Oakland-based DoubleTwist Inc. has filed an initial public offering worth just over $86 million. The company's Web site, Doubl...

Sunnyvale's AeroGen Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $57 million. The company makes pulmonary drug-delivery...

Summing up a string of high-profile deals, Cooley Godward senior associate Carl Sanchez offers modestly, "I've been on a roll,...

Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has recruited two litigation associates for its 40-attorney Irvine office. Laura Baskurt and ...

Big Brother might not be watching your every move yet, but he apparently has designs on your pets. A proposal the Los Angeles ...

Optical Communication Products Inc. has filed an initial public offering worth $115 million. The Chatsworth-based company make...

With associate turnover reaching some of its highest levels in recent years, law firms are constantly looking to hire associat...

Municipal law attorney Richard Terzian has left the Los Angeles office of New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, where h...

He coulda been a contender. Palo Alto senior corporate finance associate Jim Bucher had it all planned out. Last year at this ...

Nutrisystem.com Inc. has acquired Nestle USA Inc.'s Sweet Success diet meal replacement product line. The stock deal is valued...

Walnut Creek's Morgan Miller & Blair has recruited three new associates: Eric McLaughlin, Jean Hurricane and Kevin Brodehl...

The former intellectual property director of Los Angeles' Times Mirror Co. has joined Katten Muchin Zavis, also in Los Angeles...

Today's law firm technology offers wonderful opportunities for clients, but it also brings with it hidden challenges, which ca...

The court held that a council member can appeal if authorized by the local code as long as due process is not violated. ...

By Christopher J. Kuczynski. In an article titled "ADA Creates Barriers to Jobs for the Handicapped" by Julie Hofius (Forum, A...

Business attorney Adam Streltzer has left Encino's Cantor & Weinshenk. He opened a solo practice in Brentwood on Sept. 1. ...

Ken Philpot finally gave in to his destiny as a Jackson Tufts Cole & Black alum. After a short stint at Preuss Shanagher Z...

Kathleen Smalley heads the legal department of Catellus, a company that actively salvages and cleans up environmentally plague...

The Foundation of the State Bar of California will host its 10th anniversary gala at the St. Regis Hotel in Century City on Oc...

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. will acquire MMC Networks Inc. The deal is valued at $4.5 billion. Applied Micro Circuits makes h...

The termination of representation involves adherence to a number of intricate ethical rules in order to avoid a malpractice cl...

Patrick R. Jewick has joined the San Francisco office of Townsend and Townsend and Crew as an associate. Jewick, who has an un...

The acquisition of an environmental and development firm on the other side of the country will be a boon to the Los Angeles of...

San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster was named one of the top 100 employers for working moms for the October issue of Worki...

By Ira L. Shafiroff. Should society allow a convicted killer to become an attorney? In a morally questionable opinion, the Cal...

Practicing Law Institute, a provider of continuing legal education, is opening a "major California center" in downtown San Fra...

Los Angeles' Liebert Cassidy has merged with Whitmore Johnson & Bolanos of Mountain View. Effective Oct. 1, the name of th...

DaimlerChrysler de Mxico and Hyundai Motor Co. have reached an agreement that will allow DaimlerChrysler to import a new Hyund...

Rogers Joseph O'Donnell & Quinn, a business litigation boutique in San Francisco, has gained five new attorneys. Paul M. Z...

Two local professors Friday attacked Proposition 21, which they called the "demonization of youth" initiative, pointing to tre...