Stanford Reverses Offer to Radical Lawyer
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...
Maze of Mental-Health Services Failed Misty, All Agree
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of troubled children, many of them suicidal, are in Los Angeles' County's foster-care system, according...
Move-Away Case Stipulations May Not Be Final Judgments
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In Montenegro v. Diaz , 26 Cal.4t...
CalPERS Sues Investment Banks for Sale Of Enron Stock
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - California's public employee pension fund has become the latest plaintiff seeking to hold Wall Street account...
Pleading for Time
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lee A. Wood - When did the rights of litigants become less important than courtroom calendars and the court'...
Recent Construction-Defect Law Aids Building Industry
By Columnist
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
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
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
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - State officials announced an agreement Monday to drop two lawsuits against Williams Energy for alleged price gou...
Move-Away Case Stipulations May Not Be Final Judgments
By Columnist
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
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
By Columnist
BY W. STEPHEN MCCARTHY AND BOB EVANS Accessibility issues often evoke anxiety and confusion among members of the building indu...
Davis Puts Pair of Civil Litigators On Los Angeles Trial Court Bench
By Leslie Simmons
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
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'
By Karen Coleman
Alameda County Superior Court staffers got to check one another's work during an October celebration of National Customer Serv...
RAND Institute for Civil Justice Elevates Executive to Director
By Staff Writer
The RAND Institute for Civil Justice promoted Robert Reville to director of the institute Oct. 22. The institute is an indepe...
Bar Group Honors Federal Jurist With Judge of the Year Award
By Staff Writer
The Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County honored U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. with its annual Be...
U.S. Office Buildings Selling at Bargain-Basement Prices
By Wire
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
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...
Legal Nurse Consulting Field Expands Rapidly Nationwide
By Christina Landers
Many litigators have hired doctors to testify in medical malpractice, product liability, workers' compensation and other lawsu...
Commercial Real Estate Tied to Consumers Fares Well
By Ron Mc Nees
CREJ WIRE REPORT Properties underlying commercial mortgage-backed securities continue to diverge, according to Moody's Invest...
Getting Industrious in L.A.
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Moving forward with a 100 percent speculative construction project in today's soft ...
Closer Look
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
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...
Manatt Jones Taps Ex-President of Costa Rica to Chair Advisory Group
By Staff Writer
The consulting branch of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips - Manatt Jones Global Strategies - appointed former Costa Rica Presiden...
A Bid for Biotech
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...
Losing GIants Fan Will Sing 'Back in the Saddle Again'
By Stefanie Knapp
With the 2002 World Series over and Angel fever still running rampant throughout Southern California, it's time for some North...
Name Partner at Casey Gerry Receives Kroll Leadership Award
By Staff Writer
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
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
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...