Deals: Fremont-based Credence Systems Corp. has acquired Sunnyvale's TMT Inc. in a cash and stock transaction valued at $80 mi...

Deals: Molecular Devices Corp. and LJL BioSystems Inc., both based in Sunnyvale, have agreed to merge in a stock-for-stock tra...

Each year more than 18,000 children are incarcerated in the county's three juvenile halls. While many of these kids are event...

"Is Los Angeles a safe place for women and girls?" asked speakers for the Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women on Fri...

Public Interest: By Marissa Navarro From 1988 to 1995 an apartment building in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte was home to ...

Deals: San Jose's online auction company eBay Inc. has acquired Philadelphia-based online selling and trading marketplace Half...

Real estate attorney Benzion J. Westreich has joined the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Katten Muchin & Zavis from New Yo...

It was a suicide watch on a Thursday afternoon. The barren, brightly-lit white room conveyed no sense of hope for this trouble...

Deals: Seattle's InterNAP Network Services Corp. has acquired CO Space, based in Burlington, Mass., in a deal valued at $244 m...

Deals: International venture capital firm 3i, based in London, led a $6 million first-round investment in San Jose's accelerat...

THE ADVISER: Civil Rights By Denise Serra It has become increasingly difficult to purchase a home in the Bay Area due to high ...

Feeding off the recently bankrupt Landels Ripley & Diamond, Morrison & Foerster snagged six new attorneys for its alre...

Firm Watch: Labor and employment litigator Dennis M. Childs has joined the San Diego office of Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward ...

Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey added Patrick McDonough to its Century City office as a partner June 12. McDonough is...

Forum: By John C. Eastman In 1860, the Republican Party - the party of Abraham Lincoln - included in its platform a stinging c...

Deals: San Jose's networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., which develops routers, switches and other network devices, has acquire...

Firm Watch: By Tamara Scott Transactional attorney Thomas C. Sadler will head Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins ' corporate de...

THE CLOSER: By Craig Simon Like many lawyers, I began my career doing injury defense work. By the time I became a partner in a...

Two men, one who worked for the county jail system and another who sold food to the jails, both of whom ended up incarcerated ...

On the Move: By Tamara Scott Baker & McKenzie's San Diego office is losing another prominent partner - litigation attorney...

Deals: San Jose's Cisco Systems Inc. has completed its stock-for-stock acquisition of Queyton Corp., based in Stockholm, Swede...

Firm Watch: By Tamara Scott The San Diego office of McKenna & Cuneo has merged with San Diego-based Harrigan & Ruff , ...

Firm Watch: San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has broadened its reach in Texas, opening a 15-attorney Dallas offi...

Deals: OmniSky Corp. has filed for an initial public offering of stock valued at about $115 million. OmniSky develops technolo...

Strolling along San Francisco's Embarcadero toward opening day at Pac Bell Park in April, Jesse Capin Smith felt proud. Smith,...

A police department board of rights hearing for an officer implicated in the Rampart corruption scandal will remain in limbo u...

Bringing to 96 the number of criminal cases thrown out of court due to the Rampart police corruption scandal, two more convict...

Calling it "the silliest thing I've heard in my entire life," a major proponent of Measure F - the Orange County initiative th...

The Los Angeles County Grand Jury report released Friday gives a flunking grade to juvenile correctional facilities operated b...