Founding Partner Leaves Firm To Litigate for Gordon & Rees
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Edward Chapin, a prominent San Diego trial attorney, has left the firm he founded to join Gordon & Rees. Cha...
State Should Start Licensing, Regulating Parent Educators
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It has been said many times that we would have fewer problems in our society if parents ha...
Overhauling Subsidized Plans on Home Front
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Susanne Browne and Catherine Bishop - While the rebuilding of Baghdad, Iraq, plays out on international medi...
Human-Resources Outsourcing Can Be Profitable But Also Risky
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By William Peters - A quick survey of recent human-resources outsourcing transactions reveals th...
Ex-Priest Posts Bond In Child-Abuse Case
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Former priest Denis Lyons will be arraigned May 27 at Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach, a development prompt...
Meth Case Prosecutor Wins Delay
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In an extreme maneuver designed to buy more time to prepare for trial, prosecutors Monday forced a judge to dismis...
Disbarred Lawyer Gets Hearing Date
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A disbarred lawyer who is accused of grand theft and fraud will go before a judge May 19 to see whether he must st...
Court Will Consider Waivers for Bankruptcy-Objections Deadline
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In a case stemming from a bitter dispute between two plastic surgeons, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to cons...
Court Frowns on Treating-Physician Rule
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Weighing a case brought by a Los Angeles man with a bad back, the Supreme Court strongly indicated Monday that it...
Family Sues Car-Seat Maker for Boy's Injuries
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The family of a boy severely injured in a traffic accident last year is suing the maker of the car seat in which h...
Student Admits Leaking Trade Secrets
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Hoping to avoid a stiffer penalty, a University of Chicago sophomore from Los Angeles pleaded guilty Monday to l...
Lawsuits Have Power Punch in Staples Summer Solstice Slugfest
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - During a press conference last week, I made bets with myself about when, not if, New Jersey boxing pr...
Voice in the California Wilderness Is Heard in Washington
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - It's said April is the cruelest month. But for California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, a frequen...
City Is Not Liable for Cell Beating, Justices Say
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A city that was not equipped to offer protective custody to a public drunk cannot be sued for his injuries af...
Judge Calls AAA Clause 'Unconscionable'
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Arbitration Association, one of the country's largest arbitration providers, has suffered an emb...
Priest Sexual-Abuse Judge Is Disqualified
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has been removed from Southern California's clergy sexual-abuse litigation af...
Surgeon's Award Cut to $6 Million
By Tina Spee
Disability insurer UnumProvident Corp. won't have to pay $31.7 million to a Navato eye surgeon after all. A Marin County Super...
Crossing Over to Smart Growth
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ A new city center being built in San Bruno called, The Crossing, demonstrates smart growth...
Brobeck Partner Joins Cox Castle
By Erik Cummins
Margo Bradish left Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison Dec. 31, 1 1/2 months before the firm collapsed. Despite the timing of the ...
Court Decision Expands Broker Liability
By Columnist
BY BRIAN R. DAVIS Despite a number of efforts and arguments to extend residential disclosure duties to commercial property tra...
Scientific Evidence Must Pass Three-Pronged Test
By Catherine Cavella
Column - Trial Practice - By David G. Epstein - Motions in limine and Evidence Code Section 402 hearings on scientific evidenc...
West L.A.'s Last Large Open Parcel to House $400M Medical Park
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor It didn't take long for Michael R. Lombardi, president of Stonebridge Holdings Inc....
UnionBanCal Buys Monterey Bancorp
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes San Francisco's UnionBanCal Corp. has agreed to buy Monterey Bay Bancorp Inc. for $96.5 million in cash and st...
'Team Player' Takes on New Meaning
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The commercial real estate brokerage game is fast becoming a team sport, with many deals...
Bankrupt Firms' Executive Payouts Come Under Fire
By Toni Vranjes
The recent deluge of corporate-reform proposals continues, with one of the latest taking aim at the big payouts received by ex...
Ten California Law Schools Crack U.S. News' Top 100
By Tina Spee
California law schools took 10 of the top 100 spots on U.S.News & World Report's annual ranking of the country's best law ...
Brobeck Departure Leaves Vacant Space Across State
By Erik Cummins
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Despite the recent absorption of 120,000 square feet of former Brobeck Phleger & Harris...
Corporate Partner Joins Gilchrist
By Liz Valsamis
After looking for a practice better-suited to his own needs, Frank Schwertfeger has left Greenberg Traurig to join Santa Monic...
Shaky Economy Slows Firm Merger Rate
By Liz Valsamis
Making a marriage work between two law firms is hard enough, but it seems these days that just getting to the wedding is provi...
Applicants Need Not Be Blond
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer If you're thinking of leasing one of the luxe pads at Sterling Malibu Beach but fear reje...