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By Joel Rosenblatt
Securities lawyers and white-collar defense attorneys take note: the Securities and Exchange Commission is busier than ever. ...
New S. Calif. Multifamily Player Taps Latest Trends
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Alliance Residential Co., a full-service apartment company, inaugurated its new Southern ...
Top 50 Counsel
By Tina Spee
Whether their in-house departments have three lawyers - like San Jose's Sanmina-Sci - or 300 (think Hewlett-Packard), Califor...
Skadden Arps Guides SangStat in Buyout
By Toni Vranjes
Biotechnology company Genzyme Corp. is buying Fremont-based SangStat Medical Corp., which sells a lucrative drug for kidney-tr...
Pillsbury Winthrop Attracts Regulatory Agency Counsel
By Erik Cummins
Rosemarie Oda, the former general counsel of California's Department of Financial Institutions, has joined Pillsbury Winthrop....
Freeman Nabs Two Partners After Arter Closes
By Liz Valsamis
Freeman, Freeman & Smiley hired two Arter & Hadden partners following that firm's closure July 15. July 16, Jill MacGr...
New Law Addresses 'Hack Heard 'Round the World'
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Devin Gensch - In April 2002, a hacker gained access to the Teale Data Center's payr...
'Echazabal' Increases Uncertainty for Both Sides in 'Direct Threat' Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By David J. Reis and Dipanwita Deb Amar - It came as no surprise that a unanimous Supreme Cour...
Elect to Resolve Balloting Quandary
By Melissa Onstad
Forum Column - By Rick Hasen - Noting ambiguities and internal contradictions in the state's recall laws, state Supreme Court ...
Initiative on Racial Privacy Will Thwart Bias Remedies
By Melissa Onstad
Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - In his landmark 1942 book, "Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race," anthropologist ...
Paralyzed Suspect Can't Sue Deputy
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An armed-robbery suspect who was paralyzed permanently from the waist down cannot sue a sheriff's deputy for all...
Orange County Courts Reduce Service Hours
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - After months of trying to avoid additional reductions in service, Orange County Superior Court officials announced...
High-Density Bill Gets Mixed Review
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff writer A new piece of proposed legislation would not only speed the approval process for multifamily...
Affidavit a Substitute for Live Testimony
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers accused by defendants of conducting illegal searches now can answer in court with an affidavit...
L.A. Can Gather Billboard Fees
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals panel has upheld two Los Angeles billboard ordinances, overturning a lower-court order that bl...
Prosecutor Accused of Misconduct
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor Ben Field, a potential candidate for district attorney, is under fire for his office'...
Supervisor's Coercive Behavior Makes Employer Liable
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Employers may be held liable for a supervisor who successfully coerces an underling into sexual acts if the vi...
Magistrate Decries Secret Filings, Prefers Openness
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Don't get him wrong. U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Walsh loves his job. But if Walsh could change one thing -...
Benched, at Last
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Ron Albers didn't let losing two elections to become a San Francisco judge end his dream of holding judicial o...
Bar Warns SEC Rule May Not Offer Shield
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - A State Bar committee has warned the Securities and Exchange Commission that the agency's rules encouraging at...
Judge William Orrick, 87
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Colleagues and friends are remembering Senior U.S. District Judge William Orrick as the independent-minded cor...
Judge Sets Tough Standard for Oil Cleanups
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooperating with a government pollution agency doesn't necessarily constitute adequate public notice of a cle...
Jury Is Out on Works Of Art at Courthouses
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Walk too fast through the plaza of the federal courthouse, and you could almost miss them: a bear, two eagles, f...
How to Fire an Employee Without Getting Sued
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Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - Terminating an employee without getting sued for it is not simple. Lawyers who are not...
Alameda Sex Predator Unit Gets New Chief
By Karen Coleman
Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - When Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Nancy Davis leaves her position next wee...
Valiant Lawyer Endured Internment Camps
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Kenji Ito, a Japanese-American who faced arrest and internment during World War II but went on to become a leade...
Fees to Rise In S.F. Court
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Starting Monday, San Francisco Superior Court will ask lawyers for more cash when filing papers. The state Leg...
Court Tosses Robbery Conviction
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Saying the trial was marred by both prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel, an appellate...
Judge Sets Fajitagate Hearing
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The three San Francisco police officers accused of beating two men on Union Street last year will go to a prel...
Lawyer Pleads Guilty To 49 Fraud Counts
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Tarzana lawyer and bankruptcy trustee Robert Dennis Pryce Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday to 49 counts of bankruptcy...