By Jarrett Minton Developers face numerous decisions regarding the financial structure of any project, but among the most sig...

San Luis Obispo - MBK Southern California Ltd. intends to redevelop Central Coast Mall in San Luis Obispo. MBK acquired the 2...

By Julie Nakashima According to the CB Richard Ellis National Real Estate Index, apartments remained the top performer among ...

Newark - MCI Worldcom wants to build a regional network information center in Newark that would allow it to move into the bus...

By John McCloud First there was Silicon Valley, then the Biotech Corridor and Multimedia Gulch. The newest in the line of ind...

The newly released 2000 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey(r) tracks four key cities in Marin and Sonoma counties: Novato ...

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 ...

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...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could reduce trial judges' powers, the California Supreme Court said Monday that courts must gi...

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...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the use of alternative dispute resolution exploding in the trial courts, a new state program has been lau...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing a former San Francisco City College student have asked a judge not to pull the plug on a ...

A class action against Arco and eight other gasoline companies for alleged price fixing has been thwarted once again by a stat...

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...

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 ...