Jurist Fosters Atmosphere of Respect in Hectic Courtroom
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - On a December day in 1978, a young lawyer on leave from his job at the public defender's office set out for an a...
Fees in 'Behr' Total $25 Million, While 300 Claims Will Cost Company $300,000
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - When a Stockton judge tentatively approved a large national settlement in a consumer-fraud class action last ...
Curb Your Media in Court
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Richard E. Hasselbach - The media seem to have an almost insatiable appetite for courtroom drama. No longer ...
9th Circuit Decisions Deal With Bias of Administrative Judges
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Although most attorneys who appear regularly at administrative hearings...
Objectors Try to Halt Accord, Then Fade Away Mysteriously
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - They bill themselves as crusaders for the little guy. Their briefs are filled with ideas to improve class act...
Court Assures Rent Flexibility for Disabled
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant victory for the disabled, including people with AIDS, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Justices Delay Recall Election For Six Months
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The rationale for Monday's appellate-court decision delaying the October recall election for six months mirro...
Observers Hail Jurists' Courage
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Observers of the state's gubernatorial recall challenges called the decision by a three-judge appellate panel on...
UC Lab Worker's Retaliation Case Settled for $990K
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to avoid taking a Lawrence Livermore Nationa...
Judge Likes to Keep Things Moving
By Karen Coleman
VALLEJO - Solano County Superior Court Judge Franklin Taft has always been a tinkerer. According to his older brother, Vallejo...
Beware Journalists Bearing Recall Challenges
By Peter Blumberg
Reporter's Notebook - Peter Blumberg - Appellate Courts - SAN FRANCISCO - I may have started this whole mess. If called to tes...
Landlord Must Allow Disabled Tenant To Get Rent Help
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant victory for the disabled, including people with AIDS, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Ex-Cop Mack Says Conscience Is Pearly White in B.I.G. Hit
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - David A. Mack, who is the former Los Angeles police officer convicted of bank robbery and a key figur...
17200 Critics Considering Options After Reform Fails
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum say they have not given up their fight to enact significant re...
U.S. Supreme Court Is Unlikely to Intervene
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court probably will not step into the California recall election battle, veteran high-court obse...
Recall Ruling Inspired by 'Bush v. Gore'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The rationale for Monday's appellate court decision delaying the October recall election six months mirrors t...
Vanishing Act
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - They bill themselves as crusaders for the little guy. Their briefs are filled with ideas to improve class act...
Industrial Parks Buffed Up for Investors
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Think "industrial park," and the image that comes to mind - to some people, at least - i...
City Condemns Downtown Lots for Private Development
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer The Sacramento Redevelopment Agency is in the midst of two eminent domain proceedings in an e...
Up to the Challenge
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Commercial real estate brokers in Los Angeles have yet another reason to get in shape. Th...
Litigator Abandons Heller Ehrman for Steefel Levitt
By Erik Cummins
Clyde Wadsworth, a veteran San Francisco litigator, says he's returning to his roots at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss. Having re...
Tax Star Joins Greenberg Traurig
By Liz Valsamis
The Santa Monica office of Greenberg Traurig has recruited its fifth tax specialist. Gordon A. Schaller, 54, joined the firm S...
Intellectual Property Pro Joins Schnader Harrison
By Erik Cummins
After a series of setbacks, including the departure of three key partners, Leo Murphy promised good news soon for Schnader, Ha...
Appellate Group Attracts Lawyer To Reed Smith
By Erik Cummins
In 1969, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May began to build an appellate practice. Today, the 1,000-lawyer firm known as Reed Smit...
Successful Urban Development Depends on Community Leadership, Vision, Communication
By Columnist
BY STEVE KELLENBERG More and more builders are seeking out and acquiring underutilized properties in urban areas to develop h...
Lawsuit Alleges That Credit-Counseling Service Is a Scam
By Toni Vranjes
Alyssa Polacsek called Debticated Consumer Counseling Inc. two years ago, desperately looking for help paying off $20,000 in c...
Firm Fame
By Tanya Rothman
Column - Public Relations - By Elizabeth Lampert and Sheila O'Gorman - Public relations is becoming an important marketing and...
Dairy Farmers Sue Power Firms Over Cows' Deaths
By Stefanie Knapp
Mike and Linda Cherniske couldn't understand why their cows seemed to die so much more easily at their new dairy farm in Delta...
Lack of Supply Drives Affordable Senior-Housing Demand Higher
By Columnist
BY MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ Affordable housing for seniors is a numbers game. Census figures demonstrate ...
'Big Mama' Opens in San Diego
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer San Diego's Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel has completed a major expansion that makes the ...