Pro Bono Attorneys Assist Beach Cities
By Stefanie Knapp
Amanda Wong walked into the Redondo Beach courthouse as a volunteer attorney in August 2001 with five cases prepared and ready...
Retired Judge and Family Law Specialist Joins ADR Provider
By Claude Walbert
Retired Superior Court Judge Thomas Ashworth III has joined alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS, where he will speci...
Kohl's Looks Northward
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer One of the nation's fastest growing retailers isn't letting the somewhat gloomy retai...
Retired Judge Joins JAMS, Will Handle Arbitrations, Mediations
By Stefanie Knapp
Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge David Brickner has joined JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider....
Former Bases Being Reinvented
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Ask developers what it takes to overhaul a former military base and transform it into an ind...
Bay Area Economic Prognosis: More of the Same
By Wire
SAN FRANCISCO - Regional economic conditions remained slightly sour, according to a majority of 437 Bay Area chief executive ...
Civil Litigator Will Stop Private Practice for Full-Time Neutrality
By Stefanie Knapp
After more than 20 years of private practice and eight years as Santa Barbara County's district attorney, Stanley M. Roden jo...
Restaurant Not Liable for Hot Oil Flung by Cook at Cop
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco police officer has lost a $1.1 million jury award because an appellate court was not convinced...
Morgan Lewis Could Face Suit From Former Brobeck Staffers
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and their newly hired attorney appear to be ma...
PG&E Recovery Plan Could Derail Trial
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. dropped a legal bombshell in bankruptcy court last week with the disclosure that ...
Brobeck Staff's Benefits Seem Within Grasp
By Tina Spee
SAN FRANCISCO - Former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and their newly hired attorney appear to be m...
PG&E Recovery Plan Could Derail Trial
By Tina Spee
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. dropped a legal bombshell in bankruptcy court last week with the disclosure that...
L.A. County Increases Security at MacLaren
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials late last week bolstered security at the soon-to-be-closed MacLaren Children's Cen...
High-Adrenaline Hobbies Keep Judge Going
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Compton Judge Jerry E. Johnson's life story reads more like that of a rowdy outdoorsman than a solemn ...
Shasta County DA In Line for U.S. Attorney Nomination
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - President Bush has announced his intention to nominate Shasta County District Attorney McGregor Scott to be U.S....
Disputes On The Record
By Linda Rapattoni
Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - For decades, California court reporters have vigilantly guarded their intimate rela...
Publishers Settle Suit by Ex-Little Leaguers
By Matthew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - The publishers of Sports Illustrated have settled a lawsuit that claimed the magazine violated the privacy o...
No Need to Eliminate Loophole
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael T. Shannon - "Danielle's Law," which would expand the definition of kidnapping to include moving the...
Fingerprint Evidence Is Routine, But Not Infallible
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Fingerprint evidence is back in the news. Prosecutors and politicians ar...
Keeping an Eye on America
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Shortly before President Bush signed legislation creating a new Department of Homeland Sec...
Justices Broaden Recourse For Adults Abused by Clergy
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - In a decision that broadens legal recourse for victims of sexual abuse by priests, an appellate court for the f...
Halloween Shooting Verdict
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica jury Thursday refused to award any money to two men who were in the room when Halloween partygoer...
Attorney Aided Thomas Aquinas College
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A memorial Mass for Los Angeles attorney Richard L. Noble will take place Saturday at Thomas Aquinas College in...
Circuit Tells Fired Master to Wait
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto lawyer Bruce Train, ousted by a federal judge from his lucrative job as special master over an inso...
Ricochet Effect
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The dining hall at Pleasant Valley State Prison is a bad place for a fight. The Coalinga medium-security lock...
Tight Budget Leads Herrera To Say Layoffs Are Possible
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - In budget proposals being submitted today, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is raising the possibility of layoffs,...
Legal Aid Launches Internet Tax Service
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES -Legal Aid Society of Orange County launched a free service earlier this week to allow low-income families nation...
Panel Allows Tenant's Suit Against Landlord
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that West Los Angeles landlords can be held liable for a violent attack on one ...
Streamlines Process for Suits Could Turn Into New Model
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - Efforts to streamline priest molestation litigation in Los Angeles Superior Court could serve as a model for res...
Family Court Psychologist Loses Appeal
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - A family court psychologist who filed a lawsuit claiming she was defamed by a group of unhappy litigants was dealt...