Column - Trial Techniques - By Sanford Michelman - What attorney wouldn't want to win a case before it begins? While it's not ...

BY LINDA RAPATTONI Special to CREJ Residents in homeowner associations will be assured of their free-speech right to display ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Is it fun to stay at the YMCA? Visitors to San Diego will get a chance to find out when ...

Morrison & Foerster real estate co-chair Donald Berger has left the firm's Los Angeles office for Latham & Watkins. Be...

A Catholic organization has sold 200 acres of undeveloped property in Northern California to a public agency whose mission is ...

When Littler Mendelson decided to become the country's largest employment and labor law boutique in the 1980s, it began a slow...

The legal department of the Recording Industry Association of America is busy these days. After shutting down song-swapping ne...

William Kissinger worked, first, for the federal government, then for the state, during the past six years, some of it during ...

BY PAUL DANESHRAD With 700 people moving into California each day, multifamily real estate, as a property type, is one of the...

BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Two recent studies, both sponsored by organizations that support multifamily housing deve...

Drug company Metabolex Inc. has secured $27 million in late-stage financing to support its clinical-trials program. The financ...

The city of Lodi paid $200,000 last month after police shot and killed a mentally ill Vietnam veteran who tried to light a hom...

A new school for children with brain injuries has opened in Orange County, with help from the local office of Morrison & F...

McData Corp. is scooping up two privately held Silicon Valley companies to enhance its storage networking capabilities. In lat...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer A new piece of proposed legislation could tie the hands of developers when negotiating with c...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert Hulse - To receive a patent for an invention that is new, useful and nonobvio...

WASHINGTON - Before Monday's historic arguments over the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, mos...

WASHINGTON - For the second straight term, a majority of the Supreme Court law clerks have taken a nontraditional route to th...

Forum Column - By Ramona Ripston - Marriage equality should exist for all Americans, including gay and lesbian couples, in con...

Forum Column - By Bruce M. Brusavich - The new proposals issued by the Judicial Council's blue ribbon panel on the fair and ef...

SANTA ANA - A plea agreement that will put former attorney Mark Roseman behind bars will have little effect on the trial of hi...

CORONA - One of the largest home-improvement companies in the nation has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a class action i...

OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo has closed the books on his second full fiscal year as Oakland's city attorney. Even though...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding months of gamesmanship between San Francisco's most powerful law firms, Heller Ehrman White & M...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man's recent conviction for burglarizing the home of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Robert Dondero has a...

LOS ANGELES - Two years to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, a Los Angeles jury slapped a Torrance laboratory with a $2.15 m...

LOS ANGELES - The hustle, bustle and hum of traffic court is in contrast with Commissioner Diana Summerhayes' earlier days as ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals looks vulnerable, thanks to a 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a Stockton judge tentatively approved a large national settlement in a consumer fraud class action last f...

Last month's American Bar Association annual convention attracted 15,000 lawyers, judges and guests to the city for five days ...