Chicago's Equity Office Properties Trust will buy Spieker Properties Inc. of Menlo Park. The cash, stock and assumption-of-deb...

Last year, corporate lawyers worked fast and furious to meet the tight deadlines set by their clients selling or buying a busi...

Bioheart Inc. has raised $11 million in a first round of funding. Of that amount, $1 million came from Menlo Park's Tyco Ventu...

Our federal government is not known for its ability to take quick action. For instance, it took almost 50 years of pleas from ...

Continuing its rapid growth, Santa Monica corporate firm Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has added two more lawye...

The Children's Institute International, a local child-abuse prevention agency, recently honored Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Bu...

Intellectual property lawyer Joe Greco returned to San Jose's Skjerven Morrill & MacPherson as of-counsel on March 16 afte...

The ubiquitous San Francisco firm Brobeck Phleger & Harrison furnished two consultants and a big-firm backdrop for televis...

Joan Haratani has been elected president of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. She was inducted at th...

Al Pepin's retirement in the peaceful Napa Valley town of St. Helena was a dream come true. He had lived and worked in San Fra...

Network software provider Novell Inc. will buy Cambridge Technology Partners Inc. The stock deal is worth $266 million. Provo,...

When Spieker Properties Inc. decided to sell all its holdings to Equity Office Properties Trust, the company reached for a fam...

Thirty-five years after Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati corporate and securities department head Larry Sonsini stepped in...

Jason Schauer, 31, appears to be a rising star. With roles in musical productions like "Crazy for You," "42nd Street" and "Cha...

J. Tim Konold, a partner at San Diego's Higgs Fletcher & Mack, was elected president of the American College of Mortgage A...

Joseph Genshlea, a founding partner of Sacramento's Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Sproul, has been inducted into the Trial Lawyer...

Los Angeles-based Murchison & Cumming has elevated Bryan Weiss and Thomas Dias to associate partner. It has also promoted ...

SANTA ANA - A judge refused Friday to reduce bail for a Buena Park man awaiting retrial on a murder charge for allegedly shoot...

SAN DIEGO - Lawsuits that state legislators and the media filed to force disclosure of California's electricity purchase agree...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors want to choose their own psychiatrist to evaluate an Orange County man who is seeking release from a s...

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for the 15-year-old boy accused in the Santana High School shooting filed court papers Friday challenging ...

LOS ANGELES - Name partners James Richman and Jeffrey Kichaven of Los Angeles' Richman Luna Kichaven & Glushon ended their...

LOS ANGELES - A judge strongly suggested Friday that prosecutors voluntarily comply with a defense attorney's request for info...

SAN FRANCISCO - A city's denial of taxpayer funds to support a prayer rally in a public park does not violate the First Amendm...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has turned down an attempt by Oscar De La Hoya's lawyers to remove opposing counsel they a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alice Greenfield McGrath, a specialist with Ventura County's legal self-help program, distinctly recalls the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 14 years in Japan, San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster is launching a joint venture with a native To...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not easy for convicted criminals to win legal malpractice claims because under current case law they mus...

LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey Modisett, vice president and general counsel of Palo Alto-based TechNet and former Indiana attorney gene...

LOS ANGELES - When former Rampart gang-suppression unit Officer Nino Floyd Durden pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to obstr...