The Playboy Bunnies are revealing a side of themselves no one has seen before: the crime-fighting side. The Playmates soon wil...

San Francisco media company MarketWatch.com Inc. will acquire Pinnacor Inc. in a deal valued at $103 million in cash and stock...

Column - Trial Strategy - By David B. Baum - Awe and trepidation - these are the emotions typical of the trial lawyer approach...

In 2001, Lara Callas traveled to Albania to devote her legal skills to helping the Orthodox Church in Albania. Forty-five year...

Los Angeles trial consultant Richard Gabriel has a lofty goal for his one-term as president of the American Society of Trial C...

Digital River Inc., which provides e-commerce services for businesses, has raised $45 million in a stock offering. The Minneap...

After splitting from the firm he merged with two years ago, Eric Klein has found a new home in the Century City office of Katt...

More California firms have joined the ranks of newly public companies. Two of the latest initial public offerings came in late...

Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliot has added two land-use partners for its Irvine office this summer. John C. Con...

Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis is open for business in San Francisco despite defections that have shrunk the office to ...

Roger Billings' 12-year legal battle against software company Novell Inc. finally may be running out of steam. The inventor su...

A former accounting manager at an Orange County law firm alleges that office management tolerated sexual harassment, then reta...

Column - Legal Technology - By John J. Selbak and Colin C. Elrod - As communication technology develops, more clients expect t...

When you run your own successful litigation boutique, you can expect job offers from large law firms - just ask the name partn...

CAMARILLO - Royce Medical Co. leased 17,784 square feet of R&D space at 4550 Calle Alto from the Snemelof Family Trust fo...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has seen its employee-benefits and executive-compensation practice explode in the last three...

Film and television actor Marty Ingels considers himself a "very verbose" and "opinionated" guy. So when a radio talk show hos...

Securities lawyers and white-collar defense attorneys take note: the Securities and Exchange Commission is busier than ever. ...

Whether their in-house departments have three lawyers - like San Jose's Sanmina-Sci - or 300 (think Hewlett-Packard), Califor...

Biotechnology company Genzyme Corp. is buying Fremont-based SangStat Medical Corp., which sells a lucrative drug for kidney-tr...

Rosemarie Oda, the former general counsel of California's Department of Financial Institutions, has joined Pillsbury Winthrop....

Freeman, Freeman & Smiley hired two Arter & Hadden partners following that firm's closure July 15. July 16, Jill MacGr...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Devin Gensch - In April 2002, a hacker gained access to the Teale Data Center's payr...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By David J. Reis and Dipanwita Deb Amar - It came as no surprise that a unanimous Supreme Cour...

Forum Column - By Rick Hasen - Noting ambiguities and internal contradictions in the state's recall laws, state Supreme Court ...

Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - In his landmark 1942 book, "Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race," anthropologist ...

LOS ANGELES - An armed-robbery suspect who was paralyzed permanently from the waist down cannot sue a sheriff's deputy for all...

SANTA ANA - After months of trying to avoid additional reductions in service, Orange County Superior Court officials announced...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers accused by defendants of conducting illegal searches now can answer in court with an affidavit...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals panel has upheld two Los Angeles billboard ordinances, overturning a lower-court order that bl...