Civil litigator James Gilpin has taken the helm at the San Diego office of Best Best & Krieger . Gilpin became managing pa...

SiRF cq Technology Inc. closed its eighth round of financing March 11. SiRF grabbed more than $19 million in this round. The i...

Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Plato Design Systems Inc. in a deal worth $57 million. The deal was announce...

Resonext Communications Inc. brought in $25 million in its third round of funding, which was completed March 11. INVESCO Priva...

Creative Technology Ltd. has agreed to acquire 3Dlabs Inc. The $103 million deal was announced March 11. Singapore's Creative ...

For a small firm, O'Neill Lysaght & Sun sure does get around. The Santa Monica litigation boutique has found its way into ...

CardioNet Inc. closed a third round of funding that raised nearly $19 million. The deal was announced March 11. The investors ...

Partner Steve Bochner combined the legal skills from his 20-year career with the business knowledge he's acquired representing...

Brobeck Phleger & Harrison moved from its old Geng Road address in Palo Alto to a new building in the same city on March 1...

Pam Reed , one of three managing partners for operations at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, simply didn't have enough...

Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish snagged a business and corporate partner from the downtown off...

It's about to get a lot roomier over at Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard . The 200-attorney firm is leasing ...

Stratos Lightwave Inc. has agreed to acquire Paracer Inc. in a deal announced March 19. The stock and cash transaction is wor...

James McGinnis has left San Francisco litigation boutique Morgenstein & Jubelirer to join the local office of Sheppard Mul...

Agile Storage Inc. closed its Series B funding, which brought in $26 million. The venture capital deal was announced March 19....

Mechanical Dynamics Inc. has agreed to acquire MSC.Software Inc. for $120 million. The cash deal was announced March 18. Ann A...

During the first year of the 2001-2002 Legislative Session, the Legislature and Governor enacted over 100 bills that affect th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors have embarked on three risky and difficult trials to break up two notorious prison gangs a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Antitrust claims against Microsoft Corp. that have bounced from judge to judge on the San Francisco trial benc...

SAN FRANCISCO - An eagerly awaited ruling on a controversial San Francisco housing law appears to have done little to clarify ...

Focus Column - By Lawrence I. Davidson and Elliott Raff - On June 7, 2001, President Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax R...

Forum Column - By Daniel D. Bland - Gloria Allred's recent article, "Bible Inspired Bias: Religious Bigotry Doesn't Belong in ...

Forum Column - By Susanne Browne - The 31-year-old war on drugs has consumed billions of dollars toward the eradication of ill...

LOS ANGELES - Two federal civil-rights suits pitting a Westlake Village businessman and a San Bernardino County attorney again...

LOS ANGELES -Some First Amendment experts said Friday that the Police Commission must open to the public its hearing on Chief ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed nearly 1,000 bills in 2001. On the civil side, Davis signed laws that revamp a process for...

SAN JOSE - Santa Cruz County District Attorney Kate Canlis has conceded defeat, saying she will not seek a recount of the Marc...

SACRAMENTO - A convicted sex offender who took pictures of young girls at a theme park cannot be prosecuted under a state stat...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time since Gov. Gray Davis declared Cesar Chavez Day a state holiday two years ago, the state cour...

LOS ANGELES - The director of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board had the unilateral right to fire a workers' compensation...