Russell Frackman, who stands at ground zero of the precedent-setting Napster case, as lead attorney for the recording industry...

Cupertino Electric Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. San Jose's Cupertino Electric is an e...

San Francisco's Curiale Dellaverson Hirschfeld Kelly & Kraemer spent the last year putting together a new club - and you'r...

Los Angeles' premier bankruptcy firm, Stutman Treister & Glatt, is celebrating its first woman executive committee member,...

Commercial litigator John Lynn Smith has become the second partner to manage Crosby Heafey Roach & May 's 100-lawyer main ...

Costa Mesa lawyer Rich Brown, who says he's been keeping busy as a consultant, arbitrator and mediator, is starting 2001 with ...

Ronald Warner, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, has been elected to the board of directo...

Entertainment transactional lawyers can pull many a rabbit out of a hat. They can bring warring titans to peace pow-wows, faci...

For many lawyers, the totally wireless life may seem far away, but an impressive range of wireless products in development sta...

Organized labor was a one-stop shop for employee needs but this "exclusivity" has eroded, with private attorneys usurping the ...

New York's TMP Worldwide Inc. has acquired San Jose's People.com Consultants Inc. The stock deal is valued at $115 million. TM...

Handspring Inc. has agreed to buy Bluelark Systems Inc. The stock deal between the two Mountain View companies is worth $16 mi...

High-powered attorneys. Marital infidelities. A desperate wife. A man found dead in a fancy hotel with his face and fingertips...

Marin County's Brayton Purcell has made a name for itself outside the new economy by cashing in on a wave of plaintiffs' litig...

After shepherding two sons through moves to the Bay Area, antitrust lawyer Geraldine Alexis has packed up her bags and followe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Microsoft victory handed down in Baltimore by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz won't derail the paral...

LOS ANGELES - Surgeons may have hastened the death of a woman suffering from ovarian cancer when they severed her artery durin...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether tough new immigration and habeas corpus laws passed by Congress ...

LOS ANGELES - Arguing that 250,000 Los Angeles residents lack representation at City Hall, a Hollywood group representing comm...

VENTURA - Raising the stakes in what is already a highly charged case, prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty for ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Friday postponed the trial for accused Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson fo...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court panel has struck down a 1998 state appeals court ruling that exempted sheriff's departme...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three-strikes defendant Mario Lara won't be serving a 36-years-to-life prison sentence after all, because a Fr...

SACRAMENTO - Former Attorney General Dan Lungren has agreed to pay a $30,000 fine to settle charges he violated campaign repor...

LOS ANGELES - When Walter Gordon Jr. opened his own law practice in South Central Los Angeles way back in 1937, he wasn't pick...

LOS ANGELES - If he could be raised from the dead, what would Confederate General Robert E. Lee have to say to John Ashcroft, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has announced two firsts: The first associate salary raises of ...

WASHINGTON - When John Ashcroft appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee today for his confirmation hearing to be attorne...

If you don't know where to start with your business development resolutions, let me offer a helping hand. These endeavors shou...

By Robert Fisk They smiled as they were dying. One little girl in a Basra hospital even put on her party dress for The Indepe...