LEGAL MARKETING EXPERTS ELECT DIRECTORS FOR 2000 The 1,000-member Legal Marketing Association recently elected its year 2000 ...

By Emma Varesio For Janet Lucas, law requires discipline, attention and dedication - just like aikido and karate. "In martial...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has sentenced former Social Security administrative law judge Elizabeth Price to eight months ...

PIRCHER NICOLS WELCOMES TWO BRUINS TO REAL ESTATE The Los Angeles office of Pircher, Nichols & Meeks recently gained two ...

FORUM Our economic prosperity should allow the state to subsidize child-care for the working poor. Page 6. ^^For the People^^...

When she became in-house counsel to a company manufacturing chipsets, software and satellite phones, Rhonda Wagner needed to ...

Irell & Manella EARS PERK UP AT MENTION OF VULCAN'S ACQUISITION Bellevue, Wash.-based Vulcan Ventures Inc. has agreed to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Raymond L. Marsh, a retired Alameda County Superior Court judge best known for his decision to bar prayer at a...

Kirkland & Ellis YIKES, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? WHEW, IT'S JUST AN IPO Independent film producer and The Blair Witch Project d...

STEEFEL LEVITT PROMOTES JOSEPH FLOREN TO PARTNER Steefel, Levitt & Weiss has elevated Joseph E. Floren to partner, increa...

ROSENFELD MEYER SECURES ENTERTAINMENT LAW EXPERT Beverly Hills' Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman hired Konrad L. Trope as a part...

Pillsbury Madison INITIAL STOCK OFFERING TO RECEIVE HEALING SUPPORT Redwood City's Support.com filed for an initial public of...

CARLSEN CLIMBS ON BOARD OF L.A. LIBRARY FOUNDATION The Los Angeles County Public Library Foundation recently elected Weston, ...

THE CLOSER Changes in city charters offer lawyers new opportunities to help with land-use issues. By Gail Gordon and Gordon F...

Stradling Yocca HIGH-PROFILE LITIGATORS LEAVE ORRICK L.A. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has lost two of its senior partn...

Live from the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica, it's Saturday night improv with litigator Ginger Heyman . Spending her spar...

By John M. Curtis Falling on his sword, John McCain's bid for the Republican nomination hit the skids in Virginia by lining up...

McDermott Will IPO OPENS FUNDING ARTERY FOR BIOTECH COMPANY South San Francisco's ViroLogic Inc. filed for an initial public ...

Shearman & Sterling NIKU DECIDES TO 'JUST DO IT' WITH $88 MILLION OFFERING Redwood City's Niku Corp. is releasing an init...

FRANCHISE LAW GROUP ADDS NEW LITIGATION SUPERVISOR Joel D. Siegel recently joined the Los Angeles office of Dallas-based Jenk...

^^Entertainment Law^^ Tease: Writer who contributed to the script and direction of Malcolm X not a co-author. Page 7. Phantom ...

CARROLL BURDICK PUTS NEW FACES INTO THREE BRANCHES San Francisco-based Carroll, Burdick & McDonough added new partners in...

TECHNOLOGY The CIA and Silicon Valley are using tax dollars to fund a nonprofit organization that invests in high-tech compan...

Wilson Sonsini CENTILLIUM COMMUNICATES THROUGH $82M IPO FILING Centillium Communications is issuing an initial public offerin...

SANTA CRUZ -- Former District Attorney Peter Chang pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of a court order Friday in order ...

Loyola Law School's new dean, David Burcham, already has a reputation for being No. 1 at the school. He graduated with the hig...

Just one day after the U.S. Senate voted to amend an 80-year-old maritime law that limits awards of monetary damages to famili...

SACRAMENTO - When voters soundly rejected a plan to expand bad-faith lawsuits against insurers, they may have administered mor...

Who really is Edward Masry, the lawyer depicted in the film "Erin Brockovich," which opens this Friday at a theater near you? ...

DICTA On 'Family Law,' a humane result requires law-defying actions. ...