Los Angeles jurors no longer assume that all police officers walk the straight line. ...

More firms are returning from their year-end meetings with new-partner lists in hand. As the business boom continues, large-fi...

What has transpired since Richard H. Sheehan Jr. became special counsel to the beleaguered Los Angeles Board of Education has ...

A senior partner with San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, Bill Coblentz is considered the Bay Area's best spokesm...

Stayhealthy Inc. has acquired the Center for Health Information from PharMerica Inc., a subsidiary of Bergen Brunswig Corp. Th...

Gazillions of dollars, or maybe even more - that's the amount of profit a company potentially can mine from its dormant intell...

Comerica Inc. has agreed to purchase Imperial Bancorp in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $1.3 billion. Comerica is a D...

Broadcom Corp., a maker of communication semiconductors, has agreed to buy chip maker SiByte Inc. for more than $2 billion in ...

Global Sports Inc. is acquiring online sporting goods store Fogdog Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $42.5 million. Glob...

Resources Connection Inc. has filed for an initial public offering worth $84.5 million. The Costa Mesa company generates nearl...

The San Francisco outpost of Tampa's Holland & Knight brought aboard consultant Doug Metz for an exclusive engagement as f...

One of two lawyers who joined the Costa Mesa office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro this summer was formally ...

The court stated that local government and the county had authority to enter into contracts to regulate land use. ...

After his firm was split apart by a sudden one-two punch, Bill Hoffman has found a home at Farella Braun & Martel, a 110-l...

The California Minority Counsel Program deals with reality, reminding lawyers and corporate executives that to get beyond raci...

San Jose's ONI Systems Corp. has completed two simultaneous public offerings: 8 million shares of common stock and $300 millio...

Thanks to the Bar Association of San Francisco, pushing up those pro bono service hours just got easier. The bar's Volunteer L...

RIVERSIDE - The nine members of a new citizen Police Review Commission have selected Bob M. Garcia, a church office manager, a...

Disability advocates fear an appellate court's recent termination of a mentally disabled parent's rights could lead to widespr...

An alternate panelist's claims of juror misconduct in the recent Los Angeles Police Department corruption trial could place in...

A Bangladeshi couple living in Los Angeles has been indicted on federal civil-rights and immigration charges for holding an il...

Since becoming co-managing partner and now sole managing partner of Paul Hastings, Greg Nitzkowski conducts something of a lon...

Hundreds of sleep-deprived lawyers from across the country continued their work on a flurry of lawsuits and hand recounts Frid...

A pro-defense Web site's publication of two police officers' home addresses and telephone numbers caused a heated exchange dur...

DENVER - A quick glance at Dale Harris' resume may convince some that he won't have enough time to be this year's president of...

SACRAMENTO - State agencies have little knowledge and no adequate policies for managing their intellectual properties, which c...

Although police illegally detained a confessed killer for 76 hours without an arraignment, a federal appeals court has upheld ...

A twice-convicted former tax attorney, who was the government's key witness in the payola prosecution of a recording industry ...

Surreptitiously evicting hundreds of California red-legged frogs from their home pond that was in the path of development has ...

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday approved a $10.95 million payout to settle 29 civil rights lawsuits related to the Ramp...