Richard R. Castillo has joined the civil litigation firm Morris Polich & Purdy as a partner in San Diego, bringing along s...

LOS ANGELES - The attorney general's office has found that a memo sent by the executive officer of the Los Angeles Superior Co...

We have all been blessed with a world filled with risk. Life is a risky business, and baseball is rich in the lessons it provi...

Her boss raped her, and the trial court dismissed her sexual harassment case. The 32-year-old woman worried that a loss on app...

He left Latham & Watkins eight years ago as an associate and returned Nov. 9 as a partner. Prodigal son John Flynn vacated...

There are two theories on how to interview Marion "Suge" Knight of Death Row Records. In the first week of November, I was giv...

Williams Communications Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., has bought technology assets from Sunnyvale's iBeam Broadcasting Corp. The total...

Conceptus Inc. of San Carlos completed a private placement financing valued at nearly $31 million. New York's Merrill Lynch &a...

Sunnyvale's Peakstone Inc. received $12 million in venture capital. New York's J.P. Morgan Partners, the private equity group ...

You won't see cartoon characters bouncing and strolling down the halls of Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava &am...

In show business, if you can't bring either the talent or the money to the negotiating table, you're stuck bringing the coffe...

As David Makarechian ticks off a list of recent deals he's closed, he notices one predictable trend among them. "They're all t...

While many Silicon Valley firms have been trimming their attorney ranks, San Francisco-based McCutchen Doyle Brown & Eners...

Kevin J. Dunne is settling into his new role as chair of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold , and he is setting his sights on ...

Daniel R. Mitz has left technology giant Sun Microsystems Inc. in Palo Alto. He will continue to work in the heart of Californ...

After 28 years at Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon , partner Bill Steffin has left the intellectual-property practice boutique for...

Epicor Inc. of Sunnyvale received $20 million in a third round of venture capital financing. Menlo Park's Sprout Group served ...

Sacramento's CalWest Industrial Properties Limited Liability Co. will buy Cabot Industrial Trust of Boston for $2.1 billion ca...

Lake Forest-based 3F Therapeutics Inc. received $10 million in a venture financing transaction, with Laguna Niguel's Domain As...

Palo Alto's Greater Bay Bancorp completed a merger with SJNB Financial Corp. of San Jose. The total value of transaction was $...

Don't believe everything you hear about the new world order. Though amusements parks since Sept. 11 have been in the toilet an...

Last month, Los Angeles Daily Journal Editor Katrina Dewey was invited to Fenwick & West's San Francisco office to partici...

RIVERSIDE - A former San Bernardino County high school student has filed a federal lawsuit against Chaffey Joint Union High Sc...

SAN JOSE - It's been nearly two years since Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Jack Komar implemented sweeping procedural...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cabbies beware: San Francisco's state Court of Appeal has just endorsed tort damages for premature ejection of...

LOS ANGELES - For three hours while the professors interrogated him about the law and his case, Deputy City Attorney Michael K...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Seattle has given videogame maker Nintendo Inc.'s American subsidiary one of the biggest mu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice will hold a series of public hearings beginnin...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Los Angeles federal judge Friday granted a joint request by defense attorneys and prosecutors to postpone f...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Billionaire Boys Club defendant has sued his former prosecutors, claiming they hid exculpatory evidence and ...