Among actions announced Monday, March 26, 2001 by the justices were:

GATX Capital Corp. has purchased the U.S. information technology lease portfolio of El Camino Resources Ltd. The deal, which c...

Just months after snapping up a new West Coast intellectual property head, Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has added two ...

Supermarket giant Safeway Inc. recently completed $1.2 billion in senior notes financing. Pleasanton-based Safeway is one of N...

San Diego's Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps has apparently decided that one local office is not enough. On March 1, the fi...

The fierce Los Angeles corporate firm Irell & Manella started 2001 with the changeover of five lawyers in its 16-member ex...

Rich Doyle, former general counsel for Gamut Interactive - a startup that's been put on ice due to lack of funding - has bounc...

On Command Corp. has bought a controlling interest in Hotel Digital Network Inc. The amount of the cash, stock and continuing-...

"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...