Superior Court Judge Thomas W. Stoever will receive the Pasadena Bar Association's Judge of the Year award during a dinner Wed...

A recent study indicates that states with capital punishment experience higher murder rates than states that do not. Apparentl...

Irvine's Rus Miliband & Smith has elevated one of its associates to the partnership ranks. Leo Presiado is partner No. 5 f...

With San Francisco-based Schachter Kristoff Orenstein & Berkowitz having closed its doors Sept. 15, the firm's Sacramento ...

This summer, Los Angeles giant O'Melveny & Myers moved from its traditional management committee leadership to a more stat...

The attorneys at Los Angeles' Cox Castle & Nicholson never know when John "Rocky" Miller Jr. will break out into song. Mil...

Two new attorneys now call the San Francisco office of Los Angeles-based Tatro Coffino Zeavin & Bloomgarden home. Diana Be...

Steve Kramer - a former litigation partner with the Costa Mesa office of Pillsbury Madision & Sutro - made a homecoming of...

The National Association of Women Judges will hold its annual conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Blvd., sta...

The State Bar Board of Governors needs to set measurable goals for the disciplinary system before it can make principled decis...

Neonatal intensive care units are often places of high tension, intense emotion and difficult choices. All this and more can b...

Bernie Simons, partner at the Century City office of Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, has been a civil litigator for...

Hydrogen Burner Technology Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $115 million. Rancho Dominguez-based HBT specia...

Integrated circuit design companies Simplex Solutions Inc. and Altius Solutions Inc. have merged. The value of the stock-for-s...

Siemens Medical Engineering Group has agreed to acquire Acuson Corp. The deal is valued at $700 million. Based in Erlangen, Ge...

Champagne, hors d'oeuvres and speeches accompanied the launch of Sidley & Austin's new Public Interest Fellowship Program,...

Mediation Works, a Howard Lloyd creation, may be the state's first law firm-owned mediation panel that includes practicing att...

In another northward spurt, Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges sent 14 of its Palo Alto lawyers up to a n...

Michael Roster, executive vice president and general counsel of Oakland's Golden West Financial Corp., is the new chair of the...

Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, one of the largest law firms to emerge from this country's Rust Belt, is rolling up its sleeves ...

The Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians and Miller & Schroeder Financial Inc. have closed a $70 million deal to finance...

Holland & Knight, a 1,100-lawyer Tampa firm, has recruited more lateral attorneys in California and promises more of the s...

It all started with Mr. Woodchuck. Mr. Woodchuck was, in a sense, the first client of Venice-based new-media incubator Rosen &...

Los Angeles-based Brown Winfield & Canzoneri has added three litigation partners. Nowland Hong, Michael Mullins and Michae...

Maxtor Corp. will acquire Quantum Corp.'s Hard Disk Drive Group in a transaction valued at $2.3 billion. Milpitas-based Maxtor...

FAIRFIELD - Witnesses' claims of fear and forgetfulness are hindering a death row inmate's bid to prove that prosecutorial mis...

Fenwick & West, Farella Braun & Martel and McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enerson certainly know how to sell themselves -...

San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has recruited three new patent attorneys for its Northern California offices. "...

Downtown Los Angeles' Breidenbach Buckley Hutching Halm & Hamblet has lost one of its attorneys to the Westside. James Kam...

The appellate courts have not established practical guidelines to determine punitive-damages liability, thus complicating oppo...