joi...

An attorney who wants new lawyers in large firms to feel the same excitement, challenge and pleasure he gets from his work sha...

The disparate practice areas of new partners at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips illustrate a theme chief executive a...

DNA tests now have led to the exoneration of several dozen wrongly convicted people around the country - often years after a j...

Two power producers, Indeck Capital Inc. and Black Hills Energy Capital, have merged in a transaction of an undisclosed value....

ReplayTV Inc. has gone public with an initial public offering valued at $119 million. The Menlo Park company develops personal...

Los Angeles-based Weston Benshoof is known for pursuing Internet start-ups, but they also are setting their sights on the boom...

By Jeffrey A. Lowe. "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal clas...