Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - To understand why the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the most-reversed circuit, one...

CHATSWORTH - "In the event of a bomb threat, use the bomb threat checklist," the green-and-white sign in Commissioner Richard ...

SAN FRANCISCO - California utility regulators opened their defense Monday of a historic plan to reorganize the bankrupt Pacif...

SACRAMENTO - Southern California attorneys William Shernoff and Lisa Stern received the Consumer Attorneys of California's fi...

LOS ANGELES - A Malibu lawyer pleaded no contest Monday to two felony counts of grand theft for allegedly stealing $120,000 fr...

LOS ANGELES - A coalition of clergy, lawyers and professors do not have enough connection to the 590 war prisoners held at Cam...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal rules committee has overwhelmingly recommended a controversial rule that would permit lawyers to ci...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it again will delve into the knotty issue of campaign finance, looking...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won a major legal battle Monday when a special appellate court in its first published opi...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have been asked to halt court-ordered mental health screening on death row while defen...

SAN JOSE - Hundreds of Santa Clara County court employees walked off their jobs Monday, effectively shutting down the legal sy...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Galbraith overturned a longstanding principle requiring a "heigh...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it again will delve into the knotty issue of campaign finance, looking...

WASHINGTON - In 1995, Michael J. Hason, a New York doctor who now lives in Florida, applied for a license to practice medicine...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer After sitting nearly vacant for years, the Riverside Plaza is now boarded up in preparation...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Orange County's hot apartment market posted another large deal, with Eagle Real Estate G...

A team of attorneys led by Howard C. Bunsow, partner with the San Francisco office of Howrey, Simon, Arnold, & White, won ...

Jerry Spolter, formerly of the American Arbitration Association, joined the San Francisco office of alternative dispute provi...

Arnold & Porter has dipped into the United Kingdom Medicines Control Agency for its latest lateral hire in London. Dr. Li...

BY LARRY FINN Like many states, California is concerned about urban sprawl. After all, the state's beautiful landscape is a so...

Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has hired intellectual property partner James C. Potepan and two associates from Pasadena'...

Mountain View's General Counsel Associates has promoted one attorney to partner and hired another from outside the firm. The ...

Oxnard's Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton has launched a general counsel services group to help small and medium-size bus...

A felon who turned his life around and became a top salesman at a Ford dealership in Huntington Beach has won $130,000 in a wh...

Mediator Network, a subsidiary of Consolidated Legal Concepts Inc., and Mosten Mediation Centers Inc. merged Oct. 1 to create ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Los Angeles attorney Gregory G. Gorman is beat, even though he recently won a $2.1 million jury verdict aga...

It looks like former baseball star Steve Garvey is going to hit a home run in a false advertising case that the Federal Trade ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When the 1.7 million-square-foot Park Place Office Campus in Irvine sold last month for ...

"Buyers are starting to meet sellers' expectations. What that translates into is record low cap rates and high dollars per squ...