San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has promoted Michael Bacon to partner-in-charge of its international offices...

O'Melveny & Myers has named Jack Hardy , a transactions partner in the firm's Los Angeles office, co-chair of the capital ...

When an attorney represents a small company being acquired by a larger corporation, often that transaction marks the last time...

Lamb chops, garlic shrimp and fajitas offered the perfect accompaniment to the array of wines available for tasting at the Leg...

Nippon Suisan Inc. of Tokyo has agreed to purchase London Unilever, N.V.'s North American seafood operation, which comprises t...

August was a busy month for Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips: A rash of lateral hires brought in three partners and o...

Now that the country is on the bust side of the business cycle, the laissez-faire corporate world is giving way to layoffs, em...

In three short years, Santa Barbara neutral Louise LaMothe has distinguished herself as someone with a comprehensive grasp on ...

Online auction site eBay Inc. has acquired HomesDirect of Pasadena. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. San Jose's eBay ...

For most employers, the prospect of losing a valued employee to a competitor conjures up an unappetizing cocktail of emotions:...

Our paternalistic Legislature has decided we're better off with eight-hour workdays, eliminating our ability to mold work hour...

Palo Alto's Greater Bay Bancorp. has completed a public offering of $103 million in trust preferred securities. The shares wer...

LOS ANGELES - A ballroom full of lawyers gently waving their arms in the air and bouncing from the knees during the State Bar ...

After spending a decade at Silicon Valley stalwart Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , intellectual property litigator Kenn...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge Daniel Didier ordered the release Friday of a teen-ager convicted of an armed...

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Bar Association, acting on what it described as unjust criticism of judges in the news media,...

Hollywood litigator Ed Kubec is just two years shy of 40, but he's already collected a lifetime supply of conversation topics ...

Summertime is rife for TV contract disputes. This year the supporting casts of "The West Wing" and "Becker" caused the firewor...

Despite mass layoffs at Cooley Godward , the firm's San Diego lawyers have decided they need more elbow room. Cooley leased ne...

In 1993, the Legislature established the Unified Program for the purpose of consolidating and coordinating the implementation ...

Solectron Corp. has agreed to merge with Montreal's C-MAC Industries Inc. in a $2.7 billion stock swap. Solectron, based in Mi...

A party who voluntarily cleans up is barred from pursuing a CERCLA action if that party is not already a defendant or the subj...

Twenty-three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered the famous decision in Regents of the University of California v. B...