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Stanford Reverses Offer to Radical Lawyer

Nov. 13, 2002
By John Roemer

SAN FRANCISCO - Lynne F. Stewart, the New York radical lawyer, arrived in Palo Alto on Friday expecting to be honored as a men...


LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of troubled children, many of them suicidal, are in Los Angeles' County's foster-care system, according...



Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In Montenegro v. Diaz , 26 Cal.4t...


SAN FRANCISCO - California's public employee pension fund has become the latest plaintiff seeking to hold Wall Street account...



Pleading for Time

Nov. 13, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Lee A. Wood - When did the rights of litigants become less important than courtroom calendars and the court'...


Forum Column - By James Acret - On the last day of its 2002 session, the Legislature passed SB800 at the urging of a coalition...



Strike Looms At Courts in Santa Clara

Nov. 13, 2002
By Craig Anderson

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court employees have set a strike date of Monday after their union broke off mediated ...


Hospital Upgrades Condition of Judge

Nov. 13, 2002
By Gale Holland

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David W. Perkins' condition was upgraded from fair to good Monday, follo...



Energy Firm Settles Price Suits

Nov. 13, 2002
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - State officials announced an agreement Monday to drop two lawsuits against Williams Energy for alleged price gou...


Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Rose gives some guidance on what ...



Where Green is Job 1

Nov. 12, 2002
By Columnist

BY STEVEN KENDRICK When the Ford Motor Co. announced that it was building a new North American headquarters for its Premier Au...


Good Access is Good Business

Nov. 12, 2002
By Columnist

BY W. STEPHEN MCCARTHY AND BOB EVANS Accessibility issues often evoke anxiety and confusion among members of the building indu...



Two civil litigators, John A. Kronstadt and Rafael Ongkeko, were appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench by Gov. Gra...


IP Division Attracts Specialist to Foley

Nov. 12, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

Intellectual property specialist William J. Robinson has left Chicago-based Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw to head the West Coas...



Court Staffers Become 'Secret Shoppers'

Nov. 12, 2002
By Karen Coleman

Alameda County Superior Court staffers got to check one another's work during an October celebration of National Customer Serv...


The RAND Institute for Civil Justice promoted Robert Reville to director of the institute Oct. 22. The institute is an indepe...



The Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County honored U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. with its annual Be...


BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires The tech wreck is crunching the price of office buildings. In suburban Denver's high-tech...



ELECTON RESULTS 2002

Nov. 12, 2002
By Michael Gottliebn

The commercial real estate industry saw big wins on election day, including billions of dollars in funds for new school and a...


Many litigators have hired doctors to testify in medical malpractice, product liability, workers' compensation and other lawsu...



CREJ WIRE REPORT Properties underlying commercial mortgage-backed securities continue to diverge, according to Moody's Invest...


Getting Industrious in L.A.

Nov. 12, 2002
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Moving forward with a 100 percent speculative construction project in today's soft ...



Closer Look

Nov. 12, 2002
By Contributing Writer

In Closing Column - By Stephen Greene and Joshua Henderson - California recognizes an exception to the rule of employment at w...


Growth Season

Nov. 12, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

The eighth floor of the Figueroa Plaza in downtown Los Angeles still has the fresh-paint and new-carpet smell to it. Cardboard...



The consulting branch of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips - Manatt Jones Global Strategies - appointed former Costa Rica Presiden...


A Bid for Biotech

Nov. 12, 2002
By Contributing Writer

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Unilab Corp., a growing player in one of the prevailing economy's rare growth sectors - bi...



With the 2002 World Series over and Angel fever still running rampant throughout Southern California, it's time for some North...


The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, honored Frederick Schenk with the David K. Kroll Leadershi...



Collecting the Spirit of Giving in a Box

Nov. 12, 2002
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The most meaningful holiday decoration in your building's lobby won't be a Christma...


Hitting the Center of Southern California

Nov. 12, 2002
By Riley Guerin

By JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Move over, Ontario. In what it called the largest industrial lease in either Orange or L...