Focus Column - By Javier H. Van Oordt - Individuals define sexual harassment in many different ways. However, identifying the ...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Many family law judicial officers like to conduct business in chambers. Many attorneys lik...

From Tower Snow's perch in an aerie in San Francisco's Financial District, he has the kind of Bay Bridge view that inspires dr...

SANTA ANA - A recent appellate decision against managers of Sav-On Drugstores, who sought to sue as a class for unpaid overtim...

SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California and the Central Valley - two regions whose pollution historically has been overshadowed by...

SAN FRANCISCO - The handful of oil companies still defending their use of the controversial gas additive MTBE in a landmark ju...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bankruptcy reform legislation nearing congressional approval will make it harder for lawyers to represent clie...

Making the move 120 miles south, white-collar criminal defense lawyer Yvonne Dutton has joined Allen Matkins Leck Gamble &...

If you've got a brand name but you just can't break into television or film, Miami's Greenberg Traurig has the answer. The fir...

A Laguna Beach-based computer products company has lured Doug Kari to be its general counsel and senior vice president of busi...

Cooley Godward has announced a substitution in the not-so-coveted position of business department chairman. Mark Tanoury, 47, ...

The biggest merger in biotech history has closed, with Latham & Watkins representing Amgen Inc. in its $17.7 billion acqui...

San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has nabbed two attorneys: Philip Gregory for its San Jose office and Gerald Kna...

Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory promoted five associates to partner effective July 1. The new partners ar...

The law firm of Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg is moving its downtown Los Angeles offices to 300 South Grand Avenue effective ...

Paul Sanner, the former senior corporate counsel to Bay Area engineering firm URS Corp., joined the San Francisco firm Thelen ...

The Tower Snow-led exodus of partners from San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison to London-based Clifford Chance Rog...

Quickly rising to the upper echelons of management, Jerry L. Marks was named partner-in-charge of Heller Ehrman White & Mc...

Public Counsel, the largest public-interest pro bono law firm in the country, elected James Barnes to its board of directors. ...

San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss is officially open for business in Los Angeles. The 80-attorney firm began operati...

San Jose's 40-lawyer corporate and litigation firm Hopkins & Carley has doubled the size of its estate and tax planning de...

A federal judge has tossed out a case pitting public shareholders against the largest computer-chip maker. The plaintiffs cont...

Mary Neale bid farewell to San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she served as Los Angeles managing partne...

Piper Rudnick is moving on up - not exactly to the East Side - but to the fourth floor of the SunAmerica Center in Century Cit...

The Orange County Transportation Authority appointed Lawrence Esten, managing partner of the Irvine office of Manning & Ma...

An Orange County attorney was among the finalists for Trial Lawyer of Year, which was awarded to three attorneys from the sout...

These days, the attorneys at intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon probably are wishing they'd stuck with their engin...

Forum Column - By Lisa Pinto - The brutal murder of five-year-old Samantha Runnion is a frightening reminder that our children...

Column by Palmer Brown - Madden Mediators often begin mediation sessions with an opening statement that includes an explanatio...

San Francisco neutral Michael G. Ornstil admits having a dual personality. He relishes intense competition, a character trait ...