Writing a book based on a father's knowledge doesn't sound like a bad idea, but when two different generations collide, it can...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe, Incompetent defense attorneys in death penalty cases across the United States have caused t...

Kathy Woeber Gardner joined the Advisory Council of the U.C. Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum on Dec. 14. Gardner, a partner at Sa...

TIBCO Software Inc. acquired Talarian Corp. in a deal announced Jan. 7. The cash and stock deal is worth $115 million. Palo Al...

Dicta Column - By Chris Santella, Documents have been an essential element in the discovery process for hundreds of years. Tod...

After a brief stint at Latham & Watkins ' San Diego outpost, corporate rainmaker Craig Andrews is rejoining Brobeck Phlege...

San Jose's Skjerven Morrill MacPherson has laid off 18 associates and 27 support staff members, the firm announced Jan. 14. Th...

The Lawyers' Committee for Rights Under Law recently awarded San Francisco securities, patent and antitrust litigator Jack Lon...

Palo Alto's TIBCO Software Inc. has agreed to buy Los Altos' Talarian Corp. in a cash and stock deal worth $115 million. Kra...

International Business Machines Corp. has acquired CrossWorlds Software Inc. for $129 million. The deal closed Jan. 14. Armonk...

In the summer of 1971, armed with one year of law school, I began my legal career with a summer job at Pine Tree Legal Assista...

The Orange County chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, which provides educational programs for people interested i...

Skadden Fellowship Foundation, a public interest law foundation created by New York's Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, h...

The real estate section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association has elected Clifford Horner, partner at Walnut Creek's Morg...

Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan , an 84-attorney business and entertainment litigation firm in Los Angeles, has added Vin...

Michele O'Driscoll began her one-year term as president of the Legal Marketing Association's Bay Area chapter Jan 1. O'Drisco...

KB Home closed its offering of senior subordinated notes on Dec. 14. The transaction brought in $200 million for the company. ...

Thousand Oaks' Amgen Inc. and Sunnyvale's Hysec Pharmaceuticals Inc. have entered into an agreement to develop and sell alfime...

The Insolvency Committee of the State Bar business law section has named Los Angeles attorney Peter Bronson to the 25-member c...

The League of California Cities' City Attorneys Department elected Peter Brown president Dec. 18. Brown, partner at Santa Barb...

American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. went public on Dec. 13. The initial offering raised $144 million. The lead manager was C...

Movie Review - By Stephen Zager, "I am Sam" features fantastic performances by both Sean Penn and 7-year-old Dakota Fanning bu...

Becoming Ice Cream Partners USA's sole owner, Nestlé USA acquired the remaining 50 percent of the ice cream company from Gener...

The San Francisco Bar Association has given Duane Musfelt, managing partner of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard's San Fra...

In early December, California Law Business reported that the state's law firms had elevated 92 associates to partner. The prom...

After nearly 15 years at the Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 's downtown Los Angeles office, insolvency partner Tom Patterson ...

Aristos Logic Corp. raised nearly $16 million in its second round of financing. The deal closed on Dec. 10. The lead investors...

The Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha Society, an honorary land economics society, has awarded Edward Steefel, name partner ...

Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. closed an $86 million securities offering on Jan. 10. The lead underwriter was Banc of America Secu...

One of the country's oldest African-American bar associations, the John M. Langston Bar Association, has announced its officer...