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'Killpatrick' Rule Struck By Justices

Mar. 19, 2003
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

Mar. 19, 2003
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

Mar. 19, 2003
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...


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

Mar. 19, 2003
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

Mar. 19, 2003
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - In a rare foray into state criminal court, controversial civil-rights lawyer Stephen Yagman will defend a mother a...



CREJ WIRE REPORT For the first time in more than two decades new apartments are being planned for the city of Beverly Hills. ...


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

Mar. 18, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

Bay Area software developer Panscopic Corp. has finalized a $10 million second round of financing. New investor Morgenthaler V...


ASSOCIATED PRESS THOUSAND OAKS - While most California cities are slashing programs in anticipation of drastic cuts in state ...



Bad Reputation

Mar. 18, 2003
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

Mar. 18, 2003
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...



Orange County Superior Court Judge John C. Woolley has retired after 20 years on the bench - a tenure marked by key decisions...


SANTA ANA (AP) - An internal audit showed Orange County planning managers did little as the department careened toward financ...



The envelope, please. And the Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society's highest honor goes to ... a developer whom the group...


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

Mar. 18, 2003
By Columnist

BY STEFAN SWANEPOEL AND JOHN TUCCILLO Editor's Note: The residential real estate industry is undergoing fundamental structural...


CREJ WIRE REPORT Economic recovery should continue to gain strength as corporate confidence picks up in 2003, leading to stabi...



The Uninvited Guest

Mar. 18, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

Fresh off multimillion-dollar victories in Florida, Arkansas and Mississippi, the plaintiffs' lawyers of Wilkes & McHugh f...


Jury Verdict

Mar. 18, 2003
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

Mar. 18, 2003
By Columnist

BY JOEL JOHN ROBERTS Yes, as Mr. Hansson suggests, empty storefronts and buildings attract the homeless to downtown streets, ...


ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - More than 62,000 acres of California's Mojave desert will be turned over to the federal govern...



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

Mar. 18, 2003
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

Mar. 18, 2003
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

Mar. 18, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Chicago's McDermott, Will & Emery acquired intellectual property boutique Campbell & Flores on March 3. The addition o...



Silver-Shovel Struggle Returns

Mar. 18, 2003
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

Mar. 18, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

Four trademark lawyers and one patent lawyer from recently dissolved Skjerven Morrill have moved, respectively, to Dorsey &...



Prime Cuts

Mar. 18, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Thirty-eight acres of prime development land, including some that front on Orange County...


Mediating major cases, where the damages likely are in the high six- or seven-figure range, is different from mediating smalle...