Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - Welcome to the age of corporate enlightenment, where new levels of stockholder and journ...

Forum Column - By Lawrence J. Fox - While lawyers have watched their 401(k) accounts sink to levels that will keep all of us w...

Focus Column - By Robert W. Wood - If you receive payment from a client, will you receive an Internal Revenue Service 1099 for...

Column by Garry Abrams -The winds of change are blowing a lot of dope smoke lately. From California to Nevada to Washington, D...

O'Melveny & Myers is only 159 attorneys shy of reaching the 1,000-attorney mark, thanks to its recent acquisition of 88-la...

Partner Adam Sachs and associate Mary King of San Francisco' Folger Levin & Kahn represented two nonprofit organizations t...

Patrick Cathcart, whose practice often focuses on insurance coverage litigation or professional liability, has proved he can s...

Column by Jill Fannin - A significant portion of most mediations is spent "in caucus," with the mediator talking privately wit...

Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy has named Allan Jergesen, Patrick Glenn and Lawrence Cirelli the leaders of its 12...

Richard A. Derevan, a partner at Irvine's Snell & Wilmer, recently became a member of the exclusive American Academy of Ap...

Christian L. Castle joined Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as senior counsel in its Los Angeles music practice July 15. ...

There were no fireworks on July 5 when actor Jennifer Aniston, 33, settled her lawsuit against the publishers of two magazines...

With 50 attorneys from San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, London's Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells open...

Column by Bill McDonald - It is time for you to file your mediation brief. Assume there have been no negotiations on financial...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge William D. Mudd saw the first signs of trouble with the media at the beginning of April. That...

Guillermina Byrne, a Los Angeles Superior Court referee, once again is facing a runoff for a court commissioner seat, this tim...

Project development and finance lawyer Charles E. Schwenck has plugged into Kaye Scholer's Los Angeles office, where he repres...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline A. Connor, who presided over the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart corruptio...

On the heels of a victory on behalf of a death row inmate, Douglas R. Young, a partner at San Francisco's Farella Braun & ...

Column by Robert Steinberg - Did you ever wonder what running a company has in common with being a lawyer? After 11 years as a...

The month of July brought two new faces to Pillsbury Winthrop's Southern California offices. On July 15, land use attorney Chr...

Los Angeles' Irell & Manella assisted Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. in its June 24 initial public offering that brought in ne...

On the first Friday in June, Richard Odom boarded a plane in Los Angeles bound for San Francisco. Odom, chairman of San Franci...

The former general counsel to a San Diego clothing company jumped to Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch as of-counsel. M...

Walnut Creek-based Archer Norris is going for statewide appeal with its latest Southern California moves. The litigation and b...

LOS ANGELES - One of three African-Americans in a racial profiling trial against the Los Angeles Police Department testified F...

LOS ANGELES - One-time civil rights attorney A. Thomas Hunt, who resigned from the State Bar in 1993 with charges pending, has...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County judge charged by the Commission on Judicial Performance four years ago with the improper us...

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger talks between San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew and Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon are dead....

SAN JOSE - A former Santa Clara County sheriff's lieutenant who avoided state prison time for molesting two teenage girls in h...