In Closing Column - Public Relations - By Judy Leon - Though they don't wear flak jackets or dodge artillery fire, reporters w...

After riding the Vegas-like euphoria of the boom years, corporate shops such as Gunderson Dettmer and Venture Law Group have r...

Matthew Richardson is rejoining some old friends at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Richardson moved to the Los Angel...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Live, work, learn and entertain in your neighborhood. If you need to get to another p...

Karin Kramer says Chavez & Gertler's recruiting plans are in high gear. "We're busy with lots of interesting new work, and...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - The Downtown Breakfast Club presented roses to the projects that it says h...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Small to midsize property owners own the majority of the nation's commercial real e...

Henry Ota has landed on his feet one day after New York's Kelley Drye & Warren pulled the plug on its Los Angeles office. ...

A University of Southern California study was supposed to be dentist Sargon Lazarof's crowning achievement, but it turned out ...

Opening statements are scheduled tomorrow in San Francisco Superior Court in the second phase of a lawsuit filed by a Florida-...

Negotiating merger deals may become even more challenging for corporate lawyers, thanks to a recent opinion by a Delaware cour...

By Joan Osterwalder Attorney Eric Castelblanco's resourcefulness helped change a young woman's life. Six years ago, the Los A...

Unable to make their practice areas mesh, San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and Seattle's Preston, Gates &...

BY CARL A. MAYER JR. Privately owned real estate companies historically have been built one deal at a time with private equit...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer City, county and mall leaders couldn't stop the J.C. Penney Outlet Store at Florin M...

NEW YORK - Looking into the commercial real estate sector for a job or a career change? It's best to avoid hotels, real estate...

LOS ANGELES - County Democrats have asked Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss to run against Republican District Attorney ...

Focus Column - Real Property - By David M. Grey - An attempt at mediation is a condition precedent to the recovery of attorney...

Forum Column By Jonathan E. Stern Imagine you are a blues guitarist taking a break in the recording studio. You open a comic b...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher M. Tobin - You've conveyed the importance of developing intellectual pro...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Laguna Beach businessman who pleaded guilty to bribing several high-ranking Colton officials is in talks wi...

RIVERSIDE - A judge has sided with a jury to decide that a defendant should die for killing a Riverside police officer two yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has tossed a decade-old suit challenging San Francisco's controversial hotel-conversion ordin...

SAN FRANCISCO - After being arraigned on 25 counts of grand theft, embezzlement and forgery Friday, a former San Francisco per...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Inglewood has filed criminal charges against a man whose attorney notified them only days earlier of...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has decided not to weigh in on whether he should be recused for bias from a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the hyperpoliticized arena of federal judicial appointments, Connie Callahan may have just the right stuff...

Employment Column - By Laurel G. Kaufer - Employment disputes frequently are infused with intense emotion, which often hinders...

LOS ANGELES - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher gave its reputable bankruptcy practice a boost when it acquired Richard M. Cieri to ...

9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski began his dissent in the U.S. v. Ramirez-Lopez illegal alien smuggling case with the followin...