Canada's Nortel Networks Corp. is acquiring Sonoma Systems Inc. of Los Angeles. The $540 million deal should close by year's e...

THE ADVISER Employers must make appropriate classification determinations for each employee and implement employment policies ...

John W. Eldredge sees little difference in drafting a 150-page patent application and sailing the high seas. "Sailboat racing ...

Irvine's Ista Pharmaceuticals went public in an offering valued at $31.5 million. Ista uses a naturally occurring enzyme to de...

Legal Malpractice by Alec H. Boyd and John M. Orr. The unique role played by monitoring counsel raises obvious questions regar...

DICTA By Mark B. Vezzani. Anyone who has spent time in prisons will tell you that inmates can be downright ingenious. ...

With a high-tech merger these days often looking more like a 100-yard dash than a multimillion-dollar transaction, it was K.C....

BOTTOM LINE Law firms might be surprised to learn that nonunion employees have the right to co-worker accompaniment when quest...

TeleTech Co. Inc. is acquiring Newgen Results Corp. in a stock deal worth $200 million. Newgen of San Diego provides Internet-...

San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen recently signed an inseparable pair of intellectual property attorneys, Mi...

Avistar Communications Corp. of Redwood Shores has gone public in an offering valued at $36 million. Avistar develops, markets...

THE CLOSER The divisive nature of Proposition 22 demonstrates the judgmental behavior of those who supported and voted for it,...

Query: 'What are the three most pressing problems facing the district attorney's office and how do you plan on solving them?' ...

A hungry homeless man must spend 25 years to life in prison because he tried to break into a Los Angeles church to find food, ...

Liberty Digital Inc. has agreed to purchase a 50 percent share of the Game Show Network, a division of Sony Pictures Entertain...

So far, Los Angeles-based Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is among the first firms to pick up lawyers from the breakup of ...

Lillick & Charles real estate partner Lee Gotshall-Maxon hopped over to the 20-lawyer San Francisco office of the Los Ange...

Vista's Pan Pacific Retail Properties has announced that it will pay $440 million to acquire its rival, Western Properties Tru...

Palo Alto's Fenwick & West is scooping up three more attorneys on the eve of the breakup of Schachter Kristoff. The three ...

San Diego's Applied Molecular Evolution Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at just over $88 million. Applied Molecular...

By Karen Coleman. Last week, the Financial Services Group Inc. was established as an independent company, with 30 business pro...

Brickner's Bits by David Brickner. As we know, voir dire has four objectives: get the jurors to like you (if only just a littl...

ADR Attorneys want to succeed in the hot fields of mediation and arbitration, but retired judges have the edge, radiating an a...

DENVER - Court officials in California's San Mateo County want to stop the flow of Hispanics getting in trouble with the law. ...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office filed murder and robbery charges Friday against Damian Monroe "Football" Wil...

Los Angeles City Attorney Howard Gluck crafted a creative disposition with dozens of Critical Mass bicycling activists arreste...

The Los Angeles Free Clinic will hold its Summer 2000 Chapter 7 Bankruptcy training from 8:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., Sept. 16. ...

Four activists who demonstrated their disdain of corporate greed by unfurling a huge banner from a downtown hotel just before ...

A Los Angeles personal injury lawyer and his former assistant laundered more than $1.65 million for two men who helped pull of...

Five lawyers from small and mid-size law firms will join the State Bar Board of Governors later this month, the bar has announ...