Gov. Gray Davis is holding up $88.5 million in legal fees JAMS says the state owes to five law firms. On Nov. 30, the JAMS arb...

SAN FRANCISCO - While the magic carpet ride may have ended long ago for the '60s rock band Steppenwolf, at least one of its me...

Artisan Components Inc. has agreed to acquire the Silicon Library Business from Synopsys Inc. for $24.6 million. Sunnyvale's A...

San Francisco's Gordon & Rees has recruited its fifth employment attorney this year. Jennifer Sarkozy Branch joins the fir...

Dynavax Technologies Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $75 million. Berkeley's Dynavax Technologies is a bio...

Latham & Watkins partner Michael Hertz has put the San Francisco Bar Association's volunteer legal services program online...

The Defense Research Institute has elected Theresa Marchlewski, a partner at Santa Monica's Haight Brown & Bonesteel, to i...

Justice can only be achieved through a public forum and the prospect of significant punishment. ...

Carr & Ferrell, a technology firm based in Palo Alto, has added Randy Gard as a partner to its intellectual property group...

Supermarket chain Safeway Inc. will buy Genuardi's Family Markets for an undisclosed amount. Pleasanton's Safeway operates gro...

While the mantra for selecting real estate is "location, location, location," the mantra for real estate titan Fred Sands' sel...

Thousand Oaks' WellPoint Health Networks has agreed to buy Cerulean Companies Inc. of Atlanta for $700 million in cash. WellPo...

Jon Gallo specializes in estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, including technology entrepreneurs and sports and ent...

San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has received the "Deal of the Year" award for its transactional work that he...

All around the country, the Justice Department has filed lawsuits against localities for the offense of maintaining "at-large"...

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has acquired Fred Sands Realtors of Los Angeles for an undisclosed amount. Operations of...

In Pavicich, the court converted a mere pleading hurdle to the filing of a civil-conspiracy claim against an attorney and clie...

Francisco Partners and Citicorp Venture Capital have joined forces to buy 80 percent of American Microsystems Inc. for $525 mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Arizona statute that criminalizes "experimentation" with fetal tissue from abortions is unconstitutionally ...

The Orange County Women Lawyer's Association has sworn in Michelle Lents, name partner at Lents & Foley in Irvine, as its ...

Three decades ago, much of Orange County was farmland covered with strawberry patches and orange and lemon groves. Today, it's...

After wrapping up a short term as general counsel to Torrance Web startup eStable Inc., Edward Swanson is once again plying hi...

In a publicity coup for all parties involved, the New York-based Forbes magazine named three Northern California law firms to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A determined mediator, widespread publicity and a pending motion for class certification all pushed Providian ...

California's law firms have to do much more these days to retain their best associates than simply give them hefty pay raises ...

After their firm decided to merge into Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld without them, the insurance group from Century City'...

Soy sauce is a wonderful condiment. I can't live without it. If it were possible, I'd have soy sauce-flavored toothpaste. Imag...

San Francisco's Union Square was at its merriest last month. The holiday decorations were up, and the trees were lighted. Stre...

What was once a perfunctory San Diego satellite office of Arter & Hadden has become a destination for several San Diego la...

SANTA ANA - As Orange County prosecutor Richard M. King prepares to take his newly appointed seat on the Superior Court bench,...