SAN JOSE - In a rare trade secrets misappropriation case targeting a lawyer as the defendant, a veteran Palo Alto patent atto...

By Liz Valsamis. Nervous new attorneys can rest a little easier because California's top law firms are preparing to roll out t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Rosa family law attorney who admitted stealing more than $100,000 from divorce clients has been senten...

San Jose's Adobe Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Boston-based Glassbook Inc. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Adobe...

Inventa Technologies Inc. has applied for an initial public offering worth $39 million. The Redwood Shores Internet services c...

Washington, D.C., lawyer Greg Rubis is settling into his new practice in the Palo Alto office of Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps &a...

Internet network checker Ixia has filed an initial public offering worth $57.5 million. Ixia, based in Calabasas, designs inte...

By Jeffrey Anderson. While summer associate programs are a rite of passage for elite law students, this year's recruiting ritu...

Wireless phone maker Motorola Inc. is acquiring Printrak International Inc. for $160 million cash. Motorola of Schaumberg, Ill...

By Jeffrey A. Lowe. In today's newspapers, there is often an article about an athlete in trouble with the law. This is due in ...

By Xenia P. Kobylarz. As people grow more comfortable using the Web, it comes as no surprise that the Internet is now the firs...

By John Ryan and Victoria Newman. First-Year Blues: A fear of professional failure unites most young associates; but, hold on,...

Australia's Foster's Brewing Group Ltd. has bought California's Beringer Wine Estates Holdings Inc. The combination stock and ...

By Melissa Onstad. California summer associates spent a lot of time attending firm-sponsored events rather than long hours in ...

Bob Gunderson of Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian began the Associate Salary Wars tha...

By Zoe Overbeck. He remembers when that first indelible impression was made. He was a 12-year-old at the New York World's Fair...

By Trey Ryder. Associates often hold a number of misconceptions about marketing themselves and their practice. Below are 13 of...

Netherlands-based Jomed N.V. will acquire EndoSonics Corp., based in Rancho Cordova. The deal is valued at approximately $208 ...

By Marcia Watson Wainess and Dennis Duitch. Effective orientation and training at a firm plays an important role in the retent...

SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking new ground on the preservation of aviation accident evidence, a federal judge has ordered air safety ...

Throughout the waves of initial public offerings in the past few years, most of the headlines have been swept up by young and ...

One night, when Micha Danzig was a first-year lawyer working on a high-pressure, product liability wrongful death case, a par...

After more than a year of zipping between the New York and Los Angeles offices of Brown Raysman Felder & Steiner, partner ...

New recruit Stephen Bickford moved into an office two doors down from his new boss, Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliot managin...

By Boyd Hudson. Allowing participation of the nonelecting spouse ensures that innocent-spouse relief will only be granted wher...

By Corky Pickering. Picture a tiny "pseudo-country" with 60,000 people, two newspapers, plenty of golf courses and place to es...

SANTA ANA - Former Los Angeles court auditor Gregory Pentoney was sentenced to two years in state prison Friday for his role i...

The FBI last week issued a report about school shootings that urges school officials to be alert to students who show a preocc...

VICTORVILLE - High Desert attorney Archer B. Hudson put up a six-year fight in the case of his life, battling charges that he ...

SANTA ANA - The leading producer of Vitamin C is suing the National Academy of Science, alleging the academy has falsely repor...