SAN FRANCISCO - An angry husband who tried to frighten his wife by telling her "I am going to kill you" is guilty of an attemp...

SACRAMENTO - Led by veteran plaintiffs' lawyers and defended by top corporate litigators, a state Senate panel's investigation...

SAN JOSE - After getting hit with a $182 million criminal restitution award last week, the Avant Corp. may catch a break. Duri...

LOS ANGELES - An old friend died last week. After lingering on life support for months, my chum suffered a swift and brutal en...

Lawyers need to provide positive leadership and look to a client's long-term interests rather than just be concerned with achi...

Barbara Casey has been a legal marketing pro for 20 years, but only in the last three years has her business boomed. The publi...

Edison International's independent power producer, Edison Mission Energy, has signed a long-term power-purchase agreement with...

The Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center of Los Angeles has appointed Kevin Kroeker, a partner at Los Angeles' Konowie...

Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 's latest growth spurt has hit Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner close to home. Since Oc...

The Greekly named Iota Pi Law Group became the first San Francisco Bay Area patent prosecution practice for Seattle's Perkins ...

Aggressively growing McDermott Will & Emery announced July 9 that Steve Aaronoff joined the Chicago firm's Irvine office a...

In its upcoming October term, the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will continue their trend of increased interest in First ...

The latest ruling in the Microsoft antitrust saga saved the company from a remedy that would have sliced the company in two. B...

Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie, which has had a string of high-profile departures since its failed merger talks with Palo...

It's as if O.J. Simpson, in the middle of his murder trial, had agreed to take anger management courses. Microsoft, following ...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 50 years after George Marshall convinced U.S. leaders that heavy investment in postwar Europe would ...

Pasadena's GoTo.com Inc. has raised $142 million in a secondary stock offering. The company sold 3,162,500 and stockholder ide...

On May 19, Greg Brown completed his first Ironman triathlon - a grueling race that combines a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike r...

On July 15, Gov. Gray Davis had California's top employment legal enforcement lawyer removed from his post for issuing a well-...

Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish will host the eighth annual DuPont Legal Minority Job Fair on ...

By their own accounts, Edwin Train Caldwell, James F. DeMartini and Dolores Chong have found success as sole practitioners. Re...

CurtCo Robb Media has acquired Robb Report and Showcase monthly magazines from Luxury Media Corp. The parties did not disclose...

Westlake Village's ValueClick Inc. will buy San Francisco's Mediaplex Inc. for $47.4 million in stock. ValueClick is an online...

The American Bar Association has appointed Joan Haratani, a partner in Crosby Heafey Roach & May's Oakland headquarters, v...

An environmental law duo from the local office of Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal joined the environmental and nat...

Earlier this month, on the Fourth of July, our nation celebrated the 225th anniversary of its independence, declared in a docu...

Mosk's legacy illustrates the limits of judicial power in a society that over the years has become harder on crime and crimina...

Richard McDonald knows it helps to have a plan. The veteran commercial litigator returned July 1 to his old stomping grounds, ...

In its recent decision, Tyler v. Cain, 2001 U.S.LEXIS 4909 (June 28, 2001), the Supreme Court held that its prior holdi...

It looks like Dan Lungren, former California attorney general and legislator, once again is getting comfortable inside the Bel...