Justices Show Inclination in Disability, Harassment Cases
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court sounded wary Wednesday of holding employers liable for sexual harassment under th...
Requiem for a Venture
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - To its admirers, Menlo Park's Venture Law Group revolutionized the practice of corporate law in Silicon Valley...
Hon. Percy Anderson
Battle for Gay Rights Isn't Over
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Miles Christian Daniels - Gay and lesbian people have had reason to rejoice since the decision in Lawrenc...
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Benjamin G. Shatz - Properly calendaring judgment-notwithstanding-the-ve...
Sheriff Can't Do End-Around to Seize Pot
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal judge has made clear that local sheriffs can't run to federal court to circumve...
Student Hopes American DREAM Comes True
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Juan Manrique is pinning his hopes on a dream - literally. The son of a murdered political dissident from Guate...
Court OKs State Jurisdiction for Firms Doing Business on Web
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - In its first ruling on Internet jurisdiction, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday that Califor...
Tough Talk
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Miranda D. Junowicz - Public condemnation of the statements of individual judges or justices ought to be rar...
Senate OKs More Harassment Liability
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday to clarify that employers may be held liable for sexual harassment of th...
U.S. Pre-Clears Kings County's Election Plans
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday removed two more obstacles to California's recall election when it appr...
Hallinan Agrees to Vacating Goff's Murder Conviction
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan said Tuesday his decision to support a defense motion to free accused kille...
Bench Veteran Exhibits Quick Wit
By Dennis Pfaff
REDWOOD CITY - After some 27 years on the job, San Mateo Superior Court Commissioner Joseph Gruber was bound to generate some ...
San Francisco Judge Throws Out State's Rules on Rivers
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - State logging rules that environmentalists had attacked as allowing drastic reductions in protections for rive...
Circuit Panel: State's Courts Can Judge in Internet Case
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - In its first ruling on Internet jurisdiction, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday that Californ...
Judge Removed in Pepper Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday removed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco from presiding over...
Commissioner Feels Lucky To Be Dedicated to His Job
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Mitchell L. Beckloff says he thinks of his good fortune almost every mor...
Guatemalan Immigrant Pins Hopes on DREAM
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Juan Manrique is pinning his hopes on a dream - literally. The son of a murdered political dissident from Guatem...
Advocates for Election
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Don't tell Fremont divorce lawyer Bob Lynn Edwards Jr. he's got no chance of winning the Oct. 7 recall election t...
It's Official: VLG Joins Forces With Heller
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group, the high-flying darling of Silicon Valley's dot-com boom, will merge with San Francisco's H...
Judges Dump Death Verdicts Of 100 Inmates
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday reversed 100 death sentences in Arizona, Idaho and Montana. In an 8-3 dec...
Renters Seek to Evict Oakland Judge
By Karen Coleman
BY KAREN COLEMAN Special to CREJ A group of Oakland renters' organizations is trying to get law-and-motion Judge James Richma...
Mr. Nice Guy
By Don De Benedictis
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Members of the State Bar Board of Governors regularly deny that there are "outsiders" and "insid...
Making Affordable Housing Pencil Out
By Contributing Writer
BY MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ When it comes to affordable housing, there is perception and then there is re...
Despite Reimbursment, Santa Monica Tenants Pursue East Coast Landlords
By Joan Osterwalder
BY JOAN OSTERWALDER Special to CREJ Santa Monica sole practitioner Jack L. Schwartz says he is in a David versus Goliath figh...
Sales Searching
By Contributing Writer
Column Marketing By Gail Reysa It's hard to ignore the fact that more and more law firms are hiring in-house marketing directo...
Pair Starts Employment Practice
By Liz Valsamis
Roxanne Davis and Phillip Maltin have formed Santa Monica's Davis Maltin Law Firm, which specializes in employment and labor i...
Palo Alto Outfit Gets $10 Million To Battle Spam
By Toni Vranjes
MailFrontier Inc. has raised $10 million to help with its spam-fighting crusade. The Palo Alto company, which provides anti-sp...
Risk Transfer
By Columnist
BY STUART MINER Constrained markets create interesting scenarios for developers and real estate executives. On one hand, land...
Partners in Credit Finance Will Leave Cooley Godward
By Joel Rosenblatt
Partners Pamela Martinson in Palo Alto and Peter Carson in San Francisco are the latest high-profile departures from Cooley Go...