Pacific Bell Owes $4.6 Million to Calling-Card Firm
By Stefanie Knapp
A Los Angeles jury awarded a telephone calling-card provider $4.6 million last month in its dispute with Pacific Bell Telephon...
Mixed Use Goes to College
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Following a recent wave of university-related development, San Diego State University is...
Litigation Warhorses Fight the Good Fight
By Eron Yehuda
In the 1986 film "Tough Guys," Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas play train robbers who finally are set free after 30 years in t...
Time Has Come to Wean Angelenos From Freeways
By Columnist
Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Every day of the week, morning or afternoon, truck traffic on the Long Beach Freeway, In...
Lead Balloon
It has been said that the only things certain are death and taxes. As is evident from my last several columns, I must add "err...
Tenant May File Bankruptcy to Limit Its Damages for Termination of Lease
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Stephen C. Seto - In these times of downsizing and declining rents, many financially healthy...
Federal and State Discrimination Laws Are Diverging
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Karl Gerber - Not long ago, an employment attorney with a California Fair Employment and Ho...
Federal Judges Seek Earnings 'Catch-Up'
By Pamela Mac Lean
POIPU, Hawaii - It's tough to have sympathy for federal judges seeking a 16.5 percent hike in their $150,000 a year salaries ...
Press Interview Prompts Recusal in Murder Trial
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - Saying he erred by making comments to the media, a judge has recused himself from the murder trial of a woman accu...
Ruling Nulls Charges Against Former Priest
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest whose female cousin recently testified that he molested her more than 40 years ag...
Confidentiality
By Contributing Writer
In Closing Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - One of the oldest tenets of mediation is the confiden...
Officer Convicted
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury late Thursday found a 20-year veteran investigator with the Riverside district attorney's of...
Hope, Faith and Love
By Stefanie Knapp
Despite laws that limit marriage to heterosexuals in 37 states and a proposed federal amendment that would do the same nationw...
High Court Makes 2002-03 Session One to Remember
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Time passes quickly when you're having fun, and the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed 2002-03 term really z...
Ex-Employee At Livermore Can Sue Lab
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has given the green light to a lawsuit alleging that a former employee at the Lawrence Liverm...
Reporter's Notebook: Latest Plan Against File-Sharing Isn't Much of One
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The recording industry's recent announcement that it would start suing individuals who trade songs online prov...
High Hopes
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to permit the use of marijuana as a medical necessity, attorneys for...
Fireworks Law Ignites Practice
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel Kelly fondly remembers a trip his family made through Tennessee many years ago. Kelly's dad stopped at...
Participating in Dependency Decisions Empowers Youths
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Dara K. Reiner and Jennifer Rodriguez - Every day, decisions are made in California's ...
It's Not Just Fish
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Joseph F. C. DiMento - The publication last month of a major study reporting the collapse of the great preda...
Rejection of Visa Puzzles Cuban Piano Tuner
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Three years ago, Cuban piano tuner Armando Gomez couldn't get a visa to attend the annual international piano t...
Bifurcation of Punitives Is Not Necessarily Best for Defendant
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By John B. Quinn and William C. Price - On the morning of your final status conference, your clien...
Criminal Backlog May Force Halt to Civil Trials
By Jim Adamekn
RIVERSIDE - In a controversial move, Riverside County's Superior Court may halt civil trials for a month this summer so that j...
DA, Judge Compromise on Overtime Pay Issue
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert A. Dukes and District Attorney Steve Cooley have reached a com...
Bill Would Ease Privilege Rule
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Several bills affecting the legal profession passed legislative committees this week, including one by Assemblyma...
Be Prepared, San Jose Lawyers Warn
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gregory Ward has an impressive legal background, with stints prosecuting or...
Quiet Leader, Judge Offered Good Advice
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Retired San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Charles S. Havens died Monday of long-term effects of a ch...
Abuse Ruling Spares Judge, Priest
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Child molestation charges were dismissed Wednesday against former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. K...
Malicious-Prosecution Suits Get Green Light
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys can be sued for malicious prosecution if they learn their lawsuits have no merit after they are filed,...
Rejection of Cuban's Visa Hits the Wrong Chord
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Three years ago, Cuban piano tuner Armando Gomez couldn't get a visa to attend the annual international piano tu...