SANTA ANA - Former Orange County attorney Leonard Basinger has pleaded not guilty to charges that he embezzled more than $300,...

SEATTLE - Gov. Gary Locke has rejected a State Bar recommendation that he study the death penalty in Washington. Reaffirming h...

Yet another high-profile deal maker is leaving one of California's top law practices to join a financial institution. ...

A San Diego law school professor is asking law schools to rethink their training of lawyers who handle capital cases, citing t...

Princess Diana may have been a candle in the wind. But her estate burns cash. In a case about the power of a dead celebrity to...

WASHINGTON - Following protests at the U.S. Supreme Court urging the hiring of more minority law school graduates for prestigi...

In his four years at the helm of Gray Cary, Irish charmer Terrence O'Malley has used his executive skills to great effect, the...

Foster City's Inktomi Corp. is buying FastForward Networks of San Francisco. The $1.3 billion stock deal should close by year'...

Farella Braun is not the only law firm in the last several weeks to mourn the passing of a colleague and friend. Paul Hastings...

SAN FRANCISCO - Arizona Judge Mary Schroeder of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday she will assume the post o...

Now that they've decided to shutter their 59-year-old practice, lawyers practicing under the Tuttle & Taylor name will be ...

Now that O'Melveny & Myers' new firm chair will be based in Washington, D.C., someone will have to stand atop the firm's L...

Legal matchmaking has invaded the Web, with a number of lawyers developing sites designed to link professionals with potential...

Ed Poplawski of the Los Angeles' intellectual property shop Pretty Shroeder & Poplawski recently scraped his name off the ...

The digital age has been a boon to the entertainment industry, but it is also the bane of copyright owners. As entertainment c...

Siebel Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Janna Systems Inc. The transaction is valued at $975 million. San Mateo-based Siebel...

After nearly eight months at the helm of Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott, managing partner Scott DeVries is h...

Foster City's Electronics For Imaging Inc. will acquire Splash Technology Holdings Inc., based in Sunnyvale. The deal is value...

GetThere Inc. didn't need to sell out in order to survive. Its initial public offering last November had raised an impressive ...

The application-service-provider model minimizes the firm's day-to-day responsibility for its information-system infrastructur...

Sabre Holdings Corp. will acquire GetThere Inc. in a cash deal valued at $757 million. Sabre, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is t...

The "one final judgment" rule states that an appeal lies only after a final judgment that disposes of all issues between the p...

William Moran, of-counsel to San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, died Sept. 15. Moran, who succumbed to cancer at 59, ...

Business litigator Richard Burdge Jr. has parted ways with his longtime firm Dewey Ballantine and joined the Los Angeles offic...

Numerical Technologies Inc., also known as NumeriTech, has acquired Cadabra Design Automation Inc. The stock deal is valued at...

From the tony stores of South Coast Plaza to the yacht-lined shores of Balboa Island, Orange County has no shortage of wealth....

San Jose's Tessera Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $100 million. Tessera provides Chip Scale Packaging tec...

Steve Goldberg is returning to his old stomping grounds at Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips after a dozen years of do...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler may rule today on a prosecutor's motion to amend a grand jury indictment of t...

SPOKANE, Wash. - America's judges are not participating in the global legal dialogue, a justice of the Canadian Supreme Court ...