SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis on Monday chose his chief deputy legal affairs secretary, Shelleyanne W.L. Chang, for a seat ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial $5 use fee for national forests across the country but said ...

LOS ANGELES - A Monrovia law requiring public school children to be off the streets during school hours is constitutional beca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Violent criminals got little sympathy from the California Supreme Court in 2002. Juvenile offenders got stiff...

CREJ WIRE REPORT LOS ANGELES - CIM Group won unanimous approval Dec. 19 from the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency t...

By Liz Valsamis With the recruitment of partner David R. Garcia from Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers, Sheppard, Mulli...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ An increase in property acquisitions in Northern California is occurring in the small busi...

BY ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - During his lifetime, publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst built a...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer San Jose has given area developers and building owners an edge to fill the city's ma...

CREJ WIRE REPORT Office building sale prices have risen while occupancy rates have fallen. But despite industry buzz that thi...

BY LYNN ELBER Associated Press Following the Academy Awards' lead in moving to a custom-built theater, Emmy organizers are se...

By Liz Valsamis Riverside's Best Best & Krieger has added another partner to its year-old Sacramento outpost. Ann Siprell...

A school official is liable for not meeting a boy's needs. Page XX. By Joan Osterwalder Parents of special education children...

BY MARGARET STRAND In a time of widespread drought, storm water rules and regulations have not occupied a prominent place on ...

By Liz Valsamis Former vice chair of Walt Disney Co. Sanford "Sandy" Litvack has left Dewey Ballantine a year after joining t...

BY RALPH VASQUEZ A new wave of federal storm water regulations -12 years in the making - is coming to a town near you. And wi...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Another wick has been lit in San Diego's effort to revitalize its historic Gaslamp Quart...

By Toni Vranjes Newport Beach attorney Shiv Grewal was born in India, and the corporate and securities partner still has a sp...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Given the mixed signals that the economy seems to be giving off, this may not seem like ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The demand for new housing continues to explode in California. The Sacramento Bee report...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Recent lending activity to small business owners suggests more women entrepreneurs are cho...

By Liz Valsamis All Stuart Liner's clients have to do is press a button and he'll dance for as long as they want him to. And,...

Siding maker prevails in suit brought by homeowners. Page XX By Joan Osterwalder In the first case against Dryvit Systems Inc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A construction defect litigation fix-it bill that takes effect with the new year promises sweeping changes fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Best didn't start out intending to become the resident tech-head of the San Francisco Superior Court. ...

LOS ANGELES - Expanding its insurance, reinsurance and insolvency practices, Santa Monica's Alschuler Grossman Stein & Ka...

PASADENA - The years have slipped by quickly for this son of working-class Mexican immigrants, who rose by personal determinat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Muslim inmates at Vacaville State Prison have won an important court battle that allows them to continue atte...

MARTINEZ - Judge Laurel Brady will have both joyous and onerous tasks ahead of her Thursday when she assumes the office of pr...

SACRAMENTO - A state trial judge violated a man's due process rights when he refused to issue a jury instruction on entrapmen...