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 ...

SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila's defense attorney in an earlier molestation case spoke out Thursday about his former client, sayi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeffrey White, a litigation partner at Orrick Harrington & Sutcliffe, cleared another hurdle to an appoint...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside-based criminal defense attorney who has represented a host of defendants accused of drug-related crime...

LOS ANGELES - Pearle Vision, one of the country's largest retail sellers of eyeglasses, is challenging the constitutionality o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime prosecutor Susan Breall will return to San Francisco's Hall of Justice as a judge under new judicial ...

Column by David D. Perez - For those attorneys and clients who agree to participate in the arbitration process to settle a dis...

Forum Column - By Timothy Lynch - A fascinating trial is under way in Sacramento, and the constitutional issues at stake are m...

Forum Column - By Kevin B. Zeese - In every election year during the 1980s, the U.S. government enacted new anti-drug laws. In...

LOS ANGELES - The presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, James A. Bascue, said Thursday that he will address conce...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County's judges have backed away from a system that reserves plum assignments for senior judges, react...

SACRAMENTO - Prosecutors may appeal sentencing decisions by judges that reduce "wobbler" offenses from felonies to misdemeanor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers suing the state Judicial Council over its tough new arbitration rules sent process servers around the ...

Forum Column - By Pablo Agrio - With California's red ink grown to $17.5 billion, legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill recently ...