LOS ANGELES - What if Charles Dickens was alive and living in Beverly Hills? If he could be resurrected and transplanted to Ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday let an Orange County car dealership off the hook for an "isolated mista...

SAN FRANCISCO - Adobe Systems' withdrawal of support for the Department of Justice's criminal prosecution of the Russian progr...

LOS ANGELES - A state commission that advises the governor and Legislature on higher-education matters has rejected proposals ...

LOS ANGELES - John S. Gordon, the blunt-speaking veteran prosecutor who has led the U.S. attorney's office on an interim basis...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a landmark application of the Communications Decency Act, an Alameda County trial judge has ruled that the ...

Synopsys Inc., makers of electronic-design-automation software, will buy integrated circuits tester IKOS Systems Inc. in a sto...

Los Angeles' 70-lawyer Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish will be shelling out less money for bigger digs on 2...

First it was the House of Blues, then the Museum of Flying. What's next for the annual Bet Tzedek Justice Ball? Perhaps the St...

Competition brought about a better deal for John Montgomery's client. The business and technology partner in Brobeck Phleger &...

Loeb & Loeb music partner David Byrnes is split three ways: Byrnes divides two-thirds of his practice between talent and c...

Reno, Nev.'s International Game Technology has agreed to buy rival Anchor Gaming of Las Vegas. The stock and assumption-of-deb...

Los Angeles litigator Bret Bocchieri , the former co-chair of Arter & Hadden 's national intellectual-property practice gr...

Because foreign firms can't practice Japanese law, a new Latham & Watkins venture will give its eight-lawyer Tokyo office ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday rejected the claims in 24 lawsuits that allege bars are violating t...

Eight weeks after a source says the journalist was told to pack his bags, rumors of the demise of beleaguered Hollywood Report...

Since returning from his April journey into outer space, millionaire "space tourist" Dennis Tito has made the rounds of cockta...

Network-equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy privately-held AuroraNetics for $150 million in stock. Cisco, bas...

California's energy crisis has kept the lawyers at many firms busy these days. Below is a small sampling of other law firms, l...

CNET Networks Inc. has bought TechRepublic Inc. from Gartner Inc. The cash-and-stock deal is worth $23 million. San Francisco'...

Adaptec Inc. of Milpitas has agreed to buy Santa Clara's Platys Communications Inc. The stock-and-cash deal is worth $150 mill...

The California energy crisis, which has spawned rolling blackouts and higher power bills, has been a boon to law firms with en...

LOS ANGELES - Insurance companies cannot limit coverage for blood products manufacturers to single-year policy limits, an appe...

'Absent justification for failing to present an argument earlier, we will not consider an issue raised for the first time in a...

The California offices of the 830-lawyer New York firm Coudert Brothers have been seeing all kinds of traffic. Most recently, ...

Finding the appropriate mode of presentation is essential if the legal argument is to have its greatest persuasive force. ...

Edwin Locke's article "Palestinians Hate Israelis Because of Their Strengths" (Forum, June 26) displays a shocking inversion o...

Brendan Dolan , a partner in the San Francisco home office of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison , has picked up the reins to the ...

Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard, a Los Angeles-based firm that tends to bring in laterals by the bunch, added a modest t...

Real estate lawyer Ralph Kerstetter joined the growing ranks of alumni from California offices of Arter & Hadden on May 23...