Lawyer Protects Google's Name
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Guarding one of the most recognized brands on the Internet is a full-time job. Just ask Rose Hagan, Google In...
Legal-Malpractice Plaintiff Can't Sue for Value of Lost Punitives
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In Ferguson v. Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein , 30 Cal.4...
'No-Fly' List Risk
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jayashri Srikantiah - Rebecca Gordon and Jan Adams are longtime peace activists who live and work in San Fra...
Every American Should Pay Some Income Tax
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Forum Column - By Robert R. Eberle - There is a saying in America that, "There are only two sure things in life: Death and tax...
City Attorneys Group Votes To Join Union
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Members of the Los Angeles City Attorneys Association have voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the Service Em...
Stanley Fights Her '02 Ouster
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Ekstrom Stanley, the outspoken former bankruptcy trustee in Northern California who monitored the $13 b...
EPA Got Its Man, Even If It Meant Going to Saipan
By Dennis Pfaff
Reporter's Notebook - Environmental Law - By Dennis Pfaff - For anyone who might think the long arm of American law loses its ...
Circuit Tells DEA It Can't Prohibit Food With Hemp
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is high on hemp. By a 2-1 vote Monday, a three-judge panel struck down a...
Brothers Abused by Priest Settle for $4 Million
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Two brothers who were molested decades ago by a San Bernardino priest have agreed to settle their civil suit aga...
Supreme Court Gives Strom Thurmond a Well-Timed Send-Off
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The U.S. Supreme Court killed Strom Thurmond!? That was my first reaction Friday morning as I scanned...
U.S., California Jury-Selection Language Ruled Equivalent
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court tried Monday to put an end to the long-standing debate over whether the state's sta...
Court Rejects Trespassing Theory of E-Mail
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a legal battle that pitted freedom of speech against a company's private property rights, a divided California S...
White-Collar Litigation Star Will Lead Practice at Orrick
By Erik Cummins
Perhaps the biggest event in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's quest to build its litigation department came in 1998, when ...
Judge Sides With District, Forces Church to Move
By Stefanie Knapp
A parcel of Koreatown land will become home to 1,500 middle-school students instead of 3,500 parishioners, a judge ruled Tuesd...
Suffering Big Losses, SCI Holdings Wants SoftConnex Back
By Stefanie Knapp
A company is accused of providing misleading financial information that resulted in big losses for another, SCI Holdings Inc. ...
Hemophiliacs Sue U.S. Blood Companies
By Joan Osterwalder
Four U.S. companies exposed thousands of hemophiliacs to HIV and hepatitis C in the 1980s by selling them blood-clotting medic...
Manson Family Member Seeks Parole, Files Civil Rights Suit
By Eron Yehuda
Irvine attorney Eric P. Lampel doesn't expect sympathy for his client Susan D. Atkins, a prisoner notorious for her participat...
Townsend Opens San Diego Office
By Liz Valsamis
San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew is on track for the scheduled opening of its San Diego office tomorrow. On June...
Malaprop master Yogi Berra outscores Sen. Joseph McCarthy, tying up the Commie-busting legislator with streams of conscience.
By Contributing Writer
Daily Journal EXTRA has discovered still more tape recordings of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by Sen. Joseph M...
Stay Public or Go Private?
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BY SCOTT FARB Part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Section 404, ups the ante on financial reporting internal controls that...
Consumer Attorneys Enjoy Slow Roast
By Eron Yehuda
A roast is supposed to make mincemeat out of the person honored. But that's not exactly a tall order when the subject of the g...
Jury Clears Convalescent Hospital of Elder Abuse
By Joan Osterwalder
Despite emotionally charged testimony about alleged lack of care at a Los Angeles nursing home, a jury found against an 89-yea...
Silicon Valley Vultures Circle But Find Little Palatable Prey
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to CREJ Silicon Valley's current cyclical economic trough predictably is garnering attention from real...
Corinthian Colleges Buys Career Choices
By Toni Vranjes
Corinthian Colleges Inc., a Santa Ana-based company that operates a chain of vocational schools, will buy Career Choices Inc. ...
Right to Repair
By Contributing Writer
Column - Construction Defects - By Kevin P. Cody - By now, most home builders and contractors are aware that an important new ...
Private Financing for Public School
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer California school districts are discovering new ways of financing and building their...
Tech Companies Merge for $225 Million in Cash, Stock
By Toni Vranjes
In yet another tech merger announced this month, software company Mercury Interactive Corp. has agreed to buy privately held K...
Filling in Long Beach
By Contributing Writer
BY MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ As developers try to tap into the trend of people seeking to reconnect to thei...
On Their Court
By Katrina Dewey
Call them competitors, trailblazers, maybe even bitches if you're hung up on an image of women that's all sugar and spice. Wh...
Bingham McCutchen Nabs L.A.'s Riordan & McKinzie
By John Ryan
Last year's merger with San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen wasn't quite enough for Jay Zimmerman, the aggre...