Happier days are here for the world of initial public offerings. Five companies went public in late June and early July, reviv...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Though consumer spending appears to be slowing, it has propped up the economy for more t...

BY JEFF GILL By and large, the state has weathered the economic slowdown better than the rest of the nation, yet shares the f...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Three companies have decided that their products will make a stop in the High Desert as the...

BY LIZ VALSAMIS Special to CREJ Unable to meet a restructuring plan proposed a month ago, Cleveland's Arter & Hadden has ...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer isn't making quite the same splash in tackling securities fraud as his New York count...

San Francisco's Vivato Inc., which makes wireless-networking technology, has raised $45 million in a third round of financing....

Cooley Godward is reaching into its past to shore up its life sciences and technology transactions groups. Diane W. Savage, wh...

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Now that the dot-com lifeblood of the San Jose region has run cold, the promise of new hotel ...

A 12-year-old boy's trauma caused by watching his Rottweiler shot to death by a policeman has led to a $6 million lawsuit file...

Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket has hired real estate partner Michael Brill away from Troy & Gould, where B...

LOS ANGELES - John Emerson, who has advised a U.S. president and city officials, is singing a new tune as chairman of Music Ce...

Graduates of Pepperdine University School of Law who dream of assisting the poor and underserved may receive a helping hand ne...

Attorney Marshall Bitkower is coughing and wheezing as he walks through the small, dim townhouse of his client, Toni Jackson. ...

Gerald Swiss, a biotechnology patent prosecutor and licensing attorney, left intellectual property firm Burns, Doane, Swecker ...

BY KENNETH TOWNSEND Although the U.S. hotel industry is stabilized and poised to recover, industry players continue to look f...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor All it took to bring a measure of optimism back to the battered San Francisco offi...

Focus Column - Environmenal Law - By Jon K. Wactor - The United States has lost more than half of its wetlands as the populati...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli Arab, repeatedly attacked by fellow Israeli citizens for his ethnicity and religion, deserves asyl...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Michele A. Staples and Alene M. Taber - On June 17, the Riverside County Board of Superv...

Forum Column - By Michael P. Judge, John J. Vacca and Ronald Yorizane - On June 25, the Los Angeles Daily Journal ran a story ...

LOS ANGELES - Three weeks after it lured 12 insurance lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Duane Mo...

SANTA ANA - Former Newport Beach recreation director Trenton Michael Veches, who was convicted in May of sucking the toes of n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren, the grandson of a former U.S. Supreme Court justice, who recently presided ...

FRESNO - Civility is not optional in Judge Kent "Buck" Levis' courtroom. It says so in bold, capital letters at the bottom of ...

WASHINGTON - The federal government's case against the alleged 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could be the ul...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli Arab, repeatedly attacked by fellow Israeli citizens for his ethnicity and religion, deserves asylu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Five California counties owe their retirees hundreds of millions of dollars in additional pension benefits, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Probably every lawyer has asked himself sometime during his career: Why do I continue to do this? Many feel bu...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Weak fundamentals may be driving the commercial real estate outlook, but investment capi...