Thomson Multimedia S.A. will buy Technicolor Corp. from Carlton Communications Plc. The cash and stock deal is worth $2.1 bill...

What's going on at Morrison & Foerster? Last month, it was women lamenting over their boyfriends. Guys "doo-whopping" abou...

Two groups of lawyers - one from Cooper White & Cooper, another from Smith Lally & Peffer - have come together to form...

What do Salt Lake City and New York City have in common? If you're a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, that's w...

LOS ANGELES - Gail Standish, a prosecutor with the office of the U.S. attorney, ended her four-year tenure on Friday. She will...

I've experienced the joy of victories. I'm proud to have fought and won. Yet I wonder ... would I have been so courageous if I...

Solectron Corp. will acquire Centennial Technologies Inc. in a stock deal valued at $108 million. Milpitas' Solectron provides...

Public relations firm Manning Selvage & Lee has acquired Pondel/Wilkinson Group, a corporate and investor-relations firm. ...

As the natives would say, "It's a 'burgh thing." San Francisco's Littler Mendelson should pick up the local lingo in no time, ...

In what sounds like a man-bites-dog story these days, Latham & Watkins San Diego partner Dorn Bishop left his big-firm job...

Sybase Inc. has agreed to acquire New Era of Networks Inc. in a $373 million stock-for-stock transaction. Emeryville's Sybase ...

LOS ANGELES - More than four years after a 27-year-old Houston woman plunged to her death from a balcony at the Sheraton Resor...

LOS ANGELES - Calling the city's claims "largely inflammatory," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that the Port of Los ...

WASHINGTON - AT&T and other giant cable-television system owners got a boost Friday in winning their legal victory against...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Alan Hirsch knew that traveling to southern California to have sex with a young girl he had met in an ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Whenever a court hearing draws at least three satellite vans, roughly 70 reporters, 11 television cameras and ...

BALTIMORE - James Rogan, the Republican congressman who voters ousted from office after he helped lead the impeachment of Pres...

Attorney fees sought by a group that battled the State Bar for 10 years over how the bar spends member dues could cost each du...

The resounding message is clear - when the privacy card is played, courts listen closely.

The climate for initial public offerings this year has been chilly and bleak. Not even the latest venture from the poster chil...

Amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act have raised the notification threshold. ...

The best advice for the rescue attorney is to ensure high-quality representation, with the idea of making the representation '...

People from other countries who want to come here to start up a business or seek employment as an executive or manager, or wit...

Just as we have people to help us access goods and services - travel agents and insurance agents for us ordinary folk, sports ...

Although some experts say that President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan may leave businesses out in the cold, several busin...

The Legislature's new laws for 2001 included a multitude of changes to employment laws. ...

The following is a recapitulation of a recent foray made into one of the local courts adjacent to the desert high country. Ple...

In today's job market New Economy employees are as mobile as the phones and personal digital assistants they create. At least ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent attorney Guy Rounsaville Jr., has returned to his in-house roots and taken a position as executive v...

Ever since 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court has reassumed its role as the defender of property rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amen...