Who's on First?
By Columnist
BY GREGORY T. RICKARD Mortgage brokers are beginning to dip their toes into the lending pool, while real estate bankers have ...
Attorney Leaves SEC for Akin Gump Securities Unit
By Liz Valsamis
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired Thomas Zaccaro from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he served as he...
Los Angeles Holds Steady
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant The retail business always has a mercurial nature. Industry insiders don't expect that di...
San Diego to Shine Again in 2004
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer San Diego was one of the brightest spots in the national economy last year and experts e...
Advertising Law Boutique Hooks Up With Reed Smith
By Draeger Martinez
The imminent acquisition of New York-based advertising law boutique Hall Dickler by Reed Smith Crosby Heafey will move Reed Sm...
Inland Empire Retail Grows Up
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer A significant number of upscale retailers will open in the Inland Empire this year. That's...
Villaggio Could Fill Inland Empire Entertainment Destination Void
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer The groundbreaking this summer of the Villaggio, a two-block mixed-use project in downtown...
REITs on a Roll
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts' composite drubbed the Dow Jone...
Commercial Attorney Joins Sheppard Mullin as Partner
By Draeger Martinez
Commercial attorney Troy Zander is the newest partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, leaving Gray Cary Ware &...
Abbott Labs Buys TheraSense in $1.3 Billion Deal
By Toni Vranjes
Health care company Abbott Laboratories Inc. is buying Alameda-based medical device firm TheraSense Inc., which makes a blood ...
PELLICANO SENTENCED
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Anthony Pellicano's attorney said he will file an appeal to try to knock out one of the firearms counts that led...
Former Brobeck Trio Hangs Out Shingle in Ferry Building
By Erik Cummins
Steve Snyder spent 10 years resolving a messy insurance coverage dispute between Oakland's MacArthur Company and The Hartford ...
New Laws Regulate Medi-Pot, Help Battered Women
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Last year's legislative session inaugurated more than 900 new laws. In th...
Health Care Industry Must Set Pricing Based on Costs
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Charles Bond - While Congress should have passed a Medicare drug benefit bill, no politician - or for that m...
Employers Eagerly Await Two State High Court Wage-and-Hour Rulings
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Christina J. Imre and Jacqueline M. Jauregui - As many multistate employers are learning, C...
United States Is a Nation of Immigrants
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Forum Column - By Dilan Esper - I have seen few opinion pieces more wrongheaded than John Eastman's article titled "The U.S. C...
Study Blasts Bush's Bench Picks
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A leading liberal group on Friday charged that a number of President Bush's judicial nominees who now sit on the...
Study Blasts Bush Judges' Rulings
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - A leading liberal group on Friday charged that a number of President Bush's judicial nominees who now sit on the ...
Waits and Measures
By Eron Yehuda
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - For a tenant facing eviction, budget cuts in the court system represent a horror story waiting t...
Critics Want to Send Scalia On Vacation in Recusal City
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - For Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, this has been a term in which that nasty word "recusal" keeps cropping ...
Women in High Places Are Shaping S.F. Public Safety
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Sisterhood was in full bloom when San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and acting police Chief Heathe...
State Weighs Costs, Benefits Of Open Dependency Court
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - What if they opened the courts and no one came? In effect, that's what happened when Minnesota's new chief justi...
Panel Will Mull Appeal on 'Zero Trash'
By Stefanie Knapp
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board will decide at its next meeting Thursday whether to appeal a decision by ...
Judge Known for Complexity, Controversy
By Dennis Pfaff
REDWOOD CITY - If people in trouble want San Mateo Superior Court Judge Barbara Mallach to lend them a hand, she's willing - b...
U.S. Magistrate in Riverside Joins Rotation of Civil Trials
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - At the first of the year, federal court officials began putting into the regular assignment rotation the name of...
Enforce Policies to Halt Harassment in Workplace
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Employment Column - By J. Kevin Lilly - It will surprise no one that California charts its own course in defining an employee'...
Identifying Names of Internet Pirates Is Harder After 'Verizon'
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Copyright owners recently suffered another setback in their battle again...
Push to Make Lawyers Liable Has Bankruptcy Bar Alarmed
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The consumer bankruptcy bar reacted with outrage Thursday to reports out of Washington that House Republicans...
Just Checking
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Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Illinois v. Lidster, 2004 U.S.LEXIS 656 (U.S. J...
Benefit Law Referendum OK'd
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court ruled Thursday that voters should have the right to decide the fate of a new law requiring C...