The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers has named Peter W. Davis president. The San Francisco partner with Oakland's Crosby ...

As chief patent counsel for Proctor & Gamble, Koos Rasser was a client of Washington, D.C.'s Howrey & Simon when the f...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is buying HighGround Systems Inc. in a stock deal valued at $400 million. Palo Alto's Sun Microsystems m...

John Austin, a retired partner colleagues say was instrumental in creating the character of San Francisco's Morrison & Foe...

Amanda McHugh has always been something of a daredevil. Three years ago, the San Diego lawyer traded her stable job at Gordon ...

After Jan. 1, Los Angles' Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey will be just a bunch of lawyers in the local office of Akin...

Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $35 million. South San Francisco's Rigel Pharmaceuticals i...

Santa Clara's diaDexus Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. DiaDexus, founded by genomics com...

It's pretty difficult to interview an attorney about his most recent corporate deal when he refuses to talk about himself. Tha...

Cooper White & Cooper, a 104-year-old San Francisco litigation and transactional practice, has elevated three associates t...

Keker & Van Nest, a 44-lawyer San Francisco litigation boutique, has named four attorneys - Kara Andersen, Steven Hirsch, ...

As of Nov. 1, Latham & Watkins finance and real estate partner Bruce Shepherd became the firm's San Diego office managing ...

After three years at a Tustin biotech startup, M.D.-cum-J.D. Jeff Wall is working his way through the ranks of the Newport Bea...

Touting its success as a midsize firm, San Francisco's Steefel Levitt & Weiss announced last month that it has completed i...

In Smith v. University of Washington Law School, 2000 Daily Journal D.A.R. 12859 (9th Cir. 2000), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court o...

Agilent Technologies Inc. is purchasing Objective Systems Integrators Inc. for $665 million. Palo Alto's Agilent Technologies,...

The unusual joint venture between San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison and Hale and Dorr of Boston will open its thi...

LSI Logic Storage Systems Inc. has completed its acquisition of Syntax Inc. The transaction is valued at $58 million. Milpitas...

LOS ANGELES - With nary a peep, the Los Angeles City Council on Friday allocated millions of dollars to the Police Department ...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Friday named a former O.J. Simpson prosecutor to oversee the Rampart police co...

SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union jumped into the fight Friday against Proposition 21, a voter-approved initiativ...

SAN DIEGO - Three adult book and video stores are suing in federal court over an amended city ordinance restricting when peep ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to clarify the role of the state's burgeoning number of court commissioners, the Judicial Council has...

LOS ANGELES - Judges may not assess the credibility of experts at probable cause hearings, an appellate court has ruled. Inste...

SANTA ANA - A 38-year-old news editor whose breast cancer allegedly went undiagnosed by the nation's largest nonprofit health ...

LOS ANGELES - Memo to the 52 teams who vied for titles in the Landau Lawyer's League Basketball Tournament: If at first you do...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what is believed to be the first criminal prosecution of film piracy in California under a new Internet-sp...

SAN FRANCISCO - Protecting private property rights is a concept likely to underlie George W. Bush's policy toward the environ...

LOS ANGELES - The estate of a homeless and mentally ill woman fatally shot in 1999 by Los Angeles Police Department officers a...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired communications attorney Harry P. Warner. Warner died Dec. 11 at St. John's...