SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Cooley Godward partners in Kirkland, Wash., have landed in the Seattle office of San Francisco's O...

SAN FRANCISCO - An arbitrator has awarded $138,740 to a San Rafael lawyer after finding that another attorney attacked him in ...

SAN JOSE - Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian, whose tenure as acting presiding justice of the 6th District Court of Appeal ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has refused to allow Kim Boyd, the widow of a slain Pelican Bay State Prison inmate, to expan...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in al...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice John E. Benson of the 1st District Court of Appeal has died following a lingering illness. Ben...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Tuesday to let stockholders sue for securities fraud on the g...

SAN FRANCISCO - Edsell "Chip" Eady Jr., the former head of Foley & Lardner's Northern California public finance group, joi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Remcho argued twice before the California Supreme Court over redistricting issues and succeeded both t...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with securities firms' rejection of California's tough new disclosure rules for arbitrators, disgruntled ...

Column By Garry Abrams - It's official. Los Angeles is a hellhole. A judicial hellhole, to be exact. That's the opinion of the...

VENTURA - Wealthy date-rape suspect Andrew Luster failed to show up in court for his trial Monday, forcing a judge to declare ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge backed off holding the city of Los Angeles in contempt Monday after a city official pledged that...

LOS ANGELES - African-Americans and Hispanics driving or walking in the city of Los Angeles are far more likely than whites to...

LOS ANGELES - In the final weeks of 2002, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and some of his top command staff held meet...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - Looking back on 2002, perhaps the most interesting of the large number of...

Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - As the nation's 15,000 school districts move into 2003, the need to re-examine how they deal w...

RIVERSIDE - Robert M. Holstein Jr., a prominent Riverside personal injury lawyer and former priest whose liberal activism onc...

LOS ANGELES - The owner of an Anaheim strip club who fought for years to open an adult business can pursue a claim against the...

As the messy resignation of former Boalt Hall School of Law dean John Dwyer continues to unravel, lawyers at the University of...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Many in Sacramento's office real estate market are counting their blessings. The loc...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ The office market malaise is expected to worsen this year in most of the San Francisco Bay...

CREJ WIRE REPORT Leasing activity is gaining momentum, setting the pace for what is likely to be a modest rebound in commerci...

After a 16-year judicial career, Superior Court Judge Thomas Ashworth III stepped down from the bench Dec. 30. He plans to pur...

Los Angeles resident Warren Eallonardo is a film buff with a library of 150 digital videodiscs at his home. "I've loved movies...

In an industry more accustomed to burnout and high turnover than longevity, Carl Whitaker was a true survivor. For 10 years, h...

BY SCOTT FARB The real estate arena was full of excitement this year. The stock market is down and real estate is in vogue as...

One cornerstone of courtroom success is preparation. Even with zealous preparation, the unexpected mishap is inevitable at tri...

Robert Levinson loves to talk about coins. He's an avid collector of medieval coins and has turned his passion into a career b...

Forecasting the California real estate scene is a bit like forecasting the weather, according to Stuart Gabriel, director and...