Sonicport.com Inc. has acquired US Dataworks Inc. in a stock deal, the value of which was not disclosed. Chatsworth's Sonicpor...

Johnson & Johnson will buy Mountain View's Alza Corp. for $10.5 billion in stock. New Brunswick, N.J.'s Johnson & John...

Peter Ferris, a civil litigator who spent most of his career at what was then Oakland's Wulfsberg Reese Ferris & Sykes die...

Sarah O'Dowd, a partner at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in Menlo Park, likes corporate work, especially mergers and acq...

Charlie Walker, who became the fourth partner at Los' Angeles Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker back in 1962, died April 7 o...

Antonia Hernndez, president and general counsel of one of the nation's most powerful Latino civil rights groups, still calls h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The corridor leading to the Alumni Reception Center at Hastings College of the Law is lined with the photograp...

Universal Music Group has agreed to buy Emusic.com Inc. for $26 million in cash. New York's Universal is a subsidiary of Viven...

Once a month Julie Akins, her husband and two step-children wake up early on Saturday morning and head out the door by 5 a.m. ...

Todd Gattoni, a business litigation partner at Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May, recently was elected president of the ...

Yakub Hazzard, 36, blames his mother for thwarting his career as a rock star. "I played the drums when I was younger, for a lo...

No, it's not Houston's Vinson & Elkins or New York's Venable. The firm that wants you to think of it when you see a big re...

Marketing no longer is the four-letter word it once was, equated with selling used cars. There is an understanding that law fi...

RIVERSIDE - Concluding a case marked by a series of unusual judicial twists, a woman has been sentenced to 25 years to life in...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time that she could remember, Abby Leibman stood speechless behind a podium - if only for a moment...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Friday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against Glendora lawyer John Franklyn Wa...

SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy proceedings involving Pacific Gas & Electric Co. have no effect on the ability of the state...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and upheld U.S. District Jud...

LOS ANGELES - A direct-mail duel to woo a lead plaintiff in a class action may be canceled by a state appeals court worried th...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed three women and six men to replace nine retired Superior Court judges in San Diego...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan said Friday the next man to head the city should hold Los Angeles Police De...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of the Bay Area's most prominent lawyers will mount the stage tonight in a benefit performance celebra...

LOS ANGELES - Behind his back, John Gordon's colleagues in the U.S. attorney's office call him "Spock" because his thinking is...

LOS ANGELES - The federal judge overseeing the Rampart civil litigation ruled Friday that much of the city's top brass can be ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Punitive damage awards tend to run far higher in four types of litigation - product liability, insurance bad f...

LOS ANGELES - A former high-school band director and Jehovah's Witness has sued the Los Angeles Unified School District for re...

While the publicity regarding these dogs is reaching new levels, the courts' involvement in such cases reaches back over 25 ye...

The justices this week will hear these cases:

California's Department of Managed Health Care, part of an effort to reform managed care, is nearly a year old, but even at th...

Of the many legal documents that cross my desk every day, my favorite by far has to be the nondisclosure agreement. It may arr...