Deal-Making Show Goes On
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A funny thing happened on the way to a broker forum sponsored by the Irvine-based investm...
C.C. Myers Vies for Bay Bridge Contract
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer One of the state's largest contractors refuses to wave a white flag in the battle over who sh...
Exclusive!
By Columnist
Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - With barren, craggy mountains in the backdrop, Geraldo Rivera appears on camera. His hair blowi...
Employee-Benefits Lawyer Enlists at Orrick Herrington
By Erik Cummins
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was more than accommodating to the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison lawyers it picked up as ...
Law Review Article Guides Missouri High Court in Ruling
By Tina Spee
When the Missouri Supreme Court faced a right of publicity case brought by a professional hockey player against a comic book, ...
Source of Knowledge
By Toni Vranjes
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Two years ago, Catholic Healthcare West signed a $600 million agreement to outsource its informa...
Beat the Crowd
By Contributing Writer
Column - Business Development - By Robert A. Potter - When firms lose a request for proposal, they usually blame it on their b...
Allen Matkins Opens Office In North County San Diego
By Liz Valsamis
Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory is 20 miles closer to its software and real estate companies in North Cou...
Planned Parenthood Head Will Lead San Diego ACLU
By Claude Walbert
Nancy Sasaki, the former president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, has been named executive ...
Engineer Drives It Home
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer When George Nolte Jr. makes a move, it's likely to be fast. The civil engineer and chief exec...
Two Structures to Serve Sacramento
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Sacramento residents doing business with their city are preparing themselves for a "one-stop ...
Courts' Spanish Web Site Increases Access
By Stefanie Knapp
The jury is still out two months after the Judicial Council launched a Spanish version of the California Courts Self-Help Cent...
Preparation by Mediator, Lawyers Boosts Success
By Contributing Writer
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Kanon Alpert - For a mediation to succeed, the mediator and other principals ...
Operator of Gas Station Beats Chevron
By Toni Vranjes
A gas-station operator in San Pedro won a victory earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that Chevron improperly termin...
State Building Volume Down for Second Month
By Ron Mc Nees
California's total statewide construction activity declined for the second month in a row with July's volume totaling $6.02 b...
Kin of Yosemite Murder Victims Settle Suit
By Eron Yehuda
The relatives of a mother and daughter murdered during a 1999 sightseeing trip in Yosemite reached a $1 million settlement in ...
Lawyers Plead No Contest to Real Estate Swindle at City of Hope
By Anne La Jeunesse
BY ANNE LA JEUNESSE Special to CREJ Two Los Angeles attorneys charged with swindling the City of Hope cancer research and tre...
Prosecutor Will Take a Stab at Private Practice
By David Houston
Fresh out of Glendale College of the Law, Albert H. MacKenzie went to work in the district attorney's office because he wanted...
Court Rebukes Advocate for Mediating
By Eron Yehuda
An appellate court in August expressed "misgivings" about the way a Santa Rosa attorney tried to mediate a dispute while at th...
Island Reclamation
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer In the city of Vallejo, an old naval base is in the midst of transition. Mare Island, located...
Good Times
By Stefanie Knapp
The Scene felt like a movie star strolling down Hollywood Boulevard to take a turn on the red carpet that led into the histori...
Morrison & Foerster Re-Elects Chairman
By Erik Cummins
The news that Keith Wetmore was re-elected chairman of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster was a bit anticlimactic, Wetmor...
Last Klein Lawyer Leaves Shaw Pittman
By Liz Valsamis
The last former Klein & Martin lawyer to leave Shaw Pittman's Los Angeles office has found a new firm. Charles Fiedler joi...
Woman Claims Store Ordered Her a Magazine
By Stefanie Knapp
Customers who use credit cards at Sam Goody stores may want to read the fine print. A Laguna Hills woman claims that when she ...
Dykema Gossett Opens Pasadena Office
By Liz Valsamis
When Detroit's Feeney Kellett Wienner & Bush closed its doors this summer, crosstown firm Dykema Gossett took advantage of...
High Court Search Cases Deeply Affect Legal Terrain
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - As members of the legal profession wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to res...
Lawyer's Recall Role Raises Ethics Questions
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - The role of an O'Melveny & Myers attorney in the legal imbroglio over halting the state recall is drawing f...
Experts Disagree With 9th Circuit's Leftist Reputation
By Katherine Gaidos
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is commonly perceived as a renegade, left-leaning federal appeals court, reversed by th...
Bill Would Conform State Law to Changes to Superfund Statute
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David A. Ossentjuk - The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization ...
9th Circuit Should Have Considered Remedies Besides Postponement
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marc Levin - By postponing the recall election in Southwest Voter Registration Education Project v. Shell...