Focus Column - By Andrew B. Serwin ...

LOS ANGELES - Asking an exotic dancer at a strip club to show "more skin" is not entrapment, a state appellate court has ruled...

SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors will seek death for the man accused of killing Samantha Runnion, District Attorney Tony ...

Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - As most attorneys know, pro bono work such as donating your expertise to a nonprofit group o...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Trying to read a jury is a lot like trying to read a crystal ball: You think you see so...

For the second time in two years, an Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe litigation partner is headed for the bench. On July 25...

When law firm partners describe successful mergers, they talk about things like synergy, cultural fits and cross-selling. So i...

Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld continues to build out its project and infrastructure development department...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop has parted ways with its Tysons Corner, Va., corporate practice. Two partners and two assoc...

Former independent counsel and U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr addressed the Federal Bar Association's Orange County chap...

Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has finally moved into the Water Garden office complex in Santa Monica. ...

Alternative fuel company IMPCO Technologies Inc. of Cerritos has spun off its subsidiary Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Wor...

With the government in his corner, this should have been a straightforward case that Los Angeles lawyer Richard Marmaro couldn...

Seven months after McDermott, Will & Emery opened a Munich office, the firm has added an intellectual property practice to...

After September's terrorist attacks united Americans in newfound patriotism, the nation's capital seems the perfect setting to...

Bruce Schildkraut joined the Office of the U.S. Trustee in Los Angeles as a senior attorney July 29. Schildkraut had been an a...

Creating an avalanche of work for Silicon Valley lawyers, Norton anti-virus maker Symantec Corp. of Cupertino has inked four d...

Walking into the Hollywood Star Lanes on a Friday night, you might expect to see some serious bowlers practicing for league pl...

Minda Schecter has joined the Los Angeles office of Washington, D.C.'s Hogan & Hartson as counsel to the antitrust, compet...

If you've ever pondered trading your billable-hours requirements for a job in legal marketing, there's something you should kn...

Instead of a marriage proposal, Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon got a Dear John letter from San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend...

Add Hogan & Hartson to the list of law firms that are making the move into China. The Washington, D.C.-based law firm wil...

Kenneth Hovet has joined Oxnard's Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton as of-counsel. Formerly a sole practitioner based in Ve...

Jim Wu spent much of the past four years in Asia directing legal affairs and developing investment opportunities for the onlin...

Pillsbury Winthrop's San Diego-area staff and clients got a chance to exercise the right side of their brains July 17 with a p...

Not to be outdone in China, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood received government approval to retain its offices in Shanghai and ...

Miami-based home builder Lennar Corp. is making further forays into the California market. Lennar has acquired Pacific Century...

Column by Brian McDonald - Last week, in Part 1, mediator Brian McDonald discussed benefits of putting out the first number, s...

No lawyer is an island, and behind every law firm partner are associates who work to keep that partner's practice afloat. ...

Five lawyers from Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps helped seven entities that owned and operated 130 Burger King franchis...