Evenhanded Commissioner Listens, Maintains Decorum
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - The teenage boy slouched in the witness stand, his mop of dark hair flopped over his face as he testified nervou...
9th Circuit Will Review Early Rulings in Lindows Case
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp.'s high-profile fight to hold onto its Windows trademark will soon head to the 9th U.S. Circuit...
Judge Backs $16M IBM Fraud Penalty
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Alex Saldamando has upheld a $16 million fraud penalty imposed on IBM for failing to repo...
Born to the Bench, Judge Sails Along
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Judge Robin Miller Sloan knows that a man named Peter Salem was involved in the Revolutionary War because of a g...
Windfall for Richer, But Not for Poorer
Few comparisons highlight our government's bias in favor of the wealthy more than that between the phasing out of the estate t...
Airline-Bias Victims Face Brick Wall in Seeking Evidence
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Forum Column - By Jayashri Srikantiah - It is no secret that, after Sept. 11, 2001, Arab-Americans and Muslims have been targe...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - On Dec. 23, the Court of Appeal opened a door to the e...
Western State Gains Reprieve After ABA Pulls Accreditation Report
By Don De Benedictis
SAN ANTONIO - The expected lively debate by the American Bar Association over the future of Western State University School of...
Toddler's Death Prompts Review
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - County officials today will be asked for recommendations in the wake of the fatal beating of a toddler whose dea...
'The Iceman' Often Presided Over High-Profile Cases
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Retired Superior Court Judge William T. Low, who was so highly regarded that both prosecutors and defense lawyers ...
Group Seeks Damages Against Diebold
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Advocates of free speech in cyberspace asked a federal judge Monday to order an Ohio electronic voting machine manu...
Panel Seems Inclined to Remand Lesbians' Suit
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - All members of an appellate court panel leaned Monday toward sending a case of alleged sexual-orientation discrimi...
Panel Backs Campaign Web Use
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A commission studying political campaign activity on the Internet will call for nurturing rather than restricting...
Orrick Reaches To Rome
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move to compete with London's Magic Circle firms in Italy, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has opened ...
Pellicano Lawyer Attacks Computer-Data Search
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Former private investigator Anthony Pellicano, locked away on federal weapons charges, remains the central figur...
Will DA's Witnesses Show Up for Riders Case Redux?
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - As three former Oakland police officers are arraigned today in the retrial of the Riders police corruption cas...
ABA Urges U.S. To Stay Out of Gay Marriage
By Don De Benedictis
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The American Bar Association urged the federal government Monday to stay out of the debate over gay marri...
Judge Now Accused of Threatening Court Staff
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser, already suspended from the bench on criminal charges that he ...
Almost Indefensible
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys Ira Barg and Brendan Conroy have carved out a subspecialty criminal defense practice that few lawyer...
On 13th Anniversary of Pooh Suit, Trash Will Get Its Day in Court
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Hold your noses. It's time for another trip through Winnie the Pooh's garbage. Last week, Los Angeles...
Court OKs Landmark Overtime Award
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Monday upheld nearly all of a landmark $90 million award given to insurance claims adjust...
Top Real Estate Team Leaves Pillsbury Winthrop
By Stefanie Knapp
Michael Meyer, one of the state's leading real estate lawyers, is leaving Pillsbury Winthrop with half a dozen attorneys to op...
Sacramento's Apartment Construction Boom Expected to Fade; Prevailing Wage Law Blamed
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Here today. Gone tomorrow. That's the scenario - boiled down a bit - for new Sacramento regio...
Los Angeles' World Trade Center Sells
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Jamison Properties purchased the Los Angeles World Trade Center from Haseko of Japan, acco...
Insurance Counsel Goes to New Job at Wendel Rosen
By Erik Cummins
Known for having a strong insurance coverage practice, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May ran into a few client conflicts after i...
Recovery In Sight for San Francisco
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Despite seeing rents fall nearly 5 percent in 2003, San Francisco's high-cost apartment mar...
Squire IP Leader Starts Fresh at Greenberg Traurig
By Liz Valsamis
Intellectual property partner Terence Clark has joined Greenberg Traurig from Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Clark, who began ...
Plastics Firms Get Together in $12 Million Deal
By Toni Vranjes
Privately held American MSI Corp. tapped Newport Beach attorney Michael Mulroy for advice in its $12 million acquisition by pl...
From Happy Meals to Olympic Trials
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Along with "Billions served," the McDonald's sign might also read "Billions donated." Joa...
Sex Education
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Column - Employment Law - By Stephanie A. Collins And Patricia A. Kinaga - An employee who undergoes sex-change surgery poses ...