Silicon Valley: It's known as the technology center of America, as a region of industry, as one of the most expensive housing...
Intellectual Property
Priceline.coms Legal Battles Spreading to Two Other States
By Chris Ford
A San Francisco company that accuses priceline.com of stealing its reverse-auction, discount-travel business idea has expanded...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider whether two popular techniques used by police to seize illegal dr...
Tearfully apologizing for degenerating into a crooked cop, Rafael A. Perez, the former officer who blew the whistle on the Ram...
Inside a customized Winnebago resting on the edge of a Ventura County park, a college student scribbles on a standardized lega...
By James O. Goldsborough Will rising oil prices be the blade that slices our galloping economy? Closing in on $30 a barrel, oi...
Davis Polk ONLINE BROADCASTERS BEAM DEAL OUT TO PUBLIC Sunnyvale's iBEAM Broadcasting Corp. filed for an initial public offer...
Brobeck Phleger KANA COMMUNICATIONS NETS A SILKY ACQUISITION Redwood City's Kana Communications Corp. has agreed to acquire S...
INFORMATION SUPERMARKET No matter a company's size, having Internet presence will increase name recognition and likely improv...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former member of the BART Board of Directors has been sentenced to three years' probation and forbidden to h...
SAN JOSE -- In an effort to protect residents and neighbors of halfway houses designed for drug and alcohol addicts, the Santa...
Services for Bernard M. Silbert, a veteran Los Angeles attorney, have taken place. Silbert died Feb. 20. He was 85. "He loved ...
Judges and Judiciary
Haning Retires April 1 from 1st District Court of Appeal
By David Kravets
SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Zerne P. Haning III said last week he will retire from the 1st District Court of Appeal, giv...
Luce Forward WHITE-COLLAR DEFENSE LAWYER JOINS IN SAN DIEGO San Diego-based Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has recruit...
Dewey Ballantine WALKER TAKES REINS OF LOS ANGELES OFFICE Real estate attorney Paul R. Walker , who left Los Angeles-based Pa...
PLANNING COMMISSION PLANS TO USE ZERUNYAN The planning commission of the city of Rolling Hills Estates appointed Frank V. Zer...
BOTTOM LINE Document imaging, a valuable tool in litigation, is now in affordable reach to most, not just the big law offices....
Jones Day LITTLER REFUGEE BECOMES NEW EMPLOYMENT HEAD Labor and employment attorney Allison R. Michael has left Littler Mende...
SAN JOSE - A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Thursday gutted a former San Jose deputy city attorney's lawsuit against ...
By John M. Curtis Scrambling to find a way to pay the astronomical sums from Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart scandal, ...
By Marty Graham Last summer, Oren Klaff went looking for an idea worth "the calamitous exercise of will" necessary to start a...
With Beverly Hills-based Friedman & Friedman, the phrase "all in the family" takes on new meaning. Not only does the husb...
Shearman & Sterling RAPID GROWTH OF IPO IS IN SEQUENOM'S GENES Redwood City's Sequenom began its initial public offering ...
COBLENTZ PATCH ELEVATES STEINHAUER TO PARTNER Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass of San Francisco has elevated special counsel...
Wilson Sonsini IPO IS PARKING ITSELF IN THE GARAGE.COM Palo Alto's Garage.com recently filed for an initial public offering, ...
BARTKO ZANKEL WELCOMES ASSOCIATES TO TWO GROUPS San Francisco's Bartko, Zankel, Tarrant & Miller has added associates Rob...
Gray Cary ANOTHER VALLEY FIRM SETS UP SHOP IN SEATTLE Palo Alto-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has opened an office i...
MILLER'S NAME IS IN THE CENTER OF LONG BEACH California State University, Long Beach has named its new library resources cent...
Morrison & Foerster SOFTBANK INVESTS $35 MILLION IN ITS RIVALS Seattle-based Rivals.com closed a $35 million equity inves...
COX CASTLE GAINS MORE MEMBERS ON ALL LEVELS Los Angeles-based Cox, Castle & Nicholson added one partner and eight associa...