Probationers Devour Culinary Arts Classes
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - It wasn't exactly Martha Stewart. But the culinary arts program offered to teen offenders doing time at Camp Scu...
Lewis Brisbois Lures Whole Practice for Vegas Outpost
By Liz Valsamis
Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has joined the ranks of Los Angeles-based law firms to move into the booming Las Vegas l...
100-Year-Old Firm Will Fly With Piper Rudnick in S.F.
By Erik Cummins
Neil Falconer was the seventh lawyer at Steinhart & Falconer when he joined the San Francisco firm as a young associate in...
Company Raises Cool $22 Million
By Toni Vranjes
MarkMonitor, a Boise, Idaho-based company that provides software to help companies protect their intellectual property, will d...
Sheriff, Radio Host Take Feud to Court
By Eron Yehuda
A long-running feud between a top Santa Cruz law enforcement official and one of his chief critics erupted recently into a fre...
Headwaters' Offering Brings $90 Million
By Toni Vranjes
As counsel to Headwaters Inc., San Francisco attorney Linda Williams helped the energy company obtain $175 million in bank fin...
Jurists Tap Former Public Defender To Be Commissioner in San Diego
By Claude Walbert
Superior Court judges have elected a former Los Angeles County deputy public defender to be a commissioner. Pennie McLaughlin ...
Judge Tosses Securities-Fraud Suit
By Stefanie Knapp
A federal judge in Los Angeles last month dismissed a securities fraud class action brought against Woodland Hills-based Synco...
Red Zone
By Columnist
Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - Larry King is getting a last-minute touch of makeup as his producer whispers in his ear...
Tampa Firm Gains Foothold in San Diego
By Liz Valsamis
Cowley & Chidester has teamed up with Holland & Knight, giving the Tampa, Fla.-based law firm its first office in the ...
Wiretap Dance
By Contributing Writer
Column - Technology - By Jack Lindauer - Ask any corporate executives or attorneys whether they think their phones might be ta...
IP Litigator Joins McDermott Will
By Joel Rosenblatt
Intellectual property litigator David S. Bloch jumped from associate to partner by leaving Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in...
Paul Plevin Gets Gray Cary Veteran
By Draeger Martinez
J. Rod Betts joined San Diego labor boutique Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton as an employment law partner on Jan. 2. ...
S.F. Nursing Home Settles With Patients
By Amy Spees
Seven patients of San Francisco's historic Laguna Honda Hospital have decided there's no place like home, and, after three yea...
Software Licensees Generally Do Not Own Derivative Works
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jennifer Stanley - Licensees seeking ownership of modifications that they make to li...
The U.S. Citizenship Stretch
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to review Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, a case in which...
Court Takes Case on Indefinite Imprisonment of Aliens
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether authorities can imprison indefinitely hundreds of illegal-alien...
Justices Take New Case on Aliens' Indefinite Imprisonment
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether authorities can imprison indefinitely hundreds of illegal-alien ...
We Hold These Truths
By Contributing Writer
The legal landscape is changing. Officials up and down the state are struggling to make up for budget shortfalls and keep cour...
Papers in GM Case Stay in Legal Limbo
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - No decision was reached Friday on making public reams of confidential data from General Motors Corp. on vehicle ...
Utility Firm Wins Battle for Reimbursement
By Stefanie Knapp
After a decadelong battle with its insurer, a utility holding company robbed by one of its own executives can collect $12.5 mi...
His Words Precede Him
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - No one disputes that Joseph O'Flaherty calls them as he sees them. But sometimes - critics, supporters and O'F...
Court Strikes Discounts for Continuously Insured Drivers
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - The state will appeal a Los Angeles Superior Court order striking down legislation that lets insurance companies...
Sleepless in L.A., Lawyer Goes to Bangkok, Beyond
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - On Friday, while other Los Angeles lawyers toil over contracts, wills, lawsuits and celebrity felony ...
San Diego Towers Above Rest With New Construction
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer This year looks to be pivotal for the San Diego office market. The market's outlook for 2...
Inland Empire Stays in the Sweet Spot
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer At the close of 2003, something remarkable happened in the Inland Empire office market: Are...
Positive Signs Can't Brighten Silicon Valley's Dark Outlook
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to CREJ Silicon Valley's office landlords were happy to ring out a generally dismal 2003 that saw furth...
Hotel Industry Says 'We Like California' in '04
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant From all indications, 2004 will be a profitable year for the hospitality industry. In fact...
Building in State Expected to Rise Marginally in 2004
By Contributing Writer
California's construction volume for the first 11 months of 2003 was up 6.4 percent from the corresponding period in 2002, tot...
San Francisco Begins Long Road to Recovery
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Take your pick on San Francisco's 2004 office-market outlook: more of the same, potential ...