Bertram Fields of Greenburg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella was been handling a whole lotta action as of late....

Mergers and acquisitions attorneys know just about every aspect of procuring a company. From pitching to negotiating to finali...

Finding that Fibermesh lacked versatility, the court held that the defense was inapplicable to a manufacturer of a single-purp...

MitoKor Inc., a biotech company, is buying Apollo BioPharmaceutics Inc. The value of the stock deal has not been disclosed. Sa...

San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen will pick up three partners from the local offices of Chicago's Baker &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even the most jaded who attend the premiere of the opera "Wuornos" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts late...

The staff of CLB decided it might be fun to find out what kinds of things rainmakers have up their sleeves. Rainmakers didn't ...

What were you doing when the power was cut that afternoon in early May? I was stuck in an elevator bouncing between floors, en...

Rainmakers are confident they can make it through the rough times. The state's perennial rainmakers share their keys to develo...

There is a great shot in the 1952 Billy Wilder film "The Big Carnival" (aka "Ace in the Hole"). It's after the buried miner, w...

Don't fire anyone without talking to Jeff Webb first. Webb, who returned to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher last month from a post ...

SANTA BARBARA - Backed into a corner by a judge's ruling, criminal defense lawyer Stephen M. Hogg has testified about his know...

SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group, one of Silicon Valley's shining stars in the mid- to late 1990s, has let go nine associates...

SAN DIEGO - Attorney General John Ashcroft has appointed veteran prosecutor Patrick K. O'Toole to serve as interim U.S. attorn...

LOS ANGELES - Packing his office belongings to head into retirement, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Arnold Gold kept his nam...

SAN JOSE - Both sides in Bay Area counties' class action against the lead paint industry got something to applaud in a ruling ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first significant court defeat for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in its $10 billion bankruptcy case greatly...

Denise Notzon has gone from "Spam Queen" to privacy czar. At Epicentric Inc., she fills the new shoes of the company's "chief ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With 200 hours of continued rolling blackouts expected this summer, and costs to the economy estimated at more...

LOS ANGELES - With tight polling numbers presaging a close contest, the outcome of the Los Angeles city attorney's race may tu...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a law student two summers ago, Chris Daley spent 10 weeks studying the legal needs of transgendered San Fra...

LOS ANGELES - The California Mart spans an entire block in downtown Los Angeles' Fashion District and houses hundreds of retai...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of the energy wholesalers accused of driving Pacific Gas and Electric Co. into bankruptcy with high electr...

LOS ANGELES - Power of Attorney, a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to expanding the availability of pro bono leg...

RIVERSIDE - Patrick Dutton, a former Riverside prosecutor who unsuccessfully sued the district attorney's office for employmen...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would have required law firms that contract with the state to also provide pro bono services for char...

The 'Brennan' case resolved a conflict among the intermediate California appellate courts. ...

A day after FBI Director Louis Freeh admitted to the House Appropriations Subcommittee that the FBI had screwed up in not coug...

The court system is an interesting locomotive of justice. Its wheels have been progressing for well over 225 years, and it has...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California will receive the American Bar Association's annual award for boosting legal services...