Two developers are reportedly vying to build San Francisco-themed megaresorts in Las Vegas, replete with replicas of the Gold...
Start-up Urban Media Inc. is offering to deliver free broadband access and e-business solutions to small and medium-sized bus...
The Inner City Law Center, which battles slumlords on behalf of poor tenants, received notice Monday of a $455,000 judgment ag...
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Monday recommended death for two reputed gang members convicted of eight murders, including ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Statewide Ballot Battle Over Tobacco Settlement Averted
By Tom Dresslar
SACRAMENTO - The debate over how to spend California's $25 billion litigation settlement with tobacco companies will not spill...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bruce J. Sottile is slated to be the next member of the bench to retire and join an alternat...
SAN FRANCISCO - At the end of his first year as the top federal cop in Northern California, U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller anno...
Criminal
Prosecutors Must Get Benefit of Doubt Before Case Is Dismissed
By David Kravets
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could reduce trial judges' powers, the California Supreme Court said Monday that courts must gi...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Admits Inappropriate Conduct
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Luis A. Cardenas, who is in the middle of an investigation by the Commi...
Civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman said Monday he has received from prosecutors a list of an additional 1,200 cases possibly...
Charging that incumbent Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti has "abdicated" his responsibility in preventing child abus...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Appellate Court Launches Mandatory Mediation Program
By Jean Guccione
SAN FRANCISCO - With the use of alternative dispute resolution exploding in the trial courts, a new state program has been lau...
Litigation
Student to Defend Right to Maintain Teacher Review Web Site
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing a former San Francisco City College student have asked a judge not to pull the plug on a ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Gas Companies Win Dismissal of Class Action
By Anna Marie Stolley
A class action against Arco and eight other gasoline companies for alleged price fixing has been thwarted once again by a stat...
Entertainment & Sports
Sheppard Mullin Lawyer Gets Away with Murder in His Novel of Firm Foul Play
By Garry Abrams
San Francisco attorney Sheldon Siegel is lucky. He killed an executive committee member at a large law firm and got away with...
Novato - The first tenant has agreed to touch down at Hamilton Landing, a 550,000-square-foot office complex created from old...
DICTA Little did I know that four months into my two-year contract on Kosrae, a tiny island in the central Pacific Ocean, I wa...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Recently, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Contra Costa Legal Services Foundation, Community Legal Services and San Francisco Ne...
Rancho Cucamonga Fast on the draw When Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc. needed to produce a full set of construction docu...
By Ernesto M. Vasquez Urban centers are coming back to life. In Southern California, signs of this revitalization are apparen...
Sacramento Union negotiations Three Grubb & Ellis brokers arranged the $17 million sale of the Union Bank of California b...
By Julie Nakashima For the commercial real estate industry, the good news has been that development is back. The bad news is,...
Costa Mesa NAIOP chapters find strength in numbers The Los Angeles and Orange County chapters of the National Association of ...
Santa Clara All the building is a stage The commercial real estate industry is just coming to recognize what the residential ...
One multimillion dollar construction project can make a difference for those who keep monthly tallies of California construct...
The William Binder-designed building at South Market and Post streets in San Jose sits within the boundaries of the old Puebl...
Claiming the Los Angeles Police Department Web site has identified his client wrongly as one of the city's most wanted and dan...
By Rex Hime Gov. Gray Davis issued his second State of the State address, reiterating several ideas from his first such addre...
By Ronald McNees CMBS observers blame rising interest rates for a big decline in issuance volume last year - $67 billion comp...
By Julie Nakashima Somewhere along the line in California's slow-growth movement, the shrill cries of "not in my backyard" ha...