In the long and illustrious career of Justice Stanley Mosk, three themes stand out: passion, realism and craft. Mosk's passion...

The legacy of Justice Stanley Mosk, like a mighty river, runs long, wide and deep. The length of his service on the California...

Last month, partners at Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton elected San Diego labor and employment partner Guy...

Appelera Corp.'s Celera Genomics Group will buy Axys Pharmaceutical Inc. for $177 million in stock. Celera Genomics, based in ...

Is there such a thing as a "community caretaking" exception to the requirement that the police must have a warrant to enter a ...

Stanley Mosk was a giant in the law, and his legacy will continue to serve the people of California for many years. The body o...

Lawyers and staff at San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin bade a sad farewell to partner Gary Bruhn...

Now that public-company work is rare and initial public offerings virtually nonexistent, top Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Ro...

Santa Clara's NuCORE Technology has received $20 million in its third round of financing. To date, NuCORE has raised equity f...

Cardiovascular device supplier Medtronic Inc. will acquire two separate but related medical device manufacturers. The Minneap...

Biotech company CV Therapeutics Inc. has completed an equity offering of common stock worth $100 million. SG Cowen Securities...

Pillsbury Winthrop corporate associate Warren Binford got more than she bargained for during a recent sea kayaking trip. In a...

Each year, Michael O'Callaghan competes in one of the West Coast's most rigorous rough-water races, the 1.5 mile Alcatraz Sha...

Lawyers and staff of Century City bankruptcy boutique Wynne Spiegel Itkin became the first West Coast bankruptcy practice for...

New York's Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has added four new lawyers who will help corporate clients in the Los Angeles of...

The Anti-Defamation League presented its 2001 Distinguished Jurisprudence Award to Raymond Marshall, a litigation partner at ...

Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian has helped young, low-income entrepreneurs hook up ...

If you met Justice Stanley Mosk, you might have thought he was a small man. You would be wrong. In a career in public service ...

Happening on a furry, three-toed sloth and finding a giant cockroach in your room come with the territory when you're in Cost...

Jeffrey Lefstin, an associate at San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew, has received the 2000 Ladas Memorial Student...

The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce has recognized real estate attorney Tom Larmore for his work fighting Santa Monica's pro...

While there is a growing consensus about how 'Apprendi' should be applied, there are also areas of disagreement. ...

Latham & Watkins litigator Will Fitton is no tomb raider, but he does know his way around Cambodian ruins. In March, the ...

LOS ANGELES - Like a ball of twine with a mysterious, possibly hollow center, the murder conspiracy case against former Symbio...

SANTA ANA - Orange County's Superior Court judges have elected their new presiding judges for the coming year. Judge Frederic...

SAN JOSE - The former Cadence engineer whose theft of his employer's software code led to the discovery of substantial trade-s...

SAN FRANCISCO - This is the state of film and law classes today: Hours-long discussions parsing Glenn Close's use or misuse of...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney-elect Rocky Delgadillo named the members of his two-tiered transition team Friday, surrounding him...

SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over who will get five of Jerry Garcia's celebrated guitars will stay in probate court, says...

SAN FRANCISCO - The head of San Francisco Superior Court has shuffled the magisterial deck, reassigning about half a dozen jud...