LOS ANGELES - Retired Commissioner Herbert M. Klein, who oversaw eminent domain matters for the Los Angeles County Superior Co...

LOS ANGELES - Raymond Wallenstein, who practiced law in Southern California for half a century, has died at his Brentwood home...

WASHINGTON - A new survey shows that 65 percent of American adults cannot name even one Supreme Court justice, and less than 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer drafting a will has no duty to beneficiaries to check on the mental capacity of the client, a unanimo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two retired San Francisco judges and a staff attorney with the Judicial Council have emerged as candidates for...

LOS ANGELES - After seven straight months of flat sales, Abercrombie & Fitch stripped some of its employees down to their ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Malcolm Wittenberg, the former patent attorney at Crosby Heafey Roach & May who admitted to insider tradin...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Apartment property manager Michael Freedman said that the hardest part of doing his ...

Any competitor or aspiring star who plans to appear on a reality television show will have to agree to all kinds of abuse for ...

The creditors' committee in the Magnatrax Corp. Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has selected Foley & Lardner as legal adviser. ...

Although he's the second partner to leave Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in as many days, Marty Myers hasn't seen any kind o...

With its high-level partners flying to New York each week, the buzz surrounding Cooley Godward doesn't focus on whether the Pa...

BY MICHAEL CARBONE Owners and managers of industrial or retail space typically have their tenants sign net leases. In additio...

In a single acquisition, Philadelphia's Duane Morris has added a San Diego office and picked up a reinsurance practice group. ...

Joining Morrison & Foerster opened up a whole world of possibilities for William Veatch. In his first week at the 1,000-la...

Two more lawyers from Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's Palo Alto office, which closed in May, have found homes with Alexandr...

Theater aficionados don't want the curtain to fall at the Raymond Theatre in Pasadena and are taking their legal battle to sto...

Handheld computer maker Palm Inc. of Milpitas has signed a deal to buy its rival Handspring Inc. for $170 million in stock. ...

Column - Public Relations - By John J. Buchanan - With corporate scandals, terrorism and economic chaos appearing in the headl...

BY STEPHEN SVETE After two years of life under the Bush administration, what we might call the "General Plan" for America is ...

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven and Deborah Rothman - Question: In the real world of litigated case...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Charity comes in all forms - even a barn. On May 17, the city of Sunnyvale dedicat...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The concept of gender may be changing, but laws preserving the rights of all people,...

Natalie Pierce first met Angela Bradstreet last year when Bradstreet, a partner at Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, spoke at ...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The Department of Industrial Relations has ruled that workers who built the Kohl's distribut...

Realizing the job of running its Northern California offices was too big for any one partner, Coudert Brothers Chairman David ...

Milwaukee beer maker Miller Brewing Co. has signed a $143 million agreement to outsource its information technology to Affilia...

Guy Maisnik, formerly of Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, has joined the real estate department of Jeffer, ...

BY STEVEN HELLER A landlord that uses care in giving a tenant "free rent" will avoid giving away the store and may retain cer...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer There's little San Bernardino residents can do to halt the casino expansion plans of the Sa...