With first quarter figures in for 2000, California's construction volume continued to escalate to a total of $12 billion, up ...

By John McCloud The notion of the vacancy rate in Oakland's long-beleaguered downtown dropping below 2 percent would have bee...

Dicta: Bench Press By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. If Americans have short attention spans, why is it that we seem to prefer novels ...

By Jack Bouvrie The low-rise suburban office building is one of the most mundane, predictable and easily constructed building...

After looking for expansion space for almost three years, Sybase Inc. is pulling up stakes in its hometown of Emeryville and ...

Forum: By Michael M. Berger By now, they've got the Los Alamos, N.M., fire contained. Collectively, we the people (that is to ...

Practitioner: Real Property Law By Michael Paul Thomas For well over 30 years, California courts have recognized that a landow...

Maskatiya, Suri & Co. secured $42.5 million in refinancing for Regency Plaza One, a 252,856-square-foot office building o...

The South Bay region of L.A. County, according to the 2000 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey-National Online Edition , ha...

Practitioner: Real Property Law By Kenneth R. Styles In 1998, a state appellate decision addressed the threshold requirement ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - An Upland attorney and his wife are facing up to nine years in prison after being charged with inflicting a...

By Julie Nakashima South Bay/LAX commercial real estate began the year on a robust note, as evidenced by the fact that 1 mill...

By John McCloud J. Edgar (Ned) Fennie, a partner in Fennie & Mehl Architects in San Francisco, describes what happened wh...

Dicta: The Bookshelf Harvey Gee David Cole's thesis is straightforward: R ace plays an improper role in the administration of ...

Services were held Wednesday for Claude Hilker, former long time senior counsel to the Los Angeles city attorney. Hilker died ...

This week, dozens of people began a long journey through a judicial version of living hell: four to six months in a Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge has approved a hotly contested fee-sharing arrangement that confers the bulk of $1.4 millio...

In a decision one lawyer called "a pregnancy tax on women," a California appellate court ruled Wednesday that insurers can cha...

Reports of an agreement by Charles Schwab Corp. to pay a record rate of $420 to $450 a square foot for an eight-story buildin...

Santa Clara Starring CPS Commercial real estate professionals at CPS/CORFAC walked away with four COR$TAR Awards from Corpora...

SAN FRANCISCO - As more than 3,000 drug-court advocates from across the nation convene in San Francisco today, a controversial...

California's Supreme Court justices were all over the map Tuesday as they grappled with whether employers can force arbitratio...

Expanding the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, a federal appellate court ruled Tuesday that the government may not require a ...

On the Move: Capitalizing on Texas' burgeoning technology sector, San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has opened a ...

SANTA BARBARA - A low-income woman here who sued to obtain a stomach-stapling operation for obesity and other health problems ...

Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and two attorneys will be honored Friday by the Peoples College of...

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Campion Counseling Center plan domestic violence prevention training for legal and men...

Practitioner: Corporate Law By Timothy Crudo California's Unfair Competition Law, Business and Professions Code Section 17200 ...

Women Lawyers of Long Beach will present a tasting of fine wines at the home of Judge Richard Charvat at 6 p.m. on June 12. ...

Forum: By Edward Correia The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Brzonkala v. Morrison , 2000 Daily Journal D.A.R. 5061 (M...