As we begin to recover from the recent terrorist attacks on our country, many law firms find it difficult to concentrate on co...

Now, this was a thief of the first magnitude. First magnitude for the amount of times he got caught, not first magnitude for t...

As of the end of September 2001, nearly 7,000 people were serving sentences of at least 25-years-to-life in prison because of ...

Five long weeks after the Bush administration first proposed its anti-terrorism legislation following the Sept. 11 attacks, P...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a major First Amendment issue, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether states can bar ju...

San Jose's Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Silicon Perspective Corp. of Santa Clara. Neither company would d...

In today's economy, the quick deals are usually the ones that involve at least one struggling company. So when a deal between ...

Cupertino-based Magma Design Automation Inc. raised $63 million in an initial public offering of the company's stock. New York...

In Hollywood, duking it out at a celebrity hangout is a tradition, right up there with throwing cell phones at assistants and ...

Apogent Technologies Inc. of Portsmouth, N.H., announced that it acquired Forefront Diagnostics Inc. of Laguna Hills. Neither ...

Mike Elliott can't figure out Eddie Nash. Elliott is a film producer who has managed to finish 80 low-budget films, ranging fr...

Michael Garfinkel, partner with Los Angeles' Rintala Smoot Jaenicke & Rees, says that television can spice up the average ...

John Ponder of Sparber Ferguson Ponder & Ryan has left his full-service firm after 15 years, for the San Diego office of S...

Motorola Inc. of Shaumburg, Ill. has agreed to purchase San Jose-based Synchronous Inc. in a stock transaction valued at $260 ...

Richard Noack , a partner at Littler Mendelson in San Francisco, will join the employment law department of San Jose-based Hop...

Contra Costa's Archer Norris has appointed name partner Rick Norris the firm's new president. Norris will sell the combined pr...

Latham & Watkins has recruited three international anti-trust specialists to its U.S. and London offices, to broaden the f...

His term limit expired, Mike Feuer has vacated a seat on the City Council for a seat at the counsel table. Feuer, former Los A...

Santa Barbara's Moseley Associates Inc. purchased the assets of Rochester, N.Y.-based Adaptive Broadband Inc. and Adaptive Bro...

Speaking of antisocial tendencies, celebrity divorce lawyer Dennis Wasser of Wasser Cooperman & Carter in Century City has...

San Francisco's Nexant Inc. has agreed to acquire San Jose-based Business Management Consulting Inc. Neither company would dis...

South San Francisco-based Exelixis Inc. has agreed to acquire Boulder, Colo.-based Genomica Corp. in a stock transaction value...

Each of us has our own unique path through life. Some of us are fortunate enough to be able to choose our path, while others l...

First Amendment litigator Robert Vanderet fights for the rights of motion picture studios, journalists and dot-coms to speak f...

SAN FRANCISCO - If a judge's ruling stands, a man who San Francisco prosecutors charged with first-degree murder will soon go...

SAN FRANCISCO - Private law libraries have never looked leaner, but that's no cause for alarm, Bay Area law librarians insist....

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers have been washing in and out of the Bay Area offices of Baker & McKenzie like the tides in recent ...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has named five new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court, including a federal prosecutor, two...

SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime United Parcel Service worker has gotten the green light to go to trial alleging that her employer i...