On February 29, Gov. Gray Davis stated that his judicial appointments should follow his political lead on such issues as the d...

will have to do a pullquote or put a box at the end. By William G. Paul Recent comments by California Gov. Gray Davis undermin...

State Farm Insurance Group failed to pay the court costs arising from automobile accident litigation that is covered by its au...

SAN DIEGO - An Oceanside biology teacher who claims she was a victim of harassment because she is a lesbian should be able to ...

Over the weekend, Los Angeles became a town run by outsiders. The sale of the Los Angeles Times to a Chicago outfit and the di...

Family Law: Trial courts must explain the reasoning behind step-downs in spousal support. ...

Latham & Watkins POWERBAR NOW POWERED BY GLENDALE'S NESTLE USA Glendale-based Nestle USA Inc. entered a definitive agreem...

McCutchen Doyle LAWYER RETURNS FROM EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES Beth Parker , a former partner at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & En...

Cooley Godward QUALCOMM SNAPS ON TRACK WITH $1 BILLION PURCHASE San Diego's Qualcomm Inc. recently acquired San Jose's Snap T...

Arter & Hadden MANAGING PARTNER NAMED FOR L.A. OFFICE Public finance attorney Harriet M. Welch has been named managing pa...

BIRD MARELLA SPREADS ITS WINGS WITH FIVE ADDITIONS Bird, Marella, Boxer & Wolpert has expanded its litigation practice wi...

MID-SIZE FIRM JUMPS INTO ASSOCIATE SALARY GAME Another Bay Area firm is raising associate salaries, one of the few mid-size f...

Baker & McKenzie PARTNER BOLSTERS IP PRACTICE AREA Mark A. Dalla Valle has joined Baker & McKenzie as a lateral partn...

Foley & Lardner FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY JOINS WHITE COLLAR PRACTICE Thomas F. Carlucci has joined Foley & Lardner in San...

Getting Rail Hundreds of private firms and public entities have united in a one-of-a-kind partnership to develop the Alameda ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the State Bar's Board of Legal Specialization decided to create a labor and employment law specialty cert...

Perkins Coie MARKETING DIRECTOR LEAVES FOR PERKINS COIE Marketing professional Stephen Barrett has left Los Angeles' Paul Has...

ROBERT CROCKET GOES TO SCHNADER HARRISON IN S.F. Robert Crockett has joined the San Francisco office of Philadelphia-based Sc...

Gray Cary STOCK TAKES DAILY SHARE OF PROTEIN IN 5.5% NOTES Fremont's Protein Design Labs Inc. offered $150 million in the pri...

Business litigator David Stern, former name partner of Santa Monica's Stern, Neubauer, Greenwald & Pauly, has joined Centu...

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...