A scurvy-riddled crew aboard the sleek clipper ship "Challenger" caused a near-riot on San Francisco docks in 1850 when crewme...

Gov. Gray Davis on Monday announced the appointment of three new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court: Deputy District Att...

The U.S. Supreme Court's unsigned decision to ask that the Florida Supreme Court clarify its decision to extend the time in wh...

VALLEJO - Twenty years ago, California prison inmate Ryland Cade was serving a 5 years-to-life state murder sentence to be fol...

Defense attorneys said they will file a motion for a new trial Monday for three Los Angeles Police Department officers convict...

Teaching the fine art of terse yet colorful legal writing did not prove difficult for one law professor.

The Electoral College is archaic, absurdly complicated and inequitable and deprives voters of equal access to a fair and just ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's business and corporations section recently honored Bert Massing with its Marvin Green...

Best Best & Krieger's San Diego office has acquired two new attorneys. Robert J. Hanna, former chairman of the general lit...

Two Silicon Valley titans recently set aside their hometown rivalry and joined forces to close a multi-million dollar deal. Co...

Five years ago, winemakers did deals over lunch, and brokers didn't ask lawyers to tag along. Today, too much is at stake to s...

The pendulum continues to swing in the direction of public access to information involved in lawsuits, even at the expense of ...

Homestore.com Inc. is buying Cendant Corp.'s Move.com Group for $761 million in stock. Thousand Oaks-based Homestore.com runs ...

Everyone involved in our justice system must remember that, whether his or her role is advocate, fact-finder or facilitator, l...

Ron Barak, a longtime large-firm real estate attorney, packed up his expertise and moved to Century City's Silver & Freedm...

El Paso Energy Corp. will acquire Pontio Communications Company Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Houston's El Paso Energy Corp....

Former retail finance executive Richard S. McKinley shifted gears in a big way to become the vice president of finance and chi...

Partners at San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and its new Wall Street merger partner Winthrop Stimson Putnam &...

Investment firm Bruckmann Rosser Sherrill & Co. has agreed to buy Il Fornaio (America) Corp. The $81.4 million stock deal ...

New York's Shearman & Sterling announced on Nov. 21 that it too will promise at least $40,000 in bonuses for its first-yea...

'TLC Hospitals' seemingly settles the law on recoupment of Medicare payments in the 9th Circuit. ...

Nearly a decade after state lawmakers established an industry-funded program to reduce lead poisoning among children, a San Fr...

Solectron Corp. has agreed to buy NatSteel Electronics Ltd. for $2.4 billion. Solectron, based in Milpitas, makes electronics ...

PALO ALTO - A Santa Clara County judge has ruled that a former Palo Alto medical technician must stand trial on six felony cou...

Century City's Hecker Law Group has brought in a new attorney to launch its corporate law department. Helene Pretsky will head...

After its most recent headcount, San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster found itself just past the 1,000-lawyer mark. The fir...

The Florida Supreme Court is profoundly wrong for analytic, institutional and pragmatic reasons. ...

The Institute for International Research has purchased AchieveGlobal for $100 million. AchieveGlobal, a subsidiary of new-medi...

Microchip Technology Inc. is acquiring TelCom Semiconductor Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $300 million. Moun...

Come January, two corporate partners from the Orange County office of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison will be helping clients g...