Investor interest helps restart the CMBS market as regulators advance financial reforms. ...

More banks work with borrowers to attempt to resolve the $135 billion in distressed real estate. ...

A total of $2.7 billion of California deals closed in first-quarter 2010, a 60 percent increase from a year ago. ...

The Department of Justice has decided not to challenge a proposal by business interests to compile, share, and make public the...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge has ordered a formal contempt hearing to determine whether the Metropolitan Transpor...

Nothing Fazes Her

Wells Fargo Bank is charged with gaming customers' debit card transactions to reap $300 million in unfair overdraft fees since...

Some Orange County lawyers will have to go to trial to figure out who deserves a share of nearly $400,000 in fees for work on ...

Glenn R. Salter, managing appellate attorney for the 4th District Court of Appeal, has been appointed to Orange County Superio...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte of the Northern District of California on Friday denied Microsoft Corp.'s motion to di...

A Washington, D.C.-based appeals court wants to take another look at a San Francisco judge's ruling that an Abbott Laboratorie...

Klausner Technologies Inc. on Monday amended an infringement lawsuit it filed in November in federal court in the Eastern Dist...

The Los Angeles Superior Court has created a new settlement program to lighten the burden that trial courts are feeling and li...

Two Silicon Valley patent litigation stars escaped a black cloud Monday after a federal appeals court panel concluded that a C...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to order the release of disbarred Los Angeles attorney Richard I. Fine, who has been ja...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to review a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors sets the...

Touching on a primordial issue of arbitration law, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday weighed whether federal courts or arbitrators...

The Justice Department will send new federal prosecutors and FBI agents to California dedicated to combating intellectual prop...

Diane Uchimiya of the University of La Verne College of Law says the new Arizona immigration bill undermines federal law, enda...

Lisa Angelo of Murchison & Cumming addresses the debate over whether written witness statements are protected by the work ...

Joerg Knipprath of Southwestern Law School challenges Justice John Paul Stevens' self-invention as a rock steady conservative ...

Tyler Ochoa of Santa Clara University School of Law writes in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Statute of Anne, the first...

Jeffrey Freedman of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore examines a New Jersey Supreme Court decision finding that a company violated its ...

Ruling in favor of employees who allege they were discriminated against, a sharply divided California Supreme Court on Monday ...

By the slimmest of margins, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday approved certification of the nation's biggest-eve...

James A. Kaddo of the Superior Court in Van Nuys always gives attorneys time to present their case.

Over the last decade, documentary filmmakers say a section of copyright law has impeded a crucial component of their work: the...

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday approved two settlements resolving its investigations into the Witch, Rice...

As the scandal over the handling of evidence at a crime laboratory here snowballs, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harr...

Mark Willman of the Los Angeles Superior Court provides an in-depth review of how conduct custody credit is earned and calcula...