As George Bernard Shaw once observed, "America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language." This is no better e...

While Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati can boast the highest profits per partner in the state (see chart, pg. ...

Harry Miller , the co-author of California's leading real estate treatise "Miller & Starr, California Real Estate," died J...

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., acquired COR Therapeutics Inc. in a deal announced Dec. 6. The sto...

The Los Angeles office of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has beefed up its medical malpractice department with three ne...

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy , a 800-attorney New York-based firm best known for its Wall Street corporate and finance ex...

Sunnyvale's SanDisk Corp. closed a $125 million debt offering on Dec. 24. The underwriter was Morgan Stanley. SanDisk produces...

Large New York firm Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner has taken scores of partners and associates from Baer Marks &...

Donald Oppenheim is leaving legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. to join a public agency law firm in San Leandro. Oppenheim,...

Kohl co-led drug company COR Therapeutics Inc. of San Francisco in its $2 billion acquisition by Millennium Pharmaceuticals of...

In today's wired world it's not only necessary that attorneys input motions, briefs and other court papers into a computer (af...

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...