SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's shift from state court judge to Northern California's top federal cop threw him in...

LOS ANGELES - The storybook manor on Palm Street in the foothills of Altadena is the former estate of charismatic Benjamin "Bu...

Forum Column - By Pammela Quinn - The Supreme Court recently considered the constitutionality of California's Holocaust Victim...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has noted several times, appli...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - Oakland plaintiffs attorney John Burris will pay Hayward $10,000 to settle the city's...

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's "old" folks aren't ready to be written off just yet. In January, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ch...

LOS ANGELES - There's nothing like terrorists, race, sodomy and a dose of "kooky" Stephen Yagman to get federal appeals court ...

SAN JOSE - Among local attorneys, Madera County Superior Court Judge John W. DeGroot is known, not affectionately, as "old bul...

LOS ANGELES - In what one lawyer said was a major setback for thrill-ride operators defending injury suits, an appellate court...

Column By Garry Abrams - Afghanistan, source and site of so much conflict, has triggered a Los Angeles lawsuit that alleges tr...

LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco Superior Court jury Monday ordered 22 insurance companies to pay $383 million for refusing to in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ending a public standoff with City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, the San Francisco Airport Commission on ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a hard line against deliberate Miranda violations, the California Supreme Court overturned a murder co...

LOS ANGELES - Jerold Friedman wanted to sue after he lost out on a job because he refused to take a vaccine made from chicken ...

Forum Column - By Frank Kaplan - It's 1939. Imagine that you are a 10-year-old living in Poland and you and your family sudden...

Sharon Klein, formerly of Philadelphia's Pepper Hamilton, joined the corporate practice at Newport Beach's Stradling, Yocca, C...

Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark E. Terman - Trade secret cases come with discovery and disclosure issues that are not...

BY CLAUDE GRUEN If we don't go beyond smart growth, our children will see the return of slums, an increasing imbalance betwee...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Either the Hamburglar has given up his life of crime for a stint in the hospitalit...

SAN BERNARDINO - Judge J. Michael "Mike" Welch doesn't rattle easily. That's what makes him so effective as San Bernardino Sup...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge affirmed a $3 million award June 17 granted to a Van Nuys-based clothing company by a panel...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor This spring, after two years of one of the worst hospitality market troughs in rec...

Raymond Erickson, a 73-year-old Santa Cruz retiree who successfully sued American Airlines in small-claims court, is looking f...

After voting July 15 to dissolve Arter & Hadden, a group of former partners in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Cleveland ha...

It turns out the sometimes a win doesn't always mean a win. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager found June 11 that t...

Miami's Greenberg Traurig has hired patent lawyer Mark Krietzman from Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. Krietzman joined the...

Column - Expert Witnesses - By Carole Levitt and Jim Robinson - At least once in their careers, most attorneys need to locate ...

With no technology rebound in sight, Mountain View's Fenwick & West has voted to lay off a significant portion of its Wash...

The Scene walked into the Beverly Hilton on June 25 to find the room brimming with excitement. It was Public Counsel's annual ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The commercial real estate investment market continues to defy fundamentals, such as dec...