Oh, to Be in Guantanamo Now that the Supreme Court's There
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams Las Vegas criminal defense attorney David Chesnoff wouldn't bet much that the U.S. Supreme Court is go...
Judge Rules PD's Aid Creates Conflict
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender created a potential conflict of interest by agreeing to represent the ...
Assertive Lawyers and Liberal Judges Make It Easy to Get a Continuance In San Francisco
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - In the early morning hours of Dec. 13, 1999, Leonard Jones allegedly shot his ex-wife, Margiree Warren, to de...
Proposition 21 Mistrial
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a Los Angeles jury split 6-6 over whether two former Glendale high sch...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for San Bernardino County
By Angela Gottula
ONTARIO - An undisclosed party purchased the Dupont Industrial Building at 701 S. Dupont Ave. for $3.15 million . Marcus &...
Happy Together
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis Once home to Shirley Temple films and a host of popular Westerns, Century City sprang up from the back lot of...
Adapting to an Educational Movement
By Joseph Sorrentino
BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO Special to the CREJ At Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in downtown Los Angeles, students get to spend all d...
Innovative Land Swap May Save Air Force Base
By Columnist
BY JOEL MILLER Early in December, city officials from Hawthorne and El Segundo, business leaders and military personnel will ...
Mentally Disabled Teenager Sues Comcast in Rape Case
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Cable TV provider Comcast Corp. is at least partly responsible for a rape allegedly committed against a men...
Street Smarts
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis Four months after the merger between Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie and Bingham McCutchen, managing part...
Weston Benshoof Steers Court Project
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Six months after landing a lucrative contract to implement a 2002 law aimed at reforming the state's court sy...
Westcore Shrinks Name, Widens Scope
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Real estate investment firm Westcore Properties announced it is diversifying its scope t...
Stoel Rives Aids Calpine in $800 Million Debt Offering
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes A subsidiary of San Jose energy company Calpine Corp. recently tapped Stoel Rives for an $800 million debt of...
Designing in Builder's Paradise
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor In the city of Guangzhou, between the fertile plains of China's Pearl River Delta an...
Intellectual Property Pro Takes Gig at McDermott
By Joel Rosenblatt
By Joel Rosenblatt Peter P. Chen, a former vice president of intellectual property at Cadence Design Systems Inc., joined McD...
Competition to House L.A. Team Continues
By Chris Tolles
CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant A Los Angeles-area city will have an NFL football team one day, and with the team will come ...
Creating the Ultimate Public-Private Partnership
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Imagine a place where vacancy rates are consistently low, upfront costs are typically less an...
Proposed Asbestos Bill Is Unfair to Prudent Concerns
By Contributing Writer
By E. Joshua Rosenkranz When Sen. Orrin Hatch's Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Bill emerged from the Judiciary Commit...
SEC Uses Recruiters to Hire 800
By Wire
By Amy Strahan Butler Bloomberg News The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is turning to outside recruiters as the agen...
Dinner Honoring Ziffren Raises $1 Million
By Tina Spee
By Tina Spee Entertainment law guru Kenneth Ziffren not only helped secure late-night television host Jay Leno's career, he a...
Buildings Don't Need to Burn to Feel Fire's Impact
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Though your building may not have been damaged in Southern California's wildfires, that d...
Orrick Herrington Taps Human Resources Chief
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Gera Vaz, a former operations director for Clifford Chance and a former human resources manager for Brobeck, ...
Firms Aid San Francisco Affordable-Housing Project
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes A nonprofit group is set to begin developing a $32 million affordable-housing project for low-income resident...
Fourteen Californians Make List of Top Black Attorneys
By Tina Spee
By Tina Spee On the cover of this month's Black Enterprise, a business and investment resource magazine for African-Americans...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Riverside County
By Angela Gottula
MORENO VALLEY - Joe Chavez, Alexander Garcia and Bill Melton of Marcus & Millichap represented the principals in the sale...
Leading Issue
By Columnist
By Robert Fortunato The story has become all too familiar over the past few years: A key leader/rainmaker within a firm leave...
Paper Chase
By Contributing Writer
By K. Preston Oade Jr. and Christopher L. Ottele In wake of last year's passage of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and Arthur Ande...
Treble Damages
By Contributing Writer
BY TODD J. WENZEL Trebled damages in wrongful-eviction disputes in San Francisco and other counties render awards that are ar...
U.S. Economy Ready to Take Off
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Declaring that the recovery is under way, the Mortgage Bankers Association predicted str...
Los Angeles' Top 20 Law Firms
By Tina Spee
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld continued to shrink this year and slid off the Los Angeles Top 20 chart, beat out by newcom...