San Jose's Tivo Inc. closed a $52 million private placement of convertible debt and warrants. Robertson Stephens Inc. served a...

The state's new and young attorneys have found a spokeswoman in Jennifer Roth. Last month, the 26-year-old civil litigator fro...

The Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has set up shop in Westlake Village in the heart of the 101 Tech Corridor. The...

Last Tuesday morning, terrorists struck two of this country's symbols of power, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The l...

Faced with the fallout of the dot-com bust, Fenwick & West took measures to try to prevent layoffs. But in the end, these ...

Gary McKitterick's office is in Irvine, and he lives in Newport Beach, but he rarely closes a deal on his home turf. "I have d...

SANTA ANA - Opening statements are scheduled to begin Wednesday in the case of the alleged ringleader of a multimillion-dollar...

Pharmaceutical companies have invented ways to make bald men sprout hair, eliminate the surliness in PMS and produce an extra...

A Los Angeles-based Catholic charity that helps pregnant teens and young parents has elected Natalie Blake to its board of tru...

William Tolin Gay, a partner in the Irvine office of Snell & Wilmer, is the new co-chair of the State Bar's cyberspace law...

LOS ANGELES - You can read on the Internet, but you can't touch what you're reading. Lawyers and litigants are about to experi...

SACRAMENTO - Energy giant Enron Corp. may have avoided contempt sanctions last week at the hands of a state Senate panel inves...

SAN FRANCISCO - A majority of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has voted to reconsider its sweeping month-old decision th...

SACRAMENTO - A bill to allow disclosure of documents in many otherwise secret out-of-court settlements appeared headed for def...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office wants a Superior Court judge to disqualify a large Los Angeles law f...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has cleared a procedural logjam that had slowed progress in the city's fatal dog mauling prosecution, ...

LOS ANGELES - Ready to move on to a new phase of his long legal career, Judge David D. Perez plans to retire Oct. 5 from the L...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has revived part of Latrell Sprewell's lawsuit against the Golden State Warriors and t...

SAN JOSE - It is not impossible to find a big-city law firm whose offices defy the usual rules of modernist architecture. Take...

The Commercial Law League of America has elected Alan Nahmias, 40, to the executive committee of its bankruptcy section. Nahmi...

LOS ANGELES - Thirteen domestic-violence assistance programs in rural California counties are not sure if they will be funded ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has cleared the Los Angeles firm of O'Melveny & Myers of an alleged conflict of inter...

LOS ANGELES - C. Daniel Levy, one of the country's leading experts in naturalization and citizenship law, died Friday. Levy, 4...

SAN FRANCISCO - An administrative case that pitted federal banking regulators against the top executives of the corporation th...

SAN DIEGO - A law school dean may have prestige and power, but California Western School of Law Associate Dean Barbara J. Cox ...

It is unfortunate that in this day of teacher shortages and an increasing immigrant student population, the 9th U.S. Circuit C...

WASHINGTON - While some former spies contend that U.S. policies against recruiting foreign agents with criminal backgrounds mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Most West Coast law firms have disaster and recovery plans. Memories are still too fresh from the 1989 Loma Pr...

LOS ANGELES - Asking lawyers to show compassion and respect during this time of national mourning, the Association of Trial La...

SACRAMENTO - A pair of DNA testing bills - one benefiting prosecutors and the other assisting defendants and inmates - are on ...