Under Investigation
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The scene was captured by news helicopters hovering overhead: Agents from the state's attorney general's office, ...
Former White House Deputy Returns to O.C.
By Leslie Gordon
Thomas Umberg , former deputy director of the White House office of national drug control policy, has rejoined San Francisco-...
Six IP Partners Leave Lyon & Lyon
By Tamara Scott
Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Lyon & Lyon have joined Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison ...
Defense Lawyers Must Avoid Being Eaten Alive
By Denise Levin
Former President Gerald R. Ford came to speak to the civil defense bar about the economy Friday, but when the floor was open f...
Officers Settle No Contact Suit For No $
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The final chapter closed quietly Thursday in the famed $1 billion-a-year sports bookmaking scandal that erupt...
Business Engine Motors Into Europe
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
San Francisco-based Business Engine Software Corp. has acquired Business Engine Software International, its European operation...
Abstract-Art Mural Inspires Mosaic of Colorful Lawsuits
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Most people claim to know art when they see it, but a recently filed lawsuit asks an intriguing legal questio...
Insider Trader Gets Probation, Fine
By Pamela Mac Lean
Insider Trader Gets Probation, Fined A 25-year-old former securities analyst got a tongue-lashing from a federal judge Friday ...
Pat Murphys Attorney Wants Out, Says Judge May Have Asked Him to Do Something Illegal
By Anne La Jeunesse
The attorney representing elusive Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is asking to be relieved as the judge's ...
JDS Enters a New Phase With Acquisition of E-Tek
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
San Jose's JDS Uniphase Corp. and E-tek Dynamics Inc. have reached a merger agreement. Under the terms of the deal, JDS will t...
Four Corporate Partners Join Palo Alto Office
By Meredith Alexander
Four corporate partners - Thomas F. Chaffin, Stephen M. Wurtzburg, David H. Jaffer and Barry Lee Katzman - have left the San ...
Former In-house Counsel Joins Bay Area Office
By Meredith Alexander
Laura K. O'Connor , former in-house counsel to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, has joined the San Francisco office...
Not the Same Old Story
By Jeffrey Anderson
Eva Blacksher, an 86-year-old suffering from dementia, had both her feet amputated while under the "care" of two different nur...
Extensity of Public Offering is Expanding
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
Emeryville's Extensity Inc. commenced an initial public offering of 4 million shares of common stock. Though the expected offe...
Compact Wireless Co. Makes Waves With IPO
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
Redwood City's Interwave Communications International Ltd. is offering 8 million shares of its common stock at a value of $13 ...
Ask Jeeves About Its Purchase of Direct Hit
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
Internet service provider AskJeeves Inc. will acquire Direct Hit Technologies Inc. in a tax-free stock-for-stock transaction v...
L90 Issues 6.5M Shares Valued at $156 Million
By Katherine Gaidos And Emma Varesio
L90 Inc., a Santa Monica-based Internet advertising designer, issued an initial public offering of 6.5 million shares of commo...
Heal Thyself
By Columnist
Are heart-rate monitors, body massagers and the like subject to FDA regulation? By Gregg A. Farley and Mark R. Obenstine ...
Senior Class
By Meredith Alexander
Many attorneys are devoting their lives and careers to caring for the elderly - in the legal sense. Elder lawyers often must b...
Delgadillo to Run for City Attorney
By Lauren Bartlett
Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo has expanded the field of candidates for city attorney to three by formally announci...
Progressive Tax
By Leslie Gordon
LARGE FIRMS With smaller billable-hours requirements, comparable salaries, and professional-growth opportunities, accounting f...
Finding Refuge From All Those Lawyers
By Katherine Gaidos
When Chris Dewees left Morrison & Foerster in October to be associate general counsel for San Jose's JDS Uniphase, he foun...
Los Angeles Stronghold Matches Bay Area Bids
By Tamara Scott
Releasing its new pay structure on Wednesday, Latham & Watkins is the first Los Angeles-based firm to snatch up the assoc...
Business Attorney Also Marches to Military Drum
By Tamara Scott
In December, San Diego attorney Randall L. Mason , 51, was sworn in as the brigadier general of the 70th Regional Support Comm...
Yorba Linda
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
YORBA LINDA - It's a city dubbed by many of its residents as "the land of gracious living," and eastern Yorba Linda looks the...
Yorba Linda Homeowners Find Trouble in Paradise
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
YORBA LINDA - It's a city dubbed by many of its residents as "the land of gracious living" - and eastern Yorba Linda looks the...
Family Law: Libido Loyalty Rises Above Family Love
By Columnist
By Erin O'Bryan Parent-child relationships run amok, creating havoc in law and ethics this week. Danni Lipton's dad Al makes a...
Heimlich Maneuver
By Columnist
Standing and mootness are really just window-dressing for the more basic debate: Should citizens have access to the courts to ...
Big Business
By Columnist
OPINION By Michael J. Weinstock Law is serious business. The discussion that follows illuminates the relationships between pri...
Out of the Box
By Columnist
VIEWPOINT By Keith Rohman Few moments in a trial lawyer's life are as disheartening as when a jury returns a big verdict again...