Take a look at this headline: "Deregulation Ends in Failure." Or this one: "The Perils of Deregulation: Can the Free Market Ke...

After a low-speed collision broke a facial bone at Mason Goodloe's temple under his snazzy bike helmet, causing a devastating ...

Helping people one client at a time works for Bay Area attorneys Michael A. Kelly and Richard H. Schoenberger. While other att...

Motive may be unimportant in civil litigation, but it's everything to jurors. Whether pleading or defending a case, attorneys ...

New federal rules regarding civil procedure recently were adopted, significantly changing the landscape for litigators in fede...

Because of concern about improper access to medical information in electronic form, privacy became the political lightning rod...

LOS ANGELES - Robert E. Lutz II, a Southwestern University School of Law professor, will assume the office of chairman of the ...

PALM SPRINGS - In a 21st century version of passing notes behind the teacher's back, middle-school youngsters by this fall wil...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Los Angeles County Municipal Court Judge Alfonso D. Hermo was publicly censured Tuesday by the state C...

LOS ANGELES - Two of the nearly half-dozen possible candidates to lead the Board of Police Commissioners have emerged as top c...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the state's superior and municipal courts merged into a single trial court, an unexpected problem arose: ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As scientists unravel the human genome and businessmen look for ways to put it on the free market, San Francis...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant win for prison officials, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that guards who mistakenly sh...

SAN DIEGO - The American Bar Association gave a strong endorsement to a proposed international court on war crimes and genocid...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday gave a less-than-warm welcome to the 16 federal judges who have been battling for 12 ye...

Among actions announced Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2001 by the justices were:

San Diego's Kyocera International Inc. has acquired Irvine's Tycom Corp. The value of the cash deal was not disclosed. Kyocera...

On a clear day, an impressive vista stretches east from the Folsom Dam overlook across the gently rising foothills to the snow...

You represent a fabulously well-to-do technology company whose software manages information in business-to-business transactio...

SAN FRANCISCO - A little more than a year after opening an office in Columbus, Ohio, Littler Mendelson is at it again, this t...

Proxim Inc. has agreed to acquire Netopia Inc. in a stock-for-stock merger valued at $223 million. Sunnyvale's Proxim provides...

New York's Milbank Tweed Haley & McCloy is sporting a new, pared-back moniker for its logo. Like an increasing number of n...

After managing his clients, along with the day-to-day operations of his former small practice, bankruptcy specialist Jon Hayes...

NewZing.com Inc. has completed an initial professional investment round of $5.25 million in financing led by Softbank Venture ...

San Francisco's CommerceFlow Inc. closed $7.5 million in Series B funding last month, with Prism Venture Partners of Westwood,...

Nancy Smith used a new procurement strategy to close two deals for her client, the Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line Con...

Corporate securities defender Eric Landau brought his litigation practice to the Irvine office of McDermott Will & Emery o...

Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has added another appellate lawyer to its Los Angeles office. Judy Gordon, formerl...

From his low-key, quiet demeanor, it is hard to imagine that Edward Anderson is at the helm of one of Silicon Valley's fastest...

Alameda's Align Technology Inc. completed an initial public offering last month valued at $130 million. The company makes invi...