Court's Amendments Improve Bankruptcy 'Rules of the Road'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Wesley H. Avery - The Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California has amended i...
National Character
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Forum Column - By John A. Frederick - In her recent article "Nonbelievers Shouldn't Have to Honor a Deity They Do Not Worship"...
$16M Awarded In Candy Death
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury awarded nearly $16.7 million Monday to the family of a 12-year-old girl w...
A Few Words From the Wise
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Between them, David A. Garcia and Ronald E. Quidachay have 15 years of experience as San Francisco's law and ...
County Honors Seven Foster-Care Heroes
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's first-ever Foster Care Awareness Week is under way, with the Los Angeles County Board of Su...
Prosecutors Wary of South Bay Jurist
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - On his first week on the job, just out of law school, Santa Clara County prosecutor David Ezgar got a big surprise...
Lawyer Had No Duty to Add Plaintiff, Court Says
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a bereaved mother did not have a duty to include the woman's husband as a plaintiff in a wrongfu...
Lawyer Wins Unanimous Decision
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Coronado lawyer Mary Lehman continued her climb in women's professional boxing by extending her record to 5-0 on F...
Immigration Consultants Charged
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Charges were filed Monday against 24 immigration consultants accused of posing as lawyers and promising to obtai...
Fight for Attorney Fees Turns Friends Into Foes
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is usually on the same side as ...
Public Lives of First Cop and Lawyer Wife Make Dramatic Reading
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Rikki Klieman, Court TV anchor and wife of Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton, has written a co...
Alameda Bar Joins Anti-Scouting Campaign
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Bar Association has come out in favor of changing state judicial ethics rules to prohibit j...
Some Lawyers Question Use of Hacker-Tipsters
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - One day in 2000, Capt. Kevin Murphy of the Montgomery, Ala., Police Department received an urgent e-mail, warnin...
Thelen Reid Ex-Chair Joins Hildebrandt as Consultant
By Erik Cummins
Getting rusty at the practice of law is one of the occupational hazards of running a large law firm, says Richard Gary, the ch...
Testimony About Panel of Experts Impairs Defense
By Eron Yehuda
An important piece of evidence used by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in its defense against a long-running toxic-tort suit was ...
Balanced Housing Policy Tops Apartment Organizations' Agenda
By Wire
WASHINGTON - In their public policy agenda, the National Multi Housing Council and the National Apartment Association said th...
Ooh-la-la! Deee-lite Performer Sues SEGA
By Joan Osterwalder
The lead singer and founding member of the popular 1990s retro-funk-dance band Deee-lite, best known for its hit "Groove Is In...
Weighing Ownership Options
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor So you bought a Southern California apartment building in the early '90s, collecte...
Bay Area Multifamily Rental Market Softens
By Wire
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area apartment vacancy rates edged up further in the first quarter of 2003 and average rents declined as ...
Quenching California's Thirst for Water
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Once derided as something fit mainly for oil-rich Middle East sheikdoms and luxury cruis...
Bill Would Change S Corporation Criteria
By Toni Vranjes
Thousands of corporations may end up with a much higher tax bill if a new proposal becomes law. The state Senate bill would ch...
Venture Capital Investment Falls to New Low
By Toni Vranjes
Investments by venture capitalists have fallen to their lowest level in five years, according to a new survey. Venture investm...
'Ms. Pac-Man' Fends Off Alleged Knockoff
By Eron Yehuda
In the classic video game "Ms. Pac-Man," the heroine runs through mazes and scores points by eating dots. She must avoid the g...
Some Find New S.F. Ordinance Alarming
By Stefanie Knapp
A new ordinance passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is alarming some local residents and companies, who would lik...
Pupil's Suit Says Nude Photos Exposed Her to Ridicule
By Joan Osterwalder
Tamara Rogers claims the photographer who took her nude pictures told her the photos would be shown to only "a few" of his cli...
Heritage Fields Forever
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With a flurry of green, brown and white balloons dropping from the ceiling, officials fro...
USC Seeks to Secure Final Funds for Long-Awaited Sports Arena
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SANTA ANA (AP) - The University of Southern California has secured more than 75 percent of the $70 million it needs to begin ...
Are Rent Increases Unfair?
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BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN One of our property managers recently received a call from a tenant complaining about the rental incre...
Coudert Picks Leader From Los Angeles
By Liz Valsamis
For the first time in its 150-year history, New York's Coudert Brothers has tapped a Los Angeles-based partner to serve chairm...
Lawyer Settles In at Whitwell Jacoby
By Liz Valsamis
Mitchell Burger has had a month to get accustomed to his new surroundings at Beverly Hills' Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff. Burger, a ...