WASHINGTON - When the Supreme Court issues a watershed decision, it's a good bet the justices will have to return to it repeat...

LOS ANGELES - Horse owners have lost their bid to block the state Department of Parks and Recreation from evicting their anima...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - What is terrorism? Is it sufficient to say, as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four of the major producers of electricity for California engaged in thousands of instances of double-selling ...

LOS ANGELES - A judge has agreed to postpone the trial of an adult video production company owner charged with producing an ob...

LOS ANGELES - Marjorie Knoller wept Monday during her first moments on the witness stand and expressed remorse for the dog-mau...

SAN FRANCISCO - Deputy Attorney General Michael D. O'Reilley has been appointed by the state's judicial watchdog agency to pro...

Column by Garry Abrams - If Louisiana lawyer Edwin Hunter is really as smart as his reputation, he'll soon be boarding the nea...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's nothing unusual about a law firm sponsoring its own softball or basketball team. It's a time-honored t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Trena Burger-Plavan has quit her post on a local fire commission after critics...

SACRAMENTO - A package of proposals announced Monday by members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee would regulate private arb...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - It's the same old story. You are awakened by a 3 a.m. phone call from the county jail. On the...

Dicta Column - By Andrew Duggan - Attorneys increasingly are turning to the Internet to gain a competitive edge and broaden th...

Focus Column - By Sidney Brown and Harold J. Cohn - Child-custody and visitation recommendations are commonly driven by a subj...

Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc. has closed a $62 million public offering, effective Feb. 13. UBS Warburg led the offering. RBC Ca...

Legato Systems Inc. will acquire OTG Software Inc. for $443 million. The deal was announced Feb. 21. Mountain View's Legato pr...

The Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is mourning the loss of partner Ted Obrzut . Obrzut died Feb. 15 a...

What does it mean to say you supervise other attorneys or to say you are supervised? Does it mean they will obey your orders o...

Formed just seven months ago, Foran Glennon Palandech & Ponzi has already set its sights on Orange County expansion. The C...

PayPal Inc. has gone public with a Feb. 14 offering of $70 million. The lead manager was Salomon Smith Barney. Co-managers wer...

ESS Technology Inc. brought in $107 million in its follow-on public offering of Feb. 6. Needham & Co. managed the offering...

Nike Inc. announced Feb. 22 that it will acquire Hurley International. The companies have not disclosed the terms of the deal....

Three associates have left Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in the last two weeks to join litigator Timothy Sc...

Three partners have moved their environmental practices less than a mile away to Morgan Lewis & Bockius' office in downtow...

Read any law periodical, and it is easy to find a story about the 20, 50 or 100 top major law firms. There is a wealth of info...

Baxter International acquired Fusion Medical Technologies Inc. in a deal announced Feb. 27. The stock-for-stock merger is wort...

The nation's largest employment boutique has selected a new leader for its San Diego branch. San Francisco-based Littler Mende...

The Titan Corp. will acquire Science & Engineering Associates Inc. The stock deal, announced Feb. 25, is worth $72 million...

In the coming months, the California Supreme Court will decide how employers can treat employees on the move and the enforceab...

Yahoo! Inc. has acquired HotJobs.com Inc. The Feb. 12 deal is worth $436 million. Sunnyvale's Yahoo! is an Internet search eng...