BY JIM GILLESPIE I'm hearing very disturbing reports from agents around the state. Listing agents and procuring agents used t...

Defense attorneys are concerned about a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows treble damages in whistle-blower lawsuits...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Illustrating the continued strong demand from private investors for well-positioned Southe...

Column - Corporate Law - By Dana Welch - At some point during an internal investigation into corporate wrongdoing, the Securit...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Many commercial brokers will tell you that success depends on getting clients what they ...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer The signs of desperation among Northern California office landlords are everywhere. Take one ...

For the second time in six years, the Kay-Bee Toys chain has been slapped with an injunction for allegedly deceptive advertisi...

San Diego's Gordon & Rees has hired three new lawyers in its Newport Beach office. Partners Steve Waimey and Eduardo Bolt ...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Quickly moving north from its new Southern California presence, Kohl's Corp. is spreading its...

Venture Law Group, the Silicon Valley corporate boutique that saw its fortunes rise and fall with the dot-com boom, is being a...

A Beverly Hills psychiatrist was not defamed when a prominent lawyer called her "Looney Tunes" and "mentally unbalanced" on Co...

You like potato and I like potahto. Let's call the whole thing off. If it were only that easy. Couples calling it quits are u...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When a fire burned a San Diego apartment project to the ground last month, it also spark...

LOS ANGELES - Of the 40 cases slated for any given day in downtown Los Angeles' Division 20U, one might involve a graffiti spr...

Kelly Crabb has negotiated entertainment deals for big-name musicians like Paul McCartney and Dave Matthews and for the produc...

BY JOHN RYAN Special to CREJ Jurors might have a hard time believing that the wife of real estate magnate and Los Angeles Cli...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Does suburban sprawl lead to midsection spread? That was one of the tantalizing tidbits ...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - After a marriage falls apart, there are plenty of mediators offering their services, ready to me...

Divorce lawyers specializing in collaborative law tout their practice as a cheaper, faster and less combative alternative to l...

A San Francisco couple, together for 27 years, has been forced to spend the last eight months apart because of a job. Daniel K...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer At a time when brokers are enjoying renewed prominence in the commercial real estate ind...

Column - Courtroom Etiquette - By Douglas G. Carnahan - New lawyers need to know the rule against hearsay and what the grounds...

California law firms continue to expand into China. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Morrison & Foerster are the ...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The Carson Harbor Village Mobile Home Park should be renamed the "Peri...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor The fall commercial real estate buying season got off to a big start last week with ...

Forum Column - By Julia Harumi Mass - On April 7, 2003, Oakland police used "less-than-lethal" weapons against peaceful anti-w...

MacKinnon v. Truck Insurance Exchange , 2003 DJDAR 9112 (Cal. Aug. 14, 2003), addressed the scope of the standard pollution ex...

Forum Column - By Thomas W. Hiltachk - After five years in office, Gray Davis clearly has governed without any vision; he simp...

LOS ANGELES - The Western Center for Law and Poverty has broken last year's fund-raising records for the annual Garden Party, ...

State Bar Notebook - By Don J. DeBenedictis - Judiciary officials plan to bring together groups of lawyers and judges soon to ...