SACRAMENTO - Homeowner associations have few means of enforcing their covenants and restrictions. They can pursue their delin...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether a 1994 California law giving childhood victims of sexual abus...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Proposition 227, the voter-passed initiative to ban bilingual education in California, has ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Kump - The controversial new amendments to California's summary judgment statute wil...

LANCASTER - The approach of winter comes with barely a notice in most parts of Southern California. In high-desert communities...

SAN FRANCISCO - Utilities won some protection from Unfair Competition Law claims Monday when a state appellate court threw ou...

SACRAMENTO - One in four Californians now lives under the jurisdiction of a homeowners association, and as these housing deve...

LOS ANGELES - The two founders of what is now known as Tenet Healthcare Corp. are taking the nation's second-largest hospital ...

SAN FRANCISCO - California officials must be given a voice in whether the life of offshore oil drilling leases will be extend...

Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - A tabloid-reporter-turned-law-student has filed a libel suit against another journalist...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court surprised some legal observers Monday by agreeing to review its own landmark rulings on tw...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether a 1994 California law giving childhood victims of sexual abus...

The University of Florida edged out Syracuse University College of Law to win Loyola Law School's inaugural National Civil Tri...

The accidental deaths of two construction workers were not in vain because they brought about reform at the workplace, their a...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Landscaping with flora native to the arid Southern California environment requires ...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The survivors at ground zero of the Northern California-centered tech bust and the e...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The jewel in the crown has just been placed atop the Gemological Institute of America's w...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer America's Community Bankers jumped into the giving season early this year. The trade...

Wide-ranging business interests have piled on the amicus briefs in a California Supreme Court case scheduled for oral argument...

Chicago's Altheimer & Gray said it had big plans for San Francisco when it opened an office there in September with two pa...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Near the top of the Grapevine portion of Interstate 5, where ruggend hills dominate the sce...

Two bar associations in San Francisco's East Bay moved their meeting places this year, and both are announcing the event with ...

BY ERON BEN-YEHUDA Special to CREJ LOS ANGELES - In one of the biggest construction defect settlements this year, the regents ...

Barbie is proving to be a tough broad who won't go down without a fight. Mattel, the doll's manufacturer, proved it is not rea...

Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has hired away the head of the employment group at Santa Barbara's Hatch ...

Back in the day, Bobby Caron could look down on the laborers toiling in the strawberry fields of southwest Ventura County from...

BY JAMES E. BROWN Over the last few years, California's industrial markets have gone through a slump, just like other real es...

Just because intellectual property issues are going to trial more often these days doesn't mean the patent process -the granti...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor With the flight to quality investments and record low interest rates making capita...

"We're seeing a lot of [Orange County] apartment owners sell their apartments and trade up into another apartment buildings, b...