By John McCloud The Sonoma and Marin county retail markets showed little growth in the past year, but given the tight land ma...

For a property owner and manager, it's the stuff of nightmares. Your largest tenant is making a run for its own office comple...

Irvine - Orange County has requested a continuance of a February public hearing by the California Coastal Commission on the C...

San Francisco - At the same time this city selected a winning bid in the competition to develop a new cruise terminal on the ...

By Julie Nakashima A growing pipeline of projects characterized the San Fernando Valley commercial real estate market at the ...

Neoforma.com Inc. issued an initial public offering of 7 million shares of stock at a proposed offering price of $10 to $12 pe...

Fortunately for Scott Alderton and Scott Galer, their similar interests aren't limited to the practice of law. For instance, b...

Mountain View's Blaze Software Inc. is conducting an initial public offering worth $44.9 million. ...

By Meredith Alexander Some say it's a tale of two cities. There's the old Sacramento, the venerable but dusty state capital, a...

By Liz Valsamis Chris Sigmon, a Sacramento insurance claims adjuster, and her husband, Martin, wanted children, but their opt...

Just hours after San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison announced it was beating the massive associate salary increa...

The John Rocker saga smacks of the "re-education" practices and psychiatric gulags that existed in the former Soviet Union. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the judge's "unique 'joking' relationship" with his accuser, a divided Commission on Judicial Performan...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco-based Pillsbury Madison & Sutro has raised associate salaries to match the massive increases...

East West Bancorp Inc. recently completed its acquisition of American International Bank for an all-cash value of $33.1 millio...

Sal Torres, a partner at Gutierrez & Associates, spends many of his weekend hours cutting ribbons. As the new mayor of Dal...

By Jonathan Meretsky Banks are highly regulated, primarily to ensure the safety of the public's deposits. In this era of Inte...

State Farm Insurance Co. did not low-ball a Simi Valley condominium owners' association with its estimate of damage to the com...

Beverly Hills-based Freshman, Marantz, Orlanski, Cooper & Klein, a general practice boutique with 17 attorneys, will merge...

SANTA ANA - During testimony in which he was grilled for the actions of his office during his tenure as the county's head pros...

In Rich v. Southern California IBEW-NECA Pension Plan, 73 Cal.App.4th 419, (2nd Dist. 1999), the court held that, if an...

Los Angeles-based DVD Express and Las Vegas' Maximum Holdings Inc. are merging in a transaction valued at more than $500 milli...

By Linda Dakin-Grimm The Jan. 3 issue of California Law Business reported that the percentage of female law school students a...

Peabody, Mass.-based ScanSoft has agreed to acquire Los Gatos' Caere Corp. in a deal worth more than $140 million. The transac...

Todd Piccus, in-house counsel at Mattel Inc.'s software division, joined Pasadena-based HomePage.com as the fledgling company'...

Murphy Sheneman Julian & Rogers, a 40-attorney San Francisco firm, has elevated four associates to partner, effective Jan....

By Thomas W. Casparian The Belmont School firestorm has turned property owners' attention once again to the enormous expense o...

San Mateo's iScribe Inc. acquired eMedicus Inc., as well as the technology of eMedicus' Windows CE-based system for prescripti...

San Francisco-based Gordon & Rees has acquired four attorneys, elevated two to partner and named a new managing partner fo...

Santa Monica-based Launch Media Inc. completed its acquisition of Anaheim's NVS for an undisclosed amount. ...