"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2. How many times hav...

Mill Valley's Chavez & Gertler has earned a national reputation for specializing in high-profile consumer class actions. R...

Palo Alto's PayPal, an Internet payment provider, has raised $90 million in Series D equity financing. The investment gives th...

One person's misery is, as they say, another person's gain. And to tell you the truth it's pretty miserable out there. In the ...

After a decade away, corporate lawyer Steve Rowles has returned to his old stomping grounds at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison....

SAN FRANCISCO - Louis P. Bergna, who during his 25-year stint as the Santa Clara district attorney earned a reputation for hig...

Help desk software company Peregrine Systems Inc. will buy e-commerce software maker Extricity Inc. The stock deal is worth $1...

Partners at the Washington, D.C.-based McKenna & Cuneo voted Jay Gallagher back into the firmwide chair spot. Gallagher, a...

Like everyone else in Hollywood, this columnist has been watching Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures wi...

In every episode of the TV show "NYPD Blue," there's a scene when the scuzzbag perp doesn't want to give up the information to...

Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, an organization consisting of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenders and their su...

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Chair and Chief Executive Officer Ralph Baxter kicked off the Fulcrum Law Firm Leadership Su...

LOS ANGELES - Western State University College of Law has awarded the first Felix Guadalupe Valdez Memorial Scholarship to thi...

Anyone who obeys the old adage "follow the money" will spend a lot of time trailing Loeb & Loeb partner Susan Williams aro...

ML Hightower Inc. has merged with Product Design Group Inc. to create PDG Hightower. The deal is valued at $8 million. San Die...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eleven lawyers from the Los Angeles white-shoe firm of O'Melveny & Myers expect to open the firm's first S...

LOS ANGELES - The University of California, Los Angeles, has appointed Andrew Neighbour director of the Office of Intellectual...

This is not meant to be another apology for Bill Clinton. The sloppiness and appearance of ethical impropriety that marked his...

According to schedules filed in its Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, Graham & James, which shuttered its doors last summer, owes...

Movies set in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian countries often show police officials asking civilians for their "papers" an...

Bank of the West, a subsidiary of Hawaii's BancWest Corp., has acquired 30 branch offices in Nevada and New Mexico from First ...

After tripping through a few other businesses, tax lawyer Glen Kohl has gotten back into the law firm groove. He signed up wit...

Last week, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio's...

LOS ANGELES - In a long-awaited ruling, a state appellate court underscored the importance of getting to the courtroom first w...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran immigration attorney Christine E. Stancill has taken a seat on the U.S. immigration court in Los Angeles...

LOS ANGELES - Court of Appeal Justice Charles Vogel administered the oath to seven new judges of the Los Angeles Superior Cour...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Alternate Public Defender is seeking sanctions against newly elected District Attorney Steve Coo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has taken first place honors for its Web site at a legal marketing award c...

SAN DIEGO - Attorney Daniel W. Cohen expected trouble when a judge appointed him to represent accused rapist Johnny Stanley. S...

LOS ANGELES - A Woodland Hills couple whose dream home turned into a money pit because the seller failed to disclose major str...