Real Estate Finance Witness and Practicioner
By Draeger Martinez
By Draeger Martinez Daily Journal Banks and other lenders often turn to expert witnesses to explain their field in court duri...
Attorney Makes His Move 12 Days Before Christmas
By Lorelei Laird
The 12 days before Christmas proved particularly hectic for Bart Greenberg. The corporate transactions partner moved from Pres...
Firm Blasts Monster Cable For Way It Defends Its Mark
By Tina Spee
Brisbane's Monster Cable Products Inc., which won the naming rights to San Francisco's former 3Com Park in September, came und...
Officials Have Immunity in Removal Case, Jurist Says
By Eron Yehuda
Although a Lodi policeman and a San Joaquin County social worker did not have good reasons for temporarily removing two childr...
High Volume, Low Impact
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Four thousand same-sex couples found themselves abruptly unhitched in August when San Francisco Mayor Gavin N...
Making Peace in Crenshaw with Books
By Laura Coleman
by Laura Coleman CREJ Staff Writer On Dec. 20, a Phoenix reared its erudite head at the Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Los ...
Money Sleuths
By Contributing Writer
Column - By Stanley I. Foodman - Because of the accelerating expansion of litigation in every imaginable area of our society, ...
Symantec Agrees to Shell Out $10.3 Billion for Veritas
By Geneva Whitmarsh
In one of the largest software mergers in Silicon Valley history, computer security giant Symantec Corp. has agreed to pay $10...
Environmentalists Sue Orange County to Save Habitats
By Adrianna Khoo
One of southeast Orange County's natural treasures, Rancho Mission Viejo, may now be valued for reasons beyond its 23,000 acre...
CalPERS Trust Well Placed
By Contributing Writer
by John McCloud CREJ Contributing Writer Despite a bit of poor timing that forced a reduction in the opening stock price, the...
Blindness Hasn't Stopped Appellate Attorney
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - When he goes to court, Brian C. Unitt shows up early. Guided by an associate, Unitt "feels" his way around, makin...
Litigator Briefs National Guard Soldiers on Their Rights
By Kenneth Davis
Litigator Stephen Glassman often goes to war with his adversaries in the courtroom, but some of the people for whom he volunte...
GOP Lawmakers, Safety Concerns Stalk 'Abortion Pill'
By Eron Yehuda
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 the use of RU-486, known as the "abortion pill," abortion-rights a...
L.A. Tax-Ease
By Laura Coleman
by Laura Coleman CREJ Staff Writer Companies looking for a low-cost business environment don't generally look to California. ...
Law
By Peter Blumberg
The California Supreme Court declined Dec. 9 to halt a proposed upscale residential development in West Los Angeles over its ...
Tsunami Could Develop Into World's Biggest Class Action
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The Southeast Asian tsunami could go from being the world's biggest natural disaster to the world's biggest cla...
State Workers' Compensation: What to Expect in 2005
By Columnist
California's workers' compensation market remains a challenge. Although the Legislature passed significant bills in an effort...
The Way They Were
By Lisa Churchill
by Julie nakashima CREJ Staff Writer Walking into the stately building at 1 First American Way in Santa Ana, a visitor might ...
Carefully Preserve Evidence For Use in Future Litigation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Thomas F. Newmeyer - and Carol Sherman Zaist Many attorneys face the dilemma of preserving test...
State Bar Court Relies on Its Own Brand of Precedent for Discipline
By Columnist
Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - At a settlement conference in State Bar Court, an attorney facing discipline charges wa...
California Provides Excellent Indigent Defense
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - In the [Scott] Peterson verdict story ("Peterson Verdict Shows Defender's Limitations," Dec. 14), acade...
Interest Isn't Due on Embezzled Stocks
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - A Stanford Law School graduate and former judicial clerk "gone bad" who embezzled more than $50 million from ...
A House Divided
By Draeger Martinez
EXTRA Feature - Another New Year, another batch of new laws taking effect. But this time, there's a twist. The state's 2003-04...
Judge Denies Retroactivity of Proposition 64
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge, wading into a controversy that has split superior courts around the state, has ruled th...
Lawyers in Asian Offices Seek Co-Workers, Begin Aid Efforts
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Struggling to absorb the enormous devastation of the Dec. 27 Indian Ocean tsunami, attorneys in Asian offices b...
Criminal Justice Issues Await Legislature
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - As state lawmakers reconvene today for the 2005 legislative session, part of their job will probably be to deal ...
New Mayor Plan
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer representing write-in candidate Donna Frye wants the City Council to decide who should be San Diego's ...
City Council Must Learn to Listen
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Ahem. Uh, excuse me, Los Angeles City Council members? Could you put down your cell phones and pay attention? I...
Panel Weighs Alcoholism In Tossing Stiff Sentence
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - American Indians' struggle with alcohol abuse must be factored into their clashes with federal law, a divided...
Building Biotech Bridges
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - When Therascope was looking for more money to develop its products last year, the German biotechnology compan...