Given the current economic climate in the Silicon Valley, Sullivan & Cromwell partner Matthew Hurd is pleasantly surprised...

Ah, Northern California. The land of the Golden Gate Bridge, vast redwood forests ... and soon, a new office for Best Best &am...

SANTA ANA - The Stork Club has lost its first member. While her six pregnant colleagues from the Orange County public defender...

LOS ANGELES - An African-American family has sued Denny's, claiming racial discrimination by staff at a Torrance outlet of the...

Royal Philips Electronics N.V. has completed its acquisition of the Healthcare Solutions Group from Palo Alto's Agilent Techno...

A small shareholder defeats a corporation's chairman and CEO for his seat on the board, a despite contentious campaign includi...

"Look, we're all reasonable men here; we don't have to give assurances as if we were lawyers." This is a line from the film, "...

Manatt Phelps & Phillips is growing in Southern California. The firm has reached an agreement to take over four additional...

Flash back to last September. After a very jittery run, the stock market seemed to stabilize. Sure the "Internet bubble" had b...

Audible Magic Corp. has secured $3 million in Series C financing from Florida Silicon Partners of Naples, Fla. Audible Magic o...

Ten years ago this month the communist government of Russia fell. Russia's new leadership promised freedom and a dynamic econo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland City Attorney's office has announced the addition of two new lawyers to its litigation team. Arlen...

Amidst the black suits and gray dresses, the woman of the hour - attorney Karen S. Nobumoto - was easy to spot. She is preside...

Intellectual property attorney Ed Lynch arrived at Coudert Brothers on Aug. 15, and he says that the transition has been smoot...

Let's make multijurisdictional practice the rule, not the exception, and craft a disciplinary system that protects clients by ...

Use of a small hand-held device has helped Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker receive an award for innovation. And developmen...

The phone rings in Hillary Bibicoff 's Century City office and suddenly she's talking to a client traveling on a Russian resea...

With the advent of new techniques in DNA testing, a countrywide movement has been afoot to determine if defendants have been w...

Just down Wilshire Boulevard from Variety, its competition, The Hollywood Reporter, is trying to wrap up its severance agreeme...

The defendants who are most likely to obtain attorney fees are those who can become aggressive investigators and prosecutors a...

BARSTOW - A federal administrative law judge has ruled that forcing a dozen Mojave Desert ranchers to move their cattle off pu...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in a month, a San Francisco judge has ruled that a Pacific Heights woman can sue for the w...

LOS ANGELES - When a judge's illness forced the reassignment of one of attorney Patricia Glaser's cases shortly before it went...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rudolph Koppl, the owner of the apartment building where two dogs fatally mauled Diane Whipple, has not receiv...

SACRAMENTO - In a case that probes the limits of Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action initiative, a trio of conservati...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has refused to throw a state Public Utilities Commissioner out of office over accusation...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council will ask Gov. Gray Davis for $2.5 billion to operate the state court system for 200...

SAN FRANCISCO - The worm has turned. It seems as if only yesterday young associate lawyers were in the driver's seat. In Silic...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would bail banks out of potentially millions of dollars in liability for delays in removing liens fro...

LOS ANGELES - The first time Los Angeles attorney Tamar Feder saw Densi, a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant from Honduras, h...