By E. Joshua Rosenkranz When Sen. Orrin Hatch's Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Bill emerged from the Judiciary Commit...

By Amy Strahan Butler Bloomberg News The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is turning to outside recruiters as the agen...

By Tina Spee Entertainment law guru Kenneth Ziffren not only helped secure late-night television host Jay Leno's career, he a...

By Erik Cummins Gera Vaz, a former operations director for Clifford Chance and a former human resources manager for Brobeck, ...

By Toni Vranjes A nonprofit group is set to begin developing a $32 million affordable-housing project for low-income resident...

By Tina Spee On the cover of this month's Black Enterprise, a business and investment resource magazine for African-Americans...

MORENO VALLEY - Joe Chavez, Alexander Garcia and Bill Melton of Marcus & Millichap represented the principals in the sale...

By Robert Fortunato The story has become all too familiar over the past few years: A key leader/rainmaker within a firm leave...

By K. Preston Oade Jr. and Christopher L. Ottele In wake of last year's passage of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and Arthur Ande...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld continued to shrink this year and slid off the Los Angeles Top 20 chart, beat out by newcom...

By Toni Vranjes A team of Los Angeles attorneys represented Freedom Communications Inc. in a deal that will keep control of t...

By Tina Spee In the early morning hours of Oct. 11, two partners from Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger str...

CORPORATE BellSouth and DIRECTV Inc. have signed an agreement to offer BellSouth residential customers DIRECTV digital satell...

Litigator takes advantage of Vantage's closing. Page XX By Erik Cummins Janice Brown, a veteran San Diego trial lawyer, has f...

By Karen Coleman An Oakland Superior Court judge wrapped up a long-running dispute between Viacom and 650,000 Californians, a...

By Erik Cummins Daniel Johnson and Daniel "R.D." Sullivan got plenty of big aviation cases at their three-lawyer Los Angeles ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda A novel suit that argues a radio show qualifies as a business establishment under state anti-discriminatio...

Focus Column Employment Law By Helene J. Wasserman The decision in Liu v. Amway Corp. , 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 22320 (9th U.S. ...

Forum Column By Michael S. Fields Calling the relationship between doctors and attorneys in California adversarial would be a...

Focus Column Environmental Law By William D. Wick A municipal redevelopment agency can sue private parties for injunctive rel...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Thomas Spielbauer marshaled his major weapon against a misdemeanor charg...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge will decide today whether to block enforcement of San Diego County's ordinance that prohibits pro...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court judge Friday sentenced Daniel L. Riter, formerly a senior investigator with the Rivers...

LOS ANGELES - Coming forward to accuse a movie star of sexual harassment is never easy, say lawyers for alleged victims, who ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A breakaway group of partners at intellectual property specialty firm Pennie & Edmonds in New York will j...

SAN FRANCISCO - Candidate Kamala Harris, a deputy city attorney, has accepted hundreds of dollars in contributions from owner...

OAKLAND - Attorney Maureen Kallins mouthed "I'm OK" to friends and family as sheriffs' deputies handcuffed and led her out of...

LOS ANGELES - Does Hollywood play by a different set of rules when it comes to sexual harassment? Governor-elect Arnold Schwa...

LOS ANGELES - They may not be the Kennedys of Hyannisport or the Bushes of Kennebunkport - yet. But the Rubalcavas of Los Ange...

CARLSBAD - Shawn Heacock of Marcus & Millichap represented Kamran Saffer in the $2.8 million sale of Saffer's industrial p...