Intellectual property specialist William J. Robinson has left Chicago-based Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw to head the West Coas...

Alameda County Superior Court staffers got to check one another's work during an October celebration of National Customer Serv...

The RAND Institute for Civil Justice promoted Robert Reville to director of the institute Oct. 22. The institute is an indepe...

The Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County honored U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. with its annual Be...

BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires The tech wreck is crunching the price of office buildings. In suburban Denver's high-tech...

The commercial real estate industry saw big wins on election day, including billions of dollars in funds for new school and a...

Many litigators have hired doctors to testify in medical malpractice, product liability, workers' compensation and other lawsu...

CREJ WIRE REPORT Properties underlying commercial mortgage-backed securities continue to diverge, according to Moody's Invest...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Moving forward with a 100 percent speculative construction project in today's soft ...

In Closing Column - By Stephen Greene and Joshua Henderson - California recognizes an exception to the rule of employment at w...

The eighth floor of the Figueroa Plaza in downtown Los Angeles still has the fresh-paint and new-carpet smell to it. Cardboard...

The consulting branch of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips - Manatt Jones Global Strategies - appointed former Costa Rica Presiden...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Unilab Corp., a growing player in one of the prevailing economy's rare growth sectors - bi...

With the 2002 World Series over and Angel fever still running rampant throughout Southern California, it's time for some North...

The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, honored Frederick Schenk with the David K. Kroll Leadershi...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The most meaningful holiday decoration in your building's lobby won't be a Christma...

By JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Move over, Ontario. In what it called the largest industrial lease in either Orange or L...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Underscoring Southland investors' voracious appetite for shopping centers, two high-prof...

Sources in the legal industry say that the layoffs at Washington, D.C.'s Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld were probably the ...

San Francisco's Farella Braun + Martel has elevated five litigators and one real estate attorney to the partnership, effectiv...

In response to client demand, Chicago's Hinshaw & Culbertson opened a Los Angeles office Oct. 1. The office was establishe...

Attorneys for auto repair shops say their clients are victims of a "legal shakedown" by a Beverly Hills law firm that sues the...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Attention Southern California real estate people: Borrow every single penny that you can...

Los Angeles lawyer Molly Munger has received a Bringing Up Daughters Differently, or BUDDY, award from the National Organizati...

Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers has expanded its Japanese presence by establishing a new joint enterprise with Watanab...

Starting Jan. 1, six California associates, as well as four others, at Pillsbury Winthrop will assume partner status, thanks ...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ The office market bust could turn into a boon for multifamily housing projects in the San ...

Respect the little guy. That's the message that attorneys for a dozen independent Shell gas station operators hope to send to ...

Brazilian company Prosisa Overseas has purchased MySmart.com Inc. of Los Angeles, a developer of technology that allows comput...

TRS Staffing Solutions of Aliso Viejo has sold its information-technology staffing division. TRS is a subsidiary of Fortune 50...