The advertisements want you to believe that diamonds are beautiful, but as Nicolas Kublicki shows in his new novel, the diamon...

BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires The U.S. real estate investment-management business of ING Group NV of the Netherlands h...

Sarah Davis' trial against American Honda Motors Co. took an unexpected turn. The quadriplegic sued Honda for causing her crip...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles will present federal Judge Dickran Tevrizian of the U.S. District Court for the Centra...

With merger mania and law firm economics, it's often here today, gone tomorrow. That seems to be the case in the latest round ...

Lorman Education Services will sponsor a daylong conference on toxic mold Nov. 7 at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa...

Palo Alto's IXI Mobile Inc., which develops software that enables cutting-edge wireless devices to interact, has raised $15 mi...

The Pasadena Bar Association honored Justice Dorothy Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the Judge of the Yea...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ It's a myth that you can't get terrorism coverage for your commercial property. But skyroc...

BY MICHAEL J. NOVOGRADAC California voters will be asked Nov. 5 to decide whether to authorize $2.1 billion in bonds for a va...

BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires Moody's Investors Service , following through on an earlier warning, downgraded $4.5 bil...

BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Ventura County, the birthplace of the Southern California slow-growth movement, finds itself ...

The combination of Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May with Pittsburgh's Reed Smith is the latest law firm merger with a b...

BY WILLIAM J. BERNFELD Imagine this scenario: It's 1995 and a commercial property owner has a $6 million first trust deed loa...

BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Although some companies are pulling out of controversial so-called synthetic leases, many...

A lump of coal is a precious commodity, as two newly merged Utah companies can attest. The companies, which extract value from...

BY STATHI MARCOPULOS Failing to periodically update title insurance checklists and standard coverage requirements could be a ...

Lord, Bissell & Brook has hired finance and real estate partner Cherie Raidy away from the Los Angeles office of New York'...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Thanks to one of the latest challenges to beset the real estate industry, many developer...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Richard Close, the chairman of Valley VOTE, the organization that asks Angelenos on Nov....

Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs, the Wicked Queen and the Mirror made an appearance at Esperanza Elementary School in Los Angeles...

BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ You don't have to be a rocket scientist to make money in commercial real estate, but understa...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The Santa Ana Unified School District will pay $6.2 million to the owners of one of Sant...

Column by Karl J. Schulze - Business litigation today rarely progresses without the use of a variety of experts, whether as a ...

NetIQ Corp. of San Jose has agreed to buy a privately held computer security company in a deal valued at $255 million in cash ...

Joseph Johnston is the latest judge to join JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider. Johnston, 68, brings with...

BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires The nation's office-vacancy rate continued to climb in the third quarter, hitting almost...

Customers frequenting the dozens of Rent-A-Center stores in California should notice more female employees helping them, after...

BY MOTOKO RICH Dow Jones Newswires The news coming out of the commercial real estate market is bleak: Office vacancy rates ar...

The attorneys at Morrison & Foerster probably can't stand on the balance beam without risking bodily injury, and it's not ...