SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Ollie Marie-Victoire, at 80 the grande dame of the San Francisco bench, has defended murd...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Vice President Dick Cheney has to release documents abo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court gave county prosecutors a green light Monday to bring misconduct charges against ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Closed-door negotiating intensified Monday at the state Public Utilities Commission over sticking points in th...

1031 EXCHANGE OPTIONS Michael Levine has joined 1031 Exchange Options as a managing director. His responsibilities include as...

If Gary Singer didn't spend his days crafting corporate deals and serving as managing partner of O'Melveny & Myers' two Or...

BY JACKIE JENNINGS AND PRESTON BALL To thrive in the fiercely competitive banking industry, a growing number of banks are upda...

BY BRUCE G. KEETON The housing market is shifting to meet the changing needs of today's seniors, which comprise the nation's f...

Column - Trial Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - A celebrity in the courtroom poses a problem, be it Kobe Bryant, Robert Blake ...

Citing firm policy, attorneys at Palo Alto-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich refuse to comment on the departure of corpor...

Half of the attorneys from Santa Monica's Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens have new homes following the announcem...

Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker is still the big one in Orange County. But Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth added 13 lawyer...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY COMMERCE - ABM Plaza, a single-tenant office park at 5200-5300 S. Eastern Ave., has sold for $6.185 million...

Column - Law Firm Management - By David Bruns - The legal industry is highly competitive and has a very knowledgeable client b...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer If the Elk Grove Unified School District wants to keep pace with the area's exploding populat...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature took a pounding Friday from the Los Angeles City Council as local...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor No developer likes uncertainty, but the transition in the governor's office could br...

Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters made its first Friendship Award Gala an extravagant affair, hoping to catch the attention of...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer According to its chief engineer, the recently inaugurated Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, the f...

BY MARCI WORMSER Special to the CREJ With high-end finishes and a layout intended to support a variety of tenants and users, ...

BY VICTORIA CURRENS As an apartment owner, can you compete with the newer, more luxurious multifamily properties in your marke...

Fed up with trying to advance his career in a big city, Scott Ferrell decided to pack up and leave behind his budding litigati...

Fearing an appeals process that would most likely slash its $934 million verdict, the state's largest this year to date, Beckm...

Elena Baca has joined the management team of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker as vice chair. Fi...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Developers, like it or not, may be recruited as participants in the state's struggle for...

The California Minority Counsel Program continued its efforts to promote diversity within the state's legal community at its 1...

BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant In a world of skyscrapers and multimillion-dollar deals, children should not have to atte...

Seasoned legal-malpractice litigator Mary Catherine M. Bohen has redirected her career toward a family law practice. On Nov. 1...

A dispute between two heirs of the founder of a coffee company percolated for years, but it has hit the boiling point. In an e...

BY AMY K. SPEES Los Angeles Daily Journal The Los Angeles Unified School District will have to pay $22 million for a South Lo...