The piper must be paid. That is the resounding message sent by the $53.4 million settlement between Universal Music Group and ...

It's unlikely that English rocker Elton John and Los Angeles rapper Dr. Dre have much in common except fame and wealth. For in...

SACRAMENTO - California is making criminals out of the mentally ill who are repeatedly arrested because mental health and crim...

Regardless of how diligent an employer is in managing its workforce, most employers will be served with an employment-related ...

Prudence Kay Poppink, a prominent attorney with the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, has died of complicatio...

The determination of the existence of an implied-in-fact attorney-client relationship requires an analysis of the facts and ci...

You can call it a double whammy of sorts. Horace Nash, securities group chair for Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, recently put...

Young lawyers, do you really think having a randomized bar number will magically bestow on you the respect and reverence to wh...

When parents are awarded joint custody, they each gain a new abode and expect the child to shuttle back and forth. ...

While New York firms continue one-upping each other with year-end associate bonuses - and while California firms continue to f...

The Newport Beach outpost of Los Angeles' Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger has recruited three lawyers from Irvine's Paone...

Los Angeles jurors no longer assume that all police officers walk the straight line. ...

More firms are returning from their year-end meetings with new-partner lists in hand. As the business boom continues, large-fi...

What has transpired since Richard H. Sheehan Jr. became special counsel to the beleaguered Los Angeles Board of Education has ...

A senior partner with San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, Bill Coblentz is considered the Bay Area's best spokesm...

Stayhealthy Inc. has acquired the Center for Health Information from PharMerica Inc., a subsidiary of Bergen Brunswig Corp. Th...

Gazillions of dollars, or maybe even more - that's the amount of profit a company potentially can mine from its dormant intell...

Comerica Inc. has agreed to purchase Imperial Bancorp in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $1.3 billion. Comerica is a D...

Broadcom Corp., a maker of communication semiconductors, has agreed to buy chip maker SiByte Inc. for more than $2 billion in ...

Global Sports Inc. is acquiring online sporting goods store Fogdog Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $42.5 million. Glob...

Resources Connection Inc. has filed for an initial public offering worth $84.5 million. The Costa Mesa company generates nearl...

The San Francisco outpost of Tampa's Holland & Knight brought aboard consultant Doug Metz for an exclusive engagement as f...

One of two lawyers who joined the Costa Mesa office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro this summer was formally ...

The court stated that local government and the county had authority to enter into contracts to regulate land use. ...

After his firm was split apart by a sudden one-two punch, Bill Hoffman has found a home at Farella Braun & Martel, a 110-l...

The California Minority Counsel Program deals with reality, reminding lawyers and corporate executives that to get beyond raci...

San Jose's ONI Systems Corp. has completed two simultaneous public offerings: 8 million shares of common stock and $300 millio...

Thanks to the Bar Association of San Francisco, pushing up those pro bono service hours just got easier. The bar's Volunteer L...

RIVERSIDE - The nine members of a new citizen Police Review Commission have selected Bob M. Garcia, a church office manager, a...

Disability advocates fear an appellate court's recent termination of a mentally disabled parent's rights could lead to widespr...