CAMARILLO - Royce Medical Co. leased 17,784 square feet of R&D space at 4550 Calle Alto from the Snemelof Family Trust fo...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor Dream Works has finally come to Playa Vista, but in a most roundabout way. On Aug. 6...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has seen its employee-benefits and executive-compensation practice explode in the last three...

Film and television actor Marty Ingels considers himself a "very verbose" and "opinionated" guy. So when a radio talk show hos...

Securities lawyers and white-collar defense attorneys take note: the Securities and Exchange Commission is busier than ever. ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Alliance Residential Co., a full-service apartment company, inaugurated its new Southern ...

Whether their in-house departments have three lawyers - like San Jose's Sanmina-Sci - or 300 (think Hewlett-Packard), Califor...

Biotechnology company Genzyme Corp. is buying Fremont-based SangStat Medical Corp., which sells a lucrative drug for kidney-tr...

Rosemarie Oda, the former general counsel of California's Department of Financial Institutions, has joined Pillsbury Winthrop....

Freeman, Freeman & Smiley hired two Arter & Hadden partners following that firm's closure July 15. July 16, Jill MacGr...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Devin Gensch - In April 2002, a hacker gained access to the Teale Data Center's payr...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By David J. Reis and Dipanwita Deb Amar - It came as no surprise that a unanimous Supreme Cour...

Forum Column - By Rick Hasen - Noting ambiguities and internal contradictions in the state's recall laws, state Supreme Court ...

Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - In his landmark 1942 book, "Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race," anthropologist ...

LOS ANGELES - An armed-robbery suspect who was paralyzed permanently from the waist down cannot sue a sheriff's deputy for all...

SANTA ANA - After months of trying to avoid additional reductions in service, Orange County Superior Court officials announced...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff writer A new piece of proposed legislation would not only speed the approval process for multifamily...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers accused by defendants of conducting illegal searches now can answer in court with an affidavit...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals panel has upheld two Los Angeles billboard ordinances, overturning a lower-court order that bl...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor Ben Field, a potential candidate for district attorney, is under fire for his office'...

SAN FRANCISCO - Employers may be held liable for a supervisor who successfully coerces an underling into sexual acts if the vi...

LOS ANGELES - Don't get him wrong. U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Walsh loves his job. But if Walsh could change one thing -...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ron Albers didn't let losing two elections to become a San Francisco judge end his dream of holding judicial o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A State Bar committee has warned the Securities and Exchange Commission that the agency's rules encouraging at...

SAN FRANCISCO - Colleagues and friends are remembering Senior U.S. District Judge William Orrick as the independent-minded cor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cooperating with a government pollution agency doesn't necessarily constitute adequate public notice of a cle...

SACRAMENTO - Walk too fast through the plaza of the federal courthouse, and you could almost miss them: a bear, two eagles, f...

Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - Terminating an employee without getting sued for it is not simple. Lawyers who are not...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - When Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Nancy Davis leaves her position next wee...

LOS ANGELES - Kenji Ito, a Japanese-American who faced arrest and internment during World War II but went on to become a leade...