While Dallas' Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld makes hay in Southern California, the Texas-only Hughes & Luce is putting...

SANTA ANA - The banker who, as CEO, nursed Orange County through bankruptcy may proceed with his slander lawsuit against the C...

Friedman Heller & Enriquez has moved its Beverly Hills offices down the street. The new address is 433 Camden Road, Suite ...

The San Diego office of San Francisco's Gordon & Rees got another boost with the Jan. 5 acquisition of a local corporate b...

Most class actions are won or lost during the earliest stages of the litigation, when the trial court determines whether to ce...

Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has added a Los Angeles lawyer for added kick in its entertainment group. Step...

San Diego's Hayes Simpson Greene has recruited three new attorneys for its Newport Beach office. Douglas Smith and Thomas Arno...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jayne W. Williams, the longtime Oakland city attorney shown the door by voters last year, has been appointed t...

The story of Walnut Creek's Miller Starr & Regalia is contained in a book. A series of books, actually. The story begins i...

A sudden cloudburst that flooded streets and soaked shoes in downtown San Francisco didn't dampen the spirits of those attendi...

While U.S. firms were slapping the "Silicon" label onto every valley, alley, gully and gulch, Heller Ehrman White & McAuli...

Another pair of U.S. firms announced their intentions to "super-size" things in an East-Midwest merger. Chicago's Sidley &...

The American Bar Association has presented its Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access to Legal Grind Inc., a coffeehouse based ...

Pittsburgh-based Kirpatrick & Lockhart has nabbed Bonnie E. Berry to launch its new entertainment practice group in Los An...

Morrison & Foerster litigation partner Tamu Sudduth , known for her big verdicts and bigger ideals, died Feb. 13 after wor...

San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy has doubled the size of its Sacramento office in the past month, jump...

While some California law firms change their practice specialties based on the day's financial pages, Sheppard Mullin Richter ...

Los Angeles-based litigation boutique Tatro Coffino Zeavin Bloomgarden has promoted Arthur J. Friedman to partner and hired la...

Thomson Multimedia S.A. will buy Technicolor Corp. from Carlton Communications Plc. The cash and stock deal is worth $2.1 bill...

What's going on at Morrison & Foerster? Last month, it was women lamenting over their boyfriends. Guys "doo-whopping" abou...

Two groups of lawyers - one from Cooper White & Cooper, another from Smith Lally & Peffer - have come together to form...

What do Salt Lake City and New York City have in common? If you're a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, that's w...

LOS ANGELES - Gail Standish, a prosecutor with the office of the U.S. attorney, ended her four-year tenure on Friday. She will...

I've experienced the joy of victories. I'm proud to have fought and won. Yet I wonder ... would I have been so courageous if I...

Solectron Corp. will acquire Centennial Technologies Inc. in a stock deal valued at $108 million. Milpitas' Solectron provides...

Public relations firm Manning Selvage & Lee has acquired Pondel/Wilkinson Group, a corporate and investor-relations firm. ...

As the natives would say, "It's a 'burgh thing." San Francisco's Littler Mendelson should pick up the local lingo in no time, ...

In what sounds like a man-bites-dog story these days, Latham & Watkins San Diego partner Dorn Bishop left his big-firm job...

Sybase Inc. has agreed to acquire New Era of Networks Inc. in a $373 million stock-for-stock transaction. Emeryville's Sybase ...

LOS ANGELES - More than four years after a 27-year-old Houston woman plunged to her death from a balcony at the Sheraton Resor...