Sometimes, the longest journey is the three inches one takes in the pilgrimage from the darkness of the lower brain to the lig...

At 37, Intel Corp.'s Suzan A. Miller, or "Sam" as her family and friends call her, could pass for a software programmer. Inste...

The Manduley decision was logical and sound. The court recognized that by giving prosecutors the sole discretion to fil...

Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services has elected Irell & Manella partner James Adler to a one-year term as its president...

The 2000 presidential election put the practice of election law on the national map. "Before that, I had to continuously expla...

As corporate transactions in the Internet world are cooling down, new types of litigation still are heating up. Lori Schechter...

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Jewish Committee honored Latham & Watkins international business partner Barry San...

During on-campus interviews at Duke University Law School in 1990, Jonathon Kaplan told law firms that not only did he expect ...

The lack of a college degree certainly hasn't hampered the success of Gary Dordick, 39. The Beverly Hills litigator has won mo...

Santa Clara's Intel Corp. has agreed to buy Newark's LightLogic Inc. The cash deal is worth $400 million. Intel is the world's...

Anyone who thinks that government lawyers don't come with pedigrees should meet John Hueston, head of the U.S. attorney's offi...

As any experienced litigator knows, a motion for summary judgment or summary adjudication is one of the most significant that ...

Once the "citadel of capitalism," San Francisco's art deco Stock Exchange Tower recently played host to The Impact Fund, a Ber...

Dennis Doucette, a corporate partner at San Diego's oldest firm, never has had a problem with numbers. As a child, Doucette me...

SG Asset Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French banking giant Societe Generale Group, is buying 70 percent of Los Ang...

Go the extra mile, Justin Brooks counsels young lawyers. Practicing what he preaches, Brooks goes the extra mile each day figh...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Lyons, one of two managing partners for the Bay Area offices of New York's Shearman & Sterling, is h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court's unusual, unsolicited move last week to expand its review of Proposition 21, the...

Diana Scott is putting together another employment practice group, not quite six years after establishing that practice area i...

The 50-lawyer Santa Monica firm Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstrief got five new litigators and a new San Francisco o...

Stuart Liner and his bearded collie, Fred, are the top dogs at Santa Monica's Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine Weinhart & Regens...

San Francisco's Personify Inc. has raised $20 million in new funding. ABS Ventures was the lead investor. Alloy Ventures, U.S....

Accused of spying for China, Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee was getting death threats at the tail end of 1999. More i...

SAN FRANCISCO - A month after losing six lawyers from its environmental group, the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzi...

On the heels of the NFL draft comes a different line-up of young and talented players. And while the selections for California...

LOS ANGELES - In an attempt to help voters find out who is behind the big-money hit mailers, automated phone calls and other c...

SAN FRANCISCO - As he prepares to take over this week as president of the International Trademark Association - an influential...

SAN FRANCISCO - With six months to go before the election, the field of candidates for city attorney has taken on another new ...

SACRAMENTO - Five plaintiffs' firms stand to lose $88.5 million in attorneys' fees unless they can successfully appeal a judge...

LOS ANGELES - A San Diego trial judge and an appellate justice who clashed over the landmark 1995 case that ultimately allowed...