How much is a reputation worth? A state appellate court has ruled that it's "impossible" to say whether a Sonoma County develo...

A system of clandestine government payments in exchange for information has grown into a cottage industry that includes profes...

In an 11th-hour attempt to discredit one of four officers on trial for alleged corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether magazine and newspaper publishers infringe the copyrights of ...

Underwear manufacturer Fruit of the Loom has got its knickers in a twist with the well-known law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris,...

The city of Los Angeles tentatively has agreed to pay nearly $11 million to settle 29 lawsuits filed by victims of corrupt Ram...

A Los Angeles prosecutor improperly urged jurors to impose the death penalty by invoking "God's law" as justification in four ...

The California Supreme Court decided Monday what kind of milk Californians should drink. From now on, the court said, only mil...

Irvine communications chip maker Broadcom Corp. is acquiring Allayer Communications, a privately held developer of optical net...

Oakland's Zhone Technologies has filed an initial public offering valued at $345 million. Zhone Technologies develops subscrib...

Calabassas' Ixia has gone public in an offering valued at $71.5 million. Ixia is developing a family of platforms for testing ...

The 9th Circuit just heard oral arguments in a high-profile right-of-publicity case. ...

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc. has agreed to acquire Cerprobe Corp. in a deal valued at $225 million. Kulicke and Soffa, ba...

Senior- and middle-school teams from throughout the county will participate in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 23rd ann...

Most of the remaining lawyers from Majestic Parsons Siebert & Hsue have landed in the new San Francisco office Skjerven Mo...

Lawyers can help clients keep their carefully packaged marketing morsels from degenerating into distasteful "spam," thus avoid...

Los Angles' Loeb & Loeb considers its most recent lawyer acquisitions, both from the corporate world, to be a coup for the...

Squire Sanders & Dempsey, the big national firm out of Cleveland, recently hosted a contingent of 80 lawyers from Japan at...

The demise of an 18-year-old San Francisco intellectual property boutique means five new lawyers and another patent agent for ...

Amid reports that another county worker may have contracted Legionnaires' disease, union officials charge that the county down...

Stephen Yagman just doesn't know when to quit. This is how the Los Angeles civil rights lawyer and renowned gadfly recently co...

To promote justice, all members of the bar should stay informed about rule-of-law issues here and abroad and speak out in favo...

Sunnyvale's Web content management software maker, Interwoven Inc., has agreed to acquire two companies: San Francisco's Metac...

Sullivan & Cromwell, a big New York firm with 45 lawyers in Los Angles, lit a fire under East Coast year-end bonuses when ...

Chevron Corp. has agreed to acquire Texaco Inc. for $36 billion. Chevron also will acquire $7 billion of Texaco's debt. San Fr...

Terry Kee, corporate and securities partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco, is a little weary of the media ...

Attorney Stephen Kaufman is a political junkie, the Smith Kaufman name partner practicing the arcane art of campaign and elect...

Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers isn't one to shrink from the limelight. Litigator Dan Petrocelli, whose name became a house...

Sliding easily from bar to clustered armchairs and back again, they paused from time to time to graze from trays laden with go...

Santa Rosa's Lanahan & Reilley has doubled in size in three years. "We're not doing it to be a large law firm," Daniel Lan...