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

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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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two trends emerged at the 33rd annual Institute on Securities Regulation, held in New York City Nov. 7-10, acc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A plea hearing in an Internet teen sex case led to a media protest when a federal judge ordered reporters excl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys from prominent firms in San Francisco and Los Angeles have volunteered to provide pro bono legal ser...

The dueling lawsuits between Franchise Pictures and Intertainment Licensing GmbH have been reassigned to U.S. District Judge A...

The law's patience with the fiction of posted online agreements may be nearing an end. The U.S. District Court in New York, ap...

With the days of summer finally behind us, it is time to look forward to the annual rites of autumn and winter - Thanksgiving,...

A patent attorney should recommend which of the client's inventions to patent based on the business goals and needs of the cli...

The effective creation of disruption and even terror in the United States by the mailing of a small number of letters containi...