SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has ruled that Chevron Corp. must remain as a defendant in a suit accusing the oil giant's Nig...

ACT Networks Inc., based in Calabasas, is being acquired by Redwood City's Clarent Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valu...

Nightmare on Tribute Street For years, Kathy Masera and her staff at the California Job Journal in Sacramento had lived with a...

Seagate Technology Inc. has been acquired by Veritas Software Corp. and a private investor group led by Silver Lake Partners i...

Online search engine GoTo.com Inc., based in Pasadena, has acquired AuctionRover.com Inc., based in Research Triangle Park, N....

Forum: By Stephen Yagman The paradoxical notion of hiding in plain sight serves LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks very well, like th...

Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Showing some pretty fancy footwork, Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush denied knowi...

The Closer: By Anthony V. Baker These days, I often wonder what Alexander Hamitlton would think about the Supreme Court. By an...

International environmental lawyer David R. Andrews has returned to San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen after ...

WineTasting.com has acquired Aficion.com in a transaction whose value was not disclosed. ...

The Advisor: By Michael J. Lawrence Today, more companies than ever are launching Web sites as the borderless nature of cybers...

Internet Business's International Inc. has acquired Atlas Capital Corp. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ...

Forum: From the Tower By Ira L. Shafiroff Across the nation this coming weekend, thousands of men and women will be graduating...

The Advisor: By Robert Barnes For the past five months, cybersquatters-registrants and would-be resellers of Internet domain n...

SAN FRANCISCO - The makers of Kent cigarettes have settled a lawsuit brought by children of a longtime smoker after a jury awa...

The number of Rampart-related lawsuits filed against the city of Los Angeles claiming civil rights violations by police topped...

David J. Murphy , a senior partner in labor and employment law who practiced at Littler Mendelson 's San Jose office, has join...

RIVERSIDE - An appeals court has ruled that a stable owner caught in a custody dispute over a purebred Polish Arabian stallion...

The recall effort against three Marin County judges over family law issues isn't the only dispute fracturing the local bench a...

Palo Alto's Cooley Godward added two partners, Gary H. Moore and Harry Rubin , both of whom practice in the technology licensi...

SANTA ANA - A trial for a suspected accomplice in the February attempted murder of Biofem Pharmaceutical co-owner James Patric...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Judge Roderick Duncan heard about the recall campaign against three Marin County family court judges, his...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was a late afternoon last July when Robert Shreve heard the knock his probation officer had warned him abou...

SAN DIEGO - When Alan Bersin was selected as superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District in 1998, some found it an...

When Richard and Julie Licon bought a $500,000 townhouse in Orange County for them and their six children, little did they kno...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first judicial recall campaign in Marin County history seems reminiscent of the arena that spawned it: div...

We are living in the Age of Big: gazillion-dollar corporate pairings; cities that stretch for hundreds of miles. When the stoc...

Dicta: On 'The Practice' By Paul Harris In a powerful and well-researched episode, "The Practice" looks at the consequences o...

Forum: By Vernon Jarrett Nearly 150 years after the Confederate battle flag last flew above a rebel army, the meaning of that...

^^S/Ages^^ MICRA's Scope If examination shows that residential care facilities recklessly neglect an elder, emotional distress...