Mountain View's Intuit Inc. has acquired Sebastopol-based OMWare Inc. in a transaction valued at $42 million in stock. The dea...

Two weeks ago in this space, Bert Fields of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella said that political corr...

Irvine-based Lantronix Inc. has agreed to acquire Synergetic Micro Systems of Downers Grove, Ill. Neither company would disclo...

Capping off a month of impressive growth, Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton added a third new office in Septe...

I asked a female partner in a large law firm a question that has been troubling me as an associate who plans someday to be a w...

Allen Grodsky remembers the moment when he realized, once and for all, that he was an entertainment attorney. The 42-year-old ...

The withering economy isn't keeping Pillsbury Winthrop from doubling the size of its Silicon Valley office. The San Francisco-...

The Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown & Platt has gutted the finance and bankruptcy practice of downtown rival Kelley Drye...

Despite the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's moratorium on lawsuits in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Ca...

Phillip H. Stoermer has left the venerable real estate firm Miller Starr & Regalia of Walnut Creek and has taken all his c...

San Francisco's Catellus Development Corp. announced the signing of a 12-year lease with the Kellogg Co. of Battle Creek, Mich...

SACRAMENTO - California will become the first state in the nation to require the disclosure of mold in buildings and develop a...

LOS ANGELES - Immediately after a federal judge signed off on a settlement Friday between the California Public Utilities Comm...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland attorney Phillip Scott Campbell was awarded the 2001 Jack Berman Award during a ceremony last month. T...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Jim Hahn on Friday tapped longtime ally and economic adviser George Kieffer of Manatt, Phelps & Philli...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has filed with an appellate court his own defense...

WASHINGTON - Legal experts say an FBI "watch list" created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is a legitimate investigative ...

LOS ANGELES - For the better part of the past five decades, a Judge Charvat has presided over one courtroom or another at the ...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar may tell the world on its Web site that a California lawyer has been disciplined - even, in some c...

Services Scheduled For Sept. 11 Victim SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will take place Saturday for attorney Alan Beaven, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long for Mendocino County District Attorney Norman Vroman to assign blame for a midair collisio...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, retired Woodside couple Charles and Corinne Black faced a crisis: 68-year-old Charles had a serious h...

SACRAMENTO - Barry P. Goode is the perfect model of a governor's legal secretary. He's smart. He's low-key. He's unflappable. ...

The path toward the ideal job can sometimes be a rocky one, particularly for those who may have taken the road, let's say, les...

Be specific in the settlement agreement about what amounts are allocated to what claims, with specific tax treatment for each ...

People who own land aren't terrorists - not even if it is vacant land or if some folks would like to see the land preserved in...

Since the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, Americans have struggled to balance individual civil liberties against t...

In Guthrie v. Powell, 290 P.2d 834 (Kan. 1955), Chief Justice William W. Harvey found the following for the court, in p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's largest baking company has settled a lawsuit that yielded one of the largest workplace discrimina...