Doing Commerce in City of Commerce
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ An office complex in the City of Commerce, considered the top of the market in the heavily...
Nursing Home Tort Reform is Goal of Chains' Organization
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A group representing nursing home chains may embark on an $8 million, two-year effort to draft legislation and wi...
Kmart Has Green Light to Sell Its Service Provider
By Toni Vranjes
After wading through a host of legal challenges, bankrupt retailer Kmart Corp. has received approval to sell its Bluelight.com...
'Terminator' Will Join Mayor on Asia Mission
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
Actor and Republican activist Arnold Schwarzenegger will join Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn and other leaders on a business mis...
Prisoners and Politics
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Internal investigators for the state Department of Corrections spent years putting together criminal cases aga...
Record $12.5 Billion Debt Offering Closes
By Toni Vranjes
A $12.5 billion debt offering has closed, giving the state of California an infusion of money to pay its bills. The first phas...
Counsel Must Advise Potential Buyers About New CERCLA Liability Defenses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Catherine W. Johnson - New CERCLA amendments provide potential purchasers with two new d...
DAs' Relentless Pursuit Pays Off in 25-Year-Old SLA Case
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Eleanor Hunter and Michael Latin were 400 miles away when four former Symbionese Liberation Army soldiers pleade...
Students Rise to the Challenge
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Defense counsel Jane Renahan jumped out of her seat as the prosecutor asked its star witness, Cody Ward, to desc...
Judge Cuts DA's Felony to Misdemeanor
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Friday reduced the felony grand theft conviction of former Deputy District Attorney Pete...
Lawyer Plans to Challenge Judge in Second Death-Penalty Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A defense attorney in a capital murder case says he plans to challenge a trial judge's decision allowing the same ...
Contiguous Property Amendments Muddy the Waters
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The new "Brownfield" amendments don't clarify CERCLA. Instead, they ma...
Kids' Waiting Room Is Planned
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - The Women Lawyers of Alameda County has launched a fund-raising campaign to convert a snack vending area in the Hayw...
Judge, War Hero Credits Military for Turning His Life Around
By Anne La Jeunesse
FULLERTON - For a lot of people, a 1.5 high-school grade-point average and a youthful arrest for lobbing beer cans out of a ca...
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
By John Ryan
In 1995, rainmaker Debra Pole broke away from Ralph Campillo's Santa Monica boutique, taking the largest firm client with her ...
Appeal Court Narrows Definition of Kidnapping
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Victor Maurice Hoard, who is serving a three-strikes life sentence for robbing a jewelry store, can at least say...
Jury Deliberates in Sports Agent's Case
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Wrapping up five weeks of testimony, the lawyer for sports superagent Leigh Steinberg told a federal jury that ...
Rossum Case Jurors Continue Deliberating
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - After deliberating for three hours, the jury of seven men and five women considering the fate of Kristin M. Rossum...
Judging in Del Norte, a Company Town
By Joel Rosenblatt
CRESCENT CITY - In his leisure time, Superior Court Judge Robert Weir kayaks the Smith River in serene Del Norte County. In co...
Some Child-Support Laws Create Injustice for Fathers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Changes should be made to child-support laws to eliminate injustice to fathers. ...
Balancing Act
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Garry Mathiason and Traci Beach - Although SB1661 may give employees some security because it provides up to...
Judge's Compassion Got Him Into, Out of Scandal
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
REDLANDS - Craig Kamansky had an unsettling experience last year when he served as a juror deliberating on a civil case. "Some...
Murder Suspect Beats Bail Odds
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - While a jury deliberates whether to convict Kristin M. Rossum of murdering her husband, she's free to eat lunch wi...
Errant Check For Campaign Is Costly For Party Official
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In an opinion drenched with sarcasm, a federal appeals panel skewered Santa Ana attorney James Toledano on Thu...
Amway Distributors Have Hard Time Getting Losses Past IRS
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Jonathan R. Flora - Time and again, the IRS has used the "hobby loss" rule to disallow losses from...
Center Calls 'Man in the House' Visits Illegal
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles-based Western Center on Law and Poverty argued Thursday the so-called "man in the house" visits ...
Supreme Court Will Reconsider Its Stay Of Man's Execution
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today will reconsider at its weekly conference the last-minute stay of execution it granted lat...
A Partner's Work Is Hard, Diverse and Never Done
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - As an associate working long hours in the trenches, you might think that, once yo...
Two Virginia Counties Will Get First Crack at Trials for Snipers
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The two suspects collared in the serial sniper killings here will be tried first in two Virginia counties where t...
High Court Upholds S.F. Ban on Write-Ins in Runoffs
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld San Francisco's 1973 ban on write-in votes in loca...