State Bar Question Four
By Contributing Writer
Question Four - Professional Responsibility - In 1995, Lawyer was hired by the City ("City") as a Deputy City Attorney to hand...
State Bar Question One
By Contributing Writer
Question One - Civil Procedure - Petra, a State W resident, recently patented a new design for a tamper-free bottle cap for so...
State Bar Performance Test A
By Contributing Writer
Performance Test A - Memorandum To: Applicant - From: Jane Kimmel - Re: Morales and Vargas v. Parsons ...
State Bar Performance Test B
By Contributing Writer
Performance Test B - Memorandum To: Applicant - From: Rachel Bergman - Re: Reese v. Kennel Kare, Inc. ...
State Bar Question Six
By Contributing Writer
Question Six - Community Property - Henry and Wanda married in 1980 when both were students at State X University. State X is ...
New Lawyers Can Benefit From 16-Step Marketing Plan
By Contributing Writer
Column by Trey Ryder - As a new lawyer, you need a simple, straightforward approach to marketing. Here are 16 steps to help yo...
Nonbiological Dad Must Pay Support for Child He Raised
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Will an admission of nonpaternity overco...
Lay It to Rest
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Stung by mounting evidence that the state's death-penalty system is fatally flawed, prose...
Justices Approve Immigration Hearing Policy
By Staff Writer
Ferreting Out Law Positions Is Challenging
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Keep moving while you wait for the results of the February State Bar Exam, career-services coordinators advise. ...
The Jockeying Starts as DA Campaign Gets Under Way
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Mud and rumor have begun to fly in the early days of the San Francisco district attorney race. Candidate Kama...
Court Will Hear Case on Asthmatic's Death
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review next term a San Francisco judge's award of $1.4 million to the fami...
DA Fires Media-Relations Director
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas fired his media relations director Tuesday after she objected to w...
Attorney Faces Weapons Charges After Shootout
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Attorney Hilmer Ula Jarboe often found himself standing in front of judges arguing cases for clients. But after a ...
Elephant-Relocation Fight Returns to State Court
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday sent the legal dispute over transferring an elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo to Tenness...
Exam Yields Slightly Higher Pass Rate
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - California moved a step closer toward admitting a new crop of lawyers this weekend, as 1,564 aspiring attorneys ...
Court Financial Data Can Go Public
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The publisher of a small newspaper in Glenn County will gain access to court financial records after the 3rd ...
Test Takers Soon Will Have Opportunity to Use Laptops
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Beginning this summer, all people who take the State Bar Exam will have the option of using a laptop computer fo...
Mother Gets Damages In Teen Son's Suicide
By Matthew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - Allison Carr couldn't prevent her 13-year-old son from committing suicide after he ran away from a private sc...
Newhall Ranch Development
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The controversial Newhall Ranch project, one of the largest subdivisions ever proposed in California, moved one ...
Court Says Defense Can Have Narcotics Dog's Training Logs
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Training logs on drug-sniffing dogs, including previous false alerts, must be turned over to defense lawyers, a ...
State Workers Can Sue If Denied Family Leave
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - In a departure from its recent expansion of state sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday held that state...
Justices Weigh Peremptories
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into a controversy surrounding a prosecutor's voir-dire dismiss...
PUC Approval Of Bailout for Edison Leaves Court Skeptical
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California Supreme Court justices expressed concern Tuesday over the legality of the state's closed-door appr...
Justices' Ruling Blocks Suit in 'Miranda' Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Acting in a case involving an Oxnard farmworker, the Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply narrowed the grounds on whi...
It's Been Mercifully Quiet in Sonora Since Nesler's Trial
By Donna Domino
SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...
Heller Ehrman Establishes San Diego Insolvency Group
By Liz Valsamis
Lsan Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has launched an insolvency and bankruptcy practice in its San Diego offic...
4th District Court Voids Ruling Over Water Pollution
By Stefanie Knapp
The end of April brought a summary judgment ruling in the Redlands water contamination saga, but it likely won't be the end of...
Equity Financing Closes on North Beach Multifamily Housing
By Toni Vranjes
BY TONI VRANJES Special to CREJ SAN FRANCISCO - A new housing development in San Francisco is one step closer to becoming real...
$148 Million Mall Sale Is Largest TIC
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEb CREJ Assignment Editor Commercial real estate industry observers say a fundamental shift in the way real e...