The Arthritis Foundation has appointed Michael Wright, a partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Woods in Los Angeles, to the boa...

A year ago, the Old World was still eager not to be left behind on the road to the New Economy. Today, in Europe, the prospect...

San Francisco's NextCard Inc., which issues credit cards online, has completed a sale of $700 million in secured notes. The th...

The article titled "Credit Bureaus Fight ID-Theft Legislation" (Legal Beat, April 13), which describes the efforts of credit b...

LOS ANGELES - An arbitrator has ruled that the Los Angeles Unified School District must pay $17 million in disputed fees to th...

International tax heavy Bob Kirschenbaum says there's no better place for his practice than the Palo Alto office of Baker &...

Cities and redevelopment agencies that acquire, clean up and develop contaminated properties improved their odds of recovering...

The slumping economy has helped some of William Bernfeld's clients. For example, the real estate partner at Century City's Kir...

Just about every school kid knows about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Edwin C. Anderson Jr. wishes kids knew as much...

Friends and colleagues of the late Roger Sherman, entertainment attorney and senior partner at Beverly Hills' Mitchell Silberb...

M. Henry Heines, a partner with San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew, has been honored by the Northern California Se...

Nancy Heinen, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Apple Computer Inc., could hardly believe her eyes recen...

In what's become a steady stream of lawyers coming out of Los Angeles's Riordan & McKinzie , three corporate partners from...

San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel ponied up $10,000 in scholarship money on June 1 for the first-ever Farella Braun &...

Electronic Data Systems Corp. will acquire Structural Dynamics Research Corp. for $950 million in cash. Electronic Data System...

Corporate and securities partner Irwin Barnet has been named the new managing partner for the Century City office of Oakland's...

Xcare.net Inc. will acquire Healthcare.com Corp. in a $84 million stock swap. XCare.net, based in Englewood, Colo., develops s...

The Inner City Law Center in Los Angeles recently honored Tom Nolan and his law firm, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, for the...

LOS ANGELES - Napster Inc. has hired senior Department of Justice official Jonathan Schwartz to fill the newly created role of...

Gordon & Rees, a San Francisco firm that's looking more and more like a San Diego native, announced May 30 that partner Ru...

The Los Angeles headquarters of Haight Brown & Bonesteel just moved closer to transportation - the expensive private kind ...

Casual footwear company Skechers USA Inc. has taken over the commercial lease formerly held by online retailer eToys Inc., whi...

The Computer Law Association has elected Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser partner Richard Allan Horning to its board of di...

The Internal Revenue Service has appointed Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's Perry Israel to a new advisory committee establ...

Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, was passed by California voters in 1986. Health and Safety ...

This time last year, top Shearman & Sterling partner Peter Lyons was heading out to Menlo Park from his firm's New York ho...

Redback Networks Inc. of San Jose will buy Fremont's Merlin Systems for $57 million in stock. Redback's designs, develops and ...

Computer Sciences Corp. has signed a seven-year, $100 million contract to upgrade the technology information systems of Childr...

"If [management] is not gonna [do what we want], we're gonna have to go to their, their homes ... to blow off their front porc...

At the end of May, the startup-focused Menlo Park firm Venture Law Group became the first Northern California law firm to admi...