Although Capitol Hill has been a scene of frenzied activity, one particular House bill is the one to watch. This bill, too cle...

Meanwhile, some entertainment attorneys in New York City see the terrorist attacks as a potential economic sledgehammer. Steve...

Some good news: Power attorney Barry Hirsch of Armstrong Hirsch Jackoway Tyerman & Wertheimer officiated at actress Jennif...

San Jose's Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has completed its acquisition of Boise, Idaho-based In-System Design Inc. in a transact...

Joan Vento-Hall is now a one-woman show. In August, the attorney, who represents Hollywood talent, left the entertainment powe...

San Francisco-based Littler Mendelson , the nation's largest employment boutique, has expanded its immigration group, a practi...

A London newspaper recently described former Ambassador Richard Sklar as the "Mr. Wolf" of diplomacy. ...

Mikohn Gaming Corp. of Las Vegas garnered $105 million by completing a rule 144A private placement. Jefferies & Company In...

Racial profiling figures prominently in California's campaign against gangs, as many people of color can attest. In encounters...

The chilling of Bill Maher was painful to watch. On Sept. 25, the host of "Politically Incorrect" faced a Regent Beverly Wilsh...

Price Enterprises Inc. and Excel Legacy Corp., both of San Diego, formally closed a merger to form Price Legacy Corp., which w...

Mark Moskowitz sat in a New Jersey hotel room in 1978. With him was his client - owner of the Las Vegas Golden Nugget Casino, ...

Mountain View's Intuit Inc. has acquired Sebastopol-based OMWare Inc. in a transaction valued at $42 million in stock. The dea...

Two weeks ago in this space, Bert Fields of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella said that political corr...

Irvine-based Lantronix Inc. has agreed to acquire Synergetic Micro Systems of Downers Grove, Ill. Neither company would disclo...

Capping off a month of impressive growth, Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton added a third new office in Septe...

I asked a female partner in a large law firm a question that has been troubling me as an associate who plans someday to be a w...

Allen Grodsky remembers the moment when he realized, once and for all, that he was an entertainment attorney. The 42-year-old ...

The withering economy isn't keeping Pillsbury Winthrop from doubling the size of its Silicon Valley office. The San Francisco-...

The Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown & Platt has gutted the finance and bankruptcy practice of downtown rival Kelley Drye...

Despite the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's moratorium on lawsuits in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Ca...

Phillip H. Stoermer has left the venerable real estate firm Miller Starr & Regalia of Walnut Creek and has taken all his c...

San Francisco's Catellus Development Corp. announced the signing of a 12-year lease with the Kellogg Co. of Battle Creek, Mich...

SACRAMENTO - California will become the first state in the nation to require the disclosure of mold in buildings and develop a...

LOS ANGELES - Immediately after a federal judge signed off on a settlement Friday between the California Public Utilities Comm...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland attorney Phillip Scott Campbell was awarded the 2001 Jack Berman Award during a ceremony last month. T...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Jim Hahn on Friday tapped longtime ally and economic adviser George Kieffer of Manatt, Phelps & Philli...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has filed with an appellate court his own defense...

WASHINGTON - Legal experts say an FBI "watch list" created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is a legitimate investigative ...

LOS ANGELES - For the better part of the past five decades, a Judge Charvat has presided over one courtroom or another at the ...