Grounded
By John Ryan
By John Ryan Divorced, unemployed and homeless, Harold Archuleta blames his life's misery on American Airlines. The airline f...
Big Box Attempts a Comeback
By Contributing Writer
BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ As far as shopping centers go, it may not be the biggest or the grandest retail project ever ...
Woman Claims Sacramento Deputy Sexually Abused Her
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda A Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy has resigned amid allegations that he sexually abused a woman he supe...
UCLA Law School Gets Interim Dean
By Jeff Berg
By Jeff Berg A former UCLA vice chancellor will serve as interim dean of the UCLA School of Law beginning Saturday. Professor...
King of the Concrete Jungle
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS Special to CREJ Years ago, Carl Ross stood in the back of a truck in the middle of the African bush as a 400-...
Catch Phrase
By Contributing Writer
Column Litigation Strategies By David Hunter "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Johnnie Cochran uttered those now-famous w...
Thorough, Meticulous Jurist Makes Courageous Rulings
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - The briefcase has long since lost the luster of new leather, its surface scuffed and faded by the ravages of 25 yea...
Actor Sues Sony for 'Charlie's Angels' Film Profits
By Stefanie Knapp
By Stefanie Knapp Actor Robert Wagner has presented a new challenge for Charlie's Angels, but it doesn't involve hit men or s...
Pregnancy Center Sues State to Become Clinic
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda State health officials are interfering with the reproductive rights of women, according to a lawsuit filed...
Santa Monica Attorney Aids Crash Victims
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Attorney Thomas Larmore sat at a folding table, surrounded by other tables stacked with fat, beaming sunflowers...
Into the Night
By Karen Coleman
By Karen Coleman Courtroom do-gooders from around the country blew off steam at the end of the Association of Trial Lawyers o...
Mayer Brown Adds Former Legislator to Its L.A. Stable
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has added another prominent politician and the first Republican, to it...
Foley & Lardner Starts IP Practice in S.F.
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Foley & Lardner is the latest national firm to start a Northern California intellectual property practice...
Trio Forms Environmental Law Boutique
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis Richard Opper, Suzanne Varco and Linda Beresford have formed San Diego-based environmental law boutique Opper...
Klein & Martin Group Leaves Shaw Pittman in Century City
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis After two years of struggling to make its merger with Century City's Klein & Martin work, Shaw Pittman is...
Irvine Housing Boom Continues
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The latest multifamily community announced for the city of Irvine is slated to break gro...
RiverRock Founder Hopes to Create Ripples in Real Estate
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer John Combs, a leading figure in the property management industry in California and natio...
DAILY DEALS -- Transactions from San Bernardino County
By Jack Briggs
CHINO - HB Chino Roswell LLC, a partnership between Hanover Financial Co. and BR Birtcher Investments Inc. purchased the 214,...
Financing Good Times to End?
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor If you blinked, you might have missed the fact that the cost of borrowing cash rose ...
Green Strategies Curtail Natural-Resource Depletion
By Columnist
BY LAURIE C. FISHER Ten years ago, the concept of "going green" was considered idealistic, even hip. Times have changed. With...
Paralyzed Exercise Rider Sues Golden Gate Fields
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder With the movie "Seabiscuit" depicting the gritty work at the racetrack, attorney Kevin Lancaster hopes ju...
Anti-Sprawl Movement Loses Spark in Legislature
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Looking out at the expanses of barren land alongside U.S. 50 between El Dorado Hills and Sacr...
With Deep Regret, the 9th Circuit Upholds Deportation
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A 24-year-old Guatemalan man who has lived in the United States all his life will lose the only country he's ...
Passing Litmus
By Columnist
Forum Column By Watson Branch The role of ideology in the selection and appointment of federal judges has gained widespread a...
'Mean Justice' Agenda Leads To Ethical, Fiscal Dead End
"Mean Justice" is the title of a book by Edward Humes about prosecutorial misconduct in Bakersfield. But it also is an apt des...
Status of Unfair-Competition Law Class Actions Is Unclear
By Columnist
Focus Column Litigation By Craig A. Pinedo In the companion cases of Kraus v. Trinity Management Services Inc. , 23 Cal.4th 1...
ABA Probably Will Protest Tribunal Rules for Civilian Lawyers
By Don De Benedictis
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association this week probably will come out against Pentagon restrictions on civilian defen...
Man Won't Challenge Citizen's Arrest Law
By Matthew Heller
VICTORVILLE - A high-desert man charged with kidnapping a school district official has accepted a plea agreement rather than ...
Broadcom, Intel, Settle Patent Tiff
By Eron Yehuda
Computer chip maker Broadcom has agreed to pay its rival Intel $60 million as part of a settlement of long-running patent dis...
Murder, He Wrote, But He Also Practices Law
By Erik Cummins
Reporter's Notebook By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutor Nicole Ward and criminal defense attorney Mike Daley were spar...