SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly have voted to make the 148-lawyer firm's retrenchment complete ...

LOS ANGELES - Three female police officers filed a claim Monday accusing an attorney for the city of Glendale of slandering th...

Column By Garry Abrams - Suppose that, a thousand years from now, archeologists dig up the grave of lifestyle guru Martha Stew...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to pay $111 million to settle a decade-old whistle-blower la...

SAN JOSE - A dozen years ago, Alison Tucher, then a third-year student at Stanford Law School, learned through her mother that...

LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Los Angeles Unified School District General Counsel Hal Kwalwasser has been fired, with a po...

SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy of Costa Mesa gunmaker Bryco Arms would seem to vindicate the gun industry advocates who say l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clients suing lawyers for malpractice cannot recover for punitive damages lost because of the lawyer's allege...

BY JOHN L. FITZGERALD The state anti-SLAPP statute has been on the books for more than 10 years, but recent judicial decision...

Adviser Column - Employment Law - By Andrew Peterson - Imagine that you are general counsel for a large California corporation...

A Los Angeles refuge for wild and exotic animals filed a lawsuit May 19 claiming First Amendment violations. The Wildlife WayS...

Oakland's Meyers Nave represents 100 Northern California cities, counties and public agencies, many of them in the Bay Area. ...

Attorney Esteban Gallegos claimed greedy partners ousted him from a Los Angeles law firm two years ago so they could get a hig...

BY WILLIAM J. BERNFELD Noting that the state is burdened by a multibillion-dollar deficit, a poor job market, a weak technolo...

Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks has bought a minority stake in biotechnology company Tularik Inc. in connection with a new agreeme...

GCA Law Partners, the Mountain View firm that offers clients lower prices by employing no associates, has hired two of-counsel...

Joseph P. Costa, Alan Abrams and Charles M. Coate have formed Costa, Abrams & Coate. The Santa Monica-based entertainment ...

Adviser Column - Jury Selection - By Andrea Mosmann - During voir dire, a juror must speak in front of a large group of strang...

Attorney Anthony Pacheco suspected he was on to something when people started hanging up on him. He was making calls to ask ab...

The recording industry finally has come to accept Napster - or at least, the Napster brand name. Software maker Roxio Inc. of ...

In Closing Column - Legal Technology - By Sabina Bhalla and Sharon Jackson - Paperless litigation is slowly being accepted in ...

Expanding into a lucrative market, Tellabs Inc. has agreed to buy San Jose network switch maker Vivace Networks Inc. Illinois-...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Developers of Tejon Ranch have agreed to sell 100,000 acres of the sprawling ranch to a lan...

Following a year of constant scrutiny and rumors about its dedication to its California offices, Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolf...

Facing tough competition from national chains, regional linen retailer Strouds is going out of business. Strouds Acquisition C...

BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Concerned real estate owners fearful of losing their homes and businesses were among those wh...

BY TYLER CUNNINGHAM Special to CREJ OAKLAND - Construction magnate Ronald Tutor will become a defendant when San Francisco la...

REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo Superior Court Judge Rosemary Pfeiffer has an unusual passion: Family law. While many members of the ...

The scourge of spam is reaching epic proportions, according to some estimates. By next month, spam, unsolicited computer-gener...

By Tony R. Skogen California courts are experiencing a rapid growth in the number of administrative claims, individual lawsui...