In a move some observers suggest could reignite February's associate salary wars, all three offices of New York-based Sullivan...

The contentious race for an open judgeship in Sacramento County between two hard-nosed lawyers reflects an alarming trend: Ju...

Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips recently added a pair of partner-level attorneys to its Palo Alto office, one from a...

To win a place on this year's California Law Business list of the state's most influential attorneys, it helped to have a rela...

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Just ask Aaron Alter. The corporate and securities partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goddric...

Townsend and Townsend and Crew has added another outpost, this one in San Francisco's East Bay, just across the water from the...

Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at approximately $40 million. Based in Emeryville...

Where has collegiality gone? Why is there so much disharmony in the courtroom? What can be done to arrest the marked decline i...

SM Lithography Holding N.V. will buy rival chip-equipment maker Silicon Valley Group Inc. of San Jose. The stock deal is value...

Ellie Mae Inc. has acquired Genesis 2000 Inc. The cash, stock and assumption of debt deal is worth $20 million. Pleasanton's E...

Twenty-three county and city prosecutors were among those honored Friday for their work on domestic violence cases. ...

San Diego law professor Bryan Wildenthal has just returned from a 1-week trip to South Africa, where he and other legal profes...

So you want to be among the 10 most powerful lawyers in California? No problem. Just follow these simple steps. You must do on...

Management at San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe says that its office in San Diego's Golden Triangle has seen...

Despite ballooning salaries and more work than its lawyers can handle, San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison managed ...

Sunnyvale's Endwave Corp. has gone public in an initial public offering valued at $84 million. Endwave designs components for ...

According to Bay Area co-managing partner Bruce Czachor, the Menlo Park office of New York's Shearman & Sterling is back o...

A few clear themes that distinguish between those individuals who made the Top 100 list and those who came close emerged in th...

Wylie Aitken Santa Ana's politically minded trial lawyer. Aitken, who in 1960 campaigned for John F. Kennedy, remains committe...

Influence. This entire issue of California Law Business is devoted to it. Who has it, who wants it, who's lost it. And, while ...

Sempra Energy International has completed the purchase of Dominion Resources Inc.'s natural gas and electricity assets in Arge...

Effective Nov. 1, senior Morrison & Foerster finance partner Keith Wetmore will become the new chairman of the 965-lawyer,...

Corixa Corp. has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Coulter Pharmaceutical Inc. The deal is valued in excess of $900 ...

California law firms are counting up their annual meeting ballots, and naming new partners by the scores. Now is also the time...

While young lawyers may be adept at legal subjects, they are showing a decline in general knowledge. ...

One hundred million dollars a year in state funds may seem like a lot of money, especially when it took two lawsuits and 20 ye...

The widespread backlash against the Boy Scouts of America has vindicated his 10-year legal battle, a former New Jersey scoutma...

A bogus report of a man aiming a rifle at a group of school children Friday morning marred a county event to kick off a new pr...

It makes business sense to encourage accessibility, for then a whole additional segment of the population can have access to t...

WASHINGTON - Over a 31-year period, Andre Brigham Young has been convicted of six violent rapes. He was released from prison a...