Former Immigration and Naturalization Service official Allen Erenbaum has joined Mayer Brown & Platt as a senior associate...

The fifth annual "Vision in Philanthropy Awards" were hosted by the Freeman Freeman & Smiley Foundation Nov. 2 in Beverly ...

Statutes and regulations have too many words, too many convolutions and redundancies, too many exceptions to exceptions. Democ...

Lance LaBelle is making a comeback - a musical comeback. "For years the lawyer has consumed the musician," says LaBelle, a par...

Semiconductor production equipment maker Novellus Systems Inc. is acquiring GaSonics International Corp., a maker of semicondu...

Two mediators are moving up in the world, literally. Charles G. Bakaly Jr. and former U.S. District Judge John G. Davies are m...

Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro announced a partnership of sorts to the business and legal community at the L...

Van Nuys' Cherokee Inc. is licensing its trademark apparel to Paris-based Carrefour Group. The companies did not disclose the ...

Snap Appliances Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. San Jose's Snap Appliances makes file se...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Administrative Office of the Courts has appointed former Southern California lawyer Susan Hough as its new...

The Legislature passed AB2182 to prevent public agencies from using bid alternates to shift competitively bid public-works con...

None of the demonstrations I attended in the 1960s prepared me for the experience of marching with 1 million Cubans last month...

It's political wonk Tracy Hickman's job to spread the word about the Bar Association of San Francisco, particularly all the pr...

The Atlanta-based labor and employment firm Fisher & Philips has merged its three-lawyer Redwood City office with the four...

Law.com has acquired DocumentForum.com Inc. The companies have not disclosed the financial terms of the deal. Law.com, a priva...

Continuing their trend, attorneys and law firms have given more money to the 2000 presidential and congressional races than an...

Las Vegas-based casino operators Station Casinos Inc. and Ameristar Casinos Inc. will swap some of their gaming complexes. Sta...

San Francisco's Natural Wonders Inc., a specialty retailer of science and nature-themed products, has completed its acquisitio...

In a continuing investigation into an alleged scheme to bilk Los Angeles Superior Court of computer database fees, a former cl...

Carlton Fields of Tampa is making its first step outside of Florida a big one. It dispatched five lawyers to Silicon Valley to...

The male-dominated family of Emily Shappell Edelman's childhood left no doubt in her mind about her role in life: Young women ...

SAN DIEGO - Using swastikas and snakeskins to spread their message of hate, two men from San Diego County's eastern cities tri...

SACRAMENTO - Police investigating a series of sexual assaults here by the so-called "Second Story Rapist" didn't have a name f...

HUNTINGTON BEACH - Wallace Huard had a few beers at a Monday night football get-together last November and was driving home in...

Declaring the 21st Century "el siglo de Mexico" - Mexico's Century - Mexico's President-elect Vicente Fox Queseda vowed his ad...

While the California Supreme Court grapples with the explosive issue of jury nullification, a conservative Court of Appeal jus...

Justice Philip Talmadge sees something very dangerous going on in courtrooms and legislative chambers across the country - a m...

In the heat of the moment, interviewers sometimes ask inappropriate or illegal questions. ...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles will hold its 2000 Access to Justice Dinner tribute to lawyers in public service at th...

When faced with a suit alleging punitive damages, some civil-defense practitioners expend substantial time and resources prepa...