LOS ANGELES - After 30 years in the business, film distributor Tom Bernard thought he had seen and heard it all. Of course, fo...

San Carlos' Natus Medical Inc. is going public in an initial offering valued at $172 million. Natus Medical develops tests tha...

San Francisco's Ferry Building Investors has acquired a ground lease in the city's historic Ferry Building and plans to renova...

Arter & Hadden litigator Kim West has taken on an interesting new role as chair of two of the firm's six California office...

The voice on the other end of the phone line was my editor, a perpetually cranky woman we'll call Cruella. She seemed to draw ...

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is the most recent law firm to stake a claim in Silicon Valley. The 500-lawyer firm, which h...

Kim Dunn, former public corruption and fraud section chief for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, shifted into private...

A federal grand jury indicted Crosby Heafey Roach & May patent department head Mal Wittenberg for insider trading on April...

By 2002, 90 percent of employees will be covered by alternate dispute resolution programs, including binding arbitration. This...

Too many ignore the childhood precept of owning up and believe that the "adult thing" to do is to try to get away with paying ...

Elysie Marie Pahler was 15 when she was raped, tortured and murdered by three boys who say they were inspired by their favorit...

Wireless entertainment company Jamdat Mobile Inc. has received $10 million in second-round financing from Patricof & Compa...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council Friday voted to give $400,000 to a former Police Department officer who sued the de...

AirFiber Inc., a telecommunications equipment supplier, has received $50 million in third-round, equity financing. New York's ...

Maxtor Corp. has bought Quantum HDD, the Hard Disk Drive Group of Quantum Corp., for $1 billion in stock. Maxtor, based in Mil...

Now that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is firmly entrenched in the United States, the San Francisco-based firm is looking ...

LOS ANGELES - A deputy court clerk at the Pomona Courthouse who suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome has sued Los Angeles Super...

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is getting busy at both ends of the state. The firm is slated to move into a spanking new ...

Federal Trade Commission lawyer Debra Valentine is coming back to O'Melveny & Myers after six years with the government. V...

Senior Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lawyer Christy Richardson took her employment practice over to a firm that ought t...

After several years of hopping from startup company to startup company, former Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich partner Dan Do...

The cooling economy is heating up Henry Lesser's business. Since September, the co-chair of Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & F...

It was a double whammy for Santa Monica-based Haight Brown & Bonesteel, as Washington, D.C's McKenna & Cuneo lured awa...

For years artists, wrapping themselves in the cloak of the First Amendment, have avoided civil liability for their fans' crime...

A trio of litigation partners filed out of the San Jose's Hopkins & Carley and into the local office of New York's Coudert...

California's nonparental visitation statute recently was tested by the California Court of Appeal in Punsly. ...

Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips added two new partners in April, one from in-house and one who is returning after a ...

The more than 2,000 lawyers and staff of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop celebrated their first 100 days as a new firm on A...

Black Hills Energy Capital Inc. has bought two Enron North America Corp. subsidiaries: Fountain Valley Power and E-Next A Equi...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Newport Beach attorney Hallack Watts Hoag, former president of the Legal Aid ...