Remec Inc. will acquire Spectrian Corp. The cash and stock deal is worth $160 million and was announced May 19. San Diego's Re...

The recession started March last year but never officially ended, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. And f...

HealthSouth Corp. closed a high-yield senior note offering, which brought in $1 billion. The deal closed May 22. The managers ...

After nearly 15 years at Seyfarth Shaw , Stephen A. Bauman decided it was time for a change and has joined the family wealth p...

Edward Grenville , the former general counsel, vice president and secretary of GE Capital Container Finance Corp. and Genstar ...

While news of the unfolding drama at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison grabbed headlines in San Francisco and beyond, local law f...

Manugistics Group Inc. has acquired Western Data Systems Inc. in a deal announced May 6. The terms of the deal were not disclo...

Liquidmetal Technologies went public May 21. Its offering brought in $75 million. Merrill Lynch & Co. served as lead manag...

The Closer - By Paul Bergman - In the Disney cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the wicked stepmother repeatedly asks,...

Associates and summer interns, including those in Los Angeles in white-collar criminal defense, find that it's never too early...

Partner Victor Hebert represented REMEC Inc. in its $160 million acquisition of Sunnyvale's Spectrian Corp., which designs equ...

Sherman Wilke , the founder of one of Sacramento's oldest law firms, Wilke Fleury Hoffelt Gould & Birney , died May 23 fro...

After 15 years at One Sansome Street, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro will move its 30-lawyer San Francisco office into b...

Intel Corp. acquired New Focus Inc. in a deal valued at $50 million. The deal closed May 23. Santa Clara's Intel produces and...

Blue Shield of California will acquire Lifeguard Inc. The deal was announced May 30. The financial terms of the deal were not ...

SACRAMENTO - An attempt to bar lobbyists from relaying contributions from third parties to political candidates has failed be...

LOS ANGELES -City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo returns today from Great Britain where he and other Democratic elected officials a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert O'Connor said he was living "the Park City lifestyle" as a vice president and general counsel of Provo'...

MERCED - Judge Robert D. Quall doesn't do anything halfway. Whether it's playing racquetball, helping the sick and poor in Afr...

Forum Column - By Michael Berenbaum - If we call the diplomacy under way a return to the "peace process," we are confused by t...

SAN DIEGO - Some observations - some strange, some funny, some sad - from the first week in the trial of David A. Westerfield,...

SAN FRANCISCO - During her tumultuous defense of a drug dealer, Mill Valley attorney Maureen Kallins got into shouting matches...

Column by Garry Abrams - In Nikki v Mickey, the score is now 1-0 in favor of the plaintiff. On Friday, former New York...

When Venture Law Group was founded in 1993, its mantra was to handle only corporate matters - no litigation allowed. That stra...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren won't rule until June 17 on whether attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert No...

SANTA ANA - Attorney, pharmacist, hospital administrator, civilian air patrolman, balloonist, university dean and Coast Guard ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Protesters' shrill whistles and bullhorn chants failed to deter Hastings College of the Law directors from una...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that insurance companies do not engage in the unauthorized practice of law when ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles attorney Hillel Chodos says his brother's book on the law of fiduciary duty should be on every law...

LOS ANGELES - Under the spotlight, Courtney Love has changed from vulgar punk rocker to critically acclaimed actor to her curr...