Integrated circuit design companies Simplex Solutions Inc. and Altius Solutions Inc. have merged. The value of the stock-for-s...

Siemens Medical Engineering Group has agreed to acquire Acuson Corp. The deal is valued at $700 million. Based in Erlangen, Ge...

Champagne, hors d'oeuvres and speeches accompanied the launch of Sidley & Austin's new Public Interest Fellowship Program,...

Mediation Works, a Howard Lloyd creation, may be the state's first law firm-owned mediation panel that includes practicing att...

In another northward spurt, Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges sent 14 of its Palo Alto lawyers up to a n...

Michael Roster, executive vice president and general counsel of Oakland's Golden West Financial Corp., is the new chair of the...

Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, one of the largest law firms to emerge from this country's Rust Belt, is rolling up its sleeves ...

The Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians and Miller & Schroeder Financial Inc. have closed a $70 million deal to finance...

Holland & Knight, a 1,100-lawyer Tampa firm, has recruited more lateral attorneys in California and promises more of the s...

It all started with Mr. Woodchuck. Mr. Woodchuck was, in a sense, the first client of Venice-based new-media incubator Rosen &...

Los Angeles-based Brown Winfield & Canzoneri has added three litigation partners. Nowland Hong, Michael Mullins and Michae...

Maxtor Corp. will acquire Quantum Corp.'s Hard Disk Drive Group in a transaction valued at $2.3 billion. Milpitas-based Maxtor...

FAIRFIELD - Witnesses' claims of fear and forgetfulness are hindering a death row inmate's bid to prove that prosecutorial mis...

Fenwick & West, Farella Braun & Martel and McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enerson certainly know how to sell themselves -...

San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has recruited three new patent attorneys for its Northern California offices. "...

Downtown Los Angeles' Breidenbach Buckley Hutching Halm & Hamblet has lost one of its attorneys to the Westside. James Kam...

The appellate courts have not established practical guidelines to determine punitive-damages liability, thus complicating oppo...

Three times is a charm for Cruz Reynoso, University of California, Los Angeles, law professor and special counsel to the Los A...

Paraphrasing the Beatles, Joseph Posner suggests that the recent Armendariz decision was, for plaintiffs' lawyers, a big tease...

RIVERSIDE - A sheriff's detective who was injured in an auto accident with an Ecstasy-induced woman who had just attended a ra...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A Century City attorney accused of assisting in a "dirty tricks" campaign against an opponent of the Rail C...

Federal prosecutors dropped charges Friday against a Santa Monica salesman after his lawyers offered evidence that they say sh...

The former teen-age girlfriend of rogue Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez has told federal investigators that Perez shot...

Just because an attorney went to a prestigious school, or has a good book of business, doesn't mean that he or she will automa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown won't have to give up his $1 million downtown home in order to play a leading role i...

Los Angeles County's service workers union announced Friday afternoon that post-strike contract bargaining had resulted in sig...

SAN DIEGO - Guided by a coalition of academics and executives from high-technology industries, a computer and technology crime...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged the Los Angeles City Council to voice its support for an initiative on the Nov. 7 ballo...

When immigration officers came knocking at his door in 1987, Michel Shehadeh thought they were coming to congratulate him. Two...

Twelve Tuttle & Taylor lawyers - including the managing partner and seven other partners, two special counsel, one of-coun...