LOS ANGELES - With the prospect of having to pay the largest punitive-damage award to an individual in U.S. history looming, P...

He's not ready for his close-up. Yet. Well-known litigator Pierce O'Donnell adopted an uncharacteristically low profile last m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Research attorneys, probate investigators and computer technicians for the San Francisco Superior Court picket...

SAN FRANCISCO - Foes of assault weapons were outgunned by a divided California Supreme Court on Monday in a ruling over the 10...

LOS ANGELES - Until appellate courts iron out ambiguities in Proposition 36, Los Angeles prosecutors will not seek jail time f...

By Marisa Navarro Internet executive Lee Shirani speaks the words of a diplomat but has the experience of a soldier. Shirani i...

San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison headed back to state court in Santa Monica on Aug. 1 to resume a 6-year-old bat...

"What's in a name?" Shakespeare once wrote. Well, a lot, as it turns out. Finding the perfect name posed a challenge in a deal...

Six months after three of his colleagues went to the Los Angeles home-office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, real esta...

Sunnyvale's Molecular Devices Corp. will buy Lausanne, Switzerland's Cytion SA for $7.5 million in cash and 400,000 shares of ...

False Submission 'Kimmel' Court Adds Another Twist to Pre-emption in Tort Cases While the 9th Circuit premised its decision on...

San Francisco's 900-lawyer, 16-office Pillsbury Winthrop , turned loose 13 California staffers - administrators, no lawyers - ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco land use and real estate firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass has announced the additio...

Litigator Ken Klein says it's with a heavy heart that he's leaving his longtime partner spot at the shrinking Los Angeles busi...

Rival electronics-contract manufacturers Sanmina Corp. and SCI Systems Inc., have agreed to merge. The stock and assumption-of...

Boston Scientific Corp. of Natick, Mass., will buy Sunnyvale's Cardiac Pathways Corp. for $115 million in cash. Boston Scienti...

Come September, Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips expects to open the doors on an Orange County outpost. Manatt Phelps...

It doesn't matter how you spell it or on which syllable you put the accent. For a dozen years, lawyers on both sides of the po...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William R. Hollingsworth ruled Friday that a homeless man is competent to stand...

Santa Clara-based Internet supply-chain software and consulting company Bristlecone Inc. is selling its consulting division to...

Thales Group, a French aerospace/defense/information-technology company, has acquired Santa Clara global-positioning-system ma...

Patrick Shannon , a former business and political consultant who also has been a corporate executive, joined the brand-new Pal...

The 800-lawyer Palo Alto firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati expects to unveil a new service for its venture-capital cli...

LOS ANGELES - Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif is gaining three attorneys, continuing a trend of rapid growth for ...

Tom Paschall, a corporate associate in Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy's Los Angeles office, vowed never to be defenseless a...

Retired Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Sharp Whitmore died at 83 of congestive heart failure. Whitmore, a labor and employ...

Los Angeles' Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a nonprofit, public-interest law firm, has honored Gibson Dunn & Crutcher as "volu...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association has awarded the Shattuck-Price Award for distinguished service to John Brinsley, a part...

San Francisco's 104-year-old Lillick & Charles succumbed to the East-West law firm merger trend Aug. 1, when it became the...

Sanwa Bank of California and Tokai Bank California merged last month under a new name, United California Bank. The parties did...