Six months after three of his colleagues went to the Los Angeles home-office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, real esta...

Sunnyvale's Molecular Devices Corp. will buy Lausanne, Switzerland's Cytion SA for $7.5 million in cash and 400,000 shares of ...

False Submission 'Kimmel' Court Adds Another Twist to Pre-emption in Tort Cases While the 9th Circuit premised its decision on...

San Francisco's 900-lawyer, 16-office Pillsbury Winthrop , turned loose 13 California staffers - administrators, no lawyers - ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco land use and real estate firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass has announced the additio...

Litigator Ken Klein says it's with a heavy heart that he's leaving his longtime partner spot at the shrinking Los Angeles busi...

Rival electronics-contract manufacturers Sanmina Corp. and SCI Systems Inc., have agreed to merge. The stock and assumption-of...

Boston Scientific Corp. of Natick, Mass., will buy Sunnyvale's Cardiac Pathways Corp. for $115 million in cash. Boston Scienti...

Come September, Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips expects to open the doors on an Orange County outpost. Manatt Phelps...

It doesn't matter how you spell it or on which syllable you put the accent. For a dozen years, lawyers on both sides of the po...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William R. Hollingsworth ruled Friday that a homeless man is competent to stand...

Santa Clara-based Internet supply-chain software and consulting company Bristlecone Inc. is selling its consulting division to...

Thales Group, a French aerospace/defense/information-technology company, has acquired Santa Clara global-positioning-system ma...

Patrick Shannon , a former business and political consultant who also has been a corporate executive, joined the brand-new Pal...

The 800-lawyer Palo Alto firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati expects to unveil a new service for its venture-capital cli...

LOS ANGELES - Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif is gaining three attorneys, continuing a trend of rapid growth for ...

Tom Paschall, a corporate associate in Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy's Los Angeles office, vowed never to be defenseless a...

Retired Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Sharp Whitmore died at 83 of congestive heart failure. Whitmore, a labor and employ...

Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a nonprofit, public-interest law firm, has honored Gibson Dunn & Crutcher as "volu...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association has awarded the Shattuck-Price Award for distinguished service to John Brinsley, a part...

San Francisco's 104-year-old Lillick & Charles succumbed to the East-West law firm merger trend Aug. 1, when it became the...

Sanwa Bank of California and Tokai Bank California merged last month under a new name, United California Bank. The parties did...

The law of statutes of limitations continues to evolve in California. For decades, the general rule was that the limitations p...

The Federal Trade Commission has named Susan Creighton, a partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, deputy...

Exult Inc., a human-resource services company based in Irvine, is selling 10 million shares of common stock. In a registration...

The Los Angeles law firm of Hahn & Bolson has joined the International Business Law Consortium based in Austria. The Inter...

Judge Warren J. Ferguson used Santa Ana's Public Law Center's annual Volunteer Recognition Dinner to offer a eulogy for legen...

Kathleen A. McKinley, an associate in the Richmond office of Walnut Creek's Archer Norris and a self-described "civil-procedur...

The Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn will stretch out in new digs this winter. The six-office Chicago firm lists 22 ...

CHICAGO - Calling the death-penalty system in America "unacceptable," the president of the American Bar Association urged cong...