Expanding its appellate practice, Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld hired constitutional and civil rights lawyer...

Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's controversial ouster of Tower Snow Jr. in May for allegedly orchestrating the defection of 17...

Solectron Corp. has acquired Magnetic Data Technologies in a cash deal that closed June 11. The deal was worth $70 million. Mi...

FullAudio Corp. announced its third round of funding June 19. It brought in $14 million for the company. New Enterprise Associ...

As San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen merged with Boston-based Bingham Dana , the former chairman of McCutche...

John Montgomery , a corporate partner at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison who billed $10 million in the past two...

Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw partner Philip Recht is a refugee of the Bill Clinton administration - and a proud one at that. Whi...

DiCarta Inc. closed a $19 million round of funding June 25. Menlo Ventures led the round. Needham Capital Partners, Sequoia Ca...

Salmedix Inc. completed its Series B financing June 19. The San Diego company brought in $28 million. CMEA Ventures Life Scien...

Conexant Systems Inc. has acquired GlobespanVirata's video compression business in a deal that closed June 24. Conexant has ag...

PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest Corp. closed a private placement debt financing June 6 that brought in $100 million. As p...

Los Angeles' Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has pared five partners and 10 associates from San Francisco-based Sedgwick D...

Recently spun off from parent Allergan Inc. , eye-care company Advanced Medical Optics Inc. in Santa Ana has tapped Aimee Weis...

Corporate partner Sean McAvoy led Francisco Partners in its takeover of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services, a dea...

The Closer - By Dov Seidman - A lawyer and chief executive officer who recently served as UCLA's commencement speaker offers h...

Francisco Partners has agreed to an $800 million leveraged buyout of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services. The deal...

Pillsbury Winthrop has laid off three staff members in San Francisco and seven in New York, the firm confirmed June 25. It als...

Paracor Surgical Inc. completed its second-round venture financing June 25. The round brought in $16 million. Pequot Ventures ...

Michael Berk has joined the litigation practice of Los Angeles' Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella as p...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven Van Sicklen presided at the enrobing ceremony Friday for four new judges...

LOS ANGELES -On Labor Day 12 years ago, a mother and her teen-age daughter were arguing in the kitchen of their Los Angeles ho...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake asked the Court of Appeal on Friday to force Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash to ...

Forum Column - By David Steinberg - Recently, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Pledge of Allegiance violate...

Focus Column - By Louis R. Dienes - Intellectual property assets are an increasingly significant portion of the value that buy...

LOS ANGELES - If a patient is treated in a hospital by a doctor who commits malpractice, the patient can sue the hospital for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall graduate Jonnie Jacobs took her legal knowledge and turned it into a series of mysteries about a No...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is set to chair the confirmation hearing July 18 for one of President Bush's mor...

LOS ANGELES - Walking into the courtroom of Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Erick L. Larsh, one is struck with an on...

WASHINGTON - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge who wrote the holding that the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutio...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Public Utilities Commission ran into a major snag last week in its battle to win approval for its al...