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...

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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...

Eleven lawyers from Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers are moving into new Menlo Park digs just across the freeway from the lo...

As long as we're on the subject of aggressive prosecutors, Ventura County Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Frawley score...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently that a hospital's drug testing of pregnant women at the direction of the police and the ...

Three months ago, Carson City attorney Thanayi Lindsey was surfing the Web and stumbled across a curious site: MyCounsel.com. ...

LOS ANGELES - A judge on Friday denied a defense attorney's request to sanction the Los Angeles district attorney's office for...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of Michael J. Fanghella, accused by the Securities and Exch...

SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime court reporter for former San Francisco Superior Court Presiding Judge Alfred G. Chiantelli has bee...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tossing a political hot potato back where it came from, the State Bar Board of Governors tabled a request Frid...

LOS ANGELES - The attorney for convicted murderer Robert Rosenkrantz filed a discovery motion late last week seeking informati...

BARSTOW - Ten-year-olds Cash Carson and Daniel Gonzales walked toward a Newberry Springs home last year to ask its occupants f...

LOS ANGELES - Terry Friedman, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, has been named this year's recipient of t...

If you aren't prepared to go all 15 rounds, then you shouldn't get into the ring, according to courtroom warrior A. Barry Capp...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer repeatedly sent threatening e-mail messages to opposing counsel after losing a price-fixing class actio...

SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement of an important Central Valley agriculture case that could come soon will help clear the way for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city's three-year-old legal dispute over its business-tax framework will reach a critical point today when...

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas and Electric's bankruptcy filing, the state's bankruptcy ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The rare reversal of a murder conviction last week by a sharply divided 1st District Court of Appeal panel rev...

SAN FRANCISCO - The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to seek bankruptcy protection rather than a political ...

The food and the decor at the hundreds of eateries owned by restaurant chain Buffets Inc. haven't changed in the last year - a...

Despite the common perception that the federal government seeks only the acquisition of big-ticket items, such as rocket engin...