DALLAS - Expanding his initiative to improve the diversity of the legal profession, the president of the American Bar Associa...

San Francisco's Wells Fargo will acquire the Escondido-based North County Bancorp for an undisclosed amount. The transaction h...

For the People By Jeffrey A. Lowe In a city of Dickensian extremes, nowhere is the difference between rich and poor more prono...

By Stacy D. Phillips Remember the old television series Perry Mason? Like many others of my generation who grew up during the...

SAN DIEGO - The scene was captured by news helicopters hovering overhead: Agents from the state's attorney general's office, ...

Thomas Umberg , former deputy director of the White House office of national drug control policy, has rejoined San Francisco-...

Six intellectual property attorneys from the San Diego office of Lyon & Lyon have joined Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison ...

Former President Gerald R. Ford came to speak to the civil defense bar about the economy Friday, but when the floor was open f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The final chapter closed quietly Thursday in the famed $1 billion-a-year sports bookmaking scandal that erupt...

San Francisco-based Business Engine Software Corp. has acquired Business Engine Software International, its European operation...

SAN FRANCISCO - Most people claim to know art when they see it, but a recently filed lawsuit asks an intriguing legal questio...

Insider Trader Gets Probation, Fined A 25-year-old former securities analyst got a tongue-lashing from a federal judge Friday ...

The attorney representing elusive Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy is asking to be relieved as the judge's ...

San Jose's JDS Uniphase Corp. and E-tek Dynamics Inc. have reached a merger agreement. Under the terms of the deal, JDS will t...

Four corporate partners - Thomas F. Chaffin, Stephen M. Wurtzburg, David H. Jaffer and Barry Lee Katzman - have left the San ...

Laura K. O'Connor , former in-house counsel to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, has joined the San Francisco office...

Eva Blacksher, an 86-year-old suffering from dementia, had both her feet amputated while under the "care" of two different nur...

Emeryville's Extensity Inc. commenced an initial public offering of 4 million shares of common stock. Though the expected offe...

Redwood City's Interwave Communications International Ltd. is offering 8 million shares of its common stock at a value of $13 ...

Internet service provider AskJeeves Inc. will acquire Direct Hit Technologies Inc. in a tax-free stock-for-stock transaction v...

L90 Inc., a Santa Monica-based Internet advertising designer, issued an initial public offering of 6.5 million shares of commo...

Are heart-rate monitors, body massagers and the like subject to FDA regulation? By Gregg A. Farley and Mark R. Obenstine ...

Many attorneys are devoting their lives and careers to caring for the elderly - in the legal sense. Elder lawyers often must b...

Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Rocky Delgadillo has expanded the field of candidates for city attorney to three by formally announci...

LARGE FIRMS With smaller billable-hours requirements, comparable salaries, and professional-growth opportunities, accounting f...

When Chris Dewees left Morrison & Foerster in October to be associate general counsel for San Jose's JDS Uniphase, he foun...

Releasing its new pay structure on Wednesday, Latham & Watkins is the first Los Angeles-based firm to snatch up the assoc...

In December, San Diego attorney Randall L. Mason , 51, was sworn in as the brigadier general of the 70th Regional Support Comm...

YORBA LINDA - It's a city dubbed by many of its residents as "the land of gracious living," and eastern Yorba Linda looks the...

YORBA LINDA - It's a city dubbed by many of its residents as "the land of gracious living" - and eastern Yorba Linda looks the...