DAILY DEALS -- Imperial County
By Jack Briggs
EL CENTRO - TRI Capital Co. Inc. structured an FHA 223 $6.12 million refinance on behalf of the owners of the 272-unit Posada...
Fixture on Bench, Judge Thrives
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - A couple of tips from veteran Judge Charles E. Frisco on ruling from the bench: Be independent, and be mindful o...
Tipped Scales
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bess Blank - Usually legislation that affects litigation procedure is of little interest to anyone other tha...
Bar Court Slams Attorney for Misuse of 'Notarios'
By Susan Mc Rae
In a case of first impression, the Review Department of the State Bar Court has recommended that an immigration lawyer be susp...
Panel Bans Police Chases For Most Minor Infractions
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday revised the department's pursuit policy, which would put a...
Profiling Figures Provoke Debate
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - One day after the mayor and chief of police released a truckload of raw data on police stops, experts and advoca...
MoFo Speaks to Israeli Clients
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster launched a new Hebrew-language Web site Tuesday to better cater to its Israeli techno...
Hitchens Makes New Assignments
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A new presiding judge has installed the old regime in the San Francisco Superior Courts' law and motion depar...
Orrick's Seattle Office Hires Cooley Partners
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Cooley Godward partners in Kirkland, Wash., have landed in the Seattle office of San Francisco's O...
Arbitrator Quantifies Elevator Shove
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - An arbitrator has awarded $138,740 to a San Rafael lawyer after finding that another attorney attacked him in ...
Acting PJ Says She'll Step Down
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - Justice Patricia Bamattre-Manoukian, whose tenure as acting presiding justice of the 6th District Court of Appeal ...
Noel, Knoller Escape Inclusion in Inmate's Widow's Suit
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has refused to allow Kim Boyd, the widow of a slain Pelican Bay State Prison inmate, to expan...
Developments Affect Arbitrator Disclosure and Contractual ADR
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in al...
DCA Justice John Benson, 75
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice John E. Benson of the 1st District Court of Appeal has died following a lingering illness. Ben...
Court Weighs Suits Based on Rosy Forecasts That Go Bad
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Tuesday to let stockholders sue for securities fraud on the g...
Edsell Eady Moves to Nixon Peabody
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Edsell "Chip" Eady Jr., the former head of Foley & Lardner's Northern California public finance group, joi...
Colleagues Hail Remcho As a Master of Election Law
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Remcho argued twice before the California Supreme Court over redistricting issues and succeeded both t...
Investors Bypass Arbitration by Taking Securities Firms to Court
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Faced with securities firms' rejection of California's tough new disclosure rules for arbitrators, disgruntled ...
Los Angeles Achieves Cesspool Status Among Judicial Hades Craters
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - It's official. Los Angeles is a hellhole. A judicial hellhole, to be exact. That's the opinion of the...
Date-Rape Suspect Disappears
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - Wealthy date-rape suspect Andrew Luster failed to show up in court for his trial Monday, forcing a judge to declare ...
Jewish Group Wins Round in Court
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge backed off holding the city of Los Angeles in contempt Monday after a city official pledged that...
Police Release Raw Numbers About Profiling
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - African-Americans and Hispanics driving or walking in the city of Los Angeles are far more likely than whites to...
Prosecutors' Turf Battle Brews in War on Gangs
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - In the final weeks of 2002, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and some of his top command staff held meet...
Violation of Ethical Rule Does Not Result in Attorney Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - Looking back on 2002, perhaps the most interesting of the large number of...
Breaking the Cycle of Violence
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - As the nation's 15,000 school districts move into 2003, the need to re-examine how they deal w...
Activist Priest Fought for Disadvantaged
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Robert M. Holstein Jr., a prominent Riverside personal injury lawyer and former priest whose liberal activism onc...
Owner of Strip Club Can Sue City, Judge Rules
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The owner of an Anaheim strip club who fought for years to open an adult business can pursue a claim against the...
Counsel Will Make Sure Boalt Complies With Bias Statutes
By Karen Coleman
As the messy resignation of former Boalt Hall School of Law dean John Dwyer continues to unravel, lawyers at the University of...
Counting Blessings in the State Capital
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Many in Sacramento's office real estate market are counting their blessings. The loc...
San Francisco's Pain Continues
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ The office market malaise is expected to worsen this year in most of the San Francisco Bay...