Altheimer Lawyers Get New Jobs
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - All the San Francisco lawyers and associates at the rapidly dissolving Altheimer & Gray have found new hom...
Jurist Rejects Sanctions Against Zoo's Lawyers
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Wednesday denied a motion for sanctions against lawyers representing t...
Political Crosswinds Assail USA PATRIOT Act
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - When House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last week to gut one of the most controversial provisions of the USA PA...
Inglewood Retrial
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley said Wednesday that he would retry former Inglewood police officer Je...
'Gideon' Inspires Ad Campaign
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Wednesday announced a billboard campaign to inform those accused of crimes that...
Reporter's Notebook: Chief Justice Prefers The Personal Touch
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Think you push a lot of paper at work? Try serving as California's chief justice, a job that requires signatur...
Delinquency Court Judge Helps Children
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - It was a routine morning in Compton's delinquency court. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles Q. Clay...
Prison Officials Explain Lapse in Procedure
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - During a hastily called meeting in March, California's prison director, Edward Alameida, banged his fist on a ...
Exposing Lakers Star's Accuser?
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Legal experts predict a major battle over whether the allegations of Kobe Bryant's accuser's checkered past will...
Judge Puts Social-Ecology Lessons to Work on Bench
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - If the evil Inspector Javert of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" had attended college with Judge Lisa B. Lench, he...
Property Insurance Contracts Insure People, Not Buildings
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Jason J. Lee - A recurring issue in property insurance claims is the question of who is enti...
Orrick Herrington Lures Litigators
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Edwin V. Woodsome and D. Barclay Edmundson left Washington, D.C.'s Howrey Simon Arnold & White to join Orric...
Judge Says Fired Public Defender Committed No Wrong
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender who was fired and charged with a crime for allegedly deceiving a judge ...
City's Partners Law Is Upheld By 9th Circuit
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The last legal question over the validity of San Francisco's domestic partners benefits law was answered Tuesd...
Mentor, Dogged Worker, DA Saw 'Big Picture'
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Former veteran Los Angeles prosecutor Paul Philip Halpin was more interested in dogged work than seeking headlin...
Electors Can Select Candidate Without Casting Vote on Recall
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge struck down a section of the state Election Code on Tuesday, ruling that voters can cast ballots f...
Internal Affairs Indeed
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The top brass of California's prison system face mounting criticism that they tried to thwart recent probes of...
Judge Strikes Part of Banking Privacy Laws
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Cities and counties can stop banks from giving information about their customers to other companies, a federal...
In the Balance
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Norm Kjono - Should pharmaceutical companies widely distribute nonsmoked nicotine products that are highly a...
Take This Award and Flush It
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Management and staff at two properties in San Francisco are flushed with pride and deser...
Judge Awards Victim Of Crash $12 Million
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - In one of the largest judgments of its kind, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday ordered a Whittier aut...
Case Gives Judicial-Reference Provisions Renewed Viability
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By William M. Hensley - For lawyers drafting sales/purchase contracts or subdivision instrument...
Bypassing Others for Access
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently granted my request for publication of an unp...
Child Tax Credit Cuts Aren't Compassionate, Conservative
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bruce G. Iwasaki - The now-stalled debate on whether 6.5 million low-income working families should receive ...
Bar Balances Budget With Job Cuts, Fund Shifts
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Averting a financial crisis, the State Bar board of governors approved a balanced budget for 2004 on Saturday th...
Jurist Even-Keeled In the Face of Terrible Crimes
By Pamela Mac Lean
STOCKTON - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Richard Mallett bears a striking resemblance to Clark Kent and he is just a...
As Deposition Drags on, Attorneys Try to Pull the Plug on Witness
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - OK, kids, time to put on our fireproof playsuits. Today, we're taking a thrilling ride through "the d...
Disney Suit
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - A former contract writer for the New York Post may pursue her $10 million lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co., ...
City Attorney Is Disqualified in Fraud Case for Conflict
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday disqualified the city attorney's office from a lawsuit accusing a former buildi...
Democrats In Assembly Hammering Out Budget
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The state Capitol was abuzz Monday with speculation about whether the Assembly would approve a budget compromise ...