Pasadena-Based Brown & Kellner Opens Second Shop in Las Vegas
By Staff Writer
Pasadena's Brown & Kellner has opened a second office in Las Vegas. The three-attorney firm intends to use the office as ...
Officials Turn to Nonprofit Experts To Organize BART Ribbon-Cutting
By Staff Writer
After 11 years, the expansion of the BART system to the San Francisco airport is finally complete. With so many bumps along t...
You Got To Know When to Hold 'Em
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The decision to hold onto its recently acquired class A office building in San Diego for...
No-Growth Bind
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL M. BERGER Years ago, people labeled them "NIMBYs" - those who opposed local development projects by saying "not in ...
THE MARKETS -- Los Angeles Industrial
By Michael Gottliebn
How's business? "We are one of the healthiest markets in the United States. That has to do with the ports without a question....
Speaking Two Languages Boosts Résumé
By Erik Cummins
It's rare, if not unprecedented, for a corporate associate to get involved in one-on-one dealmaking in the first year or two o...
Pan Pacific Plans to Buy Center Trust
By Toni Vranjes
Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, plans to increase its presence in California by acquiring ...
Voters Support Port Development
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer West Sacramento saw history repeating itself with the Nov. 5 defeat of Measure L, whi...
Startup Firms Struggle to Find Investors
By Toni Vranjes
Entrepreneurs want it. But they're having a hard time getting it. With lingering concerns about the economy, young companies a...
Treatment Regimen Keeps Parolee Off Streets
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles parolee Charlie Jones and other repeat criminal offenders with mental illness and a history of ...
Underdog A-Team Hits Wall at Mock Trial
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - John Marshall High School's run for top honors in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 25th annual Mock Trial ...
Westerfield May Face Civil Suit
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Convicted child murderer David A. Westerfield's woes likely will include a civil lawsuit as he whiles away years i...
Regents Win $11 Million Water-Leak Settlement
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - The regents of the University of California have recovered $11 million from contractors and an insurance company...
Pair of High-Court Justices Hold Key Votes in Three-Strikes Issue
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Criminal Law - As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the fate of California's three-strikes law, the key votes li...
Alien Deserves New Hearing, Court Rules
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A Guatemalan native who withdrew his asylum application after an immigration judge advised him privately that he...
Saga of Angela Alioto and Waukeen McCoy Is Almost Over
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Waukeen McCoy looked forward to a long and prosperous relationship with Angela Alioto, his lawyer co...
Freed by DNA, He's Still Inside
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Albert Kent Johnson can't win for losing. First, he was convicted in 1992 of a rape he didn't commit - all bec...
Panel Dumps Clerk's Convictions for Fraud
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County law clerk who was told by the U.S. Supreme Court that he couldn't be his own appellate lawyer h...
Colorado Casino Owner Files Chapter 11
By Toni Vranjes
After failing to meet projected revenues and profits, the owner of Colorado's largest casino has filed for Chapter 11 bankrupt...
Disclosure Rules Will Force Arbitration Group to Pull Out
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Acret - Unfortunately, reform in California consists of "tough new disclosure requirements" that will ...
Banner of Hope
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Brian D. Lerner - On September 19, 2002, the Board of Immigration Appeals gave new hope to aliens in removal...
Slow Leaks
By Dennis Pfaff
LOS ANGELES - At thousands of locations in California, poisons that may have leaked years ago from underground gasoline storag...
State Sues Phony Telemarketer Cop
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A group that falsely claims to be connected with the state attorney general's office has been selling Southern C...
Prop. 65 'Bounty Hunters' May Target Apartment Owners, Managers Next
By Columnist
BY JONATHAN COHEN Another Proposition 65 article? Isn't that old news? Why should anyone be concerned? How about $2,500 per da...
Alien Deserves New Hearing, Court Rules
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - A Guatemalan native who withdrew his asylum application after an immigration judge advised him privately that he...
Disclosure Rules Will Force Arbitration Group to Pull Out
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Acret - Unfortunately, reform in California consists of "tough new disclosure requirements" that will ...
Theft of Secret Is Punishable Just Once, Justices Rule
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The California Supreme Court ruled narrowly Thursday that trade secrets theft can be treated only as a single clai...
Medipot Haze
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The hypocrisy of conservatives when it comes to federalism is well illustrated by the Ju...
Court and Fiction Do Not Mix
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Thomas Brennan - In her summation in the Winona Ryder case, Beverly Hills Assistant District Attorney Ann Ru...
State, Not Federal, Law Governs Security Interests in Copyrights
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Those who provide or obtain financing based at least in part on the borr...