SAN FRANCISCO - Judge John J. Conway, robed and ready for court, strikes a pugilist's pose in his San Francisco chambers. He w...

INDIO - Photographs of a pastor in a hot tub with two topless women are newsworthy, a judge has ruled in dismissing the clergy...

BY ERIK CUMMINS Special to CREJ After eight years in crowded, temporary quarters at the War Memorial Building, the San Franci...

Daily Journal Extra Feature - In April 2002, the Los Angeles Catholic Church was getting hammered by the press, and Cardinal R...

The Playboy Bunnies are revealing a side of themselves no one has seen before: the crime-fighting side. The Playmates soon wil...

San Francisco media company MarketWatch.com Inc. will acquire Pinnacor Inc. in a deal valued at $103 million in cash and stock...

Column - Trial Strategy - By David B. Baum - Awe and trepidation - these are the emotions typical of the trial lawyer approach...

BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN Apartment property owners often ask about the value of having a resident manager. How much difference ...

In 2001, Lara Callas traveled to Albania to devote her legal skills to helping the Orthodox Church in Albania. Forty-five year...

Los Angeles trial consultant Richard Gabriel has a lofty goal for his one-term as president of the American Society of Trial C...

Digital River Inc., which provides e-commerce services for businesses, has raised $45 million in a stock offering. The Minneap...

After splitting from the firm he merged with two years ago, Eric Klein has found a new home in the Century City office of Katt...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The six-person asset management group of Newmark of California, led by veteran property ...

More California firms have joined the ranks of newly public companies. Two of the latest initial public offerings came in late...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer A brand new set of California building codes was adopted just weeks ago, to the chagrin of a ...

Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliot has added two land-use partners for its Irvine office this summer. John C. Con...

BY DENNIS PFAFF Special to CREJ A proposed Proposition 65 settlement between the hotel industry and two plaintiffs groups cou...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor After three years of planning, the first shovel went into the ground last month for ...

California's statewide construction activity for June totaled $6.2 billion, down 1.2 percent - the first decline in 2003 after...

MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ For some, affordable housing is a deal-killer. For others, it is an unwelcome ad...

Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis is open for business in San Francisco despite defections that have shrunk the office to ...

Roger Billings' 12-year legal battle against software company Novell Inc. finally may be running out of steam. The inventor su...

A former accounting manager at an Orange County law firm alleges that office management tolerated sexual harassment, then reta...

Column - Legal Technology - By John J. Selbak and Colin C. Elrod - As communication technology develops, more clients expect t...

When you run your own successful litigation boutique, you can expect job offers from large law firms - just ask the name partn...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The San Diego architectural firm of Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle is seeking a new direc...

CAMARILLO - Royce Medical Co. leased 17,784 square feet of R&D space at 4550 Calle Alto from the Snemelof Family Trust fo...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor Dream Works has finally come to Playa Vista, but in a most roundabout way. On Aug. 6...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has seen its employee-benefits and executive-compensation practice explode in the last three...

Film and television actor Marty Ingels considers himself a "very verbose" and "opinionated" guy. So when a radio talk show hos...