There are lines in the moral and political world that law ignores at its peril. Cases illustrating that point, everywhere toda...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County and Superior Court officials will discuss how to prevent further suicides today after a fatal...

The Los Angeles litigators at Murchison & Cumming brought William DelHagen into the partnership last Monday. DelHagen, a L...

Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard is adding seven lawyers, all from that city's Knapp Marsh Jones & Doran...

When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers issued seven new general top-level domain names in November, it t...

Summer associates are well-schooled in the obvious "don'ts" for their first season at a law firm: Put that whiskey flask away ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a break from corporate litigation, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison attorneys Tim Meltzer and Michael Ad...

Irvine's Interpore International Inc. has agreed to acquire Leesburg, Va.'s American OsteoMedix Corp. The cash-and-stock deal ...

Hypnotic Inc. and Nibblebox Inc., two startups that use the Internet to produce and distribute independent films, have merged....

John Wilson took over for Peter Lyons as the head of Shearman & Sterling 's San Francisco and Menlo Park offices Sunday. L...

Menlo Park's interWAVE Communications International Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Wireless Inc., a purchase it announc...

The way the legal system works in the United States is so different from everything that can possibly happen in legal life in ...

RIVERSIDE - A Welsh singer and his attorney have settled their lawsuit alleging the Welsh Choir of Southern California was ins...

Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich named securities litigator David Priebe special counsel June 20. He will work in ...

LOS ANGELES - The 15 attorneys at Century City's Klein & Martin merged with the local office of Shaw Pittman Sunday, bring...

Cheryl Orr, a former of-counsel to the San Francisco office of LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, became managing partner for t...

Business-process networks developer Viacore Inc. of Irvine has closed $43 million in equity funding from corporate and venture...

Pillsbury Winthrop has tied up one last loose end from its California-New York merger in January. It consolidated two of its o...

By the time you read this, the contract negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television an...

Internet-service provider YellowBrix Inc. has acquired the assets of bankrupt rival iSyndicate Inc. Terms of the cash-and-stoc...

Robert Haymer describes his latest deal as one with a lot of "moving parts." The O'Melveny & Myers partner represented Nib...

Seven months after its November initial public offering, biotechnology company Adolor Corp. has received a $60 million private...

San Diego's Peregrine Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Remedy Corp. of Mountain View in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.1...

The 75-lawyer Los Angeles firm Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan is adding a pair of co-chairs to its entertainment litigat...

The reviews are coming in on the decision by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to investigate phony movie review...

The Scene was about to depart for the 25th annual Douglas Dinner at the Beverly Hilton, when the phone rang. "I heard there's ...

LOS ANGELES - Larry Braun, former head of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton's corporate department, will return to the fir...

Los Angeles antitrust lawyer Harvey Saferstein planted a flag for the Boston firm Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo ...

LOS ANGELES - A man who claimed two police officers kidnapped him from Skid Row in 1997, beat him up and then dumped him near ...