Real estate lenders may be drowning in bad commercial real estate debt, but the floodgates have yet to open on distressed real...

Lawyers are increasingly pursuing accreditation as green-building professionals to market their expertise and help clients ens...

While the state law aimed at fighting global warming may not take direct aim at the real estate industry, a ballot proposition...

With governments increasingly requiring such environmentally friendly construction and property owners including these feature...

Univision Services Inc. admitted involvement in an illegal business scheme related to cash payments for increased airtime. ...

General Electric Co. and two subsidiaries violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by paying kickbacks to the Iraqi governme...

A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the conviction of W. Scott Harkonen, the former chief executive of Brisbane-based drug maker...

Dean Gloster, a partner with San Francisco-based Farella Braun + Martell, describes the current state of affairs for real esta...

The court-appointed receiver who oversees the prison's health care system withdrew a motion to hold the state in contempt for ...

A Court of Appeal said a Los Angeles trial judge wrongly granted a non-client's motion to disqualify an opposing attorney for ...

Chief Justice Ronald M. George and Kelly M. Dermody of Leiff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein in San Francisco received acco...

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Deporting from standard practice, Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt said he couldn't stop deportation of a Vietnamese war hero but sa...

Three Seyfarth Shaw partners in Los Angeles have joined the labor and employment group at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hamp...

The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it would buy online gaming company Playdom Inc. for $563.2 million, with Gibson, Dunn & C...

Terra-Gen Power broke ground Tuesday on a energy project north of Los Angeles that could eventually be the largest generator o...

Nvidia Corp. plans to challenge a recent loss in a patent infringement case against chip designer Rambus Inc., even as it pays...

Will a new strategic focus on intellectual property theft fight the $200 billion lost per year by U.S. companies? By Jason de ...

Skeptics and advocates for environmental preservation will all live in "green buildings" next year when the state's Green Buil...

With a much larger population, it's no surprise that China has surpassed U.S. energy consumption. What's shocking is the speed...

Declaring the Iraq war as "mission accomplished" is a huge mistake, by Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law. ...

When was the last time you felt joy working as an attorney? By Helen Palmer of Watermark Interpreting. ...

A fight between two recruiters over fees from Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp's move into New York office in 2008 may get its ...

The bill was Congress' response to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that lifted restrictions on corporate and union independent...

California's first Vietnamese-American judge is a stickler for doing things by the book as he insists on respect for the legal...

Few things in real estate survived the recession unscathed beyond the basic industry fundamentals of putting together bricks a...

William N. Hebert of San Francisco's Calvo & Clark will become the new president of the State Bar in September. ...

Barbara Caulfield, former managing partner of Dewey & LeBouef's Silicon Valley office, and colleagues Michael Malecek and ...

California attorneys helped orchestrate the acquisition, announced Monday, of San Jose-based 2Wire Inc. by the U.K's Pace PLC ...

Documentary filmmakers and iPhone application users were among the winners of the U.S. Librarian of Congress' new rules allowi...