Sunnyvale's Endwave Corp. has gone public in an initial public offering valued at $84 million. Endwave designs components for ...

According to Bay Area co-managing partner Bruce Czachor, the Menlo Park office of New York's Shearman & Sterling is back o...

A few clear themes that distinguish between those individuals who made the Top 100 list and those who came close emerged in th...

Wylie Aitken Santa Ana's politically minded trial lawyer. Aitken, who in 1960 campaigned for John F. Kennedy, remains committe...

Influence. This entire issue of California Law Business is devoted to it. Who has it, who wants it, who's lost it. And, while ...

Sempra Energy International has completed the purchase of Dominion Resources Inc.'s natural gas and electricity assets in Arge...

Effective Nov. 1, senior Morrison & Foerster finance partner Keith Wetmore will become the new chairman of the 965-lawyer,...

Corixa Corp. has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Coulter Pharmaceutical Inc. The deal is valued in excess of $900 ...

California law firms are counting up their annual meeting ballots, and naming new partners by the scores. Now is also the time...

While young lawyers may be adept at legal subjects, they are showing a decline in general knowledge. ...

One hundred million dollars a year in state funds may seem like a lot of money, especially when it took two lawsuits and 20 ye...

The widespread backlash against the Boy Scouts of America has vindicated his 10-year legal battle, a former New Jersey scoutma...

A bogus report of a man aiming a rifle at a group of school children Friday morning marred a county event to kick off a new pr...

It makes business sense to encourage accessibility, for then a whole additional segment of the population can have access to t...

WASHINGTON - Over a 31-year period, Andre Brigham Young has been convicted of six violent rapes. He was released from prison a...

SAN DIEGO - An American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit contends that the Boy Scouts shouldn't be allowed to lease public land b...

TUSCON, Ariz. - When Tucson attorney John Messing admits to being "heavily involved in something called XML," it may sound lik...

Flashbacks and nightmares of a brutal and traumatic childhood began intruding on the present when Donna Friess, a community co...

One confirmed and two suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported among county employees working in a Wilshire...

Stuart Eppsteiner of Solana Beach's Eppsteiner & Associates is tired of insurance companies calling the shots. He says tha...

BigVine.com Inc. and SmallBusiness.com. have combined operations, creating a new Internet company targeting small businesses. ...

The law, like baseball, is a game of inches and tradition. In the case of Robert Earl Olmsted, it was just 1/32 of an inch an...

The Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice recently honored retired Rep. Edward R. Roybal for his fight against discrimination...

WASHINGTON - Congress has urged the Department of Interior to settle the massive class action filed four years ago by hundreds...

In product liability litigation, jurors are not just jurors - they are also consumers with expectations about a manufacturer's...

Daniel Petrocelli, high-profile litigator of O.J. Simpson civil-suit fame, expressed a mixture of sadness and excitement yeste...

The day Joseph Coyne Jr. got into the restaurant business 13 years ago to help a friend from France, the stock market took its...

San Jose's Skjerven Morrill MacPherson has acquired three partners from a San Francisco intellectual property firm that expect...

Lawyers are often confused about the identity of the person who really runs the courtroom. It is not they or the judge. It's ...

The California Supreme Court recently proved the old adage that "hard cases make bad law." In Johnson v. Superior Court, 80 Ca...