After his Los Angeles firm was acquired earlier this year by Dallas' Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, real estate man Bob D...

The parent of California National Bank will buy Bank Plus Corp. of Los Angeles for $150 million in cash. Privately held FBOP ...

When revered Stanford Law School professor Larry Lessig decided to try out law-firm life, he skipped the glitzy technology and...

Troy, Mich.'s Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. has completed a $500 million global offering of notes, due 2006, in New York. I...

The unexpected death of Tom Burke, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's labor and employment group chair, has saddened and shocked...

If you're a lawyer, you know that everyone, including your mother, has a scathing joke or two up her sleeve about how connivin...

Half of San Francisco's Georgopoulos & Pahlavan took his practice to the Palo Alto office of Manatt Phelps & Philips. ...

Memory chip maker Cypress Semiconductor Corp. will acquire privately held Lara Networks Inc., a designer of advanced chips us...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who allegedly sent more than 100 menacing e-mails to opposing counsel after losing an egg price-fixing...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Minority Council Program has bestowed its 2001 Law School Racial and Ethnic Diversity Award on ...

Two recent cases favoring the owners of e-cards.com and cars.com suggest the possibility that owners of borderline-generic dom...

Paris-based Vivendi Universal S.A. has agreed to buy San Diego online music-sharing site MP3.com Inc. The cash and stock deal...

It's easy to find Joseph R. Taylor in the crowded Brentwood restaurant Toscana. He's the tall, youthful-looking diner with a g...

Editor's Note: The reality-based TV show "Survivor" puts average people through physical and mental challenges that border on ...

Recently, Walnut Creek lawyers Kenneth Ward and Linda Wyner defended a veterinarian who was sued for malpractice. The case was...

Latham & Watkins is the largest of two California law firms named among the world's best by Chambers & Partners, a Lon...

Michael Miller, co-founder of Beverly Hills' Sherman Nathanson & Miller, has moved to Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan...

Despite the recent high-tech slump, entertainment companies still are scrambling to find ways to take advantage of the Interne...

California lawyers, beware. Mandatory pro bono is fast approaching. AB913, if enacted, would require law firms that contract w...

LOS ANGELES - Since taking the American Bar Association's "Pro Bono Challenge" in 1998, Latham & Watkins has doubled its f...

Toyota Motor Credit Corp. has issued $414 million in notes due 2008. The global offering closed simultaneously in London and ...

Hollywood Reporter society columnist George Christy is the journalistic king of kickbacks. The gangsta of graft. The sultan of...

LOS ANGELES - On July 10, 1998, a 13-year-old middle-school student left her summer school classes in Compton and headed to th...

Patent practitioner Karen Dow has left Silicon Valley's intellectual property scene for a partnership spot at Morrison & F...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy case has been described as the biggest utility bankruptcy in U.S. ...

SAN DIEGO - The city of San Diego charges an illegal fee to review disputed parking citations and has withheld more than $1 mi...

LOS ANGELES - Irvine-based Kring & Brown has refreshed its wilting San Diego outpost with the addition of returning partne...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has revived a $10 million racial discrimination lawsuit against the University of Califo...

SANTA ANA - The case of two people who were caught issuing and redeeming more than $15 million worth of counterfeit stock shou...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles criminal defense attorney is accusing the Superior Court's North Central district of discriminati...