SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court has reinstated - again - a police brutality lawsuit against North Coast authorities ...

SAN FRANCISCO - There wasn't much law discussed at the annual convention of the American Historical Association, held in San F...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran attorneys call him the dean of public interest law. Young lawyers aspire to reason, write and argue like...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles real estate attorney Allan Albala, who was known as much for his devotion to family as for h...

SANTA ANA - The federal child-pornography case against Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline was transferred Friday ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Something went very wrong with Israel Polidori's Cinco de Mayo celebration two years ago. The day after the...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Friday granted a request by city officials to hold a nonjury trial Jan. 28 that could de...

Greater Bay Bancorp announced Dec. 19 that it will acquire ABD Insurance and Financial Services for $200 million. Palo Alto's ...

Eight months after leaving Townsend and Townsend and Crew for Weil Gotshal & Manages , litigation partner Theodore Herhold...

Smart & Final Inc. closed an $87 million financing and a $175 million revolving line of credit on Nov. 30. The lenders for...

As George Bernard Shaw once observed, "America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language." This is no better e...

While Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati can boast the highest profits per partner in the state (see chart, pg. ...

Harry Miller , the co-author of California's leading real estate treatise "Miller & Starr, California Real Estate," died J...

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., acquired COR Therapeutics Inc. in a deal announced Dec. 6. The sto...

The Los Angeles office of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has beefed up its medical malpractice department with three ne...

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy , a 800-attorney New York-based firm best known for its Wall Street corporate and finance ex...

Sunnyvale's SanDisk Corp. closed a $125 million debt offering on Dec. 24. The underwriter was Morgan Stanley. SanDisk produces...

Large New York firm Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner has taken scores of partners and associates from Baer Marks &...

Donald Oppenheim is leaving legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. to join a public agency law firm in San Leandro. Oppenheim,...

Kohl co-led drug company COR Therapeutics Inc. of San Francisco in its $2 billion acquisition by Millennium Pharmaceuticals of...

In today's wired world it's not only necessary that attorneys input motions, briefs and other court papers into a computer (af...

Hogan & Hartson of Washington, D.C., will acquire New York-based Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld , sources close...

ViaSat Inc. acquired US Monolithics Limited Liability Co. in a $30 million deal closed Jan. 4. Carlsbad's ViaSat produces and ...

Two Los Angeles-based law firms are among the nation's 25 busiest legal advisers for worldwide mergers and acquisitions, accor...

Solectron Corp. has offered adjustable conversion-rate equity security units worth $1 billion. The underwriter for the deal, w...

San Diego lawyer Alan Talbott has taken his estate planning practice to Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch , drawn by the ...

Red Bank, N. J.-based Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. has acquired the home-building assets of Forecast Group Limited Partnership. ...

Industry experts say it was only a matter of time before Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich joined the growing numbe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two themes emerged at this year's J.P. Morgan H&Q Healthcare Conference, according to lawyers who attended...

Does anyone really need another batch of stories about death in 2001? That's the question the California Law Business and Dail...