Pillsbury Winthrop Moves Outpost Into MGM Tower
By Liz Valsamis
Pillsbury Winthrop has entered into a seven-year lease for 21,000 square feet of space at the MGM Tower in Century City, which...
Lewis Brisbois Spirits Away Boutique Toxic Tort Partner
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has lured away an environmental and toxic tort partner from Santa Ana's H...
After 25 Years, the Prop. 13 Debate Continues
By Ron Mc Nees
BY JON COUPAL Ever since 1978, when Proposition 13 was approved by nearly two-thirds of the electorate, the landmark measure ...
Ignore the Bells and Whistles
By Columnist
BY YEHUDI GAFFEN Finding the best project team for a new construction, expansion or renovation project often is easier said t...
Reversing Diversity
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William C. Kidder and Susan K. Serrano - In Grutter v. Bollinger, the landmark ruling upholding affir...
Bill Encourages States to Waive Immunity in IP Cases
The U.S. Constitution sets forth a federal system of sovereign states. It is common for states, through their universities and...
'Robinson' Opinion Will Be Important Economic-Loss Doctrine Clarification
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Aaron P. Allan and Gretchen Wettig - In product-liability cases, California's "economic loss ...
Jury Awards $2 Million Bias Verdict
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court jury has awarded $2.1 million to a man who alleged his former employer, a Taiwanes...
Arbitration Suggested for Condo Owners
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The California Law Revision Commission is recommending that homeowner associations be required to offer free, inf...
Two Ohio Men Vie for Deanship
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The next dean of Golden Gate University School of Law will hail from the Buckeye State. A field consisting of ...
New Bar Chief Touts Webcasts
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The incoming president of the Santa Clara County Bar Association hopes to use organization's Web site as a membersh...
Judge's Booming Voice Calmed Defendants
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Keith Byram. Byram, who served as a bench o...
Boalt Names Four Candidates for Dean
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly a year after the departure of Boalt Hall Dean John Dwyer in a sex scandal, a recruitment committee has ...
Health Benefits Change With Economy
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The labor strife over health care costs engulfing Los Angeles is nothing new, experts say. When the economy take...
Ex-Lawyer Faces Arraignment Today
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A former attorney charged with grand theft and illegally practicing law will be arraigned today in Los Angeles S...
Orrick Beefs Up Its White-Collar Defense Talent
By Pamela Mac Lean
Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe may have been late to the white-collar defense...
Her Honor Is In
By Robert Selna
OAKLAND - When Alameda Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Taber started practicing law in the East Bay in 1948, television was in...
Disabled Court Clerk Says Bosses Were Unfair
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court clerk, whose treatment for lymphoma led to a severe brain infection and partial paralysis, ha...
Contractor Lets Good Times Roel
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Family-owned Roel Construction Co. is eyeing a western U.S. expansion, and one of the li...
SoCal Developers Less Likely to Seek Affordable Housing Dollars From State
By Michael Gottliebn
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer The California Debt Limit Allocation Committee's 2003 estimated list of qualified resident...
Judge Says Utah's Best for Farmers' Suit
By Stefanie Knapp
A lawsuit filed by dairy farmers is on hold thanks to an Oct. 7 stay in the case and an order from the Los Angeles Superior Co...
After 25 Years, the Prop. 13 Debate Continues
By Columnist
BY LENNY GOLDBERG Summer 2003: The state is perching precariously close to fiscal disaster, borrowing billions of dollars to ...
Media Spokesman Sues Riverside Campus
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - As longtime media spokesman for the University of California, Riverside, Jack Chappell said he helped blunt critic...
Remedial Nature of Maritime Law Protects Injured Seamen
By Columnist
Focus Column - Maritime Law - By Alexander S. Polsky - represent an injured seaman, an attorney will need to understand the un...
When the Firm Changes Investment Providers
By Sandra Corrales
Employment Column - By Debra A. Davis - When firms change their (401)k plan's investment providers, most plan fiduciaries unde...
Closed Doors
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Slowly, insidiously, the courthouse doors are being closed to litigants. One way this is...
McKessonHBOC Exec Pleads Guilty
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A central figure in the 1999 McKessonHBOC securities scandal pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy and securit...
Ruling on ISPs' Liability Seen as Chilling Online Speech
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Cyberlawyers across the country have reacted with varying levels of alarm and apathy to a state appeal court's...
Closed Hearing Sought in Fajita Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Anticipating that they will attempt to change venue, the three off-duty San Francisco police officers charged ...
Reporter's Notebook: Patent Case Bugaboo of Adverse Inference Takes a Hit
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney-client privilege is a sacred legal doctrine, but for decades defendants in patent suits have had to f...