Follow the Real Estate Money
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer If campaign contributions are any indication, the commercial real estate industry is far...
New Holland Partner Wants To Solve Energy Problems
By Erik Cummins
The massive blackout on the East Coast this summer uncovered serious flaws in the way energy is transmitted, says Dan Fessler,...
Do Punitives Need a New Home?
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Just exactly what was Tom McClintock talking about? As recall candidates Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffi...
Trunk Twister
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Forum Column - By Duf Sundheim - For months, East Coast political pundits and other outside observers have watched the Califor...
Parties Should Build Procedure for Appeal Into Arbitration Process Itself
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gerald G. Knapton - Lawyers have tried to expand the ability of parties to ...
Privileges Are Not Just About Excluding Testimony
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Focus Column - Evidence Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - In 1956, professor David W. Louisell eloquently explained the nature of...
Recall Ruckus
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Forum Column - By Art Torres - As Sen. Dianne Feinstein has said, this recall is a bad idea for California. The original inten...
Prosecutor, Lawyer Get Judicial Posts
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Friday the appointments of Deputy District Attorney George "Woody" Clarke and civil atto...
DA Won't Probe Claims of Groping
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney on Friday rejected calls to investigate Arnold Schwarzenegger for sexual batte...
Jury Ends Battle Over Fees By Splitting the Difference
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has settled a fee fight between two lawyers and their security company client, leaving n...
'Fajitagate' Defendants Call Hallinan's Action Vindictive
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty police officers accused of beating two men on Union Street last year have moved to dismiss ...
Pastor Follows Circuitous Path to Delinquency Bench
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - On April 28, 1975, Martha E. Bellinger, a recently ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, gave a cand...
Arcane Recall Rules Uncharted Territory
By Linda Rapattoni
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - California's recall election Tuesday is the first attempt in the history of the sta...
Turning Toward the Light
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - The first thing you notice about Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's new building at First and Howard streets...
Was It Sexual Harassment?
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger's alleged history of groping women, if proved, is unlawful and could have exposed the acto...
Bush Faces Challenge in Discovering Source of Leak on CIA Operative
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department faces an uphill battle in trying to get to the bottom of allegations that White House off...
Fall Leaves Lawyers Polishing Interviewing Skills
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Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - Fall recruiting has begun. Law firms from all over the country are descending on law...
Balance of Power
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Forum Column - By Richard C. Darwin - On May 21, the state Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and International Trade and t...
Ruling on Arbitration A Hot Topic for CELA
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Members of the California Employment Lawyers Association will be buzzing today about this week's federal appea...
Morgan May Get Tsenin's Job
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The word in the San Francisco criminal courts is that recently re-appointed Superior Court Judge Mary Morgan w...
Man Cited For Sex Infection Is Released
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco health commissioner, indicted last month on charges that he intentionally infected two ...
DOJ Faces Challenge in Finding Source of Leak on CIA Operative
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department faces an uphill battle in trying to get to the bottom of allegations that White House offi...
Judge Resolves Suit Over Problematic Logging Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit that threatened to derail logging on tens of thousands of acres of land owned by Pacific Lumber Co. ...
Singing Bankruptcy Judge Excels With Chapter 11s
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond is a woman of varied talents. Bluebond can help an ailing company get back ...
Out-Of-State Archdiocese Can Be Sued for Abuse
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Roman Catholic archdioceses from other states that knowingly send their pedophile clergy to California can be su...
Harris Admits She Overspent
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Medical marijuana advocates who support District Attorney Terence Hallinan for re-election are behind the ethi...
Secret Hearing
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Los Angeles Times Thursday accused a Sacramento Superior Court judge of violating the First Amen...
Archbishop's Sermon Stirs Controversy at Red Mass
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis delivered a stern sermon against abortion, the death penalty and stem-cell...
Parolees Can't Be Forced to Give Blood
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Forcing parolees to give blood for a federal DNA database is a violation of Fourth Amendment protections again...
Hard-Driving Judge
By Dennis Opatrny
MARTINEZ - The woman was near tears telling Contra County Superior Court Judge Theresa Canepa why she missed a court date. Her...