'Killpatrick' Rule Struck By Justices
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges no longer need to advise pro se criminal defendants about their Fifth Amendment privilege against compe...
Small, Yet Very Big
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - At 59, patent attorney James Sheridan should have been planning his retirement and improving his golf game. In...
Couple Sues Over Rejection Of Black Santa
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Roch Ward says he planned a romantic Christmas Eve surprise for his girlfriend. He would propose to Laurie Lyons b...
City Officials Try to Put Brakes on Street Racing
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The roadside memorial on Imperial Avenue in Lemon Grove is bright with flowers brought by friends of two El Cajon ...
Sheriffs Arrest Priest for Abuse
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Former priest John Peter Lenihan has been arrested and charged with 10 felony counts of child molestation, breath...
Attorney Takes on Murder-by-Breast-Milk Case
By Matthew Heller
RIVERSIDE - In a rare foray into state criminal court, controversial civil-rights lawyer Stephen Yagman will defend a mother a...
Beverly Hills Getting First New Apartments in 21 Years
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT For the first time in more than two decades new apartments are being planned for the city of Beverly Hills. ...
Former DJ-Turned-Mediator Spins Creative Solutions
By Eron Yehuda
If fate had smiled differently on Jack Schwartzman, he could have held the professional title of DJ rather than JD. Schwartzma...
Panscopic Finalizes $10 Million Round
By Toni Vranjes
Bay Area software developer Panscopic Corp. has finalized a $10 million second round of financing. New investor Morgenthaler V...
A $7 Million Windfall for S. Calif. City
By Wire
ASSOCIATED PRESS THOUSAND OAKS - While most California cities are slashing programs in anticipation of drastic cuts in state ...
Bad Reputation
By Tanya Rothman
In Closing Column - By Ida Abbott - Performance reviews have an undeserved bad reputation. Most law firms review associates on...
Artists Repaint City Core's Image
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When it comes to the art of the deal, commercial real estate broker Gil Marrero takes a b...
Newly Retired Orange County Jurist Trains to Run in Boston Marathon
By Mark Cromer
Orange County Superior Court Judge John C. Woolley has retired after 20 years on the bench - a tenure marked by key decisions...
Report: Orange County Planning Dept. Spending Went Unchecked
By Wire
SANTA ANA (AP) - An internal audit showed Orange County planning managers did little as the department careened toward financ...
Friends and Enemies on the Historic Preservation Front
By Julie Nakashima
The envelope, please. And the Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society's highest honor goes to ... a developer whom the group...
State Budget Cuts Won't Deter Defense Bar Efforts
By Stefanie Knapp
With a budget deficit projected to climb to $35 billion, the Legislature has more to worry about than the immediate needs of t...
Residential Real Estate in Flux
By Columnist
BY STEFAN SWANEPOEL AND JOHN TUCCILLO Editor's Note: The residential real estate industry is undergoing fundamental structural...
Forecast: Property Fundamentals May Improve by Second Half
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Economic recovery should continue to gain strength as corporate confidence picks up in 2003, leading to stabi...
The Uninvited Guest
By Joan Osterwalder
Fresh off multimillion-dollar victories in Florida, Arkansas and Mississippi, the plaintiffs' lawyers of Wilkes & McHugh f...
Jury Verdict
By Contributing Writer
Advisor Column - By Susan Page White - Some jurors have become semi-celebrities in America. They appear on a variety of news p...
Help Through Better Planning
By Columnist
BY JOEL JOHN ROBERTS Yes, as Mr. Hansson suggests, empty storefronts and buildings attract the homeless to downtown streets, ...
U.S. to Acquire Desert Lands for Preservation
By Ron Mc Nees
ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - More than 62,000 acres of California's Mojave desert will be turned over to the federal govern...
Federal Judge Grants New Trial to Catalyst Enterprises
By Stefanie Knapp
Proving that intellectual property litigation is hard to wrap your arms around, a judge in San Francisco ruled last month that...
Panel Clears Up Confusion in Name Dispute
By Joan Osterwalder
Two technology companies in Orange County with the same name peacefully co-existed for three decades, until one expanded its b...
Playing a Heated Game of Musical Chairs
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Orchestrating the Symphony Towers acquisition gave the Irvine Co. a 34-story, Class A of...
McDermott Absorbs S.D. Boutique
By Liz Valsamis
Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery acquired intellectual property boutique Campbell & Flores on March 3. The addition o...
Silver-Shovel Struggle Returns
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Los Angeles' two crosstown university rivals are girding once again for their annual sho...
Skjerven Morrill Lawyers Scatter to Several Firms
By Joel Rosenblatt
Four trademark lawyers and one patent lawyer from recently dissolved Skjerven Morrill have moved, respectively, to Dorsey &...
Prime Cuts
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Thirty-eight acres of prime development land, including some that front on Orange County...
High-Stakes Mediations Entail Special Challenges
By Columnist
Mediating major cases, where the damages likely are in the high six- or seven-figure range, is different from mediating smalle...