Dean Hansell arrived in American Samoa with boxes of law books for legal research, exhibits, several copies each of motions an...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Redevelopment agencies throughout the state are struggling with how to bring more bus...

San Diego's Leap Wireless International Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 relief, swelling the ranks of bankrupt telecommunication...

Construction-materials company Hanson is building a bigger business. The London company has agreed to buy Better Materials Cor...

Leticia Mendez and Robert Torres met in flight school at Glendale Community College in the summer of 2000. They dated for a ye...

Investors have pumped $10 million into Arzoon Inc., a manufacturer of trade and transportation software. New investors Redrock...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Employees of ADCS Inc., a high-technology company in Poway, don't have to sing for their...

Daniel Nixon still is getting used to the view from the 39th floor of his Bunker Hill office building. From his perch, Nixon c...

In a recent trial in Los Angeles, jurors literally fell asleep until the defense presented a spectacular multimedia demonstrat...

A seven-decade water rights dispute may have reached an end with a tentative settlement between three Southern California wate...

Bob Dobalina broke up with his girlfriend, Alison Smithers, recently at a local high school. Smithers was quite crushed, but D...

It's a tough time to be an in-house lawyer. A new survey has found that strict new corporate-reform laws and the high costs of...

BY BRYAN C. JACKSON A company's rise or fall may depend on its ability to cope with the "shock and awe" of disaster. Most com...

BY MICHAEL F. ROSS Everyone throughout the state is watching our state budget crumble. Gov. Gray Davis is grappling with bala...

BY GREGORY SHANK This year, hundreds of newly constructed buildings in the United States are being considered for certificati...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The "master-builder" concept is catching on, particularly with Sutter Health and the ...

BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Pacific Coast Capital LLC recently formed a new joint venture with SRM Associates to build...

Eduardo Roy says the motivation for leaving Arter & Hadden as a partner after 2 1/2 years was the need for a Palo Alto off...

Who controls the arbitration process? By ceding control to the arbitrator, counsel relinquishes a valuable benefit conferred b...

Representing security and alarm companies is becoming an increasingly national practice as smaller, regional companies merge, ...

The Los Angeles Women's Foundation has found the perfect fund-raising platform: the catwalk. Take champagne, roses and a black...

After swelling from five lawyers to 31 since 2001, Piper Rudnick's Los Angeles office has bigger goals in mind for the coming ...

BY STEVEN C. MYNSBERGE Embarking on a major renovation in a critical care health care environment, if not well thought out, co...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor LOS ANGELES - Transamerica Center Tower, a symbol of past expectations unfulfilled ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The economy of Orange County continues to outpace that of the rest of the nation, boding...

SAN FRANCISCO - The prosecutions of former Enron Corp. executives in Houston has developed a decidedly Bay Area flavor. Local...

Focus Column - Franchise Law - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The issue of the ability of a franchisor to obtain damages equivalent ...

People have complained. My column is late once again. But what do you expect after my last column, which appeared in March? Yo...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco meets Houston as an Enron prosecutor with Bay Area ties confronts local criminal defense lawyers...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County Superior Court judge, in a recent dispute between an Oakland man and his broker over investm...