Forum Column - By Alan Schlosser and Kyra Busby - The well-documented explosion in the prison population and the passage of st...

With the doors closing on Lyon & Lyon in just five days, partners Kenneth H. Ohriner and Michael J. Wise bid farewell to t...

John Argue, a founding partner of Los Angeles' Argue Pearson Harbison & Myers, died Aug. 10 after being diagnosed with leu...

Diane Lipton, director of the Children with Disabilities Advocacy at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, died Au...

Pasadena attorney Robert L. Reeves is no saint. He is a tough, no-nonsense lawyer and businessman, the founder of the immigrat...

Long Beach neutral Alexander S. Polsky believes he can solve the most intractable conflicts. Polsky recently penned an opinion...

A team of Morrison & Foerster lawyers helped San Jose's Novellus Systems Inc. hammer out an agreement to buy an Arizona-ba...

After a decade striving for success in Los Angeles, Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis is closing the door on that office. Th...

Ever since a United Parcel Service truck knocked him down while backing up, Darrell Gosnell cannot leave his Hollywood apartme...

Scott Imler decided to starve himself to death this summer to protest federal drug enforcement action against a cannabis club....

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer In the wee hours of the morning, Mahabir Atwal climbed to the top of a fence to measure the...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Despite softening demand for new construction in California, the Los Angeles Unifi...

MTV Networks is taking on additional office space in Santa Monica, its West Coast headquarters. MTV, a division of Viacom Inte...

On Aug. 12, Davis appointed James P. Kleinberg to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Kleinberg, a partner with the law fir...

Gov. Gray Davis made history last week with his latest round of judicial appointments to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench....

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Under the leadership of a new president, Sperry Van Ness began making a national push la...

Micah R. Jacobs and Eric K. Ferraro, friends since law school, dreamed of owning a small, successful law firm. They achieved t...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The phrase "shop till you drop" threatened to become more than a clich at one retail cen...

Chief Justice Ronald M. George and the State Bar's board of governors have named nine new members to the state Judicial Counci...

Evan Y. Chuck and Nicole Janigian have bid farewell to the Los Angeles office of White & Case, where they were associates,...

Celebrities can make a pretty penny by emblazoning their names on just the right product - be it a silk blouse, as in the case...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ July 23 was a night to remember for Berkeley's most prominent and controversial developer, ...

Irvine's Endocare Inc. has agreed to acquire the prostate-treatment business of a Dallas-based urology services company for $1...

BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer Amrik Singh, the owner of Sacramento's new Hampton Inn on Auburn Boulevard, and his general ...

Elise Tenen-Aoki has temporarily satisfied the ravenous hunger of Greenberg Traurig's intellectual property practice. Tenen-Ao...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Ground zero of the hotel industry bust is San Francisco, but the city's battered boutique ...

Kirby Wilcox, chairman of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's San Francisco office, has confirmed that the outpost has lai...

After a series of partner defections in April and subsequent rumors that the firm was considering pulling out of Southern Cali...

The Contra Costa County Bar Association women's section will hold its annual luncheon Sept. 19. The featured speaker will be C...

In Closing Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In a decision addressing an employer's refusal to hire based on a past record o...