Once again the periodic hand-wringing about jurors not being paid adequately for their service has surfaced, this time with t...

Las Vegas' Boyd Gaming Corp. sold $200 million of eight-year senior notes last month. Deutsche Bank Alex.Brown was the placeme...

George W. Bush today has the opportunity to usher in the Hydrogen Age - the coming era of nonpolluting, limitless hydrogen fue...

San Jose's PDF Solutions Inc. began trading last month with an offering worth $62 million. Credit Suisse First Boston, Roberts...

During the week of July 5, friends and clients of the 120-lawyer Farella Braun & Martel received squooshy black hackey-sac...

London drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to sell its California drug-discovery business, Affymax Research Institute, to Af...

New York-based Dewey Ballantine bid farewell last month to four of its attorneys, who left to join the Century City headquarte...

Because the parties disagreed on material facts relating to Conoco's supervision of the work, the 5th Circuit held that summar...

Delia Swan recounts a true, but all too familiar tale: An associate wanting to switch firms seeks the help of a headhunter. Th...

LOS ANGELES - Pillsbury Winthrop is expanding its Southern California presence by opening a new office that will focus on capi...

San Jose's Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy privately held Allegro Systems Inc. of Milpitas. The stock deal is worth $181 ...

Corte Madera's Il Fornaio (America) Corp. has completed its merger with Manhattan Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of the New Y...

There are a million actors in the naked city of Hollywood. For the past century, they've been ripped off by hucksters who have...

As the debate over McCain-Feingold campaign-finance legislation heats up, another reform proposal continues to gain support: r...

In keeping with one of Hollywood's great divides, executives from Sony Corp. and free spirits from an independent production h...

Westminster attorney Lan Quoc Nguyen first heard stories about labor abuses of Vietnamese workers at a Korean-owned garment fa...

An undisclosed affiliate of London's UBS Warburg has sold the Inn at Laguna Beach to privately-held Classic Hotels & Resor...

Fifteen years ago, he was playing the piano for tips at Chaya Brassiere on Robertson Boulevard. Now the waiters at the hip Bev...

LOS ANGELES - While the number of hate crimes in California has plateaued over the past two years and decreased nearly 5 perce...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit alleging that two San Francisco attorneys reneged on a surrogacy contract because the birth mother r...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Fram, head of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's patent litigation practice in San Francisco, has ne...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's mental health court occupies an old pickle factory. Department 95 of the Los Angeles Superi...

LOS ANGELES - Legal experts agree that Judge Charles W. McCoy Jr. was on solid legal ground last week when he reduced a Superi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has modified his gag order in the dog-mauling murder case, allowing witnesses to talk to the media abo...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate decision Friday strengthened criminal defense attorneys' contention that prosecutors are abusi...

In a slow job market such as this, a well-written thank-you note is important. ...

In Gilbert v. The Crystal Fountain Lodge, 80 Ga. 284 (1887), Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley found the following for th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge handed down almost nine decades of prison time Thursday to one of four major racketeering defe...

LOS ANGELES - Times have been tough in the initial-public-offerings market, but corporate debt offerings have been healthy. An...

LOS ANGELES - An employment litigator with extensive involvement in the Los Angeles legal community has joined Greenberg Traur...