Monaco Coach Corp. has agreed to buy SMC Corp. The cash- and assumption-of-debt deal between the Oregon motor-coach manufactur...

On July 1, Washington, D.C.-based Shaw Pittman increased the number of attorneys in its Century City outpost by two-thirds by ...

Larry Braun is settling back into his old corporate-chair spot at Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton after a t...

David Laufer, an intellectual-property and product-distribution law specialist, hopped off the teetering Los Angeles office of...

The California Bankruptcy Forum has named David Gould, a corporate partner in the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & E...

The California chapter of the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation has appointed George Means, a real estate partner at Sidle...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley has presented nearly $17,000 in environmental scholarships to 18 students from fi...

Gov. Gray Davis has nominated George Caplan, co-managing partner of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hayes & Handler's Los Angeles off...

The dynamics of Hollywood collective bargaining does not fit easily into the patterns that we learned in labor-law courses i...

Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two more feathers to the cap of its California intellectual-property practice. ...

Former shipping executive David Morrison will juggle the books for a large law firm, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...

Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. Inc. have closed a $249 million financing for the 495-megawatt Tuxpan I...

A legal education is a time-proven hedge against economic downturns - at least that is the thinking among today's law school a...

The Rehnquist Court has cut back on individual rights by carving out exceptions to Warren Court decisions. ...

The California State Bar has awarded C. Hartzog Clamon, an insurance defense associate at Hayes Simpson Greene in San Diego, i...

The Irvine Ranch and Orange County water districts have announced a 40-year deal with the U.S. Department of the Navy to clean...

SANTA ANA - Saying they don't know what happened to dozens of their frozen embryos, a Florida couple has sued the Regents of t...

SACRAMENTO - A commission studying ballot initiative reforms plans to recommend voters be given several options to change the ...

The Yale Club of San Diego has given the distinguished alumnus award to Pamela J. Naughton, a local partner at Sheppard Mullin...

The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers will install new fellow Judith Droz Keyes, 55, at its annual meeting in Chicago on...

Dialysis-center operator DaVita Inc. has closed the sale of $225 million in 9 1/4 percent senior subordinated notes. Torrance-...

Chipmaker Intel Corp. has bought software-management company Cognet Corp. The companies have not disclosed the value of the ca...

Bob Gunderson has been vilified by law-firm managers and deified by associates. But the voluble co-founder of the 125-lawyer, ...

The Century City business boutique Silver & Freedman welcomed partner Mark Sieke into its tax group on May 1. Silver &...

Malissa Hathaway McKeith's latest deal is like the Hollywood blockbuster, "Erin Brockovich." Just like Brockovich, the Loeb &a...

Meanwhile, as Squire Sanders & Dempsey was losing two lawyers in Los Angeles, the firm was adding two more in San Francisc...

The court's holding should greatly simplify and, as a result, lessen the expense of documenting security interests in patents....

Remember Silicon Valley? The land of Viva Bob Gunderson!, lavish retreats in Pebble Bay and the $135,000 base salary? Things r...

Univision Communications Inc. has acquired or has agreed to acquire interests in 17 television stations across the country fro...

Anna Graves, formerly of-counsel in the Los Angeles home office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, has moved her practice...