Are bad times a good time to invest? Chicago's Winston & Strawn seems to think so. The 850-lawyer business and litigation ...

Andrea Wirum has done it before, and she'll do it again. Wirum, a securities, finance and insolvency partner with Pillsbury Wi...

WASHINGTON - As states struggle with their worst budget deficits in 60 years and look for new revenue sources, the National M...

What is believed to be the only legal advocacy group in California with its own television show broadcasts its message of tort...

Donna Melby didn't just crack the glass ceiling with her Jan 18 induction as the vice president of the American Board of Trial...

Contrary to published reports, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Joseph L. Lodge did not preside last month over the wedding ...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Emeryville's new Bay Street development is emblematic of a popular new mixed-use concept ca...

After four years serving as Munger Tolles & Olson's co-managing partner, Ruth Fisher stepped down from the position Dec. 3...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With "urban infill" joining "location, location, location" as a real estate mantra, it w...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Five years after L.A.'s K&B Homes bought peer company Lewis Homes for more than $400 m...

News came in a flurry this month for Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson. First, the public agency law boutique moved it...

BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires Edward B. Vinson, development chief for mall builder Mills Corp. , strode through a vast...

Four months after seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, San Diego software company Peregrine Systems Inc. has filed a plan...

In the wee hours of Jan. 1, a team of Morrison & Foerster attorneys had more to celebrate than just the start of another y...

The American Bar Association has selected Daniel Bookin and Douglas Young to head the white-collar crime sub-committee of the...

The Impact Fund, a Berkeley-based foundation that awards grants to those litigating public-interest cases, marked its 10th ann...

"L.A. Angel," a neon-and-metal sculpture in downtown Los Angeles, became the centerpiece of a December dispute that was far fr...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge J. Michael Byrne will retire March 8 after 21 years on the bench, both as a Municipal Court ...

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has recruited Ellen Marshall, a 15-year veteran of Morrison & Foerster's Irvine...

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO - A sturdy economy saddled Southern Californians with the West's highest ...

H. Don Christian, a sole practitioner from Covina, was elected a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner by the court's judge...

By Tara Fass Using a little intuition and knowing the psychology behind deal making, you can improve your negotiation skills ...

Irvine's Alvarado, Smith & Sanchez will be relying on the help of state Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, R-Orange, to counsel the...

By Jeffrey Anderson The Scene turned out a week ago Saturday for Bet Tzedek Legal Services' annual fundraiser. The place: Cen...

BY MICHAEL M. BERGER The separation of powers doctrine is something with which most people have a glancing contact in high- sc...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer An unusually large amount of real estate has been on the market lately, and we don't mea...

Software company CollabNet Inc. of Brisbane raised $13 million in its third round of private financing, which will help it exp...

CREJ WIRE REPORT Reacting to a sluggish stock market and national economy rocked by corporate bankruptcies, investors showed ...

BY REX HIME Sen. Martha Escutia, D-Whittier, has introduced a split roll property tax "spot" bill in the special session conve...

The landslide created little mounds of dirt before it suddenly dropped, creating a scarp and 35-foot-deep fissures. The roiled...