The jury sheets confirm that law firms are certainly not immune from the considerable risks posed by the expansion of employee...

David Perry doesn't lift a finger in the summer, but you won't hear his partners at Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly complaini...

Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has added two lateral associates. Land use attorneys R.J. Comer and ...

Hispanic communications giant Entravision Communications Corp. has bought Z-Spanish Media Corp. The $448 million deal includes...

While most law firms were on the beach sunning themselves, San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps was scoping out a p...

Common to today's franchise agreements is a clause establishing what is usually referred to as a right of first refusal. The t...

Washington, D.C.'s Howrey Simon Arnold & White brings corporate litigation partner Dick Burdge aboard its Los Angeles offi...

Newport Beach's Travcoa has been sold to Grand Expeditions Inc. The terms of the stock deal were not disclosed. Travcoa organi...

Excite@Home will acquire pogo.com in a deal valued between $125 million and $150 million, depending on earn-out payments. Redw...

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was one of several county officials recently recognized for their commitment t...

Amidst rumors that Troop Steuber's days as one of Los Angeles' most successful firms are dwindling, the firm has added a new c...

Jacobson, White, Diamond & Bordy of Beverly Hills has added two more names to its letterhead. Gina Tatsios Savioloa and Pa...

Eight-day weeks are nothing out of the ordinary for Mark Holscher, who has accomplished what seemed impossible several months ...

Digital Island Inc. has acquired SoftAware Inc. of Los Angeles. The stock deal is valued at $280 million. San Francisco's Digi...

Access to resources and experts can be as important as the right to counsel itself. Only by making resources available to the ...

Irvine's Exult Inc. has won a seven-year contract to provide Web-based human resource services for Unisys Corp. The deal is wo...

Working People's Law Center founder Art Goldberg is putting his 30 years of community-based legal experience on the line and w...

Barry E. Taylor is shedding his Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati practice to head up a Menlo Park office for New York's Wa...

Jan Handzlik, partner at the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis, will chair the American Bar Association's n...

British telecoms testing company Spirent Plc is buying Sunnyvale's Zarak Systems Corp. in a stock deal worth $404 million. Spi...

SAN FRANCISCO - An experiment in appellate mediation at the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco has settled nearly h...

Teradyne Inc. has agreed to buy Herco Technology and Synthane Taylor for a nine-figure sum. The deal took less than two months...

In the latest development in a seemingly never-ending and bitter legal saga, a tentative agreement to settle the North Hollywo...

A speech Friday by Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. to criminal prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office raised more than a few eyebrow...

The Los Angeles City Council opened the way Friday to ensure two newly created police-related positions do not carry civil-ser...

It's the best of times, it's the worst of times. Law firms are raking in record profits. Associates are raking in record salar...

Emily Shappel Edelman will become president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association at the group's annual installation and awards...

As another legislative session draws to a close in Sacramento, California's judicial branch has much to celebrate. An 8.5 perc...

WASHINGTON - Larketta Randolph just wants her day in court. The Alabama resident contends that, when she bought her $39,000 mo...

SACRAMENTO - The high-profile parole case of Richard Rosenkrantz has landed on the desk of Gov. Gray Davis, with a finding fro...