Many midsize firms are closing their doors or giving up the ghost in mergers with larger firms. Some blame it on a hostile eco...

Important evidentiary protections exist for sexual-assault victims pursuing civil lawsuits. ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. will acquire Cobalt Networks Inc. in a stock-for-stock merger valued at $2 billion. Palo Alto-based Sun ...

Schuler Homes Inc. has announced that it will merge with privately held Western Pacific Housing. The combined company will hav...

California Tan Inc. has bought California SunCare Inc. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Los Angeles' California Tan,...

Napa's Chalone Wine Group Ltd. has obtained private financing to purchase three vineyards. The unsecured loan is valued at $30...

Seyfarth Shaw ranks 42nd in the state, but its image tends to run beige. To rectify its lack of recognition, the firm has emba...

As difficult as it may be to believe, there really is sexual-harassment insurance coverage. Employment-practices liability ins...

South San Francisco's Exelixis Inc. has agreed to acquire Agritope, based in Portland, Ore. The stock-for-stock transaction is...

Contra Costa's tallest building, One Concord Center, has been sold in a deal worth $55 million. TrizecHahn Corp., a real estat...

The corporate legal department has become the holy grail of a legal career, with attendant respect, and a leader and an associ...

Terrorist groups are still targeting defense attorneys in Northern Ireland despite the desire of its citizens to put the Troub...

The White House, the symbol of the executive branch that enforces our federal laws, has been financed illegally and in direct ...

The Los Angeles arm of New York giant Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom lost corporate attorney Brian McCarthy to an execu...

Los Angeles' Stutman Treister & Glatt, one of the country's leading bankruptcy firms, is mourning the loss of founder Jack...

For the past year, former lawyer Mary Mocine has made a practice of getting attorneys' attention with simple but revolutionary...

Morrison & Foerster has added one partner to its Irvine office and another to its San Francisco headquarters. The most rec...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Pasadena law firm Robert L. Re...

SANTA ANA - Three Southland residents were convicted last week on federal fraud and money laundering charges after bilking som...

RIVERSIDE - The Welsh Choir of Southern California has something to sing about after a judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging it m...

Northrop Grumman Corp. paid the U.S. government $1.4 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the company of ov...

You can get just about anything you want on the Internet these days: books, music, cars ... legal representation. With the Ele...

A federal appeals court has vacated the arson-for-profit conviction of retired San Francisco police Officer William Parenti on...

British officials have confirmed they have no criminal record on file against an Englishwoman facing deportation from the Unit...

Criminal defense attorneys Friday hailed a judge's order to hold evidentiary hearings to probe the district attorney's office ...

SACRAMENTO - It was a year of mixed results for those fighting the problem of identity theft in California. For instance, a bi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments on whether false statements or omissions in applications for sta...

California's civil-justice system has always been a major deterrent against increased job growth and economic development. Thi...

Many California employers, as well as members of the state's burgeoning alternative dispute resolution industry, breathed a co...

The State Bar should develop a scoring system whereby law firm wins are computed like baseball statistics. ...