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...

Madeleine Kleiner remembers the phone call that led her down the in-house career path. The Beverly Hill's Hilton Hotels Corp. ...

King led Sunnyvale's Yahoo! Inc. in its hostile takeover of New York-based HotJobs.com Inc. HotJobs had entered into a merger ...

When Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich acquired a nine-attorney regulatory boutique in Washington, D.C., last Janua...

Entertainment and sports attorney Kristine Lefebvre has joined the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Lord Bissell & Brook as...

Pluris Inc. has completed its fifth round of funding, which brought $53 million to the Cupertino company. The deal closed Feb....

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has denied a request by former Compton Councilwoman Leslie Irving to stay a decision that ouste...

Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins worked on three of the 10 largest mergers and acquisitions announced in 2001, including the ...

Forum Column - By Richard L. Hasen - Many people think that the only election the Supreme Court decided in 2000 was the choice...

SAN FRANCISCO - Business at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison might depend on economic cycles, but there's no boom and bust for t...

LOS ANGELES - Even before the San Francisco dog-mauling trial of husband-and-wife attorneys began, the buzz about a particular...

DENVER - Attorneys across the nation are studying the final rules for the federal fund to compensate victims of the Sept. 11 a...

OAKLAND - U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken looked bemused when a prospective juror denounced government workers as slackers....

Focus Column - By William D. Wick - Some parties who sent very small quantities of waste or household-type garbage to federal ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Americans with Disabilities Act covers prison parole hearings, so inmates who are former drug addicts cann...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County court interpreters went back to work Friday and held a meeting with a judge they had labeled "ab...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $4.35 million Friday to a Pacific Palisades high-school teacher who cl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company, in an effort to quell some of the opposition to its bankruptcy reorganizatio...

Forum Column - By Wendy Young and Christine Gordon - The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee recently held an oversight hearing on t...

Forum Column - By Tom Osbourne The Supreme Court's decision in EEOC v. Waffle House Inc. correctly upheld employee righ...

LOS ANGELES - New York-based Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has recruited intellectual property litigator and rainmaker Jam...

WASHINGTON - How badly do you want to argue a case before the Supreme Court? Would you contact the clients in a case set for a...

^^Corporate Law^^ **with photo** The court in 'Speedee Oil' set some clear guidelines as to just when franchisees' causes of a...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County court interpreters, angry over what they consider shabby treatment by a judge, have been boycott...

Column by Ronald Feenberg - Annually, thousands of California's workers suffer illnesses and injuries on the job that disable ...

Column by Gerald G. Knapton - Many lawyers and clients believe that arbitration is a good idea for at least some cases, if onl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Well, it appears Janice Rogers Brown was right to be suspicious. When she wrote her dissent to Monday's Califo...

SACRAMENTO - A plaintiffs lawyer stunned a legislative committee this week by suggesting that the state and federal government...