Mark Saxon has left Newport Beach's Saxon, Barry, Gardner & Kincannon, a firm he helped establish in 1979, to join Gordon ...

The Ventura County office of JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider, added two neutrals Oct. 7, Judge Melinda...

Polo employees are fed up with having to buy clothes bearing the company's signature horse and rider logo. Some retail store p...

By now, attorneys and regular joes worldwide have heard about litigator Michael Piuze's record-breaking $28 billion jury verdi...

The Quisenberry Law Firm has landed a new lawyer to head its eight-attorney insurance bad-faith litigation practice. Anthony ...

Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has picked up Richard W. "Jack" Lasater II from Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May. Lasater, who ...

BY JIM CARLTON Dow Jones Newswires Ahmanson Ranch is one of the last untouched pieces of developable land in Southern Califor...

Only one California law firm - Latham & Watkins - landed a place among the top 10 legal advisers in the United States for ...

Jeffrey Weiner and Perrie Weiner probably haven't had adjoining rooms since the late 1960s, when they were kids. But, now that...

BY JANET MORRISSEY Dow Jones Newswires The outlook for apartment real estate investment trusts appears even bleaker than prev...

A little more than a year after it merged with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, Nixon Peabody appears to be taking the n...

As the State Bar's annual meeting wrapped up, several lawyers traveled home with new memorabilia for their office walls. The a...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With no end in sight to the demand for new housing, more under utilized commercial sites ...

At Fenwick & West's annual partnership meeting, held Oct. 5, the firm elected associates Rodger R. Cole, Jedediah Wakefiel...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Somewhere over the rainbow lies the dream of homeownership for many Southern Calif...

BY MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS Unpublished appellate opinions generally may not be relied on for precedent or even cited. However, th...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Southern California planners will spend the next 25 years determining how the regi...

JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Ten years after one developer packed its bags and checked out, another is beginning constru...

To visit the three kings of insurance bad-faith law, you need to get in your car and jump on the freeway heading east out of L...

San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has picked up former Lyon & Lyon partner Arnold Sklar. Sklar joined the fir...

BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN I've recently had numerous discussions with staff and fellow property managers about how to handle cer...

Zi Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, announced recently that it will fight a $9 million jury verdict awarded against it for patent in...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory hired Peter Townshend as of-counsel from Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo P...

The Beverly Hills Bar Association will host an alternative dispute resolution dinner Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. at McCormick & Schm...

Job seekers are increasingly getting online help in their hunt for work. Search engines such as Monster.com, hotjobs.com and c...

Caitlin Greenwell is turning 3 today. The girl is permanently brain-damaged from a birth injury, but she may have a happier ce...

Yvonne Wilson says she wasn't only up against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but also her own age. The 97-year-old...

Choosing challenge over comfort, renowned litigator Kenneth Chiate has left the Los Angeles office of San Francisco's Pillsbur...

The Association of Business Trial Lawyers announced its new officers and board of governors earlier this month. All members wi...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis last week continued a recent flurry of judicial appointments, naming six new judges in Los Angel...