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Lawyer Protects Google's Name

Jul. 2, 2003
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...


Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In Ferguson v. Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein , 30 Cal.4...



'No-Fly' List Risk

Jul. 2, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Jayashri Srikantiah - Rebecca Gordon and Jan Adams are longtime peace activists who live and work in San Fra...


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

Jul. 2, 2003
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

Jul. 2, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Linda Ekstrom Stanley, the outspoken former bankruptcy trustee in Northern California who monitored the $13 b...



Reporter's Notebook - Environmental Law - By Dennis Pfaff - For anyone who might think the long arm of American law loses its ...


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

Jul. 2, 2003
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...


Column By Garry Abrams - The U.S. Supreme Court killed Strom Thurmond!? That was my first reaction Friday morning as I scanned...



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

Jul. 2, 2003
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...



Perhaps the biggest event in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's quest to build its litigation department came in 1998, when ...


A parcel of Koreatown land will become home to 1,500 middle-school students instead of 3,500 parishioners, a judge ruled Tuesd...



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

Jul. 1, 2003
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...



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

Jul. 1, 2003
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...



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?

Jul. 1, 2003
By Columnist

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

Jul. 1, 2003
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

Jul. 1, 2003
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...



BY BRAD BERTON Special to CREJ Silicon Valley's current cyclical economic trough predictably is garnering attention from real...


Corinthian Colleges Buys Career Choices

Jul. 1, 2003
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

Jul. 1, 2003
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

Jul. 1, 2003
By Christine Malamanig

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer California school districts are discovering new ways of financing and building their...



In yet another tech merger announced this month, software company Mercury Interactive Corp. has agreed to buy privately held K...


Filling in Long Beach

Jul. 1, 2003
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

Jul. 1, 2003
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...


Last year's merger with San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen wasn't quite enough for Jay Zimmerman, the aggre...