Reno, Nev.'s International Game Technology has agreed to buy rival Anchor Gaming of Las Vegas. The stock and assumption-of-deb...

Los Angeles litigator Bret Bocchieri , the former co-chair of Arter & Hadden 's national intellectual-property practice gr...

Because foreign firms can't practice Japanese law, a new Latham & Watkins venture will give its eight-lawyer Tokyo office ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday rejected the claims in 24 lawsuits that allege bars are violating t...

Eight weeks after a source says the journalist was told to pack his bags, rumors of the demise of beleaguered Hollywood Report...

Since returning from his April journey into outer space, millionaire "space tourist" Dennis Tito has made the rounds of cockta...

Network-equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy privately-held AuroraNetics for $150 million in stock. Cisco, bas...

California's energy crisis has kept the lawyers at many firms busy these days. Below is a small sampling of other law firms, l...

CNET Networks Inc. has bought TechRepublic Inc. from Gartner Inc. The cash-and-stock deal is worth $23 million. San Francisco'...

Adaptec Inc. of Milpitas has agreed to buy Santa Clara's Platys Communications Inc. The stock-and-cash deal is worth $150 mill...

The California energy crisis, which has spawned rolling blackouts and higher power bills, has been a boon to law firms with en...

LOS ANGELES - Insurance companies cannot limit coverage for blood products manufacturers to single-year policy limits, an appe...

'Absent justification for failing to present an argument earlier, we will not consider an issue raised for the first time in a...

The California offices of the 830-lawyer New York firm Coudert Brothers have been seeing all kinds of traffic. Most recently, ...

Finding the appropriate mode of presentation is essential if the legal argument is to have its greatest persuasive force. ...

Edwin Locke's article "Palestinians Hate Israelis Because of Their Strengths" (Forum, June 26) displays a shocking inversion o...

Brendan Dolan , a partner in the San Francisco home office of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison , has picked up the reins to the ...

Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard, a Los Angeles-based firm that tends to bring in laterals by the bunch, added a modest t...

Real estate lawyer Ralph Kerstetter joined the growing ranks of alumni from California offices of Arter & Hadden on May 23...

While the Bush administration seems determined to roll back gun regulations, a growing number of attorneys are fighting back b...

Down in California's deep south, Baker & McKenzie has announced a shift in management and the addition of a pair of new la...

Private-equity firm Genstar Capital has bought clinical-research organization PRA International. The parties did not disclose ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge wept with joy Friday after a jury convicted her brother's killer of first-deg...

LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel seafood restaurant owner was convicted late Friday of possession with intent to distribute more th...

LOS ANGELES - Law professor John C. Eastman is having the time of his life. For this constitutional law professor, "the pursui...

LOS ANGELES - California lawyers must continue to take one-hour courses on the elimination of bias and on the prevention of su...

LOS ANGELES - On July 21, 1999, Dr. Steven G. Cooperman, a once-prominent Beverly Hills eye surgeon, was convicted on 18 feder...

LOS ANGELES - In a tentative ruling issued Friday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge confirmed the findings of an arbitrator ...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court jury on Friday found the former assistant general manager of a San Diego County water district gu...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for a millionaire acquitted of raping nine women, including seven he was accused of drugging, said Fri...