By Toni Vranjes San Francisco's UnionBanCal Corp. has agreed to buy Monterey Bay Bancorp Inc. for $96.5 million in cash and st...

The recent deluge of corporate-reform proposals continues, with one of the latest taking aim at the big payouts received by ex...

California law schools took 10 of the top 100 spots on U.S.News & World Report's annual ranking of the country's best law ...

After looking for a practice better-suited to his own needs, Frank Schwertfeger has left Greenberg Traurig to join Santa Monic...

Making a marriage work between two law firms is hard enough, but it seems these days that just getting to the wedding is provi...

The U.S. savings and loan scandals of the late 1980s and early 1990s are history, having made way for the Enron era of corpora...

Boston Scientific Corp. and RITA Medical Systems Inc. have reached a settlement of all patent disputes between the companies. ...

After the recent birth of his second child, litigation associate Timothy Wendling probably thinks he could've been a doctor ju...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Ralph Baxter is always on the climb - whether he's pushing firm profits up the charts, as...

Increasingly, lawyers are leaving large law firms in order to lower their rates in response to client demand. In February, fou...

Carolyn Hunt has left the Los Angeles office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld for the opportunity to become a partner ...

A recent Alameda County Superior Court decision forces Visa and MasterCard to disclose a 1 percent foreign currency exchange f...

Leaving her partners at Thelen Reid & Priest was like "growing up and leaving home," says Allison Davis. The San Francisco...

A new housing development in San Francisco is one step closer to becoming reality. Attorneys have closed the equity financing ...

In Closing Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - If your law firm is like others, you have probably purchased separate soft...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has invalidated a patent held by an Australian nature photographer for a Panavision-produced ca...

Pillsbury Winthrop's hiring spree continues apace with recent additions to its Silicon Valley and Houston offices. On March 31...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting punitive damages is causing a debate among California lawyers. Defense attorneys claim ...

Thanks to a Supreme Court decision that came down Tuesday, two Korean banks in a separate case could find themselves back in a...

U.S. travel agents hope to right their nose-diving businesses by suing 21 major airlines for cutting off their commissions. ...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The state Supreme Court recently handed down a decision th...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Bad aim never has been a defense to murder. Under the doctrine of transf...

Forum Column - By Michael S. Overing and Edward C. Wilde Sr. - Just days after the war in Iraq began, Americans learned that f...

LOS ANGELES - Local health care advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Cent...

LOS ANGELES - Elisabeth Eberhard Zeigler, one of the first female presiding judges of the Los Angeles Municipal Court, died on...

LOS ANGELES - Information technology manager Josh Furey led a group of children into the server room of the Los Angeles office...

LOS ANGELES - Jesse Dukeminier, UCLA School of Law professor emeritus and property law expert, died in his Los Angeles home Ap...

SAN JOSE - With layoffs looming at the Santa Clara County district attorney's office for the first time in years, the Governme...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge will wait for the State Bar to determine Trevor Law Group's fate before approving settle...

RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles County defense attorney has pleaded guilty to passing a bag of marijuana to her client in a Riversid...