LOS ANGELES - One day in 2000, Capt. Kevin Murphy of the Montgomery, Ala., Police Department received an urgent e-mail, warnin...

Getting rusty at the practice of law is one of the occupational hazards of running a large law firm, says Richard Gary, the ch...

An important piece of evidence used by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in its defense against a long-running toxic-tort suit was ...

WASHINGTON - In their public policy agenda, the National Multi Housing Council and the National Apartment Association said th...

The lead singer and founding member of the popular 1990s retro-funk-dance band Deee-lite, best known for its hit "Groove Is In...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor So you bought a Southern California apartment building in the early '90s, collecte...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area apartment vacancy rates edged up further in the first quarter of 2003 and average rents declined as ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Once derided as something fit mainly for oil-rich Middle East sheikdoms and luxury cruis...

Thousands of corporations may end up with a much higher tax bill if a new proposal becomes law. The state Senate bill would ch...

Investments by venture capitalists have fallen to their lowest level in five years, according to a new survey. Venture investm...

In the classic video game "Ms. Pac-Man," the heroine runs through mazes and scores points by eating dots. She must avoid the g...

A new ordinance passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is alarming some local residents and companies, who would lik...

Tamara Rogers claims the photographer who took her nude pictures told her the photos would be shown to only "a few" of his cli...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With a flurry of green, brown and white balloons dropping from the ceiling, officials fro...

SANTA ANA (AP) - The University of Southern California has secured more than 75 percent of the $70 million it needs to begin ...

BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN One of our property managers recently received a call from a tenant complaining about the rental incre...

For the first time in its 150-year history, New York's Coudert Brothers has tapped a Los Angeles-based partner to serve chairm...

Mitchell Burger has had a month to get accustomed to his new surroundings at Beverly Hills' Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff. Burger, a ...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor There's nothing like a little hard work to teach young adults the value of a job a...

Column - Employment Law - By Lin M. Meyer - Law firms are no strangers to employee harassment and discrimination complaints. Y...

Edward Chapin has left the firm he founded in 1987 to join San Francisco's Gordon & Rees. Chapin built his reputation on t...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Building on previous successes, the developer family responsible for the Pomona Arts Colony...

When New York's Kay & Boose closed its doors April 30, the hunt for a new firm ended for 10 of the 18 attorneys there. The...

Column - Jury Behavior - By Andrea Mosmann - Once viewed as "wild cards" by most attorneys, members of Generations X and Y now...

Few lobbyists have been in Sacramento longer or had the success of George Steffes, a 35-year veteran of the state capital. "Ev...

LOS ANGELES - Apartment vacancy rates were generally stable in the first quarter of 2003, but the Los Angeles area still boas...

BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO - The economic malaise is driving down apartment rents in most Western mar...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer A new bill is making its way through the Legislature that would dramatically strengt...

BY BETH HARRIS Associated Press PASADENA - A group behind the plans to redesign the 81-year-old Rose Bowl hopes to get suppor...

A nonprofit diamond-grading organization filed three lawsuits in Chicago and Israel after discovering an alleged counterfeitin...