Nearly a year after instituting one of the largest layoffs in California law firm history, Cooley Godward has implemented anot...

Holme Roberts & Owen , a 200-attorney firm based in Denver, is following its largest clients to the Bay Area. Kenneth Lund...

Wendy's International Inc. has agreed to acquire Fresh Enterprises Inc., the parent company of Baja Fresh Mexican Grill. The a...

Six months after a merger deal between Piper Rudnick and San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen collapsed, the Ch...

Yum! Brands Inc. and Favorite Restaurants Group have teamed up to offer Yan Can Restaurant, named after Martin Yan's televisio...

DiscoVision Associates had little luck hiring legal counsel that could adequately represent the Irvine-based technology licens...

Lawyers for the pornography industry don't necessarily get laid more than regular people - contrary to popular belief. "The pe...

A new face soon will be helping manage Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers . Bruce Boulware is scheduled join the firm in ...

Several California law firms have made a good impression on company directors, but New York firms have made an even better one...

Expanding into a practice area that is generating a tidal wave of litigation, Gordon & Rees is adding nine long-term-care ...

Univision Communications Inc. has agreed to acquire Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. in a deal announced June 12. The all-stock dea...

Hitachi has agreed to acquire the hard disk drive business of International Business Machines Corp. The deal is worth $2 billi...

Luanne Sacks , an antitrust and complex litigation partner with Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May , has joined Gray Cary...

Partner and co-chair of her firm's newly formed restaurant, food, wine, beer and spirits group, Anna Graves represented Fresh ...

EarthLink Inc. has agreed to acquire PeoplePC Inc. The deal is worth $10 million and was announced June 10. Atlanta-based Eart...

Aspen Education Group Inc. received a $35 million senior debt facility from CapitalSource. The deal was announced May 10. Cerr...

Lawyers must maintain momentum until they have achieved the desired results, which requires that the lawyers recognize when th...

PortalPlayer Inc. closed its fourth round of funding, bringing in $42 million for the Santa Clara company. The deal was announ...

Commercial litigators Stephen Stublarec and Christopher Byers have left San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop to join the growing...

Plumtree Software Inc. went public June 3. The company brought in $43 million in its initial public offering. Goldman Sachs &a...

Marjorie Sims spent the past year making the legal services community aware of her presence, talking with them about the Calif...

SAN FRANCISCO -Venerable appellate attorney Elliot L. Bien was elected earlier this month as the 30th president of the Califor...

LOS ANGELES - Musician brothers Johnny and Edgar Winter were unhappy about being portrayed as menacing, tentacled, wormlike co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal wildlife officials in California have quietly asked for authority to waive a government policy which, ...

SAN DIEGO - In the third week of the trial of David A. Westerfield, a 50-year-old engineer accused of kidnapping and murdering...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nine months into a landmark trial, Tosco Corp. has agreed to pay $3 million to settle claims that its gasoline...

LOS ANGELES -A Superior Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by two Los Angeles police officers against the Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - Beverly Axelrod, a radical lawyer whose personal and professional links to Eldridge Cleaver drove her from the...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors have obtained a $73.3 million settlement in a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the state ...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy Federal Public Defender Richard Novak was elected commissioner of the Los Angeles Superior Court Friday. ...