The Shansby Group has acquired the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The ...

SonicWALL Inc. has acquired Phobos Corp. for $279 million in cash and stock. Phobos, based in Salt Lake City, makes Internet t...

Never in her wildest dreams did Julie Su expect that, her first year out of law school, she would be meeting clients held behi...

Tim Curry, partner in the Palo Alto office of San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, has represented high-tech compan...

After months of socking new intellectual property partners into its own Northern Virginia outpost, Cooley Godward has found an...

San Diego's Luce Foward Hamilton & Scripps has recruited a New York lawyer for its Los Angeles office. Allison Gotsch come...

A Los Angeles man has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-felon Rafael A. Perez,...

Legal aid organizations bring justice and hope to thousands, providing crucial services to those whose only payment is gratitu...

Sacramento's Weintraub Genshlea Chedial & Sproul has recruited its fourth patent attorney. John Costello joins the firm's ...

After 10 years with Encino appeals-only shop Horvitz & Levy, partner Tina Imre has moved into that practice area at a full...

Two attorneys at Philadelphia-based Morgan Lewis & Bockius have started their holiday shopping early, thanks to an impress...

Electronic Frontier Foundation protects privacy and free speech on the Internet and pursues precedent-setting cases where ques...

SAN JOSE -- Ever since Varian Medical Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against two of its former employees for caustic messa...

Copyright owners enjoy a separate cause of action against those who gain unauthorized access to their encrypted digital entert...

The Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange County has elected Julianne Sartain as its first woman president. Sartain is a ...

When Rose Bird died from breast cancer last December, her legacy was widely distilled to two events - in 1977, she was the fir...

Five new law school graduates have accepted offers from New York-based Condon & Forsyth. The associates joined the firm's ...

Novatel Wireless Inc. has gone public in an offering valued at $56 million. San Diego's Novatel Wireless develops wireless Int...

Conexant Spinco Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Newport Beach's Conexant Spinco is a who...

Shanna Bradford is a success story from one of the Bay Area's poorest neighborhoods. Last year, she won a $5,000-a-year law sc...

Portal Software Inc. has acquired Solution42 AG. The transaction is valued at $300 million. Portal Software, of Cupertino, pro...

San Francisco patent prosecution boutique Limbach & Limbach will disband by year's end. Firm partners are blaming Limbach'...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider this week just how "ineffective" attorneys must be for their convicted clients to...

JOSHUA TREE - During his days of partying, Troy Lindley Geborde often saw people pass out from ingesting too much of the contr...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge recently transferred a mother's $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Palmdale Sch...

After months of haggling over details, the parties in the lawsuit filed by the two children of one of the robbers in the 1997 ...

Here are excerpts of some of the more significant changes to lawyer ethics rules proposed today by the American Bar Associatio...

After 3 1/2 years of hard labor, a blue-ribbon American Bar Association commission today releases its proposal to rewrite atto...

Justice is supposed to be blind. Too bad it's not cheap. The ever-growing chasm between the wealthy and the poor in this count...

Martha Rodriguez, 28, returned to her parents' home in Degollado, Jalisco, Mexico, with her two baby girls. She had come home ...