Corporate Lawyer Leaves For Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
By Erik Cummins
Being at a firm that's looking ahead rather than back is fun, says Peter Heinecke, who recently joined Kirkpatrick & Lockh...
Negotiating Post-Closing Liability for Hazardous Substances
By Columnist
BY DIANA S. PARKS As the amount of property available for residential and commercial development in California continues to d...
Open Forum for Properties
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Got a property listing to market? For 15 years, the Irvine-based real estate investment ...
Hospital Wins Despite Towel Left in Man
By Eron Yehuda
After performing a liver transplant procedure, the surgical staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center failed to remove a towel from...
Make Sure Class Benefits Are the Best They Can Be
By Contributing Writer
Column - Attorney Fees - By Andrew A. August - With the rise in the number of private attorney general representative actions ...
Taking Home the TOBY
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant When a 532,815-square-foot office building in Los Angeles is 0.7 percent vacant, a few "o...
Morrison & Foerster Finds Leader in San Diego Office
By Liz Valsamis
Three months after San Diego managing partner Mark Danis assumed firmwide management duties, Morrison & Foerster has found...
Pro Bono Caseloads Grow as Funds Shrink
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Hazel Harris was planning to live out the rest of her life peacefully in the Fullerton home she bought in 1950. It...
Inland Empire Drives SoCal Growth
By Contributing Writer
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer Vastly transformed from its bedroom-community roots, the Inland Empire is the shining ray ...
Merged Castle Petersen Expands Litigation Focus
By Liz Valsamis
Labor relations law firms Castle & Krause and the Petersen Law Firm joined this summer to form Castle, Petersen & Krau...
UnionBanCal Banks on Help From Manatt in Transaction
By Toni Vranjes
San Francisco-based UnionBanCal Corp., the parent company of Union Bank of California, plans to continue its buying spree of r...
Morgan Lewis Draws 27 Attorneys From Boutique
By Liz Valsamis
One day after insurance recovery boutique Zevnik Horton dissolved, 27 lawyers from the Washington, D.C.-based firm joined Morg...
Jury Finds No Trademark Infringement
By Stefanie Knapp
A Dallas-based company that provides information management for hospitals won't have to change its letterhead after all. Not y...
Orrick Snags Media Expert From Clinton White House
By Erik Cummins
Lanny Davis joined the Clinton White House as special counsel in 1996 as the Whitewater scandal was winding down. For the next...
Internet Misuse Can Reduce Broker Productivity
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Real estate brokers who use work time to play poker, bid on eBay or check the value of their ...
Finishing First
By Contributing Writer
Column - Law Firm Management - By David Roberts And Stan Stahl - The modern law firm competes in a world very different from t...
Winston Lures Star From Thelen's Leadership Team
By Erik Cummins
When Charles Birenbaum lost a March election to run Thelen Reid & Priest by one vote, he had no idea he'd end up at Winsto...
A Convoluted History
By John Ryan
BY JOHN RYAN Special to CREJ Fred Nicholas squints into the late September sun as he approaches a large stainless-steel struc...
Asian Marketplace Coming to Rancho Cordova
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Tucked out of site behind a large Target-anchored retail center, Zinfandel Square in Rancho C...
Environmentalists Ask Court to Halt OK for Power Plant
By Eron Yehuda
The approval of plans for a massive power plant in the Central Valley has sparked a recent petition to the state Supreme Court...
Judge Restores Medi-Cal Benefits to Infants
By Stefanie Knapp
Thanks to a recent order by a San Francisco court, infants born under Medi-Cal will continue to receive those benefits until t...
InterActive Buys Hotwire.com Site For $685 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Broadening the scope of its online travel services, e-commerce company InterActiveCorp has agreed to buy discount travel Web s...
Fairmont Capital Purchases Garden Fresh Restaurants
By Toni Vranjes
A private investment firm has agreed to buy San Diego's Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp., operator of the Souplantation and Sweet...
Foreign Agenda
By Joel Rosenblatt
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - During the boom, technology was king and anyone trying to battle indigenous Silicon Valley firms...
Some Cancelled Insurance Policies May Still Be in Force Under 'Mackey'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By William G. Short - Insurers should take heed, if they have not already, of a little-noticed ...
Counsel Must Prepare Parties to Accept Settlement
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Michael J. Roberts - Consider a common situation: An employment mediation t...
Jones Day Departs Pooh Country for Greener Pastures
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams It's the money. No, it's the trash. The preceding is the short, uncomplicated, relatively nonparanoid ...
Systematic Abuse
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Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Marisa Gonzalez - Should courts be permitted to require mothers who allege domestic violen...
Caeton 'a Marvelous Man' Who Puts Kids First
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In Dennis Caeton's courtroom, kids come first. That's the consensus among attorneys and social workers who hav...
Court Won't Revive Suit by Victim's Kin
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit filed against a Los Angeles-area Jewish Community Center by ...