Credence Systems Corp. will acquire Integrated Measurement Systems Inc. for $170 million in stock. Fremont's Credence Systems ...

Company buyers thumbing through the Summer 2001 edition of the L.L. Bean corporate catalog will be greeted by six grinning Lat...

Palo Alto's Fenwick & West has been out in front of the tech-fueled privacy law explosion, most recently adding a resource...

Sascha Wollersheim, a law student in his late 20s, recently arrived to Los Angles from Germany by way of Dublin, Ireland, wher...

It should come as no surprise that the part of last year's economy that remained off the charts produced a similar number of r...

After five years as the "Meyer" in the Law Offices of Kenneth Meyer, Ken Meyer is shifting into big-firm practice in the Santa...

Britain's Cable & Wireless has agreed to buy Digital Island Inc. of San Francisco. The cash deal is worth $340 million. Ca...

Software-testing developer Mercury Interactive Corp. will buy Freshwater Software for $147 million in cash. Sunnyvale's Mercur...

United Parcel Service Inc. has bought the assets of Iship.com Inc., a subsidiary of Santa Monica's Stamps.com Inc. The amount ...

What does heading the legal department of the country's biggest canned fruit and vegetable producer have to do with practicing...

Bertram Fields of Greenburg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella was been handling a whole lotta action as of late....

Mergers and acquisitions attorneys know just about every aspect of procuring a company. From pitching to negotiating to finali...

Finding that Fibermesh lacked versatility, the court held that the defense was inapplicable to a manufacturer of a single-purp...

MitoKor Inc., a biotech company, is buying Apollo BioPharmaceutics Inc. The value of the stock deal has not been disclosed. Sa...

San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen will pick up three partners from the local offices of Chicago's Baker &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even the most jaded who attend the premiere of the opera "Wuornos" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts late...

The staff of CLB decided it might be fun to find out what kinds of things rainmakers have up their sleeves. Rainmakers didn't ...

What were you doing when the power was cut that afternoon in early May? I was stuck in an elevator bouncing between floors, en...

Rainmakers are confident they can make it through the rough times. The state's perennial rainmakers share their keys to develo...

There is a great shot in the 1952 Billy Wilder film "The Big Carnival" (aka "Ace in the Hole"). It's after the buried miner, w...

Don't fire anyone without talking to Jeff Webb first. Webb, who returned to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher last month from a post ...

SANTA BARBARA - Backed into a corner by a judge's ruling, criminal defense lawyer Stephen M. Hogg has testified about his know...

SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group, one of Silicon Valley's shining stars in the mid- to late 1990s, has let go nine associates...

SAN DIEGO - Attorney General John Ashcroft has appointed veteran prosecutor Patrick K. O'Toole to serve as interim U.S. attorn...

LOS ANGELES - Packing his office belongings to head into retirement, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Arnold Gold kept his nam...

SAN JOSE - Both sides in Bay Area counties' class action against the lead paint industry got something to applaud in a ruling ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first significant court defeat for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in its $10 billion bankruptcy case greatly...

Denise Notzon has gone from "Spam Queen" to privacy czar. At Epicentric Inc., she fills the new shoes of the company's "chief ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With 200 hours of continued rolling blackouts expected this summer, and costs to the economy estimated at more...

LOS ANGELES - With tight polling numbers presaging a close contest, the outcome of the Los Angeles city attorney's race may tu...