CREJ STAFF REPORT LOS ANGELES - A jury found that the former owners of a downtown Los Angeles building purposely allowed the p...

By Erik Cummins Reed Smith Crosby Heafey chose a Crosby Heafey lifer and a former law firm managing partner as the leaders of...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Apartment rents and occupancy in the San Francisco Bay Area are expected to deteriorate sl...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer A 50,000-square-foot mixed-use building that will bring 18 high-end residential lofts...

By Liz Valsamis The day after Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton hooked four entertainment partners from Ak...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor In an industry where financial numbers are everything, interest rates have proven t...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer During San Diego's booming economy of the past few years, developers, understandably, ste...

By Liz Valsamis Bryan Cave appointed Jeffrey W. Morof as the new managing partner of the St. Louis-based firm's Santa Monica ...

By Toni Vranjes Trizec Properties Inc., a Chicago-based real estate investment trust, has sold the posh Paseo Colorado shoppi...

BY TYLER CUNNINGHAM Special to CREJ SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has hit a Nob Hill landlord with a half-million-dollar civil pena...

By Joan Osterwalder A Hooters corporate Christmas party was no joyous celebration for a San Diego security guard. Evan Johnso...

By John Ryan John Quinn was pretty happy with how things were going in 1988. The four-attorney trial shop he founded two year...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor How's this for starting the New Year right? By the end of the month, Lauri Lustig-B...

By Toni Vranjes The parent company of high-end toy retailer FAO Schwarz tapped a Los Angeles bankruptcy boutique to handle it...

The National Association for Law Placement Inc., known through the legal community as NALP, has hired a new executive directo...

Washington, D.C.'s Piper Rudnick has added real estate attorney Rick Wendy to its Chicago office, the firm announced Jan. 14....

Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian stepped down early from her interim post as acting administrative presiding justice of th...

Thelen Reid & Priest has added a pair of private equity lawyers to its New York headquarters, the firm announced Jan. 13....

BY BOYD D. HUDSON AND ROBERT A. YAHIRO The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, alon...

By Toni Vranjes Technology company S2io Inc. of Cupertino has raked in $18 million in its second round of financing. New inve...

Pillsbury Winthrop has added three new partners around the globe: Ashley Winton in London and Kenneth W. Taber and Maria T. G...

LOS ANGELES - The days of crack addicts giving birth on couches, security guards dealing drugs, prostitutes openly selling th...

Forum Column - By Margaret C. Crosby - On January 23, 1973, the day after the Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 (1973), decisi...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in a week, a San Francisco appeals court has dinged Attorney General Bill Lockyer for his...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 160 partners at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison will give up $26 million in personal earnings to retire s...

Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - As we mark the life and times of Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate his life this month, i...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Defendants sentenced to life in prison under California's three-strikes l...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has tossed out a $425,000 jury award to a former Locke High School art teacher who claimed s...

SAN DIEGO - From her office on the 19th floor of a high-rise, Dana Schwartz occasionally broke from her legal work and watched...

LOS ANGELES - The Fresno Superior Court today opened its Self-Help Education and Information Center for Spanish-speaking litig...