JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Reporter Although the most famous World Trade Center was reduced to rubble, hundreds of other buil...

While Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati can boast the highest profits per partner in the state (see chart, pg. ...

Harry Miller , the co-author of California's leading real estate treatise "Miller & Starr, California Real Estate," died J...

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., acquired COR Therapeutics Inc. in a deal announced Dec. 6. The sto...

The Los Angeles office of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has beefed up its medical malpractice department with three ne...

BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Real estate's heavy hitters will sift through the rubble of the Sept. 11 disaster and try to p...

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy , a 800-attorney New York-based firm best known for its Wall Street corporate and finance ex...

Sunnyvale's SanDisk Corp. closed a $125 million debt offering on Dec. 24. The underwriter was Morgan Stanley. SanDisk produces...

Large New York firm Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner has taken scores of partners and associates from Baer Marks &...

Donald Oppenheim is leaving legal consulting firm Altman Weil Inc. to join a public agency law firm in San Leandro. Oppenheim,...

Kohl co-led drug company COR Therapeutics Inc. of San Francisco in its $2 billion acquisition by Millennium Pharmaceuticals of...

In today's wired world it's not only necessary that attorneys input motions, briefs and other court papers into a computer (af...

Hogan & Hartson of Washington, D.C., will acquire New York-based Squadron Ellenoff Plesent & Sheinfeld , sources close...

ViaSat Inc. acquired US Monolithics Limited Liability Co. in a $30 million deal closed Jan. 4. Carlsbad's ViaSat produces and ...

BY DANIEL LEE JACOBSON Typically, a contract between a subcontractor and a general contractor will contain a clause that purpo...

Two Los Angeles-based law firms are among the nation's 25 busiest legal advisers for worldwide mergers and acquisitions, accor...

Solectron Corp. has offered adjustable conversion-rate equity security units worth $1 billion. The underwriter for the deal, w...

San Diego lawyer Alan Talbott has taken his estate planning practice to Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch , drawn by the ...

BY ETHAN K. FRIEDMAN The 4th District Court of Appeal recently took the opportunity to establish a helpful tool for California...

Red Bank, N. J.-based Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. has acquired the home-building assets of Forecast Group Limited Partnership. ...

Industry experts say it was only a matter of time before Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich joined the growing numbe...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey W. Hawkins, Recently promulgated regulations that provide for low-risk loans to property developers ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two themes emerged at this year's J.P. Morgan H&Q Healthcare Conference, according to lawyers who attended...

Does anyone really need another batch of stories about death in 2001? That's the question the California Law Business and Dail...

LOS ANGELES - Asking donors to "give a little bit" always has been a necessity for public interest providers. But fund-raising...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a case involving a historic San Francisco restaurant, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine th...

Environmental Law Practitioner Column - By William D. Wick, When is a parent corporation liable for the cleanup of its subsidi...

LOS ANGELES - Equal justice advocates throughout the United States are turning to an ancient source to support an argument tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1981, Hollywood gave us a look into the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court with "First Monday in October," ...

Forum Column - By Eileen C. Moore, California is a state of linguistic diversity. There are 224 languages and numerous other d...