Attorney Faces Weapons Charges After Shootout
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Attorney Hilmer Ula Jarboe often found himself standing in front of judges arguing cases for clients. But after a ...
Elephant-Relocation Fight Returns to State Court
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday sent the legal dispute over transferring an elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo to Tenness...
Exam Yields Slightly Higher Pass Rate
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - California moved a step closer toward admitting a new crop of lawyers this weekend, as 1,564 aspiring attorneys ...
Court Financial Data Can Go Public
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The publisher of a small newspaper in Glenn County will gain access to court financial records after the 3rd ...
Test Takers Soon Will Have Opportunity to Use Laptops
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Beginning this summer, all people who take the State Bar Exam will have the option of using a laptop computer fo...
Mother Gets Damages In Teen Son's Suicide
By Matthew Heller
SAN BERNARDINO - Allison Carr couldn't prevent her 13-year-old son from committing suicide after he ran away from a private sc...
Newhall Ranch Development
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The controversial Newhall Ranch project, one of the largest subdivisions ever proposed in California, moved one ...
Court Says Defense Can Have Narcotics Dog's Training Logs
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Training logs on drug-sniffing dogs, including previous false alerts, must be turned over to defense lawyers, a ...
State Workers Can Sue If Denied Family Leave
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - In a departure from its recent expansion of state sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday held that state...
Justices Weigh Peremptories
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into a controversy surrounding a prosecutor's voir-dire dismiss...
PUC Approval Of Bailout for Edison Leaves Court Skeptical
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - California Supreme Court justices expressed concern Tuesday over the legality of the state's closed-door appr...
Justices' Ruling Blocks Suit in 'Miranda' Case
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Acting in a case involving an Oxnard farmworker, the Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply narrowed the grounds on whi...
It's Been Mercifully Quiet in Sonora Since Nesler's Trial
By Donna Domino
SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...
Heller Ehrman Establishes San Diego Insolvency Group
By Liz Valsamis
Lsan Francisco's Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe has launched an insolvency and bankruptcy practice in its San Diego offic...
4th District Court Voids Ruling Over Water Pollution
By Stefanie Knapp
The end of April brought a summary judgment ruling in the Redlands water contamination saga, but it likely won't be the end of...
Equity Financing Closes on North Beach Multifamily Housing
By Toni Vranjes
BY TONI VRANJES Special to CREJ SAN FRANCISCO - A new housing development in San Francisco is one step closer to becoming real...
$148 Million Mall Sale Is Largest TIC
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEb CREJ Assignment Editor Commercial real estate industry observers say a fundamental shift in the way real e...
Star Litigator
By Erik Cummins
Rachel Krevans was afraid the law school she applied to in 1983 would ask her why she wanted to be a lawyer. "I had no idea," ...
First-Quarter Building Rises 10.5% in State
By Wire
BURBANK - With first-quarter figures in for 2003, statewide construction volume totaled $15.68 billion, up 10.5 percent from t...
Legislators Take Sledgehammer to Minor Problem
By Columnist
BY JOEL B. MILLER Recently, Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, proposed legislation that would prohibit devel...
Has the Market Gone Stupid?
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The large amount of capital pursuing investment deals in strong markets such as Sout...
Group Sues to Stop Use of Kangaroo Skin
By Eron Yehuda
An animal-rights group dedicated to protecting kangaroos is hopping mad with Adidas for its use of the marsupial's skin to mak...
D. Eagleson, High Court Justice, 77
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired California Associate Justice David Eagleson, who helped usher in a new era of conservatism on the Supr...
Nationwide Correspondent Network Targets State's Multifamily Market
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ San Diego's Cornerstone Realty Finance is the latest correspondent lender to join a growing...
ABA Panel Rethinks Confidentiality Rules
By Toni Vranjes
Lawyers view themselves as trusted counselors to their clients, with the communication between them protected by the sacred at...
School District, Church Battle Over Land
By Stefanie Knapp
A Los Angeles judge soon will decide the fate of a parcel of land in Koreatown that is owned by a church but has been taken ov...
Orrick Herrington's Loss Is Morrison & Foerster's Gain
By Erik Cummins
It isn't often a job like this comes around. Morrison & Foerster had lost its key ERISA partner, Irvine's Ellen Marshall, ...
Hotel Taxes
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer It's no secret that hotels are offering all sorts of amenities these days, from special e...
Tomlinson Zisko's IP Group Appeals to Special Counsel
By Joel Rosenblatt
Tomlinson Zisko added Heather Meeker, 43, as special counsel to the firm's intellectual property protection and licensing grou...
The Other Side
By Erik Cummins
Conjure an image of Oakland, and you're bound to think of an industrial port, a high crime rate, maybe even raucous Raiders fa...