A discharged attorney may not necessarily be entitled to his or her full contractual contingent-fee amount when the case settl...

It's that time of year again. All around the state, law firms are announcing their new class of partners for 2000. Below are j...

Geoffrey Yarema is not only helping to lay down rail tracks; he also is finding new ways of doing it. As head of Nossaman, Gut...

Hayward's Kosan Biosciences Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $70 million. Kosan Biosciences is a development-stag...

Canadian winemaker Vincor International Inc. has completed a tender offer for R.H. Phillips Inc. The deal is valued at $105 mi...

Burbank and Glendale judges will put themselves on the witness stand Tuesday night to answer questions from the public about w...

A dozen lawyers from another powerhouse boutique in Los Angeles, the venerable Tuttle & Taylor, have signed on to a new fi...

Federal lawsuits seeking compensation for forced labor by POWs during World War II recently were dismissed by a California jud...

The court in Interstate Non-Ferrous has applied the Superfund Recycling Equity Act to past recycling activities. ...

According to new business and technology attorney Kerry Smith, corporate law in the Bay Area was enough incentive for him to h...

"Educationese" is the only language in which "zero tolerance" translates to "head up in lock." The phrase illustrates what so-...

Manatt Phelps & Phillips announced that Craig Moyer of Los Angeles' Demetriou Del Guercio Springer & Moyer joined the ...

Gov. George W. Bush had a memorable line in the final presidential debate: "If this were a spending contest, I would clearly c...

IRVINE - Services were held for David L. Kelly, an Irvine lawyer who served as an environmental legal consultant to waste indu...

State and local bond money has fueled a spate of school construction and refurbishing projects, resulting in busy times for la...

The groans were heard all the way to the Windy City. Christine Lagarde, the Paris-based executive committee chair of Chicago's...

Technology litigator Mark Slater recently found his business booming in the wrong direction. He'd just started working at the ...

A new copyright bill deals with whether sound recordings are "works made for hire." ...

GM Mirage Inc. and Park Place Entertainment Corp. have completed a $650 million financing deal for the construction and operat...

Your script doesn't have to be novel. Just take a formula that's worked before and try it again. It was always a success for A...

Lawyers at Kinsella Boesch Fujikawa & Towle, an entertainment litigation powerhouse in Century City, recently called it qu...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday refused to allow lawyers for accused Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Mateo County prosecutor Allison Dondero was not licensed by the State Bar when she prosecuted a def...

An orderly, suspected of hastening the deaths of 40 to 50 terminal patients at a Glendale hospital between 1989 and 1997 and n...

NEWPORT BEACH - Ramon Rossi Lopez, a partner with Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman, Skikos & Polos in Irvine, has been appoi...

A young woman testifying Friday in the trial of four Los Angeles police officers charged in the first corruption prosecution t...

SANTA ANA - The families of five Orange County passengers who died in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 last year sued in feder...

The Foundation of the State Bar of California celebrated its 10th anniversary Thursday with a gala in the grand ballroom of Ce...

SAN DIEGO - The tiny mountain town of Julian is celebrating the annual Apple Festival and tourists are flocking there for a ta...

An attorney who recently won a reversal of a Los Angeles Superior Court judge's ruling contends that the jurist fabricated a k...