Alameda biotech firm Xenogen Corp. has applied for an initial public offering estimated at $296 million. The company develops,...

LOS ANGELES - Beneficiaries of 1940s pin-up girl artist Alberto Vargas have settled their financial differences over the late ...

La Mesa construction defect firm Anderson & Krieger has hired litigation associate Ralph W. Peters. Peters, 46, works out ...

The large and growing gap between general population and law school graduates is a matter of great concern to almost everyone ...

Fred M. Whitaker has returned to Newport Beach's Cummins & White after a seven-year absence. He first joined the firm afte...

Acacia Research Corp. has obtained $19 million in private equity financing. Pasadena's Acacia Research develops and operates l...

SAN DIEGO - The city of Del Mar cannot tax the state organization that holds recreational activities at the Del Mar Fairground...

After four years and more than a 100 percent increase in number of lawyers and profits per partner, Cooley Godward managing pa...

San Jose's Skjerven Morrill MacPherson picked up two partners from its neighbor, Berliner Cohen, also in San Jose. The pair, R...

Pircher Nichols & Meeks, a real estate boutique in Los Angeles, has hired a new law school graduate. Heather Marble Smith,...

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats children. The way children are mistreated by the ...

The energy crisis solution approved by Sacramento is focused on the wrong part of the energy chain. A bailout of Pacific Gas &...

Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro has promoted six attorneys in its Los Angeles office. Five attorneys are now ...

President George W. Bush's executive order establishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives has th...

SACRAMENTO - A San Leandro businessman has been ordered to pay more than $936,000 in damages and attorneys' fees after filing ...

After working in New York for 15 years and branching out into Europe, what' s next? For Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold, th...

Nearly 450 U.S. veterans live and receive job training at the veteran's facility in Inglewood. Located in one of the toughest ...

E*Trade Group Inc. will buy LoansDirect Inc. in a confidential stock deal. Menlo Park's E*Trade Group is an online stock broke...

These days, family law attorney Stephanie Blum is as likely to turn up at a book signing at Borders as she is to appear in cou...

Tripwire Inc. has secured $24 million in third-round venture financing led by private-placement group Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown...

Eagan, Minn.'s West Group has bought FindLaw Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. West Group, a subsidiary of Can...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last summer, with Californians having already gotten their first taste of the electricity shortage, the operat...

INDIO - A medical malpractice lawyer convicted of cheating and molesting more than two dozen clients has been sentenced to 22 ...

SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach man accused of seducing young girls over the Internet and "cybermolesting" them pleaded guilty ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Large oil companies can be sued for the release of the controversial fuel additive MTBE into underground water...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyer Maureen Kallins was contumacious, unprofessional and disrespectful to U.S. District Court Judge...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police union attorneys on Friday expressed cautious optimism about District Attorney Steve Cooley's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel has ruled that a new Supreme Court ru...

SAN FRANCISCO - An isolated, 14-acre plot of ground just over a large brown hill from the stressed-out bustle of the capital o...

LOS ANGELES - Just after Gov. Gray Davis took office in 1999, a diverse group of lawyers confronted his judicial appointments ...