In its only environmental case of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday reviewed a San Francisco judge's decision to impose ...

From extending loans to hiring receivers, lenders seek to avoid taking ownership of failed development projects with future ...

Most people know there is a big difference between licensed and unlicensed contractors. ...

In our first-ever section devoted to the real estate practice, we track an uptick an transaction work. There are also articl...

Judge will decide whether a $1.7 billion payment is due to the state prior to the May 10 deadline. ...

Reed Smith attorneys represented Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems in one of the largest sales of wind turb...

Shartsis Friese corporate partner Derek Wilson led a team of lawyers that represented Maytag Corp. heir Fritz Maytag in his sa...

After being threatened with a lawsuit by state Attorney General Jerry Brown Jr.'s office, San Bernardino County's Board of Sup...

With judges debating over unpublished appellate opinions, Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School explains why it's deja vu all ove...

This week, the judge in a closely watched lawsuit seeking to overturn a law barring people who are openly gay from serving in ...

After more than a decade cooperating with federal prosecutors in their securities fraud case against former executives of McKe...

In a win for the plaintiffs' bar, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for shareholders Tuesday in a major class action securities fra...

Steve Butler of Pension Dynamics says there is a unique retirement plan variation that can grease the skids of an exit strateg...

A Northern California judge accused of abusing his position by ordering a man to stay away from credit union employees he'd un...

In the long run, broader rules on publication and permissive citation to unpublished cases will not make us happier, writes Ki...

A federal judge on Tuesday approved a $1.1 billion settlement between disability rights groups and the California Department o...

With Los Angeles facing tough times, new and renovated courthouses are important, but preserving access to justice comes first...

Investor interest helps restart the CMBS market as regulators advance financial reforms. ...

More banks work with borrowers to attempt to resolve the $135 billion in distressed real estate. ...

A total of $2.7 billion of California deals closed in first-quarter 2010, a 60 percent increase from a year ago. ...

The Department of Justice has decided not to challenge a proposal by business interests to compile, share, and make public the...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge has ordered a formal contempt hearing to determine whether the Metropolitan Transpor...

Nothing Fazes Her

Wells Fargo Bank is charged with gaming customers' debit card transactions to reap $300 million in unfair overdraft fees since...

Some Orange County lawyers will have to go to trial to figure out who deserves a share of nearly $400,000 in fees for work on ...

Glenn R. Salter, managing appellate attorney for the 4th District Court of Appeal, has been appointed to Orange County Superio...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte of the Northern District of California on Friday denied Microsoft Corp.'s motion to di...

A Washington, D.C.-based appeals court wants to take another look at a San Francisco judge's ruling that an Abbott Laboratorie...

Klausner Technologies Inc. on Monday amended an infringement lawsuit it filed in November in federal court in the Eastern Dist...

The Los Angeles Superior Court has created a new settlement program to lighten the burden that trial courts are feeling and li...