SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could change the way banks and title companies handle escrow accounts, a San Francisco judge ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Submitting to private arbitration to resolve a lawsuit bars a defendant from later bringing a malicious prosec...

Among actions announced Monday, April 16, 2001 by the justices were:

Waste Connections Inc. has closed a $115 million private offering of convertible notes with Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. as th...

Three years ago, Jeffrey Cohen represented Fox Entertainment Group when it bought the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Today...

Los Angeles' Cotkin Collins & Ginsburg has donated computer equipment to a local elementary school. Last month, the firm g...

SureBeam Corp. has gone public in an offering valued at $74 million. San Diego's SureBeam uses an electronic pasteurization pr...

Tampa's Holland & Knight elected two West Coasters to its 25-member directors' committee. Not a bad showing for the Golden...

Television network NBC Inc. will buy the outstanding shares of NBC Internet Inc. for $150 million. NBC already owns 38 percent...

Effective April 1, April Fool's Day in the United States but the start of the new fiscal year for most Japanese businesses, th...

It used to be that one of the benefits working in a corporate legal department was there were no dreaded time sheets to fill o...

Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, based in Los Angeles, has elevated two associates. John Henning Jr. and Wi...

Lawyers are sheriffs of companies, the ethical backbones, the only things standing between companies and corporate anarchy. We...

The 80-lawyer Los Angeles business firm Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has added two lawyers. Partner James Richman and ...

Unexplored Inc. has acquired Resort Automation Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $6 million. San Francisco's Unexplored ...

Roxanne Christ, an intellectual property lawyer with experience that ranges from entertainment to media and education, joined ...

After working too late the night before, associates Angus MacDonald, Kathleen Weaver, Bijal Vakil and Mehrnaz Boroumand of San...

Helene Hahn wears a lot of labels: the ultimate Cinderella story, behind-the-scenes nemesis of Disney's Michael Eisner and one...

Tax and estate planning attorney George Short has merged his practice - Short & Associates - with Santa Barbara's Hatch &a...

Foster Farms will acquire the chicken operations of Zacky Farms Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Livingston's F...

Metatags are a nifty tool for getting Internet users to visit your site. Metatags are HTML code contained in a Web site but no...

Chicago's Winston & Strawn picked labor and employment partner Laura Petroff to head its not-quite-2-year-old Los Angeles ...

After a short hop to Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, former Disney lawyer Miriam Claire Beezy moved over to Cent...

While most of us dutifully write the check for our income-tax bill due today, most of Charles Bowman's clients haven't paid ta...

WD-40 Co. has agreed to buy with Global Household Brands for $69 million. The San Diego's WD-40 manufactures industrial lubric...

Pitney Bowes Inc. will acquire Alysis Technologies Inc. in a cash deal valued at $24 million. Pitney Bowes, based in Stamford,...

Ian Ballon, a partner at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips, has published a three-volume legal treatise on Internet la...

Internet real estate rivals PropertyFirst.com Inc. of San Francisco and LoopNet Inc. of Alhambra have merged. The value of the...

"Beauty contests" are the lawyer's version of a Survivor episode, as firms compete for a corporate client's business. But clie...

The San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger & Harrison welcomed a new executive compensation tax partner into its Irvine offic...