BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Tough times can be rough on partnerships. And with the economy staying soft and real estat...

By Joan Osterwalder El Nio causes more than droughts and floods throughout the world. The warm-water weather phenomenon also ...

Attorney Robert Scott Dreher fights to protect the homeless in San Diego County. Page XX. LITIGATION Eron Ben-Yehuda After a ...

FINANCING By Toni Vranjes Aliso Viejo's eEye Digital Security has picked up $9 million in its third round of financing, which...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Recent development activity at the former George Air Force Base is transforming the 5,000-a...

Terrorists are a serious threat to the safety of a building's air supply, but not the only threat. "Buildings don't have to b...

By Liz Valsamis Prompted by a string of partner defections at their firm, two Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly litigators hav...

By Stefanie Knapp A graphic designer is suing Adobe Systems Inc. claiming that the software giant stole his technology and in...

By Erik Cummins Kirkland & Ellis finally has confirmed one of the Bay Area's worst-kept secrets. After months of speculat...

BY JAMES ACRET On the last day of its 2002 session, the Legislature passed SB800 at the urging of a coalition of trial lawyer...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Joining the nation's refinancing wave, one of Orange County's most prominent developers,...

Martin Appel has joined New York's Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner as senior counsel. Appel began at the firm's ...

Her first job was research, but not what she'd thought. Page XX By Stefanie Knapp In 1984, Shannon Hansen thought that her su...

The flurry of associate elevations into the partnership at large law firms continues at a rapid pace. With most of the promot...

Two veteran Orange County Superior Court judges will retire after the New Year. Judges J. Michael Beecher and Daniel T. Brice...

By Sharon E. Jackson and Sabina Bhalla Most new litigators start their careers practicing law at small firms or government of...

BY BERNARD S. KAMINE Beneath every modern city is a complex web of water, sewer, storm-drain, gas, oil, steam, electric, telep...

MONTEREY PARK - The scuttlebutt around the Los Angeles juvenile dependency court is that Commissioner Stanley Genser intimidat...

LOS ANGELES - Former Santa Monica attorney John Patrick Maginnis, who represented one of the men convicted in the brutal attac...

SACRAMENTO - Former San Francisco County supervisor and new Assemblyman Mark Leno has been named chairman of the Assembly Pub...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Apparently, very little shocks the judicial conscience any more. In cond...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Shelvy - In Los Angeles County, more than 30,000 abused and neglected children are in foster care p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rocked the country this year with just two words - "under God." Judge A...

Focus Column - Land Use - By Terence R. Boga - Local governments increasingly are having to litigate disputes involving religi...

SAN FRANCISCO - State regulators are locked in a bankruptcy court dispute with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over conditions t...

SAN JOSE - Regarded as a thoughtful jurist with a keen intellect, 6th District Court of Appeal Justice Franklin Elia can put ...

LOS ANGELES - The grandson of a Jewish woman who fled Berlin during World War II has won a temporary restraining order to keep...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a Sacramento doctor with a law degree, taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance was no miracle, just ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - State regulators are locked in a bankruptcy court dispute with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over conditions t...

SAN DIEGO - Stuart M. Rees lives in a cartoon world. The honors graduate of Harvard Law School has 100 cartoonist clients, amo...