Hogan & Hartson of Washington, D.C., will acquire New York-based Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld , sources close...

ViaSat Inc. acquired US Monolithics Limited Liability Co. in a $30 million deal closed Jan. 4. Carlsbad's ViaSat produces and ...

Two Los Angeles-based law firms are among the nation's 25 busiest legal advisers for worldwide mergers and acquisitions, accor...

Solectron Corp. has offered adjustable conversion-rate equity security units worth $1 billion. The underwriter for the deal, w...

San Diego lawyer Alan Talbott has taken his estate planning practice to Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch , drawn by the ...

Red Bank, N. J.-based Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. has acquired the home-building assets of Forecast Group Limited Partnership. ...

Industry experts say it was only a matter of time before Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich joined the growing numbe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two themes emerged at this year's J.P. Morgan H&Q Healthcare Conference, according to lawyers who attended...

Does anyone really need another batch of stories about death in 2001? That's the question the California Law Business and Dail...

LOS ANGELES - Asking donors to "give a little bit" always has been a necessity for public interest providers. But fund-raising...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a case involving a historic San Francisco restaurant, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine th...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1981, Hollywood gave us a look into the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court with "First Monday in October," ...

WASHINGTON - Barbara C. Clark, executive director of the nonprofit Legal Foundation of Washington in Seattle, recalls the rude...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey W. Hawkins, Recently promulgated regulations that provide for low-risk loans to property developers ...

Environmental Law Practitioner Column - By William D. Wick, When is a parent corporation liable for the cleanup of its subsidi...

Forum Column - By Eileen C. Moor, California is a state of linguistic diversity. There are 224 languages and numerous other di...

Forum Column - By Richard A. Samp, Hundreds of millions of dollars are appropriated each year by federal and state governments...

Forum Column - By Jack W. Londen, Interest on Lawyer Trust Account funds generate more than $10 million every year. These fund...

LOS ANGELES - Equal justice advocates throughout the United States are turning to an ancient source to support an argument tha...

Who cares if it's true. The tabloids had a feeding frenzy anyway when a photographer alleged he had caught Mick Jagger, the Ro...

Employment Column - By Donald C. Potter and Samuel T. McAdam, The California Legislature recently broadened the state's tough ...

Like his clients who own strip clubs, music venues and bars, Southern California attorney Michael N. Schonbuch is comfortable ...

Employment Column - By Sue Bendavid-Arbiv, In the context of harassment in the workplace, looking at someone for too long now ...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine, One of the many dramatic changes that has swept the legal profession is the increa...

SANTA ANA - Following a 14-month investigation, a former Huntington Beach councilman and ex-mayor pleaded guilty Thursday to o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime San Francisco estate planning and tax lawyer Luther Avery, also widely known for his pro bono work, h...

OAKLAND - Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday filed a lawsuit under the state's powerful unfair business practices law c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Siskiyou County court employees have filed a lawsuit against the local superior court and two court executives...

SACRAMENTO - In the first case of its kind, a wrongfully convicted inmate has been freed under a new state DNA testing statute...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis, faced with a $12.5 billion budget shortfall, presented a proposed 2002-2003 budget Thursday that...