LOS ANGELES - Just who calls the shots in defending the Catholic Church in the clergy sex scandal? Is it private defense attor...

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose has announced two planned acquisitions, one that would enhance its position in...

In May, Gregory Moser will complete his first year as managing partner of Foley & Lardner's downtown San Diego and Carmel ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Diana M. Wheatley knew from the time she was a little girl what she wanted to b...

Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, a midsize San Francisco business and litigation firm, has acquired three lawyers from Goodin, Mac...

Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich has tapped Frank Zerunyan, partner at Los Angeles' Sulmeyer, Kupetz, Baum...

The Association of Legal Administrators annual conference, held today through April 10 in San Diego, has everything you need t...

A hefty little practice management reference book, "Lawyers' Professional Development: The Legal Employer's Comprehensive Guid...

The maker of a popular dietary supplement containing the herbal stimulant ephedra has touted its product, Xenadrine RFA-1, as ...

Morrison & Foerster has elected David C. Doyle to co-chair its 300-attorney intellectual property practice along with Glad...

In Closing Column - By Sharon Berman - While marketing has become a watchword of many prominent law firms, the term "sales" do...

Chaotic circumstances can lead law firms to act out of character. Take Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, the law firm equ...

Vickie Perry, dressed in her red McDonald's uniform, was walking to a bus stop in Fresno on her way to work when a horned Mexi...

Civil Procedure Column - By Gordon R. Levinson - Summary judgments are a touchy subject among civil litigants in California. S...

With its dark-blue glass and gold lettering, a bottle of Skyy Vodka has a distinct look. A San Francisco photographer claims t...

Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has hired a former venture capital lawyer and chief legal officer for two life sc...

Tom Thomas has left Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's Palo Alto office to co-chair Pillsbury Winthrop's nanotechnology practi...

Legal administrators in Los Angeles have earned some bragging rights in the Association of Legal Administrators. Their newly f...

Ronald Jacobi, former general counsel of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has joined Bryan Cave's Santa Monica office as of-counse...

San Francisco's Deborah Bailey-Wells says Bay Area lawyers are on the move these days as in no other time in recent memory. Ma...

San Jose technology company Cadence Design Systems Inc. has subleased 45,000 square feet of office space in Oregon to managed ...

Consumer electronics company Sonicblue Inc., which has been entangled in a legal dispute with the entertainment industry over ...

New health care privacy rules taking effect April 14 will give patients new rights but could mean more costs, another layer of...

Venture capitalists have invested $52 million in Matrix Semiconductor Inc. during a fifth round of financing. New investor Tel...

ANAHEIM - Private investors Barry Mycorn and Robert Brown purchased a 24-unit, two-building apartment complex at 1215-1221 N....

Employment Column By Deanna Wilkinson It is 7 p.m. You cannot remember the last time you sat back and relaxed. You have spent ...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Picture this. The trial is over. One of the parties was so eager to be involved that it ...

Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - No provision in the Constitution says that a citizen must never be offended. With the priv...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Scott P. Ward - The "offer to compromise" under Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 has become ...

LOS ANGELES - Retired workers' compensation Judge Ernest Patrick Kiernan has died at the age of 82. Known in the courtroom as ...