In cases involving celebrities, courts often feel a pressure to cloak their proceedings from the onslaught of media coverage. ...

Santa Clara's ecFoods Inc., a division of ecIndustries Inc., has acquired Master Dairies of Bethesda, Md. Neither company woul...

Mark A. Kadzielski is on his way to building the West Coast health care practice of Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski. Kadzie...

For the people who planned and delivered layoff notices in Silicon Valley, the past few weeks have been tough - possibly the t...

Poorly trained, if trained at all, news gatherers and writers often are unable to assess the facts properly. Lacking understan...

Last Tuesday's horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have awakened in the American people a sense of rag...

If Hewlett-Packard Co. announced its acquisition of the Netherlands' Indigo, N.V. at any other time, perhaps the deal would ha...

Getting movies out of the jokey violence business and exclusively into mom, apple pie and the movie version of "Gilligan's Isl...

Dallas-based Southwest Securities Group Inc. has acquired privately held Newport Beach-based O'Connor & Company Securities...

Irvine-based Fidelity National Financial Inc. recently issued $250 million in 7.3 percent 10-year bonds. Lehman Brothers Holdi...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Senate President pro tem John Burton has appointed a Sausalito woman with a background in labor dispute ...

LOS ANGELES - Harry Pregerson, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, is the patriarch of homeless shelters in Los Angeles. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An experimental mediation program at the 1st District Court of Appeal has been such a resounding success that ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has ruled that the attorney representing Marjorie Knoller in the dog-mauling case violat...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angles Superior Court judges have elected referee Jeffrey N. Marckese to the position of court commissioner,...

Palo Alto's Hewlett-Packard Co., agreed to buy the Netherlands' Indigo N.V., in a deal valued at $882 million in stock and cas...

Santa Clara University School of Law, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, is supplying a smaller world of law firms with more ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Professor Armin Rosencranz is a bit of an over-achiever. Between teaching international environmental policy a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four candidates have made the short list to become the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, ...

LOS ANGELES - Support groups for Arab-Americans have turned to civil libertarians for help in dealing with what they character...

SAN FRANCISCO - When California voters passed Proposition 36 last year, San Francisco seemed particularly well-positioned to i...

SAN FRANCISCO - First came the terrorist attacks. Then the stock market collapse. Like everyone else, managers at California ...

LOS ANGELES - Following last week's terrorist bombing and a backlash of racial hatred, Michel Shehadeh has reason to be wary o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The potential for a legal train wreck over the bankruptcy reorganization plan filed last week by Pacific Gas ...

An inconsistency is created if one provision will frustrate a policy stated in a second provision and there is no commitment t...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major overhaul, San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has created three new management positions...

INDIO - The city of Palm Springs has agreed to pay $1.2 million in compensation for developing a golf course on land donated f...

All too often, attorneys perform only future, or strategic, planning to cover the next few months only. Most attorneys rarely ...

The employment of temporary or contract lawyers, both for law firms and corporate law departments, may be the solution to an u...