SAN FRANCISCO - Local civil rights lawyers don't deserve fees for combating an attack on their earlier victory in a long-runni...

WASHINGTON - If alleged Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is convicted and sentenced to lethal injection in the federal ...

SAN FRANCISCO -As the rest of world watches in dread the mounting tension and bloodshed in the Middle East, local lawyers and ...

Column by Garry Abrams - One does not have to be a fan of Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks to wonder whether Parks is...

SAN JOSE - Attorneys for the government and a Russian software company Monday debated the constitutionality of a landmark fede...

SAN DIEGO - Judge Frank A. Brown likes to call the shots. "I get great satisfaction about putting my spin and my touch on the ...

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - "Murder on a Sunday Morning," the Academy Award winner for best documentary, ...

Dicta - By The Rodent - In law, as in sports, there is such a thing as home court advantage. Law students learn about this in ...

Forum Column - By James Acret - For two years the California Law Revision Commission has been confronting the simple propositi...

Focus Column - By David Pettit - State and local governments have enacted many laws to protect us from pollution and contamina...

Michael Delehunt , a 20-year commercial litigation partner at Oakland's 220-lawyer Crosby Heafey Roach & May , says client...

Gap Inc. closed a two-year secured credit facility worth $1.4 billion. The deal closed March 7. The lenders were Citigroup Inc...

Douglas Barton has stepped down as managing partner of San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy , the firm ann...

The marriage between Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner and California's Weissburg & Aronson seemed like a match made in heav...

Civil litigator James Gilpin has taken the helm at the San Diego office of Best Best & Krieger . Gilpin became managing pa...

SiRF cq Technology Inc. closed its eighth round of financing March 11. SiRF grabbed more than $19 million in this round. The i...

Cadence Design Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Plato Design Systems Inc. in a deal worth $57 million. The deal was announce...

Resonext Communications Inc. brought in $25 million in its third round of funding, which was completed March 11. INVESCO Priva...

Creative Technology Ltd. has agreed to acquire 3Dlabs Inc. The $103 million deal was announced March 11. Singapore's Creative ...

For a small firm, O'Neill Lysaght & Sun sure does get around. The Santa Monica litigation boutique has found its way into ...

CardioNet Inc. closed a third round of funding that raised nearly $19 million. The deal was announced March 11. The investors ...

Partner Steve Bochner combined the legal skills from his 20-year career with the business knowledge he's acquired representing...

Brobeck Phleger & Harrison moved from its old Geng Road address in Palo Alto to a new building in the same city on March 1...

Pam Reed , one of three managing partners for operations at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, simply didn't have enough...

Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish snagged a business and corporate partner from the downtown off...

It's about to get a lot roomier over at Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard . The 200-attorney firm is leasing ...

Stratos Lightwave Inc. has agreed to acquire Paracer Inc. in a deal announced March 19. The stock and cash transaction is wor...

James McGinnis has left San Francisco litigation boutique Morgenstein & Jubelirer to join the local office of Sheppard Mul...

Agile Storage Inc. closed its Series B funding, which brought in $26 million. The venture capital deal was announced March 19....

Mechanical Dynamics Inc. has agreed to acquire MSC.Software Inc. for $120 million. The cash deal was announced March 18. Ann A...