SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of special masters has determined that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who attende...

SACRAMENTO - For more than 15 years convicted hatchet murderer Kevin Cooper has insisted he is innocent, and lately he has ask...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fallout from the fatal dog mauling case involving San Francisco attorney Robert Noel has ramifications for a p...

LOS ANGELES - Political theater surrounding the city elections reached a crescendo Monday as city attorney candidate Lea Purwi...

Lawyers who don't get enough law during working hours can now get more than enough from TV. ...

LOS ANGELES - Eighteen months after Steven Bochco sued 20th Century Fox for breach of contract, the TV studio's parent company...

San Francisco-based law firms cleaned up at the 2001 Legal Marketing Association's Your Honor Awards. The Chicago-based profes...

Everyone has an exit strategy. For most, this seems to take the form of some nebulous dream career that they plan to pursue af...

Say it ain't so, Heidi-Ho. The saga of Heidi Fleiss continues, with the Hollywood madam lunging back into the news March 29. T...

The ever-expanding Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati opened a new site for its Japanese clients on March 26. The new site i...

The San Francisco office of Los Angeles' Cox Castle & Nicholson added a pair of lawyers from Alden Aronovsky & Sax, a ...

Portola Packaging Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Engineering and Plastics Corp., has bought all the assets...

Thomas Cleary is in an enviable position. The Riordan & McKinzie corporate partner represented a recession-proof fast-food...

A complete legal defense may still be a long shot, but that doesn't mean that liable-but-innocent parties can't ultimately pre...

Less than a week after recruiting new partners for its Silicon Valley and Orange County offices, McDermott Will & Emery di...

Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is becoming something of a nomad in Northern California. After most of...

In a decision that may deter certain lawsuits under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, ...

LSI Logic Corp. has agreed to buy C-Cube Microsystems Inc. for $878 million in stock. Milpitas' LSI Logic designs and makes st...

LOS ANGELES - Lisa Hill Fenning left the bankruptcy bench last year to return to private practice but was unable to find a law...

Chicago's Mayer Brown & Platt is blowing into Silicon Valley. Lawyers there say they expect to open the doors of their sec...

Agilent Technologies Inc. has acquired intellectual property and selected assets from Wavefront Research Inc. The value of the...

LOS ANGELES - The Malibu Bar Association honored Judge Lawrence J. Mira and several others at its 10th anniversary installatio...

Leica Geosystems Holdings AG has completed a forward merger with Cyra Technologies Inc. valued at $78 million. Cyra Technologi...

Apple Computer Inc. plans to buy PowerSchool Inc. The stock deal is worth $62 million. Cupertino's Apple Computers manufacture...

This just in: Bankruptcy lawyers are a very sexy breed. But only if you're into sadomasochism. Bankruptcy is a bar of law wher...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Santa Rosa attorney has been arrested on charges, including financial abuse of the elderly, for alleg...

To Coudert Brothers partner David Huebner, every minute is precious. "I think the most important thing any of us has is time. ...

Atlanta's AFC Enterprises Inc. has completed an initial public offering that brought in $183 million. Goldman Sachs & Co.,...

A troop of environmental partners in the San Francisco office of Chicago's Baker & McKenzie marched over to local business...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to become an intellectual property powerhouse on the West Coast, McDermott, Will & Emery has snared...