Lawyer Was Former Spokesman for Gas Co.
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Memorial services for Bruce R. Marshall, who became a lawyer after years as a spokesman for Southern California Ga...
Oppenheimer Co-Chair Finds New Firm
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - With his former firm effectively winding down its California operations, Bruce Canter, managing partner of the N...
Musicians Lose Likeness Claim
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Two brothers in a Texas blues-rock band are not wronged celebrities just because a comic book series loosely ...
State High Court Librarian Loses Suit Over Dismissal
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The former head librarian for the California Supreme Court did not have a serious health condition, a San Fra...
In L.A.'s Budget Battle Over More Cops, It's Ants vs. Grasshoppers
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Forget Osama bin Laden and the threat that he and the rest of his al-Qaida terrorist network represen...
Free, With the Car: A Stash of Marijuana
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - When 67-year-old Jose Cervantes bid on and won a car auctioned by the U.S. government in San Diego in July 19...
Trevor Suit Is Complex, Court Rules
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A suit filed by Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office against the beleaguered Trevor Law Group for allegedly ab...
Ex-Prosecutor Pleads Not Guilty to Felonies
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles deputy district attorney pleaded not guilty Friday to identity theft, forgery and other fel...
Steefel Is Sued for Malpractice
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - What began as a $25,000 dispute in bankruptcy court over a company called Robot Wars has grown into a $1 milli...
Public Offices Are Told What A Scaled-Back Budget Means
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - In his budget proposal for the coming year, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown suggests reductions of $2.2 mill...
Their Music May Be Over, But Their Lawsuit Lives On
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not every day that dark-suited lawyers share the gallery at San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal...
Oppenheimer Is History in Silicon Valley
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly closed its 35-lawyer office in Palo Alto last week, with star intellectual ...
Cooley Partner Joins Paul Hastings
By Liz Valsamis
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker is beefing up its newly acquired San Diego office with the addition of Carl Sanchez, for...
Anti-Trans Fat Crusader Drops Oreo Suit
By Joan Osterwalder
Attorney Stephen Joseph became fodder for the national news media after filing a lawsuit that claimed one of America's favorit...
Goal Tending
By Columnist
Column - Marketing - By Andrea W. Snedeker - For some, the notion of setting goals conjures up images of footsteps in the sand...
Protesting for the American Dream
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Builders have gotten used to the sight of anti-development or affordable housing pro...
Party Paradox
By Stefanie Knapp
Driving up to the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa on May 14 for the Constitutional Rights Foundation's annual Spring Dinner, the S...
Suit Produces Misconduct Claims All Around
By Eron Yehuda
A wild and woolly product liability case in Santa Barbara that ended in April with a defense verdict has stirred up accusation...
Bankruptcy Forum Recognizes 17 Jurists
By Stefanie Knapp
The California Bankruptcy Forum honored 17 judges at its annual conference held in Rancho Mirage May 16-18. The U.S. Bankruptc...
Screen Service
By Toni Vranjes
In December, an Australian court ruled that a local businessman could sue U.S.-based publisher Dow Jones & Co. in Australi...
Globalizing IP
By Contributing Writer
Column - Intellectual Property - By Reese Pecot - Changes are afoot for trademark practitioners. On Nov. 2, the U.S. Patent &a...
Look Within for Facility Savings
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRSTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The rolling brownouts and blackouts of two and three years ago have slipped away quie...
Lights! Camera! Caution!
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Flip on your television or go to a movie and odds are you'll see a familiar Southern Cal...
Saga Continues For Couple That Tried to Buy Car
By Stefanie Knapp
The saga continues for a San Jose couple that wanted to get a good deal on a car four years ago. In 1999, Trini and Ramon Chav...
Foster Child's Death in L.A. System Haunts Blunt Jurist
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - Tough guys don't cry. Though Albert Joseph Garcia promotes a tough-guy image, he doesn't quite fit the adage. Th...
Company Wins Rights to Soviet-Era Films
By Joan Osterwalder
A Los Angeles-based film company won a five-year legal battle over rights to Soviet-era animated films produced before the fal...
Location Entices Lawyers to Join Reed Smith
By Erik Cummins
For Matt Kirmayer, it was all about location. "For what I do, San Francisco is the center of the world," says Kirmayer, a corp...
Bankrupt Technology Tenants Challenge Landlords
By Columnist
BY SUZANNE BADAWI Everyone knows what happened to venture capitalists who jumped on the dot-com bandwagon, envisioning e-start...
CIM Begins Mixed-Use Project Featuring Downtown Ralphs
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor LOS ANGELES - Just a few blocks from where the first Ralphs market opened in 1873 ...
Taking Managers Out of the Property
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ The state's largest office landlord, Equity Office Properties Trust, plans to open a dozen ...