Dicta Column - By Cassandra C. Shivers - As a litigator, much of your time is spent on the discovery phase of any given case. ...

Dicta Column - By Devallis Rutledge - The words "none" and "neither" lay traps for the unwary. That's because they typically p...

Forum Column - By Ana M. Storey and Jane S. Preece - Where can children be taken away from their parents without a fair hearin...

If you're looking for a way to get your mediation practice off the ground, check out Strategies Marketing for Mediators, prese...

Five loan officers from Orange County walked away happier from court than they had from their jobs. The quintet filed a wrongf...

With three attorneys in its new San Francisco office and nine more expected in the coming weeks, Chicago's Altheimer & Gra...

Venture Law Group officially pulled up stakes at its 12-attorney San Francisco office. The move, first reported in the Daily J...

CREJ WIRE REPORT The greatest attribute that real estate possesses today is extremely favorable risk-adjusted returns, accord...

A few months back, the Johnnie question came up at an Algonquin gathering of high-powered lawyers on Sunset Boulevard. The hea...

Gary Weiss says he received the perfect training for his position as partner in charge of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's...

Christine Scheuneman has moved her real estate practice from Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to Pillsbury W...

Big-rig haulers cooling their Kenworths at an elaborate truck stop near Fresno probably have no clue that litigation has swirl...

BY NICOLE M. DE SANTIS With the recent decrease in interest rates, there has been a corresponding increase in refinancings, a...

John Tyndall III has returned from quasiretirement to try First Amendment, toxic tort and attorney malpractice cases with Waln...

A real estate financing technique that companies embraced in the boom times of the 1990s is becoming less common, industry exp...

Entry-level associate salaries saw little change for a second year in a row, according to the associate salary survey conducte...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Barraged by pressure to get their billing rates up, commercial real estate attorneys are ...

BY LINDA RAPATTONI Special to CREJ A new state law that builders hope will reduce litigation over construction defects still ...

They make appearances every day on legal television shows and movies, yet unless the viewer is an advocate, their significance...

In the wake of the events of Sept. 11, many businesses were hit hard by financial losses that came from closures, new security...

With its corporate practice faring better than many of its larger Bay Area competitors, San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovs...

An affiliate of Equus Realty Advisors acquired a 321,000-square-foot office, research and development and warehouse, property ...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Southern California was the belle of the ball at the Real Estate Conference Group'...

Column by Scott Astle - Of the many forms of alternative dispute resolution, the most common are arbitration and mediation. Bo...

LOS ANGELES - Many of California's legal and political elite gathered last week at parties in Los Angeles and San Francisco ce...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Who's got the top concierge? The answer, as reported in The Wall Street Journal's battle ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sandy Kreigler will take over duties as supervising judge for the Van Nuys courts on Oct. 7. ...

McGeorge School of Law Professor Clark Kelso has been appointed special adviser on information technology and chief informatio...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ The summer panic concerning synthetic leases apparently has subsided. But lingering uncerta...

A San Diego appellate court has issued a groundbreaking opinion holding that the disqualification of an attorney for an earlie...