Orqis Medical Corp. has received $9 million in second-round financing. The Lake Forest company closed its first round of finan...

Ted Miller, the former Los Angeles managing partner for Chicago's Sidley & Austin, is now in charge of two offices for the...

A growing number of the managers and associate managers who work in retail and fast-food across the state have a beef with the...

Doug Barton isn't apt to divulge per-partner profits of his firm, Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy. He's equally evasi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Suzanne McKechnie Klahr gave a bag of electronic gadgets to the students who came to her after-school business...

Jim Towery, a litigation partner at San Jose's Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, took a team of eight high-schoolers all the way ...

Communications chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. will buy Sawtek Inc., a wireless-component designer. The stock deal is w...

The Konowiecki & Rank Foundation, a charitable institution created by the Los Angeles law firm of Konowiecki & Rank, i...

Do you want your clients to doubt your value, mistrust you or speculate whether your bills are padded or fraudulent? All this ...

The ACLU's Torch of Liberty Awards attracted 400 movers and shakers, there to honor music manager Jeffrey Kwatinetz and vetera...

Investment firm Gores Technology Group has agreed to buy VeriFone Inc., a maker of credit card payment systems, from Hewlett-P...

The practice of law is performance-based, Karen Pang says. That is why the Crosby Heafey Roach & May attorney polishes her...

LOS ANGELES - Stephen E. Foster has won his first court case - even before he's made the transition from aspiring lawyer to pr...

LOS ANGELES - It is nearly impossible to determine how many lawsuits MacLaren Children's Center is defending. And those in cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - As the sixth anniversary of Jerry Garcia's death approaches, and the probate fight drags on among remaining me...

LOS ANGELES - Somewhere, the ghost of David Begelman is smiling. Meanwhile, his accountant here on earth has reason for a ruef...

LOS ANGELES - Dependency Court Referee Valerie Skeba needed someone who spoke Punjabi to help sort out the perplexing tale of ...

LOS ANGELES - The senior boy's classroom at MacLaren School had the feel of any high school: rumpled kids, who looked like the...

LOS ANGELES - If anyone captures the hope and the harm of MacLaren Children's Center, it is Andrew Bridge. As a child, Bridge ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was in late April that Louise Renne announced her retirement and opened the way for a city attorney race wi...

LOS ANGELES - In three decades, the memories have not faded. Andrew Bridge was 6 years old when police and social workers took...

As many a law student is aware, at least one California law firm is attempting to lead the staid world of prestige law firms o...

The San Diego office of Santa Monica's Haight Brown & Bonesteel has lured a litigator away from the office of the U.S. at...

The formal settlement conference. We all know that the reasonable resolution of a lawsuit is in the best interest of all parti...

Everyone who has an individual retirement account is required to follow the Internal Revenue Service rules in taking money out...

Can litigation damages awarded to a plaintiff (punitive or compensatory) be assigned to a third party without creating income ...

Retired state appellate Justice Clinton White, a mentor to black Bay Area attorneys who was known for his booming voice and d...

Cash-flow problems can be a law firm's downfall. Nearly every firm faces a situation where expenses are incurred before revenu...

The profile on U.S. Department of Justice lawyer Michael Gennaco appearing in the Daily Journal (David Houston, "Gentle Demean...

LOS ANGELES - Michael A. Kilroy, a veteran judge advocate with the U.S. Air Force, joins the civilian ranks with his recent ap...