SACRAMENTO - A measure that lawmakers hope will satisfy the courts and restore power to the California Coastal Commission too...

SANTA ANA - Carl Holmes cracks a smile as he recalls the sign that the end was near. One morning, Holmes took a quick glance ...

SAN JOSE - By accepting civil commitment at Atascadero State Hospital, a habitual child molester who had himself surgically c...

WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federal...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Just when you thought the 1960s and '70s were finally dead and buried, residents in the ...

San Francisco's Gordon & Rees ended 2002 with the acquisition of Colin H. Murray as a partner from the San Diego office o...

BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires The apartment industry's big annual gathering started Jan. 15 in La Quinta. But the mood ...

CREJ WIRE REPORT Investors expect little to no business growth that would require additional space in 2003, according to new ...

The Pleasanton office of Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel has acquired another land use attorney for its growing practice ther...

By Liz Valsamis John C. "Jack" McBride is returning to Los Angeles after spending five years in New York as the general couns...

Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has added two telecommunications partners to its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announ...

BY MICHAEL J. NOVOGRADAC Last year, housing advocates rallied hard for several goals, and for a time, it looked like many of t...

By Toni Vranjes Pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. has purchased Solana Beach's Bridge Medical Inc., which ma...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams It's happening across many industries. You've probably seen the ads -...

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Even California's hardest-hit local economies continue to see single-family prices skyrock...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Academy Award winning screenwriter Nancy E. Dowd knows how to tell a good story. But when she claimed at a...

Michael Oleinik jumped at the chance to be a partner in the Los Angeles office of Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery, join...

BY ERIC JOHNSTON Many property owners make the mistake of depreciating a building's entire cost as real property. That can be ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A few too many apartments may have been built in Orange County last year as evidenced by ...

By Erik Cummins Dechert's newest office is small and focused. Unlike some firms that open offices with large groups represent...

BY CLAUDE WALBERT Special to CREJ SAN DIEGO - Back in 1997, when Amy B. Vandeveld began negotiating better access at Qualcomm ...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Not long ago, the Inland Empire was one of the only Southern California regions to tout a la...

By Stefanie Knapp There's a tradition that the president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel must uphold...

CREJ STAFF REPORT LOS ANGELES - A jury found that the former owners of a downtown Los Angeles building purposely allowed the p...

By Erik Cummins Reed Smith Crosby Heafey chose a Crosby Heafey lifer and a former law firm managing partner as the leaders of...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Apartment rents and occupancy in the San Francisco Bay Area are expected to deteriorate sl...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer A 50,000-square-foot mixed-use building that will bring 18 high-end residential lofts...

By Liz Valsamis The day after Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton hooked four entertainment partners from Ak...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor In an industry where financial numbers are everything, interest rates have proven t...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer During San Diego's booming economy of the past few years, developers, understandably, ste...