WASHINGTON - Ask Edward E. McNally to explain what he does for a living and you're likely to be stonewalled. That's because Mc...

Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - The California Rule of Professional Conduct 3-310(E) states, "A member shall not, without t...

Forum Column - By Sean Carter - Since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Black America has needed a leader to re...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday sentenced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez to two years in prison after he ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired judge from the Gold Rush town of Jamestown, who occasionally sits on the San Francisco bench by assi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last summer's bitter dispute over water from the Klamath River in far Northern California pitted noble farmers...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stockton civil litigator Elizabeth Humphreys was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis on Monday to the San Joaquin Cou...

Dicta Column - By Blane R. Prescott - The first quarter of each calendar year tends to be a healing time for many California l...

WASHINGTON - Before he started hanging out with terrorism czar Tom Ridge, Edward E. McNally was busy with hanging chads. Befor...

20 Under 40 - Michael Tuchin - Michael Tuchin is no ordinary bankruptcy lawyer, his friends say. "Michael is a genius," says S...

Not On Cannery Row purchased the Hotel Pacific in Monterey from Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, a subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle ...

20 Under 40 - Matthew McNicholas - Ever since Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Matt McNicholas was a teen-ager, the law office...

20 Under 40 - Karl Austen - A Hollywood talent lawyer - especially a good one - is more than an attorney. He or she is a guida...

Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins tapped corporate partner Vicki Marmorstein to chair the global finance and real estate depar...

20 Under 40 - Angella Padillia - Angela Padilla, a litigation partner at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, seems to hav...

20 Under 40 - Mona Patel-Sikora - Mona Patel-Sikora's job is in equal parts a legal and emotional challenge. As head of the im...

JetBlue Airways Corp. closed its initial public offering April 17. The offering brought in more than $158 million for the Kew ...

20 Under 40 - Dennis Herrera - After his election in December, Dennis Herrera wasted no time in his new role as San Francisco ...

20 Under 40 - Niall McCarthy - Niall McCarthy admits that it was unusual to make partner at one of California's best-known pla...

M-O San Francisco purchased 4 acres from Crosjean-Callaghan Investment Co. for an undisclosed amount. The deal closed Feb. 27....

Jack London Square Partners has acquired four commercial buildings from the Port of Oakland. The buildings were sold for more ...

20 Under 40 - Ariella Hyman - When the U.S. Congress passed the Welfare Reform Act in 1996, some public interest advocates com...

Sonics Inc. closed its third round of funding bringing in $26 million. The deal closed April 15. Century City's Smart Technolo...

Top Tinseltown business litigator Marshall B. Grossman received the 23rd annual Learned Hand Award for his human rights effort...

20 Under 40 - Mark Theodore - Despite generating $2 million a year in revenues for his firm and racking up a laundry list of s...

20 Under 40 - Scott Kalt - Scott Kalt, 38, always knew he'd be a dirt lawyer. Kalt, who graduated from college early, worked f...

San Francisco's Thelen Reid & Priest is on a serious recruiting spree, at least in Washington, D.C. Last week, the 400-law...

Dozens of children were introduced to the legal profession on April 25 when attorneys and staff members from Morrison & Fo...

After seven years in the Los Angeles office of Arter & Hadden, partner Craig G. Kline jumped ship for Carroll Burdick &...

20 Under 40 - John Ramirez - Years ago, John Ramirez's mentors told him to stick to one practice area and give it his all, and...