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
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Focus Column - Real Property - By William M. Hensley - For lawyers drafting sales/purchase contracts or subdivision instrument...
Bypassing Others for Access
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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
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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 ...
Two More Suits Seek to Modify Recall Vote
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In new legal challenges to the Oct. 7 recall election, two prominent appellate specialists Monday filed petit...
Lawmakers Haggle Over Diminishing Court Budget
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers worked over the weekend on a budget that would allow courts to stay open for the public, though furthe...
Kavado Raises $10 Million toExpand in Software Sector
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Kavado Inc., a New York-based firm whose founders received technology training from the Israeli military, has...
Lawyers: Choose a Medical Specialist Jurors Would Use
By Contributing Writer
Column Expert Witnesses By David Feinberg A medical expert witness can be hard to choose. Ideally, when your case is over, yo...
Judge Axes Case, Says Lawyers Ignored Him
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in New York threw out a securities-fraud case earlier this month, asserting that the plai...
Closure of Arter & Hadden Helps Other Firms Expand
By John Ryan
By John Ryan California law offices continue to benefit from the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden. Citing costly at...
Bench Officer OKs Class Settlement In Providian Case
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in San Francisco gave final approval last month to an $8.6 million settlement in a class ...
Apartment Investment Red Hot
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor It all boils down to the law of supply and demand. This fundamental economic baromet...
Unlocking Value in Post-World War II Office Buildings
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BY DALE YONKIN Post-World War II office buildings offer an exciting opportunity to increase residential stock, bring new life...
Law for Sale
By Contributing Writer
Column Law Firm Marketing By Felice Wagner and Elizabeth Lampert Throughout the profession, in almost all legal industry publ...
MCI Blamed the Messenger, Termination Suit Claims
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Telecommunications giant MCI WorldCom didn't want to hear the bad news, according to a lawsuit filed last ...
Firm Overcomes Crisis of Confidence
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis suffered a crisis of confidence earlier this year when a group of partner...
Sheppard Partner Heads High-Speed Rail Authority
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Over the course of his career, Joseph Petrillo has handled the enormous task of helping create legislative gu...