LOS ANGELES - Help Wanted: Natural gas companies and electric utilities embroiled in class actions brought by pesky California...

SANTA ANA - Reversing the sex-crime conviction of a former vice principal who fathered two children with a student, an appeals...

Among actions announced Monday, April 23, 2001 by the justices were:

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, dissenting in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), predicted that there would be "...

Gary N. Stern has joined Gordon Edelstein Krepack Grant Felton & Goldstein, a 13-attorney personal injury and employment t...

Sharon Kinsey has been called many things, some of them nice, some of them not so nice. But whatever friends and detractors sa...

James Lopes, a partner of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, has been inducted as a Fellow to the American Colle...

Los Angeles recruiter Larry Watanabe says Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery aims to build the finest intellectual property ...

Convicted lawyer John J. Reiner was on the phone. It must have been a tough call to make. "I don't want you to feel badly beca...

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro, which is known for its strong hospitality practice, will host its 11th annual hotel confe...

After holding out for four months, Morrison & Foerster announced April 9 that the San Francisco firm doesn't have any 2001...

In what everyone says are two unrelated departures, a pair of patent litigators and a patent prosecutor from the Palo Alto off...

San Diego's Anderson & Kriger, a firm specializing in construction defect and homeowners associations, has recruited Kenne...

The Los Angeles business litigation shop of Fairbank & Vincent has recruited Richard Gluck as of-counsel. Gluck, former ge...

Larry Stein of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan had a burning question last Monday before a hearing in Los Angeles federal...

Townsend and Townsend and Crew has recruited three lateral associates for its San Francisco headquarters: Nancy Tompkins, Slad...

Constellation Brands Inc. will acquire Ravenswood Winery Inc. for $148 million cash. Fairport, New York's Constellation brands...

"The President ... shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the Supre...

On Nov. 29 Jennie Stern suffered a hemorrhagic stroke - a blood vessel burst in her brain - that caused permanent damage. She ...

Autobytel.com Inc. will buy rival Autoweb.com Inc. The stock deal is worth more than $14 million. Irvine's Autobytel is an Int...

Los Angeles' Reish & Luftman has changed its name to Reish Luftman McDaniel & Reisher. Managing partner Fred Reish say...

The economy may be cooling off here in the states, but it's warming up on the other side of the Pacific, at least for law fi...

Volera Inc. has received $83 million in initial financing from investors Novell Inc., Nortel Networks Corp. and Accenture. For...

Sonicport.com Inc. has acquired US Dataworks Inc. in a stock deal, the value of which was not disclosed. Chatsworth's Sonicpor...

Johnson & Johnson will buy Mountain View's Alza Corp. for $10.5 billion in stock. New Brunswick, N.J.'s Johnson & John...

Peter Ferris, a civil litigator who spent most of his career at what was then Oakland's Wulfsberg Reese Ferris & Sykes die...

Sarah O'Dowd, a partner at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in Menlo Park, likes corporate work, especially mergers and acq...

Charlie Walker, who became the fourth partner at Los' Angeles Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker back in 1962, died April 7 o...

Antonia Hernndez, president and general counsel of one of the nation's most powerful Latino civil rights groups, still calls h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The corridor leading to the Alumni Reception Center at Hastings College of the Law is lined with the photograp...