Question and Answer - Q. Is there still a need for court-ordered mediation or can we simply rely on the marketplace to determi...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Looking ahead into 2003, the story of greater Los Angeles' 183 million-square-foot...

Menlo Park-based attorney staffing service The Affiliates has an interesting take on lawyer etiquette after a new survey it d...

BY PETER WALDMAN Dow Jones Newswires Several of the nation's fastest-growing areas - including Southern California, Las Vegas...

Web portal Yahoo! Inc. of Sunnyvale has agreed to buy Inktomi Corp., a provider of search-engine software, for $235 million in...

To Chris Graham, the new managing partner of Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's Palo Alto office, the future is about helping ...

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp has added two of-counsels to its attorney ranks. Ronald H. Malin joined the firm's corporate ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer If any downtown office market in Southern California seems poised for new high-rise cons...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ For centuries, humankind has been moved to ask itself important, world-changing questions ...

California Western School of Law and the University of California, San Diego, will expand their unique graduate study and res...

The consensus among real estate experts is tenants will continue their flight to quality and value in 2003. But those are con...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Of all the commercial real estate markets across the country, perhaps none saw as dramatic...

State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has asked the State Bar of California to investigate the practices of two lawyers, Damian...

Judge Laurel Brady is Contra Costa County's new presiding judge for 2003, replacing Judge Garrett Grant, who will oversee his ...

After a recent barrage of bad news, Tenet Healthcare Corp. had something to cheer about last month when a jury found in its fa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Major Bay Area law firms were dealt a one-two blow in 2002 by a combination of depressed transactional practi...

LOS ANGELES - For the nation's largest private law firms, it was a year of merger mania, and five of California's largest firm...

LOS ANGELES - The children of a San Diego woman who was murdered by her husband cannot sue their father's therapists for fail...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer With no end in sight for the Inland Empire's population explosion, the area's employment ba...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Dennis Herrera took office as city attorney a year ago, he was issued a nondescript black binder, filled...

LOS ANGELES - Flush from victories against New York's Mafia families, Los Angeles' new police chief, William Bratton, created...

Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - On Nov. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that should close one of the...

Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Charles S. Doskow - A District Court has held that the law requiring citizenship of air...

Focus Column - Litigation By Mark Goldowitz - In 2002, there were 20 published opinions involving the SLAPP law, including fou...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has confirmed in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats that FBI agents have ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Kremen says he thinks Network Solutions, the Internet domain name provider, should be liable for giving ...

SAN DIEGO - The mother of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam is calling for a new state law that would open the door to a possible de...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has confirmed in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats that FBI agents have ...

Forum Column By Bennet Kelley Here is a fact that will get your attention: More Americans participated in the election for Fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man cleared of murder and freed from prison by a judge can still be re-tried for the crime, a state appella...