Taxi Cab Conversions
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Every commercial business needs adequate parking, but arguably no business needs bet...
Brokers Prove Their Value
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer When the Internet gave potential tenants the ability to access property information databas...
Dummy Run
By Contributing Writer
The United States Senate recently released transcripts of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by notorious Sen. Josep...
President Bush arguably made the correct decision to invade Iraq. Nevertheless, his leadership in foreign affairs does not mer...
Improper Fidelities
Forum Column - By Joel A. Davis - A funny thing happened on the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Medical Board...
State Fraud, False-Advertising Laws May Violate Constitution
By Columnist
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Thomas H. Clarke Jr. - On May 5, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Illinois v. Tele...
Circuit Bars Last-Minute Party Switch
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A California elections statute that forbids candidates from switching political parties one year before prima...
'Wattstax' Has Tangled Legal Past
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Over the weekend, the concert film "Wattstax" was rereleased, for the first time ever with its original "lost" e...
Guilty Plea In Varian Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Colorado engineer accused of making online criminal threats against two former Varian Associates research scient...
Confessor May Go Free
By Jim Adamekn
SAN BERNARDINO - A 26-year-old Rialto man who confessed to killing his girlfriend a decade ago could be released from custody ...
17200 Reform Bills Jump Through First of Many Hoops
By Linda Rapattoni
Reporter's Notebook - Linda Rapattoni - Trial lawyers originally hoped they could head off tort reformers' efforts to signific...
Privileged Information Not Available to DA
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant's waiver of the attorney-client privilege as part of a habeas claim that his trial lawyer was ine...
Riverside Prosecutor Survives Reality TV
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Deena Bennett still finds it baffling when strangers ask for her autograph. Whether it's in the grocery store or i...
The Commish
By Jeffrey Anderson
WASHINGTON - The night breeze is blowing warm in my hometown of Washington, D.C., where I've traveled to learn more about the ...
Fed Up With the Natural Resources Defense Council's Protests Over Irrigation Contracts, a Farm Group Sues
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - An environmental group that objected to the government about the terms of new federal irrigation contracts tw...
Focusing on True Interests of Parties Can Aid in Settlement
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Peter J. Marx - When mediation reaches, or threatens to reach, an impasse, ...
Good Mentoring Shapes Good Future Attorneys
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - School is out and summer programs have begun at law firms throughout the country. Al...
Forward to the Past
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The 1985 movie "Back to the Future" featured a crazy scientist who invented a time machi...
Bill to Amend 3-Strikes Fails In Assembly
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A proposal to eliminate life sentences under California's three-strikes law for all but the worst offenders has ...
Bar Files to Oust Trevor Attorneys
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Wednesday filed papers seeking the disbarment of three Beverly Hills attorneys suspended in May...
Buffeted by Priest Scandal, Archdiocese Counsel Resigns
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The general counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles resigned her post Thursday following the bi...
Judge Says Officials' Phone Calls Aren't Private
By Matthew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - Anything public officials say on the phone in their official capacity is a matter of public interest - at lea...
State Bar Says Tax Crusader and Gadfly Repeatedly Lied
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A Beverly Hills attorney who has filed a string of taxpayer actions against government agencies is now facing...
Construction Defect?
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown had it right. On the day in January 2002 when Dennis Herrera was sworn into office as city...
Speedy Justice Unites Bars Opposed to Hectic Pace
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Trial lawyers, complaining they can't get continuances unless they are "dead or dying," are on the verge of w...
Jurist Juggles Home, Trekking
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers say Jennifer T. Lum is dedicated. The day after delivering closing arguments in a multimillion- dollar b...
Justices Set Date for Hearing in Campaign-Reform Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear four hours of arguments in the battle over the McCain-Fein...
New Delay in Courthouse Funds
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The judiciary's long-running attempt to find funding to repair and replace crumbling, over-crowded courthouses a...
Jury Awards $2.6 Million in Disability Firing
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In an unusually large verdict, a jury has awarded a former employee of the state Department of Corrections ...
Parole Denial Overturned
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ordered a second-degree murder convict freed, saying the governor's decision to deny t...