Column by Scott Astle - Of the many forms of alternative dispute resolution, the most common are arbitration and mediation. Bo...

LOS ANGELES - Many of California's legal and political elite gathered last week at parties in Los Angeles and San Francisco ce...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Who's got the top concierge? The answer, as reported in The Wall Street Journal's battle ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sandy Kreigler will take over duties as supervising judge for the Van Nuys courts on Oct. 7. ...

McGeorge School of Law Professor Clark Kelso has been appointed special adviser on information technology and chief informatio...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ The summer panic concerning synthetic leases apparently has subsided. But lingering uncerta...

A San Diego appellate court has issued a groundbreaking opinion holding that the disqualification of an attorney for an earlie...

BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Although industrial real estate continued its sluggish performance in the second quarter, a re...

Deputy District Attorney Nicholas Taubert was elected a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner Sept. 13. Taubert was ranked b...

D. Kay Smith this month joined the board of directors of the National Association of Subrogation Professionals. The trade asso...

BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Public real estate companies sold more U.S. commercial properties, excluding office build...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has picked up three attorneys for its real estate practice in Costa Mesa. Tim Paone, from the Ir...

SAN JOSE - The fate of Al DeGuzman, the 20-year-old former student convicted of more than 100 counts of bomb possession in his...

Forum Column - By Margaret M. Russell - As we emerge from this first, difficult year after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration was justified in rejecting statistical sampling to improve the accuracy of Census 2000...

There isn't much that bugs David Faulkner. In fact, he can't remember a time that he wasn't studying insects, the six-legged s...

Column by Ronald A. Zumbrun - Since 1981, the public has believed it has a legal right to use private beaches at Lake Tahoe. T...

LOS ANGELES - San Diego County sheriff's deputies are entitled to public hearings when they appeal misconduct charges lodged b...

LOS ANGELES - Ah, the sweet tinkle of the ice-cream truck coming down the street, bringing happy children ice cream, Popsicles...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney said Friday that a board set up by the Los Angeles archdiocese to review priest sexual abuse charges...

SAN DIEGO - The Southern District's overworked federal judges could get some help if the U.S. Senate approves five additional ...

Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Effective May 14, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California amended...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration was justified in rejecting statistical sampling to improve the accuracy of Census 2000...

SANTA ANA - She threatened to "bring down" the director of the California Public Defender Association and called the former Or...

Forum Column - By Margaret M. Russell - As we emerge from this first, difficult year after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, ...

LOS ANGELES - Holy relocation, Batman! Commissioner Gordon's taking his apple-red bat phone and moving downtown - to Los Angel...

LOS ANGELES - In a stinging rebuke, a state appeals court has restored the parental rights of a man denied the opportunity to ...

Dicta Column - By Robert Spanner - In presenting a complicated case to a jury, the greatest service a lawyer can perform often...

LOS ANGELES - An emeritus UCLA professor who was assistant counsel on the Warren Commission died in a plane crash on Wednesday...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - Employers dream of creating a workplace free from sexual harassment. Sadly, however...