By Linda Dakin-Grimm The Jan. 3 issue of California Law Business reported that the percentage of female law school students a...

Peabody, Mass.-based ScanSoft has agreed to acquire Los Gatos' Caere Corp. in a deal worth more than $140 million. The transac...

Todd Piccus, in-house counsel at Mattel Inc.'s software division, joined Pasadena-based HomePage.com as the fledgling company'...

Murphy Sheneman Julian & Rogers, a 40-attorney San Francisco firm, has elevated four associates to partner, effective Jan....

By Thomas W. Casparian The Belmont School firestorm has turned property owners' attention once again to the enormous expense o...

San Mateo's iScribe Inc. acquired eMedicus Inc., as well as the technology of eMedicus' Windows CE-based system for prescripti...

San Francisco-based Gordon & Rees has acquired four attorneys, elevated two to partner and named a new managing partner fo...

Santa Monica-based Launch Media Inc. completed its acquisition of Anaheim's NVS for an undisclosed amount. ...

Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl & Young has opened a Wilmington, Del., office and changed its name to Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, You...

SAN FRANCISCO - An appeal court has publicly scolded a Los Angeles judge and removed her from a murder case since her "imparti...

San Jose's inSilicon Corp. recently conducted an initial public offering valued at $44.3 million. ...

By Leslie A. Gordon While many law firms are scoping out the client market in Silicon Valley, New York's Silicon Alley and oth...

Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips has recruited two assistant U.S. attorneys, Jack DiCanio and Anthony Pacheco, and ha...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday refused a change of venue motion in the wrongful- death case against Glendale Advent...

Assistant Los Angeles County Public Defender Robert E. Kalunian late Friday expressed concern about possible errors made in ca...

Los Angeles-based Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey added nine new associates to its corporate, insurance coverage, ent...

Wasting no time in pursuing its strategic plan to be a leader in intellectual property litigation, the newly merged firm of Wa...

Patent and intellectual property litigators Edward F. O'Connor and Jan P. Weir have joined Newport Beach's Stradling Yocca Car...

SACRAMENTO - With little campaign cash to spend, the battle over the March 7 juvenile justice ballot initiative has become a p...

The Rampart scandal continued to spin out of control Friday as defendants got their first look at a listing of those cases pos...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Friday granted a request by the district attorney's office to release twice-convicted kill...

SAN FRANCISCO - Imagine receiving an e-mail from the Court of Appeal, notifying you that the justices have just filed an opini...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for a San Francisco tax lawyer whose professional accounts were looted by his executive assistan...

In 1999, the United States Congress had a problem in that it had failed to take meaningful action on the Y2K computer issue. T...

Overturning a lower court decision, the California Supreme Court recently refused to impose liability on premises' owners, bas...

Gibson Dunn Promotes 13 Lawyers to Partner Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher raised 13 lawyers to partner, effective Ja...

The U.S. Supreme Court in City of Chicago v. Morales , 119 S.Ct. 1849 (1999), blew away the Windy City's anti-gang law. The co...

Attorney Held to Answer for Heists A Los Angeles attorney has been ordered to stand trial for bank robberies allegedly committ...

On 'Family Law,' a client known only as Justin, hairdresser to the stars, is sued for refusing to "do" a homely woman's hair. ...

On this week's 'Law and Order,' a modern-day Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed, homeless lovers in need of psychiatric care. ...