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Charts reflecting the top real estate deals in California last year, as well as nonresidential construction activity. ...
Our 20 top California real estate transaction attorneys, plus a look at some of the latest transactional trends. ...
Holland & Knight LLP San Francisco Clients: Marriott International, Shen Zhen New World Group, Intercontinental Hotels G...
Palo Alto-based M&A attorneys advised U.K.-based wireless company CSR PLC it its $679 million purchase of Zoran Corp., a S...
Police acted lawfully when they burst into a Sacramento County man's locked bedroom without a warrant and found marijuana, a d...
On the bench or in his role as supervisor of San Diego County's civil courts, Judge Jeffrey Barton takes a measured path towar...
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP San Francisco Clients: Lennar Corp., CalEast, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP San Diego Clients: Passco Companies LLC, Moody National Companies, Gemini Real Est...
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Los Angeles Clients: Dubai World, Deutsche Bank AG, SBE Entertainment Group LLC,...
Goodwin Procter LLP Los Angeles Clients: Lennar Corp., City National Bank, San Francisco and San Francisco County
California's effort to put nonviolent drug offenders in drug treatment rather than jail will be in jeopardy after money for Pr...
General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary for Farmer Bros. Co. Torrance ...
State Bar & Bar Associations
U.S. AG to Keynote ABA National Institute
By Pat Broderick
The event, which will spotlight such headline-grabbing issues as the criminal investigation into the BP oil spill runs March 2...
The Securities and Exchange Commission named a former lawyer from its enforcement division to head a new whistleblower unit cr...
Labor/Employment
Two New Decisions on California’s Meal and Rest Break Regulations Offer Mixed Results
By Alexander Phersonn
Two recent rulings are a mixed bag for employers defending against wage and hour class actions. By Mandana Massoumi of Dorsey ...
DLA Piper LLP lost the chair of its public companies and corporate governance practice, Diane Holt Frankle, to Kaye Scholer LL...
Federal and state judges and bar leaders commemorated the 65th anniversary of a landmark Orange County school desegregation ca...
Rental companies can protect themselves from theft and fraud by following a few simple procedures. By Raymond D. McElfish of M...
Insurance
'Innocent Co-insureds’ Gain Broader Insurance Protection
By Alexander Phersonn
The state Supreme Court determines that insurance companies must cover “innocent co-insureds” who suffer certain losses. By St...
A licensed private fiduciary and probate court trustee in San Diego pleaded guilty Friday to one count of wire fraud and one c...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Neutrality Dance: A Mediator’s Perspective
By Karen Natividadn
What exactly do mediators and attorneys mean by the term "neutrality?" By Matthew P. Guasco of Judicate West. ...
Real Estate/Development
9th Circuit Affirms Tossing Suit Against City
By Jason W. Armstrong
A federal appeals panel upheld a judge's decision to toss a hard-fought lawsuit by the owner of a development company who accu...
Philip Michels, the 2011 CAALA president and medical malpractice expert, wants to get younger lawyers and more minorities invo...
The U.S. Supreme Court handpicked a lawyer to defend an appellate ruling that is under review, just the 43rd time in its histo...
A defendant's version of events - often amusing, sometimes insightful. By Richard M. Chacon. ...
State legislators have started debating a host of bills that have been or will be introduced this year, including one would th...
The Santa Ana branch of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office has struggled in the aftermath of some high-profile failed pros...
Drawn to the human element of her cases, Judge Margie Gunthardt Woods is undaunted, whether she's scaling a mountain or overru...