Qwest Settles With Colorado, Pays $2 Million
By Charles Asbhy
DENVER - Qwest Communications International will pay nearly $2 million in damages and restitution for alleged deceptive market...
Judge Is a Teacher for Jurists and the Community
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The presiding judge of Sacramento Superior Court is a climber. At age 53, he's one of the youngest presiding judg...
Parties Should Make Arbitration Process Choices in the Contract
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Drafters of arbitration clauses are sometimes careless in identifying how the contemplate...
Seven Coca-Cola Employees File Overtime Complaints
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - When Tina Cox took a job at Coca-Cola's Rancho Cucamonga distribution center, she said, her supervisor told...
Woman Faces Death Penalty
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence of a former Los Angeles nurse who could become ...
Westerfield Jurors Deliberate for Third Day
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield ended their third day of deliberations Monday without deciding the gui...
Cream Rising To the Top
By Dennis Pfaff
OAKLAND - Judge Steven A Brick has some succinct advice for attorneys who appear in his courtroom: "Have a very good idea of w...
Live-In Sex Molester Not Family
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who is not related to four young girls whom he molested but served as the "functional equivalent" of a g...
Multijurisdictional Practice Rule Passes Over California Protests
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - California lawyers' concerns about the American Bar Association's first guidelines on multijurisdictional practic...
Latino Group Appeals Dismissal of Lawsuit
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Latino advocates filed an appeal Monday in federal court requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider the d...
Breaking Public Access
Forum Column - By Hiram Torres - A new piece of legislation that likely will substantially restrict public access to certified...
Thanks to My Adviser, May He Rot in Hell
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech does not give a graduate student the right to a passing grade on a master's thesis that is academi...
Free Speech Doesn't Protect Master's Thesis
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech does not give a graduate student the right to a passing grade on a master's thesis that is academi...
Multijurisdictional Practice Rule Passes Over California Protests
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - California lawyers' concerns about the American Bar Association's first guidelines on multijurisdictional practic...
Santa Clara Bench Gets a Litigator
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Veteran litigator James P. Kleinberg, who has worked for more than three decades handling commercial lawsuits invol...
Motorcycle-Racing Judge, 58, Loves His Court Job
By Tamara Scott
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Judge Donald G. Umhofer, who enjoys a reputation as an evenhanded jurist with a willing ear, unwinds on week...
Firm Announces $23 Million Securities Settlement
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES - In a possible sign of things to come in the era of corporate accounting scandals, the San Francisco business law...
Plaintiffs Must See Negligence To Claim They Are Distressed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday protected hospitals from emotional distress suits filed by relatives of...
Associates and Clerks, Like a Good Roux
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Marisa Arrona, one of seven summer associates at Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft this year, expected to be wine...
Prenuptial Agreement Statutes Don't Cover Postnuptial Pacts
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In a recent case, a wife's insistence on a postnuptial agreement ca...
Unlocking E-Evidence
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Paul French - Lawyers seeking electronic evidence through the discovery process cannot do so in the traditio...
State Must Set Standard for Reducing Emissions
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Sanjay M. Ranchod - Two weeks ago, Gov. Gray Davis signed landmark legislation that will require automakers ...
Unlocking E-Evidence
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Paul French - Lawyers seeking electronic evidence through the discovery process cannot do so in the traditio...
Breaking Public Access
Forum Column - By Hiram Torres - A new piece of legislation that likely will substantially restrict public access to certified...
MGM Studios Inks Packman as Deputy General Counsel, Senior Vice President
By Staff Writer
Scott Packman has become senior vice president and deputy general counsel of Santa Monica's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. P...
Moreno Is Slated as Keynote Speaker at Trial Lawyers Event
By Stefanie Knapp
Associate Judge Carlos Moreno of the California Supreme Court will be the keynote speaker Sept. 20 at the Association of Busin...
Houston Shootout Will Pit Compaq Against eMachines
By Eron Yehuda
Two California high-tech companies are prepping for a Texas shootout in a patent infringement trial in a Houston courtroom. ...
Alschuler Picks Up Litigation Pro
By John Ryan
Prominent entertainment and business litigator John Gatti has joined Santa Monica's Alschuler, Grossman, Stein & Kahan as ...
Rest for the Wall Street Weary
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Recent stock market troubles cannot help but create new golden opportunities for Californi...
S.D. Litigators Try New L.A. Outpost
By Liz Valsamis
San Diego's Klinedinst, Fliehman & McKillop has added two litigators to its month-old Los Angeles office. Partner Neil Gun...