In announcing his compromise racial profiling bill at that April 27 Sacramento rally, state Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City.,...

Bottom Line: By Frank W. Nemecek and Mary H. Redfield An attorney has been hired to represent a client in a lawsuit. Pursuant ...

Retired Judge Lawrence C. Waddington will talk about "The 'Litigization' of Arbitration: A Review of Cutting Edge Case Law" at...

Debra Summers believes in getting down to business. In fact, focusing on the business issues, while managing the legal ones al...

Software company Blue Martini Inc. has filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of stock. The transaction...

A 45-minute flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and $55 was all it took for Joel Levitt and Barbara Gold to get hitched at th...

PeopleSoft Inc. has acquired Advance Planning Solution Inc. in a cash transaction whose value was not disclosed. ...

Practitioner: Land Use Law By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. In Waste Management of Alameda County Inc., v County of Alameda (Browning-F...

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...