Motorola Inc. of Shaumburg, Ill. has agreed to purchase San Jose-based Synchronous Inc. in a stock transaction valued at $260 ...

Richard Noack , a partner at Littler Mendelson in San Francisco, will join the employment law department of San Jose-based Hop...

Contra Costa's Archer Norris has appointed name partner Rick Norris the firm's new president. Norris will sell the combined pr...

Latham & Watkins has recruited three international anti-trust specialists to its U.S. and London offices, to broaden the f...

His term limit expired, Mike Feuer has vacated a seat on the City Council for a seat at the counsel table. Feuer, former Los A...

Santa Barbara's Moseley Associates Inc. purchased the assets of Rochester, N.Y.-based Adaptive Broadband Inc. and Adaptive Bro...

Speaking of antisocial tendencies, celebrity divorce lawyer Dennis Wasser of Wasser Cooperman & Carter in Century City has...

San Francisco's Nexant Inc. has agreed to acquire San Jose-based Business Management Consulting Inc. Neither company would dis...

South San Francisco-based Exelixis Inc. has agreed to acquire Boulder, Colo.-based Genomica Corp. in a stock transaction value...

Each of us has our own unique path through life. Some of us are fortunate enough to be able to choose our path, while others l...

First Amendment litigator Robert Vanderet fights for the rights of motion picture studios, journalists and dot-coms to speak f...

SAN FRANCISCO - If a judge's ruling stands, a man who San Francisco prosecutors charged with first-degree murder will soon go...

SAN FRANCISCO - Private law libraries have never looked leaner, but that's no cause for alarm, Bay Area law librarians insist....

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers have been washing in and out of the Bay Area offices of Baker & McKenzie like the tides in recent ...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has named five new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court, including a federal prosecutor, two...

SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime United Parcel Service worker has gotten the green light to go to trial alleging that her employer i...

LOS ANGELES - While minority-owned companies showed tremendous growth in the past decade, they continue to struggle to compete...

LOS ANGELES - Julian Montoya had won short-term city contracts before, but in Sherman Oaks Castle he saw the opportunity of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel has published its opinion directing the California Youth Authority to ensure that its ...

COSTA MESA - Brian E. Lippold, a Costa Mesa attorney remembered as a practitioner with a "big heart," has died. Lippold died N...

WASHINGTON - Reviewing the case of a San Francisco airline employee, the Supreme Court this week will consider for the first t...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County man has been sentenced to a three-year state prison term after he was convicted of making crim...

OAKLAND - Judge Leo Dorado raised his eyebrows and cocked his head. He was listening to a pro per defendant, soon to be on tri...

LOS ANGELES - Not every class action qualifies as complex litigation. That is the word from the Los Angeles Superior Court, wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Lazarus has raised and spent about half a million dollars on his campaign to become San Francisco's next c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. faces a new crop of objections filed by more than 60 creditors, including the sta...

Tort law encompasses product-liability law, which, in turn, encompasses pharmaceutical-liability law. Pharmaceutical liability...

We should be ashamed of our collective failure to provide even basic services to the children in our foster care system, many ...

One of the biggest issues that arises when an attorney decides to take on a case is the statute of limitations on the claim. E...