LOS ANGELES - A 19-year-old Pakistani man was sentenced to four months in federal custody Monday after pleading guilty in Janu...

SAN FRANCISCO - For years, environmentalists have expressed alarm about U.S. corporations running for the Mexican border, alle...

LAKE ELSINORE - Two years ago, Michael DiMeglio found his stepfather dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His s...

Forum Column - By Larry Kamer - Since Sept. 11, industries and federal regulatory agencies have scrambled to address a risk th...

WASHINGTON - White House lawyers - including a new legal team in the homeland security office - are in the process of trying t...

OAKLAND - For all the criticism of the number of welfare fraud cases prosecuted in Alameda County, the county may in fact be t...

OAKLAND - The woman was a typical defendant in Alameda County's welfare fraud court: black and a single mother. She'd been arr...

Dicta Column - Court Jesters - In The Western Railroad v. Thornton & Acee , 60 Ga. 300 (1878), Judge Logan E. Bleck...

WASHINGTON - When William Joseph Harris, a pawnshop owner from Albermarle, N.C., came before U.S. District Judge William L. Os...

Dicta Column - By David F. Pike - Do we really need two weekly TV series about the U.S. Supreme Court? Probably not. Even one ...

Walnut Creek's Archer Norris has named K.C. Ward , one of Contra Costa County's go-to trial lawyers, to its five-member managi...

Pillsbury Winthrop 's intellectual property attorneys in San Diego are coming together, thanks to the recent move to a larger ...

Azanda Network Devices Inc. brought in $19 million in its second round of financing. The deal was announced March 11. The inve...

Since Silicon Valley law firms began workforce reductions last summer, young corporate lawyers have not been the only members ...

Bruce Babbitt , former U.S. secretary of the Interior during the Clinton administration who serves as of-counsel to Latham &am...

On behalf of the California State University Board of Trustees, Hallem negotiated a $125 million lease of undeveloped land on ...

ValueClick Inc. and Be Free Inc. will merge in a deal announced March 11. The deal is worth about $130 million. Westlake Villa...

Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis , which has seen its Bay Area office triple in size since it opened in 1998, has moved to ...

Duffy Carolan , a partner at Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May , joined Davis Wright Tremaine in San Francisco earli...

With nearly 30 lawyers working for free to help Los Angeles' disenfranchised, it is little surprise that Gibson Dunn & Cru...

It might be called KMZ Rosenman. Or it might be called Katten Muchin Rosenman. But whatever the proposed name, Chicago-based 4...

When Mark Rowland moved from New York City to Silicon Valley 10 years ago, locals didn't exactly throw out the welcome mat. "F...

For the first time in the its 94-year history, Davis Wright Tremaine has elected a leader outside the firm's Seattle headquart...

Manning & Marder Kass Ellrod Ramirez, a 100-lawyer firm with offices in Los Angeles, Irvine, San Diego and Phoenix, has ou...

If John Wayne had been a lawyer, he would have been Ralph Cormany . That's how a colleague of the longtime Oxnard lawyer and c...

Intent on entering the Romanian legal market, Squire Sanders & Dempsey has agreed to associate with the year-old Bucharest...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s offering of more than 10 million shares raised approximately $174 million. The deal was announced M...

The Gap Inc. closed a convertible note offering March 8 worth more than $1.3 billion. The underwriters were J.P. Morgan Chase ...

New York-based Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has recruited intellectual property litigator and rainmaker James Doroshow of...

The attorneys at the Palo Alto office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips are adding new lawyers. The law firm has recruited intel...