According to Money magazine's annual job survey, paralegals have passed up lawyers to become those with the 11th best professi...

In the criminal justice system, there are two distinct but equal groups: the police who enforce the laws and the district atto...

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that has far-reaching implications in the area of prisoner r...

Nine months after "VH1 Divas Live" premiered in 1998, the producers were bombarded with phone calls from a musician who played...

International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y., has agreed to purchase Burlingame-based CrossWorlds Software Inc. for $...

The Long Beach Community College District has raised $34 million in a bond financing. San Francisco's Sutter Securities served...

The USA Patriot Act answers many questions dot-coms had before Sept. 11 about how to comply with judicial orders to examine do...

The William L. Todd Jr. American Inn of Court has elected as its new president Frederick W. Kosmo Jr., a partner with San Dieg...

For William Quicksilver, it was certainly a transaction that hearkened back to the good old days - of 2000. Quicksilver, a par...

Two Bay Area lawyers will lead the California State Park and Recreation Commission. Joseph W. Cotchett and Caryl Hart are the ...

Xalted Networks of Plano, Texas, has sold $9.7 million worth of series B securities. Investors BlueStream Ventures Limited Par...

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro celebrated 20 years in business Nov. 1 with a party at its Century City office. With plent...

The Anti-Defamation League has presented its Daniel R. Ginsberg Leadership Award to Thomas Leanse, a litigation partner in the...

Fifteen years after Gary Apfel founded the Los Angeles office of New York's LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae , the corporate l...

The U.S. Act to Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, or PATRIOT Act, the Bush Administratio...

LogicVision Inc. has raised nearly $41 million in its first public offering. The San Jose firm sold 4.5 million shares of comm...

Boston research firm BTI Consulting Group Inc. has awarded Judith Droz, a partner with Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May...

Upward Bound House, a nonprofit community service organization in Santa Monica, has honored two attorneys from Harding Larmore...

IPrint Technologies Inc. of Menlo Park has merged with Wood Associates, subsidiary of Santa Clara's Wood Alliance Inc. Terms o...

In these trying days, the game of golf provide practical lessons on managing life both on the course and in the office. ...

The Sonoma County bar gathered last month at the ninth annual "Careers of Distinction" dinner to honor two men lauded for upho...

Squire Sanders & Dempsey has named Silicon Valley partner Nicholas Unkovic to its national management committee, making hi...

The pressures of motherhood and lawyering can be daunting, but being a mother in law also can be rewarding and even lead to th...

The Practicing Law Institute has released the sixth annual supplement to the treatise "Likelihood of Confusion in Trademark La...

Music litigator Mark Passin has hopped from Los Angeles music-law boutique Engel & Engel to Century City's Alschuler Gross...

The Legal Marketing Association's Bay Area chapter has awarded Debra Fischer its annual Rella Lossy Professional Achievement A...

International business partner George R. Gonzalez , whose legal work helped make the summer blockbuster "Pearl Harbor" a reali...

Stephen Beuerle is the latest San Diego attorney to move from Lyon & Lyon to Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch . Beue...

Los Angeles' Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. has raised $61 million by selling 6.1 million shares of its common stock. Jolson Merch...

Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS has recruited three new neutrals in the past two months. William McDonald, 65, ha...