A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael R. Wilner is gregarious, not aloof, and asks a lot of questions. ...

Murray Greenberg, new president of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, is studying ways to put elderly or ill lawyers on...

Every year an increasing number of inadequately staffed medical spas have employed unsupervised non-physician practitioners in...

A New York graffiti artist boycotts the fashion industry with a can of spray paint; Marc Jacobs characteristically struck back...

Author Frank Partnoy thinks that the “billable hour” impedes smart decision making. By Mark Labaton of Motley Rice LLC ...

In the past, the Court of Appeal seemed loathe to label an appeal frivolous. By Jens B. Koepke of Morris Polich & Purdy LL...

One important provision of the healthcare legislation that did not receive much attention could have a profound impact on Sout...

As an attorney who has mediated cases for the past five years, Stephen G. Schrey thinks practicing lawyers have an edge over r...

On Aug. 23, the Southern California chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted its second invitation-only Rising S...

Two lawyers representing death row clients skirted financial sanctions from the state Supreme Court on Thursday, but the justi...

This past June, the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Family Law Section competed in its first Bocce Ball Tournament to ben...

Some California prosecutors and law enforcement officials are speaking out against a bill that would allow increased media acc...

Lawyers with Cohen & Richardson in El Segundo find their practices naturally complement one another and help them work sea...

A court-appointed receiver has been assigned to help wind down operations at The Cochran Firm Los Angeles as the entity's form...

In July, the San Diego office of DLA Piper took part in the 24th annual Stand Down event for homeless veterans. DLA Piper’s pa...

The studio that produced the 1980 boxing film "Raging Bull" can continue to pocket profits on distributions of the award-winni...

This summer, a team of seven DLA Piper attorneys traveled to Guyana to help modernize the country’s justice sector. The projec...

This month, the legal communtity came together to encourage attendees at the Los Angeles Paralegal Association’s (LAPA) Pro Bo...

The bankruptcy lawyer representing the Dewey & LeBouef LLP estate wants the court to green light a $71 million partnership...

Federal prosecutors have abruptly dropped their case against a Spain-based website they had accused of criminal copyright infr...

This year, the Food from the Bar campaign in San Francisco raised a record-breaking $565,969 for the San Francisco and Marin F...

In the two biggest intellectual property trials of the year, Morrison & Foerster LLP attorneys used very similar strategie...

Marilyn Monroe's estate cannot gain financially by suddenly claiming that California was her legal domicile after decades of i...

Last week's $50 million damages award for Hollywood financier David Bergstein's malpractice claims serves as a reminder that w...

General Counsel and Director of Information Governance Globanet Sherman Oaks ...

The Supreme Court has repeatedly declared that trial courts are required to enjoin picket line violence and intimidation. By W...

In Art of Living, the court did not excuse the fact that the blog was only visited a few hundred times. By Dan Berman a...

Most business leaders and many lawyers give only passing thought to the boilerplate provisions in their companies' consumer co...