The recent deluge of corporate-reform proposals continues, with one of the latest taking aim at the big payouts received by ex...

California law schools took 10 of the top 100 spots on U.S.News & World Report's annual ranking of the country's best law ...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Despite the recent absorption of 120,000 square feet of former Brobeck Phleger & Harris...

After looking for a practice better-suited to his own needs, Frank Schwertfeger has left Greenberg Traurig to join Santa Monic...

Making a marriage work between two law firms is hard enough, but it seems these days that just getting to the wedding is provi...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer If you're thinking of leasing one of the luxe pads at Sterling Malibu Beach but fear reje...

The U.S. savings and loan scandals of the late 1980s and early 1990s are history, having made way for the Enron era of corpora...

Boston Scientific Corp. and RITA Medical Systems Inc. have reached a settlement of all patent disputes between the companies. ...

After the recent birth of his second child, litigation associate Timothy Wendling probably thinks he could've been a doctor ju...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Ralph Baxter is always on the climb - whether he's pushing firm profits up the charts, as...

Increasingly, lawyers are leaving large law firms in order to lower their rates in response to client demand. In February, fou...

Carolyn Hunt has left the Los Angeles office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld for the opportunity to become a partner ...

A recent Alameda County Superior Court decision forces Visa and MasterCard to disclose a 1 percent foreign currency exchange f...

Leaving her partners at Thelen Reid & Priest was like "growing up and leaving home," says Allison Davis. The San Francisco...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The Sacramento region could become a statewide model for affordable housing developm...

A new housing development in San Francisco is one step closer to becoming reality. Attorneys have closed the equity financing ...

BY RICHARD WALTER Savvy retail owners and investors are looking to new deal structures to buy and sell properties using break...

BY ERIK CUMMINS Special to CREJ SAN FRANCISCO - Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has answered one of the key unresolved quest...

In Closing Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - If your law firm is like others, you have probably purchased separate soft...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has invalidated a patent held by an Australian nature photographer for a Panavision-produced ca...

Pillsbury Winthrop's hiring spree continues apace with recent additions to its Silicon Valley and Houston offices. On March 31...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor In the aftermath of the high-tech bubble's bursting, commercial property listing s...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting punitive damages is causing a debate among California lawyers. Defense attorneys claim ...

Thanks to a Supreme Court decision that came down Tuesday, two Korean banks in a separate case could find themselves back in a...

U.S. travel agents hope to right their nose-diving businesses by suing 21 major airlines for cutting off their commissions. ...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The state Supreme Court recently handed down a decision th...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Bad aim never has been a defense to murder. Under the doctrine of transf...

Forum Column - By Michael S. Overing and Edward C. Wilde Sr. - Just days after the war in Iraq began, Americans learned that f...

LOS ANGELES - Local health care advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Cent...

LOS ANGELES - Elisabeth Eberhard Zeigler, one of the first female presiding judges of the Los Angeles Municipal Court, died on...