Ramsey Hanna has left Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to become a partner with Los Angeles' Alschuler Grossma...

Thomas W. Kellerman, formerly managing partner of the European joint venture of Brobeck Hale and Dorr in London, has joined Mo...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Many San Jose hotel owners and managers are willing to pay more taxes if they bring o...

After 15 years with the Irvine office of Morrison & Foerster, William Grenner has joined the Santa Ana office of Michelman...

Fenwick & West Chairman Gordon K. Davidson has high expectations for Mark C. Stevens, who is returning to the firm's corpo...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Nestled between two of the fastest growing counties in Southern California lies one of the s...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ California Public Employees' Retirement System, the $130 billion state-employee pension fun...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Legacy Partners hopes to bring an urban edge to several Northern California cities wh...

In Closing Column - Litigation Technology - By David Hunter - The age of courtroom technology is here to stay, and it's changi...

Leonard Venger has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as executive vice president of litigation. Venger was a partner with Los...

BY MICHAEL E. DI GERONIMO When a ground lessee does not need financing to construct its initial improvements on a leased premi...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer When planning began on Diamond Valley Lake in the mid-1980s, Southern California Metropolita...

In the hustle and bustle of the days that followed his firm's collapse, Steven Kaufhold followed a group of 50 Brobeck, Phlege...

Adviser Column - Foreign Entities - By Debra C. Scheufler - Many foreign business entities, both corporations and limited liab...

Adviser Column - ADR - By Alexander S. Polsky - You are a hardworking attorney. Suddenly you receive notice that you are in a ...

Two Los Angeles banks are combining to create the largest Asian-American bank in the United States. Cathay Bancorp Inc. plans ...

MODESTO - Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Roger M. Beauchesne is widely considered the most patient judge on the local ...

Forum Column - By Gregory R. Smith, Kyhm Penfil and Ornah Medovoi - The Nazi butchery of innocents was about more than the ext...

Forum Column - By John F. Niblock - Over the past several years, California has pursued its own foreign policy by enacting leg...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - The application of Proposition 36 often means that a defendant will get t...

LOS ANGELES - The suspension of three Southern California lawyers who were accused of filing frivolous lawsuits to extort mone...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Senate has voted to create five new federal district-court judgeships in California. The measure, spons...

SAN JOSE - An influx of federal grant money will allow the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office to avoid laying off a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento state appellate court has ruled that a sex offender who says he forgot to register with police on...

Column By Garry Abrams - For the sake of argument, let's assume that Tony Soprano, the angst-ridden psychiatric patient and Ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa County Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, who was removed for his abrasive style on the bench, has a...

RIVERSIDE - Virginia Blumenthal has received many compliments since she expanded her criminal-defense firm to include all fema...

SACRAMENTO - Susan Deering spent 23 years behind bars for killing her abusive boyfriend, yet jurors never heard a word about b...

SANTA BARBARA - What's in a street name? An awful lot, according to residents of a Santa Barbara neighborhood who have gone t...

SANTA ANA - Attorney Melanie Rae Blum and her ex-husband and former law partner Mark Elliot Roseman will stand trial on grand ...