Dicta Column - By Carlos Bea - Trial counsel should keep in mind the power of the printed word. If it is powerful in the newsp...

DENVER - The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will look again next term at the question of whether using interest earned from...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - The Los Angeles Police Department is broken and has needed to be fixed for a long time. For...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In re Marriage of De Guigne, 2002 DJDAR 4677 (Cal. App. April 3...

Forum Column - By Claudette G. Wilson and Michael S. Kalt - The law abhors uncertainty. So do employers, particularly when ev...

Orange County trial attorney Veronica Gray has left a nine-attorney firm that carried her name to join Jackson DeMarco & ...

Column by Mark A. Smith - Through consistent implementation and demonstration of the principles behind the "3C" system - commu...

In an offering announced May 23, Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. grabbed $66 million in its sale of 4.4 million shares. Credit Suis...

Nokia Networks bought $36 million in stock of Redback Networks as part of a strategic alliance between the two companies. Wit...

Westaff Inc. closed a debt facility worth $65 million May 17. The Walnut Creek-based company secured a $60 million revolving c...

In the past couple of months, Jay Bidwell has applied for a legal position at half a dozen law firms and companies between Si...

Felicitazione, or congratulations, to Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins , which has opened its newest office in fashion c...

Remec Inc. will acquire Spectrian Corp. The cash and stock deal is worth $160 million and was announced May 19. San Diego's Re...

The recession started March last year but never officially ended, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. And f...

HealthSouth Corp. closed a high-yield senior note offering, which brought in $1 billion. The deal closed May 22. The managers ...

After nearly 15 years at Seyfarth Shaw , Stephen A. Bauman decided it was time for a change and has joined the family wealth p...

Edward Grenville , the former general counsel, vice president and secretary of GE Capital Container Finance Corp. and Genstar ...

While news of the unfolding drama at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison grabbed headlines in San Francisco and beyond, local law f...

Manugistics Group Inc. has acquired Western Data Systems Inc. in a deal announced May 6. The terms of the deal were not disclo...

Liquidmetal Technologies went public May 21. Its offering brought in $75 million. Merrill Lynch & Co. served as lead manag...

The Closer - By Paul Bergman - In the Disney cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the wicked stepmother repeatedly asks,...

Associates and summer interns, including those in Los Angeles in white-collar criminal defense, find that it's never too early...

Partner Victor Hebert represented REMEC Inc. in its $160 million acquisition of Sunnyvale's Spectrian Corp., which designs equ...

Sherman Wilke , the founder of one of Sacramento's oldest law firms, Wilke Fleury Hoffelt Gould & Birney , died May 23 fro...

After 15 years at One Sansome Street, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro will move its 30-lawyer San Francisco office into b...

Intel Corp. acquired New Focus Inc. in a deal valued at $50 million. The deal closed May 23. Santa Clara's Intel produces and...

Blue Shield of California will acquire Lifeguard Inc. The deal was announced May 30. The financial terms of the deal were not ...

SACRAMENTO - An attempt to bar lobbyists from relaying contributions from third parties to political candidates has failed be...

LOS ANGELES -City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo returns today from Great Britain where he and other Democratic elected officials a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert O'Connor said he was living "the Park City lifestyle" as a vice president and general counsel of Provo'...