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...

20 Under 40 - Richard Hasen - It seems like everybody wants a piece of Loyola Law School professor Richard Hasen. The election...

Ribapharm Inc., a spinoff of ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., went public April 12. Its initial public offering brought in $260 milli...

20 Under 40 - Bart Williams - From the beginning of his legal career, Bart Williams always wanted to be the guy who did the ta...

A new era in crisis communications - the most challenging but invigorating in memory - is demanding more from both attorneys a...

20 Under 40 - Pamela Burke - Howard Clowes describes Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich colleague Pamela Burke as someone who "h...

Allonn Levy, representing a client pro bono, will be helping to define the boundaries of Internet law and going up against par...

20 Under 40 - Charles Verhoeven - Three years ago, when litigation boutique Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges wanted ...

20 Under 40 - Ken Baronsky - Ken Baronsky doesn't consider himself young. At age 39, however, Baronsky has already spent three...

20 Under 40 - Monica Harris - Busloads of people work to keep the long-running television drama "Law & Order" and its spin...

LOS ANGELES - Public agency attorney Greg Moser has taken over management of Foley & Lardner's San Diego offices. Firmwide...

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. attorney Theresa J. Canepa has been appointed to the Contra Costa County Superior Court by Gov....

Bankruptcy - Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Article XX of the California Constitution mandates that the Legislature prote...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has sounded the death knell for medical marijuana clubs in Northern California by siding with ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed a case filed against the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Lo...

WASHINGTON - When the savings and loan scandal broke in the late 1980s, causing billions in losses to American taxpayers, ther...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco high-tech firm has suffered a rare default judgment in a high-stakes patent case after its att...

LOS ANGELES - When Arthur Andersen, a Big Five accounting firm with revenue topping $9 billion in 2001, laid off 7,000 of its ...

LOS ANGELES - For seven days, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Chirlin has heard testimony in a case about an agreement...

SAN FRANCISCO - What six-and-a-half-year old Nicholas knows about his family is this: He loves his mommy and he loves his dadd...

LOS ANGELES - Ludwig Gerber, a writer, movie producer, Congressional candidate and lawyer, whose clients included singer Peggy...

SAN FRANCISCO - A fight over allowing Mexican trucks to haul freight throughout the United States is now apparently in the lap...

Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Article XX of the California Constitution mandates that the Legislature protect "a certain...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney went too far in a sweeping search of law firms and other organizations ...

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20 Under 40 - Kevin Rosen - When the Los Angeles Unified School District sued O'Melveny & Myers in 1999 for allegedly prov...