Ameritrade Holding Corp. agreed to acquire Datek Online Holdings Corp. The stock deal is worth $1.3 billion. It was announced ...

The attorneys at Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly are probably wondering what's next from their California o...

When management at Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May asked partners in the Los Angeles office who should run the sho...

Perry Ellis International Inc. offered senior secured notes worth $57 million. The deal was announced March 18. Wachovia Secur...

First Data Corp. has acquired Paymap Inc. in a deal announced April 9. Paymap will become part of First Data subsidiary Wester...

Expansion-minded Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch plans to open a larger office in northern San Diego County. Procopio C...

Let's face it. Purchasing malpractice insurance probably doesn't rank high on anyone's list of fun things to do. But for some ...

OAKLAND - Fran Schreiberg, of Oakland's Kazan McClain Edises Abrams Fernandez Lyons & Farrise, will be honored by the Bay ...

OAKLAND - Lawyers who bring cases under Proposition 65 are balking at a set of rules and nonbinding but potentially influentia...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has hired a prominent art world lawyer to help shepherd its ambitious renov...

Focus Column - By Dennis Brager - In the 1920s, Charles Ponzi swindled between 15,000 and 20,000 investors out of almost $10,0...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly approved two bills last week that combat gender-motivated violence, including one that would c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burt Magen is not your typical Hollywood lawyer. He lives in San Francisco. He practices patent law. He has no...

LOS ANGELES - An immigrant who developed a multimillion-dollar cheese-making company has won the latest round in a nine-year c...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden continued to challenge the City Ethics Commission Friday during an enfor...

LOS ANGELES - Friends of Gloria Killian describe her as an intelligent, inspiring and courageous person who has given hope to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have surrendered cartons of personnel files without a fight to federal prosecutors seek...

LOS ANGELES - Female chefs and comedians cooked up laughs last week at the California Women's Law Center's 12th annual fund-ra...

LOS ANGELES - Silvia Mayorga never imagined she'd spend several years working in a law firm library. What started as a high-sc...

Focus Column - Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - In Ragsdale v. Wolverine World Wide, 2002 DJDAR 3017 (U.S. Mar...

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - At the end of the Civil War, the U.S. government pledged "40 acres and a Mule" in repar...

Some litigators hire trial consultants to get a feel for which way the tide is turning in the courtroom. Thomas G. Wianecki de...

The defense attorney claimed that he won by using the plaintiff's own photographic evidence to undermine his credibility. But ...

Few cases put jurors to sleep as effectively as business cases. After a day or two of hearing one lawyer continually saying, "...

Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - The interview process and the benefits package are an often overlooked part of the employment...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - I have realized with a shock that this month marks the 30th anniversary of my working ...

Crying hysterically, a woman who lived down the street from Jesus Belmudez walked into his house one morning and pleaded for h...

Only rare cases and rare clients do not require litigation budgets for complex cases with sizable risk, many documents and a l...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden appeared before the City Ethics Commission Thursday to defend himself ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court punted the politically charged case of a serial rapist to a Marin trial judge Thu...