Morgan Lewis Catch Will Jump-Start Labor Practice
By Erik Cummins
Having significant responsibilities for a single client is nice, says David Byrnes, former vice president for employee relatio...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions from San Diego County
By Ron Mc Nees
SAN DIEGO - Accredited Home Lenders has signed a 36-month lease valued at $4.9 million of 111,000 square feet of office space ...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions from Riverside County
By Angela Gottula
CORONA - Brian Hawkins and Peter Hauser of Hendricks & Partners LLC negotiated the $7.78 million sale of Corona Village, t...
Ahmanson Ranch Sale a Step Down
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL M. BERGER Recently, 8,000 people lost their homes. A lot of other folks were ecstatic about this: Hollywood person...
CALENDAR - Los Angeles/Inland Empire
By Chris Tolles
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3 IFMA CHAPTER MEETING The Los Angeles chapter of the International Facility Management Association will hold ...
Manatt Entices Corporate Partner
By Liz Valsamis
Brian Kelly has joined the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips following the July closure of Fenwick & Wes...
Culture Club
By Erik Cummins
More than 600 visitors toured the Asian Art Museum last month as guests of Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, a sponsor of the museu...
Your IRA Can Invest in Real Estate for You
By Columnist
BY DARREN MOEN When people think of individual retirement accounts, they think of mutual funds, stocks and bonds. Few people ...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions from San Bernardino County
By Angela Gottula
UPLAND - CB Richard Ellis recently announced that Marshalls had signed a $4.2 million, 10-year lease. The retail store, locate...
Affordable Housing That Feels Like Home
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant On land once marred by gang violence, a new kind of low-income housing project blooms in ...
FASB Proposal Will Have Serious Implications for Landlords, Tenants
By Columnist
BY DOUG MCEACHERN AND JOSH LEONARD When is an expense a repair, and when is it a capital improvement? The answer, under a new ...
No Escaping High Insurance Costs
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer In a survey conducted by the California Apartment Association, the members' No. 1 concern was ...
Herbalife Lures Disney Official as General Counsel
By Liz Valsamis
Herbalife International Inc. has hired Brett Chapman as general counsel from the Walt Disney Co., where he served as senior vi...
Prisoner Alleging Rape Seeks New Trial
By Eron Yehuda
Aiming to rectify what he calls a "palpable" injustice, a Los Angeles attorney is seeking a new trial for an inmate who claims...
Law Ought to Reflect Reality of Same-Sex Unions
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William B. Rubenstein and R. Bradley Sears - The highest court in Massachusetts issued a path-breaking decis...
Veteran Spector-Case DA Has Won Nine Death-Penalty Trials
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In the 18 years that Kevin McCormick has been a prosecutor for Los Angeles County, he's successfully argued for...
Mugging the Media
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Susan E. Seager - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer recently was asked the following trick question: ...
Investor Will Appeal Ethics Ruling
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawmakers certainly intended to include all arbitrators in California's strict new ethical rules, including n...
Reporter's Notebook: Schwarzenegger Showing Leniency on Public Safety Issues
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - In his first week in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave criminal defense lawyers and prison advocates some t...
Elder Care Reform Sought
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - An advocacy group for nursing home reform hopes a study of elder abuse lawsuits will spur lawmakers next year to ...
L.A. Firm Nabs Fogel Feldman Partner
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Another name partner from Santa Monica litigation boutique Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens has fou...
Fight Over Securities Arbitration Not Over
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawmakers intended to include all arbitrators in California's strict new ethical rules, including neutrals han...
Attorney Nearly Missed Case
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Doug Schmidt nearly whiffed on becoming the lead defense attorney for Dan White. Schmidt said he got ...
Backlog Inspires Expanded Schedule for Trials
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Criminal judges next month will start hearing trials five days a week and squeeze pretrial hearings into half a da...
Creditors Confront Brobeck Liquidators
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Two dozen creditors of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have had their first chance to grill members...
Prosecutor in Spector Case Has Weathered Tough Trials Before
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In the 18 years that Kevin McCormick has been a prosecutor for Los Angeles County, he's successfully argued for ...
Wells Fargo To Pay $9.5M For Sharing Private Data
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to pay about $9.5 million to settle claims that it wrongfully shared or sold priva...
Prisons Director Denies Union Pressure
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - State prisons director Edward Alameida denied Friday that he was influenced by the powerful corrections union ...
A Debatable Verdict
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - The strategy of defense attorneys Doug Schmidt and Steve Scherr to choose a conservative jury for the trial of...
Senator 'Livid' Over Threat
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - State Sen. Gloria Romero was "livid" when she learned earlier this year that state prison officials investigat...