LOS ANGELES - Services will take place March 10 for retired business attorney and businessman Joseph Robert Vaughan. Vaughan, ...

Robert Townsend wasn't home for the holidays. Every time an American holiday rolled around in recent years, the 44-year-old pa...

Los Angeles-based real estate firm Pircher Nichols & Meek has hired a new law school graduate. Scott Hettema joins the fir...

San Diego's Higgs Fletcher & Mack has added a partner and an associate to its intellectual property group. Charles Reidelb...

Boston Scientific Corp. will acquire Interventional Technologies Inc. in a cash transaction valued at $345 million. Boston Sci...

When Ivonne Prieto joined the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet in 1999, she told the Berkeley-based organization t...

San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is the latest firm to announce that it isn't raising its associate base rate...

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...