LOS ANGELES - Betty Bullock became hooked on cigarettes as a teen-ager in 1956, when smoking was "cool," her attorney, Michael...

Dicta Column - By Carole Levitt and Mark E. Rosch - Need an inexpensive, fast database that culls through billions of records ...

With more work than partners can handle, Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley office has hired patent litigator Vernon W...

John Branca is a superstar music attorney today, but his law practice wasn't always so glamorous. The man who represents Micha...

Column by Julie Campinini - The biggest mistake counsel make in voir dire is to rely on demographics to drive the strike proce...

The next two weeks at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati should be interesting thanks to last Wednesday's firmwi...

More than 1,600 members of Southern California's consumer bar will descend on Las Vegas this week for four days of continuing ...

Ballots for the runoff election of one open Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner seat are due Aug. 15. The seat was left va...

From doll collectors to advocates for human rights, organizations of nearly every stripe hold some type of annual convention. ...

Professor Jim Gash remembers the first time that he saw William Grignon on Pepperdine University School of Law's campus. It wa...

Gary Stiffelman, the second music lawyer to make Ziffren Brittenham's masthead, is wise in the ways of the music industry. Sti...

Chicago's Lord, Bissell & Brook has nabbed Arnold Peter from Littler Mendelson. Peter, a partner in the entertainment prac...

With the help of Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, two banks with headquarters on opposite sides of the country are ...

It has been 20 years since the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles held its first three-day convention in Las Vegas,...

"Hard," "good" and "smart." That's how most people describe Skip Brittenham, a founding partner who has been a deal-making for...

Soft-spoken celebrity lawyer Sam Fischer has earned a gentlemanly reputation in a business where such kudos are rare. "He's th...

Intellectual property attorney Arlyn Alonzo has joined McDermott, Will & Emery as a partner in the firm's Irvine office. S...

Ken Ziffren has a habit of popping up in some unlikely places. But the results are usually the same. In 1986, he helped media ...

Orlando Jones, star of 7-Up commercials and the film "The Time Machine," recently did a charity guest appearance on a comedy e...

Another bench vacancy will be created in the Los Angeles Superior Court when Judge Reginald Dunn retires at the end of October...

Kimon Manolius, the top administrator in the San Francisco city attorney's office, has left to join Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, ...

Every year at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles' popular Las Vegas Convention, there is one panel that is more...

Biotech company Versicor Inc. of Fremont and Italy's Biosearch Italia are breaking out the vino, celebrating their cross-Atlan...

Although he billed himself as the "People's Lawyer" in late-night television advertisements, Richmond City councilman and atto...

You can expect to see a lot more red Union Bank of California signs popping up all over the state, if things go according to p...

Jamie L. Johnson has joined the Santa Monica office of St. Louis' Bryan Cave as partner in the labor and employment group. Joh...

Psssst. Want to know a secret? Those maps to the stars they sell on Hollywood street corners? They're a rip. They tell you to ...

The Marin County district attorney's office has a new chief investigator. He is Rob Guidi, who spent 16 years as a police offi...

Dark wood paneling, hunter green carpet and art of the firm's founders made way years ago for a modern, sleek design at most C...

Domestic guru Martha Stewart seems equally at home baking gingerbread cookies in the kitchen or ringing the opening bell at th...