Forum Column - By Cyrus S. Nownejad - The U.S. Supreme Court's majority ruling in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, wh...

CenterRun Inc. secured $12 million in its second round of funding. The deal was announced June 11. Crosslink Capital led the r...

Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley and Duane Morris have announced that they have elevated lawyers to partner status. At San Jo...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A Southern California development firm best known for building luxury apartments is embar...

Nearly a year after instituting one of the largest layoffs in California law firm history, Cooley Godward has implemented anot...

Holme Roberts & Owen , a 200-attorney firm based in Denver, is following its largest clients to the Bay Area. Kenneth Lund...

Wendy's International Inc. has agreed to acquire Fresh Enterprises Inc., the parent company of Baja Fresh Mexican Grill. The a...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer If only all moves were this much fun. Trendzitions , a real estate service firm that cons...

Six months after a merger deal between Piper Rudnick and San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen collapsed, the Ch...

Yum! Brands Inc. and Favorite Restaurants Group have teamed up to offer Yan Can Restaurant, named after Martin Yan's televisio...

BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires There's good news and bad news about recent Internal Revenue Service guidelines on real e...

DiscoVision Associates had little luck hiring legal counsel that could adequately represent the Irvine-based technology licens...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Building from scratch may be easier than converting an old building to a new use. But in dow...

Lawyers for the pornography industry don't necessarily get laid more than regular people - contrary to popular belief. "The pe...

A new face soon will be helping manage Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers . Bruce Boulware is scheduled join the firm in ...

By MALCOLM C. WEISS As 2001 came to an end, a small group of private attorneys filed more than 4,400 60-day notices of intent ...

Several California law firms have made a good impression on company directors, but New York firms have made an even better one...

Expanding into a practice area that is generating a tidal wave of litigation, Gordon & Rees is adding nine long-term-care ...

BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer Whoever first said, "Everything old is new again" could tip a hat to the Santana Row project....

Univision Communications Inc. has agreed to acquire Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. in a deal announced June 12. The all-stock dea...

Hitachi has agreed to acquire the hard disk drive business of International Business Machines Corp. The deal is worth $2 billi...

BY HERB NADEL It's not news that California's commercial real estate owners and developers like safe, predictable, even formul...

Luanne Sacks , an antitrust and complex litigation partner with Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May , has joined Gray Cary...

By Monica Witt The senior population in Los Angeles is rising, but the development of appropriate housing is being hindered b...

Partner and co-chair of her firm's newly formed restaurant, food, wine, beer and spirits group, Anna Graves represented Fresh ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Developers of senior housing communities, particularly assisted living and nursing home f...

EarthLink Inc. has agreed to acquire PeoplePC Inc. The deal is worth $10 million and was announced June 10. Atlanta-based Eart...

Aspen Education Group Inc. received a $35 million senior debt facility from CapitalSource. The deal was announced May 10. Cerr...

BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Why commute to work when you can live where you work? The concept seems simple enough, yet th...

BY REX HIME The six members of the legislative budget conference committee have started the long and painful process of trying...