Real Estate Lawyer Moves To Follow Industry Changes
By Erik Cummins
Some of the country's megafirms have scaled back their real estate practices in recent years, says Douglas Van Gessel, a veter...
Analyze This
By Columnist
Column - Law Firm Management - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - In addition to providing its clients with quality legal service...
Electronic-Design Firms Merge
By Toni Vranjes
Silicon Valley high-technology companies Verisity Ltd. and Axis Systems Inc. are joining forces to create a bigger player in t...
Counting Every Last Cent
By Joel Rosenblatt
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Faxes, photocopies, Internet research, and telephone calls all make their way onto legal bills. ...
Landlords Lose Right to Evict, Close Single-Room Occupancy Hotels in 3 Cities
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer As of Jan. 1, big-city owners of single-room occupancy hotels will have a harder time closing...
German Investors Finance U.S. Movies
By Toni Vranjes
When "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" made its European premiere in Berlin in December, attorney Larry Ulman at...
Lawyers Can Prepare Clients for Small-Claims Court
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By Douglas G. Carnahan - As the state Legislature and the Judicial Council continue to consider incr...
Intellidot Attracts $15 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Intellidot Corp.'s small hand-held device for preventing medication mistakes has piqued the interest of venture capitalists, w...
Dancers Dare to Bare, But Nursing Mothers Beware
By Stefanie Knapp
Bared breasts are a common sight in Las Vegas, so when staff of a casino restaurant asked Watsonville mother Amy Howley to lea...
Weissmann Wolff Lands Lawyer-Writer
By Liz Valsamis
Peter J. Dekom is putting his solo practice and writing career behind him to join a Beverly Hills-based entertainment firm. ...
Wilson Sonsini Recruits Far East Expert
By Joel Rosenblatt
Lucas Chang exemplifies the intensifying battle for lawyers with expertise in China. Chang, until December a partner at Heller...
Mayer Brown Transfers to New Quarters in Palo Alto
By Joel Rosenblatt
Anticipating a doubling of its attorney ranks in Palo Alto this year, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw moved Dec. 12 to larger off...
Immigration Judge Gives Woman Asylum
By Eron Yehuda
Mariam Musa Ibrahim Mohammed doesn't have to return to Sudan, because an immigration judge granted her request for asylum rece...
Judge Thwarts Hostile Takeover of Airline
By Amy Spees
A Washington, D.C., District Court judge recently granted a preliminary injunction halting the hostile takeover of Atlantic Co...
Trust Firms Settle $90 Million Class Suit
By Eron Yehuda
Some of the country's largest financial institutions have agreed to a $90 million settlement of a class action alleging that t...
Construction Begins on San Diego's First New High-Rise in a Decade
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer San Diego developer Rob Lankford broke ground in mid-December on his much-delayed Broadw...
Marketing Guru Sets Up Own Shop
By Erik Cummins
David Geyer, the architect of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's groundbreaking multimillion-dollar television advertising camp...
California Projects to Watch in 2004
By Michael Gottliebn
"Disciplined." Builders have got to be sick of hearing that word. Throughout 2003, the real estate industry has lauded develo...
Simply Sharing a Bed With a Child Is No Crime
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Forum Column - By Paul J. Wallin - Based on the evidence that has been revealed thus far, it is shocking that many attorneys, ...
Adoption Day Creates Families
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Adoption Day is to courts what maternity wards are to hospitals. No jail, no juries, no deat...
Even Narrower Noncompete Covenant May Be Void
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By David H. Raizman and Kaye E. Chaffee - Courts repeatedly have interpreted California's proh...
Snider Case May Have Negative Impact On Employers That Are Party to Suits
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Michael J. Collins and Nima Shivayi - In Snider v. Superior Court (Quantum Productions Inc...
Court Rules Judge Acted Vindictively In Sentencing
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster of San Diego vindictively doubled a defendant's original sentence after the ...
Budget Woes Threaten Environmental Prosecution Team
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - In its more than five years of existence, a uniquely Californian program has stiffened the enforcement of envi...
Ashcroft Jumps Spy Ship, Lets Underlings Sail Alone
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Last week, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft added more murk to the ocean of murk surrounding the i...
A True Competitor
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Before he took the bench, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley spent nearly 25 years as a prosecutor, ...
Mastering Change in Real Estate
By Columnist
BY SANFORD R. GOODKIN There are "greater fools" at every level of real estate practice. Yet I anticipate that an ethical enli...
Tribe Agrees to Pay Builders $50 Million
By Amy Spees
The Dry Creek Band of the Pomo Indians and Sonoma Falls Developers have recently settled for $50 million a breach of contract ...
Fire Victims Must Fulfill Policy Duties to Ensure Full Coverage
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk Pasich - While the scope of coverage will depend on the particular policies involved, t...
Preventing Attacks
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Forum Column - By Cary L. Schatz - The United States suffered a significant setback in the war on terrorism with the 2nd U.S. ...