Despite emotionally charged testimony about alleged lack of care at a Los Angeles nursing home, a jury found against an 89-yea...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to CREJ Silicon Valley's current cyclical economic trough predictably is garnering attention from real...

Corinthian Colleges Inc., a Santa Ana-based company that operates a chain of vocational schools, will buy Career Choices Inc. ...

Column - Construction Defects - By Kevin P. Cody - By now, most home builders and contractors are aware that an important new ...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer California school districts are discovering new ways of financing and building their...

In yet another tech merger announced this month, software company Mercury Interactive Corp. has agreed to buy privately held K...

BY MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ As developers try to tap into the trend of people seeking to reconnect to thei...

Call them competitors, trailblazers, maybe even bitches if you're hung up on an image of women that's all sugar and spice. Wh...

Last year's merger with San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen wasn't quite enough for Jay Zimmerman, the aggre...

When the American Jewish Committee held its 24th Annual Learned Hand Award Dinner a month ago, The Scene expected to encounter...

Real estate lawyer Craig Wood recently packed up and made the move to Southern California in order to be closer to his family....

A new state law aimed at combating identity theft may be more of a nuisance than a help to businesses and consumers and end up...

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has hired insurance lawyer James E. Fitzgerald as partner. Fitzgerald, who joined the firm i...

EBay Inc. is boosting its investment in an online auction company serving the Chinese market. San Jose-based eBay has agreed t...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A noticeable change may be afoot for San Diego apartment owners and managers wanting to ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Who says there's no such thing as free rent? The Associated Press reports that Capt. Alw...

BY MICHAEL J. NOVOGRADAC Several of the largest municipal bond buyers of state debt are discussing how the state's budget cri...

Statewide construction volume in April totaled $5.9 billion, up 10.1 percent from the previous month and up 8.3 percent from ...

It took half the year, but a technology company finally found its way to an initial public offering in 2003. FormFactor Inc. o...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By David Martinez - Health care providers participating in California's Medi-Cal program routinely h...

Forum Column - By Philip Graves - On June 2, the U.S. Supreme Court issued yet another in a recent string of decisions limitin...

PALO ALTO - The murky Sarbanes-Oxley Act and nervous corporate directors are expected to gain some clarity in the next few mo...

Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Former Gov. Frank Keating's description of the conduct of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Maho...

Forum Column - By Brian K. Landsberg - At first blush, the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings in the Michigan higher education affir...

SANTA ANA - Consistency counts, especially when you're disqualifying a judge during appeal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of App...

SANTA ANA - Consistency counts, especially when you're disqualifying a judge during appeal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...

SANTA ANA - The devil is usually in the details and, in this case, so was the scam. So ruled Orange County Superior Court Jud...

WASHINGTON - In an important victory for abortion providers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let stand a federal appellate c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Altheimer & Gray, a 300-lawyer Chicago firm that had been aggressively building its San Francisco office, ...

WASHINGTON - In a case that will affect lawyers and other professionals, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider wheth...