LOS ANGELES - The first protester against the Iraq war to be sentenced in Los Angeles said Monday he would refuse to pay his f...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be a sign of the times, federal judges in San Francisco plan to transform a spare courtroom into ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After some minor controversy among plaintiffs' counsel, a San Francisco judge has handed San Francisco litiga...

Column By Garry Abrams - Spider-Man may be one of the greatest superheroes in history. But he's no match for the judicial syst...

LOS ANGELES - The University of California regents and a New York-based bank owned by the garment workers' union filed a secur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing North Coast activists who were pepper-sprayed during antilogging demonstrations in 1997 ...

Eight months of negotiations resulted in a $67.7 million settlement for Rite Aid Corp. workers who alleged that their Pennsylv...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The buzz was palpable at Hollywood & Highland the week leading up to the March...

Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, has sold the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza for $68 million....

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Sometimes, those motivational posters just don't have what it takes and pastel lands...

Baltimore company I4 Commerce Inc. wants to shake up the traditional way of paying for items on the Internet. And it has won t...

Following the closure of the Los Angeles office of New York-based Kelley, Drye & Warren, corporate partner Ronald Husdon h...

BY MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS There can be little question that when it comes to holding those who own or manage property liable for...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The harbor revitalization isn't the only development project in the pipeline in Dana Poi...

"Give me a K!" cheerleaders from Los Angeles' James A. Foshay Learning Center joyfully commanded their audience at the Winston...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Orange County is preparing to embark on a major overhaul of Dana Point Harbor, a 210-acr...

The U.S. District Court seeks public comments regarding the reappointments of Magistrate Judges Charles F. Eick, Arthur Nakaza...

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has added two new partners - land-use attorney Timi Anyon Hallem and project financ...

Glen Peterson, executive director of Los Angeles' JobStarts Inc., doesn't have a legal background, and his organization doesn'...

Miami-based Feldman, Gale & Weber became a two-office firm April 1 when it opened an outpost in downtown Los Angeles. The ...

Brokers can breathe easier after a San Francisco appellate court made it more difficult in fraud suits to hold brokers liable ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When Grubb & Ellis ousted its top management last month, including its New York-base...

Litigation Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Cynthia F. Pasternak - Civil lawsuits focus on monetary damages. Certa...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer An old almond warehouse and auto-parts junkyard in North Sacramento is now a piece o...

Edward Sousa and Gerald Schwartzbach waited at the front gates of San Quentin State Prison March 21. They watched as their cli...

Chicago's Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman hired John Arai "Mitch" Mitchell as a litigation partner. Mitchell, who joined on March...

It's not as if they have nothing else to do. This issue of EXTRA features four of the special lawyers who likely will travel t...

Kern County to Rewrite Building-Rental Policy BAKERSFIELD - Kern County officials say they will rewrite their rental facility ...

McDonald's is facing a lawsuit in Los Angeles that questions the safety of the restaurant's playgrounds throughout the country...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Landlords and apartment owners have plenty of new laws to deal with this year, inclu...