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...

BY ANN PETERSON Four years ago, Arden Realty, one of the largest commercial real estate landlords in Southern California, set ...

Pillsbury Winthrop is the latest California firm to win the lottery for talented white-collar defense lawyers. David Anderson,...

Column By George Dale - SB800, also known as the Fix-It Bill, changes the way construction defect disputes are handled for hom...

National fraternity Pi Kappa Phi has reached a settlement with the parents of a Chico State pledge who died during a chapter i...

After 12 years as a San Francisco prosecutor, Rhonda Burgess is headed to her home county as an Alameda County Superior Court...

Salaries are down, bonuses are up and total compensation is higher for the nation's in-house attorneys, according to the 2003 ...

Put together two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun and you have yourself ...

In a wrongful-death action, are the parents of the deceased entitled to recover damages based on their loss of future grandchi...

Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue managing partner Patrick F. McCartan has tapped Stephan J. Brogan to be his successor as managi...

BY KATHERINE GAIDOS Special to CREJ A jury has awarded $184 million to 18,000 real estate investors in a class action against ...

Management Column By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - Law firms often struggle with hiring decisions. When a firm generates new bu...

Following testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gary Klausner was confirmed to th...

After facing two runoffs in the last six months, Guillermina Byrne has been elected by the Los Angeles Superior Court judges t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A female Boalt Hall law student woke from a drunken sleep to find the school's dean, John P. Dwyer, sexually ...