Fortunately, the holidays come around but once a year. I say "fortunately" because that means associates at The Firm have but ...

Dear Anne: Marketing is always on the back burner, but with the holidays coming up I can catch up on some reading and look for...

To be valid, the order must contain the statutory findings. If the findings are absent, then at least a non-stipulated order i...

INDIO - A 10-year-old boy who is the subject of an unusual custody dispute will remain for at least another three months with ...

A new judge will preside over the prosecution of accused Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson because the presen...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gary L. Dickson, former partner at Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins. Dickson, 51,...

SAN DIEGO - Golf course records show that the district attorney's former head prosecutor of economic fraud spent hours on the ...

The 25-year battle over whether to expand an existing jail in suburban Orange County may be over. An appellate court decision ...

LOS ANGELES - Finance and real estate lawyer Bruce Shepherd has taken over the reins of Latham & Watkins' San Diego office...

LOS ANGELES - Simply put, the Judicial Council's annual Beyond the Bench conference in Los Angeles County last week was too su...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not cheap to lock up a criminal and throw away the key. But it's a bargain compared to the cost of admini...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison announced Monday that it will add a German office to its European arm, Brobeck...

Presidential candidate George W. Bush is not the only prominent Texan who hopes a federal appeal can make his most heartfelt w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers on both sides of a big pollution liability case say they were thrilled to pull San Francisco Superior ...

LOS ANGELES - Judicial assignments at Los Angeles Superior Court are different this year - very different. There are two entir...

Among actions announced Monday, December 11, 2000 by the justices were:

Rockwell Collins has agreed to acquire K Systems Inc. for $300 million. Rockwell Collins, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a subsidia...

Dan Clivner, sole partner at the Los Angeles office of New York's Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, is not merely a highly succe...

Western Multiplex Corp. has agreed to purchase Adaptive Broadband Corp. The deal is valued at $645 million. Sunnyvale's Wester...

SAN FRANCISCO - The constitutional right to privacy outweighs the litigation privilege, the 1st District Court of Appeal has ...

Medtronic Inc. is acquiring PercuSurge Inc. for $225 million. Minneapolis-based Medtronic develops products, therapies and ser...

LOS ANGELES - The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles will honor seven recently appointed Los Angeles Superior Court judg...

LOS ANGELES - Three protesters who unfurled a large banner across a downtown Los Angeles hotel wall before the Democratic Nati...

PBOC Holdings Inc. is buying BYL Bancorp for $39 million. Los Angeles' PBOC Holdings is the parent company of People's Bank of...

Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. has gone public in a $50 million offering. The Sunnyvale company designs, manufactures and ...

Providing justice to victims of elder abuse requires taking the fight beyond individual cases and increasing awareness, foster...

The heir who did not receive or share in the proceeds of the bank account may have a cause of action - against the attorney, n...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue has sponsored a clothing drive to benefit an organizati...

E-learning company Medschool.com has secured $26 million in second-round funding. Founded in 1999, the Santa Monica company de...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and New York's Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts formally sealed their decis...