Sunnyvale's Finisar Corp. will buy Dallas's Marlow Industries Inc. The cash and stock deal is valued at $300 million. Finisar ...

In the spirit of Fat Tuesday, 400 revelers kicked up their heels and opened their wallets at the Justice Allen E. Broussard Me...

Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May put down roots for an intellectual property practice in its Southern California office...

One big, happy family. Those are hardly the words used to describe most law firms today. Yet, that is precisely what the attor...

'Location, location, location." The phrase is usually applied to the most important factors for real estate and restaurants. R...

These are happy times for Bob Buell, managing partner of San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps. His firm is doing gr...

Siemens AG has agreed to acquire Efficient Networks Inc. in a cash deal valued at approximately $1.5 billion. Siemens, based i...

In our last column, we chronicled the legal strategy of Martin D. Singer of Lavely & Singer. Singer is the press lawyer fo...

Less than six months after wishing his Fish & Neave partner Vicki Veenker well on her move to Shearman & Sterling, Ed ...

Santa Clara's National Semiconductor Corp. has bought San Diego's InnoCOMM Wireless Inc. The cash deal is worth $130 million. ...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate author of a bill to clean up Proposition 34, the voter-approved campaign finance initiative, has...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop started March with eight additions in two California offices. Seven of the lawyers came fro...

Santa Clara's New Focus Inc. has bought Camarillo's JCA Technology Inc. The stock and cash deal is worth $363 million. New Foc...

For the hundreds of entertainment lawyers working in Los Angeles, the concept of a work stoppage has been very, very good for ...

Stormy weather doesn't often hit San Diego. If you believe the city's residents, life's a beach there, and 72 degrees all the ...

Vincent Chieffo, an entertainment lawyer who does both litigation and transactional work, is now a partner in the Los Angeles ...

Most employers know that it is illegal to discriminate against women on the basis of pregnancy and childbirth. However, despit...

SAN BERNARDINO - Prosecutors Friday decided to retry the mental soundness trial of a man who raped his own mother. San Bernard...

Veteran legal aid director Gregory Knoll just received a visitor from Washington, D.C. Knoll wonders what took so long. ...

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. has reached an agreement with Acqua Wellington North American Equities Fund Ltd. for an equity in...

Private practice short-timer Guy Rounsaville moved to the corporate department of Visa International on March 1. The longtime ...

The state Water Resources Control Board has issued new regulations under the Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trus...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Proskauer Rose welcomed back an old friend on March 1 when Kenneth Krug returned after...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has signed a short-term lease with The Presidio Trust to locate the foundation's first h...

Cooley Godward snapped up Dan Mummery , an oft-cited expert that had been in charge of the global technology transactions grou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Political considerations may have persuaded prosecutors to present the San Francisco dog mauling case to a gra...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County assistant public defender said Friday he will ask a state appellate court to reconsider its opini...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster will be shutting down its independent Buenos Aires office in favor of a strategic alli...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca filed suit against the county Friday for allegedly depriving him of pension ...

SANTA ANA - When nursing director Erin Messet got fired from an Alzheimer's hospital in Orange County, she says she did what h...