Michael O'Flaherty and Stephen Belgum don't agree on much these days. The December 1997 breakup of their law firm, O'Flaherty ...

Column by Matthew A. Hodel - Time limits liberate litigators from the sins of lawyerly pretensions, forcing them to stick to t...

Sabeus Photonics Inc. completed the second half of its third round of funding, bringing in $21 million. The deal closed April ...

Broadcom Corp. has agreed to acquire Mobilink Telecom Inc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal was announced Ap...

Klinedinst Fliehman & McKillop has moved into a more spacious office in Orange County. Earlier this month, the full-servic...

James Eakin , an intellectual property attorney, and Kerry Smith , a corporate securities lawyer, joined the Silicon Valley of...

Employment lawyer Scott Harman left the Pleasanton office of Rapp Kiepen & Harman after the three-attorney firm, where he ...

Managing partner Bruce Czachor represented Menlo Park's Wachovia Securities in its purchase of senior secured notes worth $57 ...

Thanks to Martha Belcher, the law department of Fannie Mae's Western Regional Office, located in Pasadena, is more than 100 ...

Column by Bobbie McMorrow - A dramatic shift occurred in the summer of 1999. New York managing partners, usually the most conf...

The head of Morrison & Foerster 's Irvine real estate group left the firm for its Orange County competitor, Bryan Cave. Re...

After 16 years at Los Angeles' second largest law firm, real estate rainmaker Pamela Westhoff decided smaller is better. The f...

Spine Wave Inc. and VERTx Inc. have merged, and the new company completed its first round of funding, bringing in $15 million....

Ameritrade Holding Corp. agreed to acquire Datek Online Holdings Corp. The stock deal is worth $1.3 billion. It was announced ...

The attorneys at Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly are probably wondering what's next from their California o...

When management at Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May asked partners in the Los Angeles office who should run the sho...

Perry Ellis International Inc. offered senior secured notes worth $57 million. The deal was announced March 18. Wachovia Secur...

First Data Corp. has acquired Paymap Inc. in a deal announced April 9. Paymap will become part of First Data subsidiary Wester...

Expansion-minded Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch plans to open a larger office in northern San Diego County. Procopio C...

Let's face it. Purchasing malpractice insurance probably doesn't rank high on anyone's list of fun things to do. But for some ...

OAKLAND - Fran Schreiberg, of Oakland's Kazan McClain Edises Abrams Fernandez Lyons & Farrise, will be honored by the Bay ...

OAKLAND - Lawyers who bring cases under Proposition 65 are balking at a set of rules and nonbinding but potentially influentia...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has hired a prominent art world lawyer to help shepherd its ambitious renov...

Focus Column - By Dennis Brager - In the 1920s, Charles Ponzi swindled between 15,000 and 20,000 investors out of almost $10,0...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly approved two bills last week that combat gender-motivated violence, including one that would c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burt Magen is not your typical Hollywood lawyer. He lives in San Francisco. He practices patent law. He has no...

LOS ANGELES - An immigrant who developed a multimillion-dollar cheese-making company has won the latest round in a nine-year c...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden continued to challenge the City Ethics Commission Friday during an enfor...

LOS ANGELES - Friends of Gloria Killian describe her as an intelligent, inspiring and courageous person who has given hope to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have surrendered cartons of personnel files without a fight to federal prosecutors seek...