Manatt Phelps Bolsters Health Care Group
By Liz Valsamis
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips continues to bulk up its health care expertise with the recent hire of litigation partner Gregor...
Former Unocal Counsel Joins Robins Kaplan
By Liz Valsamis
Following a few months serving as a consultant for Unocal Corp., a company where he was general counsel until Dec. 4, Dennis P...
Pillsbury Alums Return to the Fold
By Erik Cummins
Apparently you can take the lawyer out of Pillsbury but you can't take the Pillsbury out of the lawyer. Sixteen former Pillsbu...
Residential Hotels Must Be Improved, Not Eliminated
By Columnist
BY BARBARA SCHULTZ Skid Row has been discovered by loft dwellers, redevelopment boosters and, most recently, by the L.A. city...
Apartment Market Rebound Predicted
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT NEW YORK - This decade will see a gradual rebound in apartment occupancy and rents, with returns to investor...
A Matter of Opinion
By Columnist
BY ARTHUR J. LETTENMAIER Property owners and managers have become more mindful of exposure for claims under the Americans wit...
New Law Takes Gentler Path to Enforcing Housing Element
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor "We're back!" That's the promise, or threat, depending on your point of view, bein...
Intrepid Reporter Plans Law Adventure
By Stefanie Knapp
Papers about the Consumer Attorneys of California and the group's upcoming convention lay scattered all over my desk. I had to...
Prizes Galore Draw Players to the Greens
By John Ryan
From updates on insurance bad-faith law to tips on maximizing damages for plaintiffs, this year's convention for the Consumer ...
Jingle Speech Wins Lawyer Silver Tongue
By Stefanie Knapp
The Parisian theme for the 7th Annual Silver Tongue Competition to benefit San Diego's McAllister Institute was set many month...
Departure of Partner Can Have Many Tax Implications for Firm
By Columnist
Focus Column - Law Practice - By Ted Roth and Charles Rosenblatt - Over lunch, three lawyers agree to merge their practices an...
U.K. and California Strengthen Hand of Sales Reps
By Columnist
Forum Column - Business Law - By John W. Brooks and Mark Webber - Manufacturers of goods often engage independent sales agents...
Dangling Question
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Mara G. Daz - What would child protective services or the district attorney's office do if...
Bookie Bets Wrong, Loses Freedom
By Pam Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Ronald Sacco, who was sentenced to prison a decade ago as the biggest sports bookmaker in the United States, h...
Convict's Wife Can't Have Jackpot
By Katherine Gaidos
LOSE ANGELES -Some people might have used $1 million in California lottery winnings to buy a Ferrari or tour the world. But Ra...
Timing Issue Slows Predator Release
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - It turns out that Cary Verse wasn't eligible for release from a state mental hospital under California's Sexually V...
Trust-Fund Transfer Challenged
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy has no authority to order a $1 billion nuclear ...
Judge Hurls Trevor Group Suit, Fines Lawyers
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES -A judge Friday threw out a lawsuit brought by Trevor Law Group against thousands of Southland automotive-repair s...
Sex Assault on Child's Corpse Spurs Call for Necrophilia Law
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - What authorities say happened to a 4-year-old girl's body could have crept from the pages of a skin-crawling ...
Federal Courts Ask Congress For 10% More In '04 Budget
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Representatives of the federal judiciary have asked Congress for a 10.8 percent increase in the judiciary's bu...
Beyond the Courthouse
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - No courthouse is big enough to hold San Francisco lawyer Ray Bourhis' crusade against the insurance industry. ...
Judicial Model Puts Family First
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Howard H. Shore was somber as he read the documents that a conservator just delivered to his ...
DAILY DEALS -- Riverside County
By Jack Briggs
CORONA - Change and Seung Ryu purchased the 41,573-square-foot Sierra Del Oro Promenade retail center at 4300 Green River Roa...
DAILY DEALS -- San Diego County
By Jack Briggs
ESCONDIDO - Pacific Development Partners LLC purchased the 69,780-square-foot Escondido Town & Country retail center at 1...
Manager Affairs Didn't Create Hostile Work Environment
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - In Mackey v. Department of Corrections , 2...
Televising Balanced , Fair News
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Forum Column - By Harold C. Pachios - Behind the scenes of the military engagement in the Middle East, there is a media war go...
In or Out?
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Forum Column - By Shylie Thomas and Daniel D. Droog - On April 1, the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument about the constit...
Public Defender Gets Commissioner Position
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - In a move that further balances a bench long dominated by prosecutors, the Ventura County Superior Court has selecte...
Hyde Proceedings Over
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde should be removed from the bench because of persistent sex...
Jurist Wasn't Afraid to Make Tough Calls
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
PASADENA - Services took place Wednesday for Virginia Chernack, a former Los Angeles County juvenile court commissioner who co...