SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali grappled Monday with whether to block an accounting change imposed by sta...

LOS ANGELES - Timothy McVeigh, shake hands with Winnie the Pooh. It may surprise you to learn that convicted Oklahoma City bom...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Supreme Court's medical marijuana decision doesn't directly affect California's Proposition 215, prosecuto...

Among actions announced Monday, May 14, 2001 by the justices were:

Pillsbury Winthrop has received the Corporations that Make a Difference Award 2001 from the International Women's Forum. The a...

San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has been lauded by the American Cancer Society and the San Francisco AIDS Walk ...

Students and powerful lawyers make strange bedfellows. But in the Century Plaza Hotel's massive, candlelit Los Angeles Ballroo...

The Irvine office of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster named a new managing partner May 1. Litigator Sterling Brennan to...

Foley & Lardner labor and employment partner Rick Albert became managing partner of both the Los Angeles and Denver office...

Atlanta's Internet Security Systems Inc. has agreed to buy San Mateo's privately held Network ICE Corp. The stock deal is wort...

Squire Sanders & Dempsey, best known in California as the firm that acquired most of San Francisco's bankrupt Graham &...

Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has added a fifth toe to its statewide footprint. The 300-plus lawyer firm ...

Sunnyvale Simplex Solutions Inc. went public May 2 with an initial public offering worth $48 million. Credit Suisse First Bost...

John Newell likes taking a client's idea and making it happen. A partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, ...

Portland, Ore.'s eVineyard has bought the Wine.com and Wineshopper.com Web sites from Menlo Park's Sand Hill Capital. The valu...

LOS ANGELES - Officials from the city of Los Angeles' public utility told the City Council Friday that the $180 million Pacifi...

On March 20, Chief Justice Ronald George delivered a remarkable speech to a joint session of the California Legislature. In th...

Two partners from the Los Angeles intellectual property shop Lyon & Lyon have moved over to Century City's Irell & Man...

San Francisco enterprise software company Kenamea Inc. has closed a $32 million third-round financing. San Francisco-based Azu...

Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan partner James D. Richman will become chair of the real property section of the Los Angele...

Attorney Barrie Lynn Becker, executive director of San Francisco's volunteer attorney program Legal Community Against Violence...

Broadband fiber-optic network giant Qwest Communications International Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software ...

If preparing for trial against a powerful health maintenance organization seems difficult, try commanding a Marine Corps helic...

LOS ANGELES - The $2.50 "energy" surcharge that Marriott International tacks on to its patrons' bills is fraudulent and mislea...

Computer giant IBM has agreed to buy the database business of Informix Corp. for $1 billion in cash. IBM, based in Armonk, N.Y...

Recent studies of the 2000 U.S. Census show an increase in the ethnic diversity of the United States. They also show a disturb...

SAN FRANCISCO - Old Republic Title Co. must repay $17 million to settle claims that it unlawfully pocketed interest earned on ...

Irell & Manella partner David Schwartz, who represents clients in commercial disputes, recently represented the United Sta...

A defendant's only prayer of avoiding joint-and-several liability when the United States sues for hazardous site cleanup costs...

To many employees at publicly traded dot-coms and other companies, the strategy seemed clear: Get a hold of some stock options...