SAN DIEGO - To cut costs by improving efficiency, San Diego Superior Court administrators said Monday that they will close two...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Fred J. Martino, a Beverly Hills sole practitioner. Martino died of heart failure ...

SAN DIEGO - Five major publishers have sued a local bookstore owner, alleging that three outlets routinely copied and distribu...

SAN JOSE - Quentin Kopp, the former San Francisco supervisor and state senator who became a San Mateo County Superior Court ju...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that attorneys representing debtors in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceed...

SACRAMENTO - California officially decided long ago that minors who commit capital murders should not be executed for their cr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Nevada finally may have freed hundreds of companies from infringement liability by invalida...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled unconstitutional a portion of the USA Patriot Act that bars giving expe...

SANTA ANA - Stepping up his campaign to shelter the courts from fiscal attacks, State Sen. Joseph Dunn said Monday he will hol...

Column By Garry Abrams - The deposition from hell is over, but the flames still burn hot, hot, hot. Yes, I finally can report ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have removed Deputy Attorney General John W. Riches from a class action aimed at improv...

BY CLAUDE GRUEN Class B malls generating good cash flows from suburbs with middle-income populations represent a frequently ov...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Aliso Viejo-based Parker Properties announced an agreement to bring a full-service hotel...

By Brad Berton & Chris Tolles Even with consumer spending capacity depressed from the Bay Area's continued employment slu...

Energy law attorney Leslie Lo Baugh has joined Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro as p...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor Ask 100 commercial real estate professionals to name one factor that sustained the i...

Column - By Scott E. Wendelin - As usual, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that equity capital markets are po...

BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer The extensive damage suffered by Paso Robles' historic downtown in the recent 6.5-magintud...

Aided by Pillsbury Winthrop, Petaluma-based Advanced Fibre Communications Inc. has signed a $240 million deal to buy a unit of...

The money continues to flow into drug company Novacea Inc., and Silicon Valley lawyer Alan Mendelson couldn't be happier. Nova...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With multimedia exhibits about drug dealers and smugglers, emaciated addicts and celebri...

Loeb & Loeb has strengthened its corporate and securities practice with the acquisition of Beverly Hills' Richman, Mann, C...

San Jose company Redback Networks Inc., which recently emerged from bankruptcy, has closed a deal to receive $30 million in eq...

Bill Handel provides half-baked legal advice to hundreds of thousands of people every Saturday morning, and he could hardly be...

SANTA ANA - Fellow prosecutors call him an outstanding lawyer, perhaps the brightest and most driven U.S. attorney to come out...

To the victor go the spoils. A victorious plaintiff wins money to compensate for past wrongs and the vindication of battling a...

A provision in a recent settlement of a slip-and-fall case violates State Bar rules because it prohibits the plaintiff's attor...

Column - Law Practice - By Gerald G. Knapton - Over the last few years, state appellate courts have indicated that attorney fe...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer With all the restaurants that opened in Sacramento over the past few years, it could have bee...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer This past holiday shopping season brought just modest cheer to the nation's retail chain...