Constellation Brands Inc. will acquire Ravenswood Winery Inc. for $148 million cash. Fairport, New York's Constellation brands...

"The President ... shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the Supre...

On Nov. 29 Jennie Stern suffered a hemorrhagic stroke - a blood vessel burst in her brain - that caused permanent damage. She ...

Autobytel.com Inc. will buy rival Autoweb.com Inc. The stock deal is worth more than $14 million. Irvine's Autobytel is an Int...

Los Angeles' Reish & Luftman has changed its name to Reish Luftman McDaniel & Reisher. Managing partner Fred Reish say...

The economy may be cooling off here in the states, but it's warming up on the other side of the Pacific, at least for law fi...

Volera Inc. has received $83 million in initial financing from investors Novell Inc., Nortel Networks Corp. and Accenture. For...

Sonicport.com Inc. has acquired US Dataworks Inc. in a stock deal, the value of which was not disclosed. Chatsworth's Sonicpor...

Johnson & Johnson will buy Mountain View's Alza Corp. for $10.5 billion in stock. New Brunswick, N.J.'s Johnson & John...

Peter Ferris, a civil litigator who spent most of his career at what was then Oakland's Wulfsberg Reese Ferris & Sykes die...

Sarah O'Dowd, a partner at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in Menlo Park, likes corporate work, especially mergers and acq...

Charlie Walker, who became the fourth partner at Los' Angeles Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker back in 1962, died April 7 o...

Antonia Hernndez, president and general counsel of one of the nation's most powerful Latino civil rights groups, still calls h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The corridor leading to the Alumni Reception Center at Hastings College of the Law is lined with the photograp...

Universal Music Group has agreed to buy Emusic.com Inc. for $26 million in cash. New York's Universal is a subsidiary of Viven...

Once a month Julie Akins, her husband and two step-children wake up early on Saturday morning and head out the door by 5 a.m. ...

Todd Gattoni, a business litigation partner at Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May, recently was elected president of the ...

Yakub Hazzard, 36, blames his mother for thwarting his career as a rock star. "I played the drums when I was younger, for a lo...

No, it's not Houston's Vinson & Elkins or New York's Venable. The firm that wants you to think of it when you see a big re...

Marketing no longer is the four-letter word it once was, equated with selling used cars. There is an understanding that law fi...

RIVERSIDE - Concluding a case marked by a series of unusual judicial twists, a woman has been sentenced to 25 years to life in...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time that she could remember, Abby Leibman stood speechless behind a podium - if only for a moment...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Friday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against Glendora lawyer John Franklyn Wa...

SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy proceedings involving Pacific Gas & Electric Co. have no effect on the ability of the state...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and upheld U.S. District Jud...

LOS ANGELES - A direct-mail duel to woo a lead plaintiff in a class action may be canceled by a state appeals court worried th...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed three women and six men to replace nine retired Superior Court judges in San Diego...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan said Friday the next man to head the city should hold Los Angeles Police De...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of the Bay Area's most prominent lawyers will mount the stage tonight in a benefit performance celebra...

LOS ANGELES - Behind his back, John Gordon's colleagues in the U.S. attorney's office call him "Spock" because his thinking is...