Cheryl Orr, a former of-counsel to the San Francisco office of LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, became managing partner for t...

Business-process networks developer Viacore Inc. of Irvine has closed $43 million in equity funding from corporate and venture...

Pillsbury Winthrop has tied up one last loose end from its California-New York merger in January. It consolidated two of its o...

By the time you read this, the contract negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television an...

Internet-service provider YellowBrix Inc. has acquired the assets of bankrupt rival iSyndicate Inc. Terms of the cash-and-stoc...

Robert Haymer describes his latest deal as one with a lot of "moving parts." The O'Melveny & Myers partner represented Nib...

Seven months after its November initial public offering, biotechnology company Adolor Corp. has received a $60 million private...

San Diego's Peregrine Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Remedy Corp. of Mountain View in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.1...

The 75-lawyer Los Angeles firm Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan is adding a pair of co-chairs to its entertainment litigat...

The reviews are coming in on the decision by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to investigate phony movie review...

The Scene was about to depart for the 25th annual Douglas Dinner at the Beverly Hilton, when the phone rang. "I heard there's ...

LOS ANGELES - Larry Braun, former head of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton's corporate department, will return to the fir...

Los Angeles antitrust lawyer Harvey Saferstein planted a flag for the Boston firm Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo ...

LOS ANGELES - A man who claimed two police officers kidnapped him from Skid Row in 1997, beat him up and then dumped him near ...

Summer associates, like the partners that hire them, have their eyes on the economic horizon. Despite the flagging economy and...

Manatt Phelps & Phillips music department head Laurie Soriano counsels her artist clients, legally and otherwise. "Sometim...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers from small firms and sole practitioners make up nearly 95 percent of those investigated for discipline o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Baker & McKenzie has lost two more of its San Francisco partners - this time, to the 750-lawyer Squire San...

SACRAMENTO - Proposition 36, the landmark drug treatment initiative, took effect Sunday, yet the fate of drug offenders senten...

In trying to replace a cumbersome and costly legal system with one especially tailored for disputes over Internet addresses, t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Judge Patricia Gray's effort to fight ethics charges by asserting her free speech rights as a defense h...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a patent prosecutor and litigation partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew's Palo Alto office, Byron Coop...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Friday that scores of documents from a recent $55 million rollover tria...

The 'Covenant Care' decision is a strong step forward in attempting to effectuate the Legislature's intent. ...

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Good News Club v. Milford Central School. Widely hailed ...

LOS ANGELES - Substance abusers who have delayed trials or pleas until Proposition 36 kicks in this week should prepare themse...

SAN FRANCISCO - Today is the first business day of the Proposition 36 era, and if the new law isn't enough for San Francisco a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Llillick & Charles, a firm that until now remained aloof from the legal profession's increasing consolidat...

Among actions announced Friday by the justices were:

In Hawkeye Distilling Co. v. New York State Liquor Authority, 460 N.Y.S.2d 696 (1983), Justice Richard W. Wallach held ...