WASHINGTON - Golfer Casey Martin will get another shot at the greens following Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering ...

LOS ANGELES - In a move that won bipartisan praise, a key Republican and California's two Democratic senators chose 24 lawyers...

Among actions announced Tuesday by the justices were:

President George W. Bush plans to nominate Matt Fong as undersecretary of the Army, the White House has announced. Fong, who s...

San Leandro-based A.G. Ferrari Foods has landed $12.3 million in venture backing. Opera Investment Co. of Milan, Italy, has co...

Stephen Kaufman, name partner of Los Angeles' Smith Kaufman and head of its political practice group, has become chief consult...

The effects of the dot-com bust can be seen in law firms, where lawyers who last year regularly billed 200 hours per week are ...

Also at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, partner Robert S. Gerber has received the Co-President Award from the Tom Homan...

Emily E. Vasquez of Sacramento's Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard has received the Humanitarian of the Year award from...

Founders National Bank, Los Angeles' only commercial bank owned by African-Americans, has completed its merger with Boston Ban...

Medical-business lawyer Frank LaPallo rejoined the Los Angeles-based Manatt Phelps & Phillips May 14 after a five-year res...

In Los Angeles, 13 Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan lawyers volunteered to represent parents adopting children through the...

Two lawyers from two different firms joined San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin on May 14. The pai...

While many a Riordan & McKinzie lawyer has been spooked into leaving by the firm's merger talks, former Riordan partner Ba...

As suggested in the title of his article, "Habitat Hindrance: Mushrooming Federal Interference Dooms Development in State," (F...

A pair of litigation partners from the Los Angeles home office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips joined the local outpost of New...

MaXXan Systems Inc. has received $26 million in first-round, venture financing. Venrock Associates and U.S. Venture Partners w...

Partners Michael Hughes and Daniel Rottinghaus of construction litigation boutique Berding & Weil have been elected to the...

The Hopper case most likely will cause municipalities with city hall public art exhibits to re-evaluate their selection...

LOS ANGELES - There's a reason why they call it the Landau "Lawyers" League. The team from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips disco...

His latest deal is a "roll up" with national significance, Andrew Erskine says. Erskine's client, Founders National Bank, whic...

Pleasanton's PeopleSoft Inc. has agreed to buy SkillsVillage Inc. of Sunnyvale. The cash and stock deal is worth $32 million. ...

Despite the detailed rules and guidelines many law firms enlist to keep confidential information from leaking, firms continue ...

As a teen-ager, Vicki Shapiro dreamed of being an actor but later found her Hollywood niche by becoming general counsel to the...

Orqis Medical Corp. has received $9 million in second-round financing. The Lake Forest company closed its first round of finan...

Ted Miller, the former Los Angeles managing partner for Chicago's Sidley & Austin, is now in charge of two offices for the...

A growing number of the managers and associate managers who work in retail and fast-food across the state have a beef with the...

Doug Barton isn't apt to divulge per-partner profits of his firm, Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy. He's equally evasi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Suzanne McKechnie Klahr gave a bag of electronic gadgets to the students who came to her after-school business...

Jim Towery, a litigation partner at San Jose's Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, took a team of eight high-schoolers all the way ...