"It is entirely unrealistic to regard urine as one of the 'effects' of a person who has abandoned it." Justice Antonin Scalia,...

LOS ANGELES - In the first courtroom showdown since the mass recall of tires began, an attorney told a Los Angeles Superior Co...

Former start-up founder Brian Pass is digging back into the practice of law as a partner in the Los Angeles office of the New ...

San Diego biotech company Santarus Inc. has completed its third round of venture financing. The financing brought in $33 milli...

Citrix Systems Inc. will purchase all outstanding shares of Sequoia Software Corp. for nearly $185 million in cash. Fort Laude...

Attorneys who represent subcontractor defendants in construction litigation no longer have to fear threats of joint-and-severa...

Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton in Ventura has recruited Anthony Ramos as its newest associate. Ramos was previously with E...

As Wall Street and Nasdaq watch the stock market continue its descent south, so has Corporate America seen merger and acquisit...

San Francisco-based Unexplored Inc. has raised $10 million in second series funding. The financing's lead investors included W...

It is hard to conceive of a case more different than the Supreme Court's last decision on the very same issue in 'Medtronic.' ...

The environmental lawyers at Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker have brought some top-notch regulatory advice in...

San Francisco's Blum Capital Partners has agreed to buy El Segundo's CB Richard Ellis Services Inc. The cash and assumption-of...

As a group, we often take ourselves too seriously. Lawyers should strive to be approachable, accessible and understandable. Be...

Katrina Foley, a partner at Irvine's Lents & Foley, will lead the Costa Mesa Planning Commission. In a 5-0 vote, the commi...

Kathleen Carpenter has spent 14 of her 15-year legal career as a "dirt" lawyer. Although her feet are still firmly planted in ...

While San Francisco's Littler Mendelson was busy opening its two new Pennsylvania outposts earlier this year, partner Dennis B...

Colleen McAndrews, a name partner at Bell McAndrews Hiltachk & Davidian, an election-law boutique in Sacramento, has been ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was among those who honored the work of the Jewish Federation's Legal Division at its 53rd Annual Dinner...

Chicago's Equity Office Properties Trust will buy Spieker Properties Inc. of Menlo Park. The cash, stock and assumption-of-deb...

Last year, corporate lawyers worked fast and furious to meet the tight deadlines set by their clients selling or buying a busi...

Bioheart Inc. has raised $11 million in a first round of funding. Of that amount, $1 million came from Menlo Park's Tyco Ventu...

Our federal government is not known for its ability to take quick action. For instance, it took almost 50 years of pleas from ...

Continuing its rapid growth, Santa Monica corporate firm Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has added two more lawye...

The Children's Institute International, a local child-abuse prevention agency, recently honored Los Angeles' Jeffer Mangels Bu...

Intellectual property lawyer Joe Greco returned to San Jose's Skjerven Morrill & MacPherson as of-counsel on March 16 afte...

The ubiquitous San Francisco firm Brobeck Phleger & Harrison furnished two consultants and a big-firm backdrop for televis...

Joan Haratani has been elected president of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. She was inducted at th...

Al Pepin's retirement in the peaceful Napa Valley town of St. Helena was a dream come true. He had lived and worked in San Fra...

Network software provider Novell Inc. will buy Cambridge Technology Partners Inc. The stock deal is worth $266 million. Provo,...

When Spieker Properties Inc. decided to sell all its holdings to Equity Office Properties Trust, the company reached for a fam...