SAN DIEGO - Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch has agreed to acquire the Carlsbad-based firm of Lodge & Heller in an e...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of possessing child...

SAN FRANCISCO - The public can learn the identity of two mystery figures allegedly involved in the case of convicted felon and...

VICTORVILLE - The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. was not responsible for the death of a 10-year-old boy who was ...

LOS ANGELES - Is it possible to guard against the violent acts of a zealot? According to Eleanor and Charles Kadish, the answe...

LOS ANGELES - Sara Jane Olson's lawyers did a terrific job Monday of proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have been st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A consumer activist organization's bid to formally represent Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s 4.5 million ratepa...

Once again, our federal court of appeals has decided to impose its own view of policy on the people of California, telling the...

As we begin to recover from the recent terrorist attacks on our country, many law firms find it difficult to concentrate on co...

Now, this was a thief of the first magnitude. First magnitude for the amount of times he got caught, not first magnitude for t...

As of the end of September 2001, nearly 7,000 people were serving sentences of at least 25-years-to-life in prison because of ...

Five long weeks after the Bush administration first proposed its anti-terrorism legislation following the Sept. 11 attacks, P...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a major First Amendment issue, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether states can bar ju...

San Jose's Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Silicon Perspective Corp. of Santa Clara. Neither company would d...

In today's economy, the quick deals are usually the ones that involve at least one struggling company. So when a deal between ...

Cupertino-based Magma Design Automation Inc. raised $63 million in an initial public offering of the company's stock. New York...

In Hollywood, duking it out at a celebrity hangout is a tradition, right up there with throwing cell phones at assistants and ...

Apogent Technologies Inc. of Portsmouth, N.H., announced that it acquired Forefront Diagnostics Inc. of Laguna Hills. Neither ...

Mike Elliott can't figure out Eddie Nash. Elliott is a film producer who has managed to finish 80 low-budget films, ranging fr...

Michael Garfinkel, partner with Los Angeles' Rintala Smoot Jaenicke & Rees, says that television can spice up the average ...

John Ponder of Sparber Ferguson Ponder & Ryan has left his full-service firm after 15 years, for the San Diego office of S...

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...