Forward Thinker
By Toni Vranjes
The U.S. savings and loan scandals of the late 1980s and early 1990s are history, having made way for the Enron era of corpora...
Boston and RITA Settle All Their Patent Disputes
By Stefanie Knapp
Boston Scientific Corp. and RITA Medical Systems Inc. have reached a settlement of all patent disputes between the companies. ...
Litigator Delivers His Own Baby on Living Room Floor
By Liz Valsamis
After the recent birth of his second child, litigation associate Timothy Wendling probably thinks he could've been a doctor ju...
Mountain Man
By John Ryan
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Ralph Baxter is always on the climb - whether he's pushing firm profits up the charts, as...
Four From Paul Hastings Form Firm
By Liz Valsamis
Increasingly, lawyers are leaving large law firms in order to lower their rates in response to client demand. In February, fou...
Loeb Grabs Akin Entertainment Star for Partner
By Liz Valsamis
Carolyn Hunt has left the Los Angeles office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld for the opportunity to become a partner ...
Visa, MasterCard Must Disclose Fees
By Stefanie Knapp
A recent Alameda County Superior Court decision forces Visa and MasterCard to disclose a 1 percent foreign currency exchange f...
Davis Wright Lures Energy Partner
By Erik Cummins
Leaving her partners at Thelen Reid & Priest was like "growing up and leaving home," says Allison Davis. The San Francisco...
A Test Case for Mandating Affordable Housing
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The Sacramento region could become a statewide model for affordable housing developm...
Financing Closes on North Beach Housing
By Toni Vranjes
A new housing development in San Francisco is one step closer to becoming reality. Attorneys have closed the equity financing ...
Maximizing Retail Real Estate Investments
By Columnist
BY RICHARD WALTER Savvy retail owners and investors are looking to new deal structures to buy and sell properties using break...
S.F. Law Firm Grabs 120,000 Sq. Ft. of Office Space Vacated by Brobeck
By Erik Cummins
BY ERIK CUMMINS Special to CREJ SAN FRANCISCO - Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has answered one of the key unresolved quest...
Power of One
By Catherine Cavella
In Closing Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - If your law firm is like others, you have probably purchased separate soft...
Judge Invalidates Camera-Lens System
By Joan Osterwalder
A federal judge in Los Angeles has invalidated a patent held by an Australian nature photographer for a Panavision-produced ca...
Pillsbury Winthrop Extends Hiring Spree
By Joel Rosenblatt
Pillsbury Winthrop's hiring spree continues apace with recent additions to its Silicon Valley and Houston offices. On March 31...
Virtual Tenant Reps
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor In the aftermath of the high-tech bubble's bursting, commercial property listing s...
High-Court Ruling Capping Punitive Damages Stirs Controversy
By Joan Osterwalder
A U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting punitive damages is causing a debate among California lawyers. Defense attorneys claim ...
Ruling May Send Korean Banks to Court
By Stefanie Knapp
Thanks to a Supreme Court decision that came down Tuesday, two Korean banks in a separate case could find themselves back in a...
Travel Agents Sue After Airlines Cut Off Commissions
By Joan Osterwalder
U.S. travel agents hope to right their nose-diving businesses by suing 21 major airlines for cutting off their commissions. ...
Certification of Class Is Difficult In Cases of Medical Monitoring
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The state Supreme Court recently handed down a decision th...
Transferred Intent Doesn't Apply to Murder Attempt
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Bad aim never has been a defense to murder. Under the doctrine of transf...
Stop the Press
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael S. Overing and Edward C. Wilde Sr. - Just days after the war in Iraq began, Americans learned that f...
Judge Orders County To Keep Center Open
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Local health care advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Cent...
Female Presiding Judge Pioneered on Court
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Elisabeth Eberhard Zeigler, one of the first female presiding judges of the Los Angeles Municipal Court, died on...
Katten Muchin Opens Office to Employees' Kids
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Information technology manager Josh Furey led a group of children into the server room of the Los Angeles office...
'Gentle Giant of Scholar' Detested Violence
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Jesse Dukeminier, UCLA School of Law professor emeritus and property law expert, died in his Los Angeles home Ap...
D.A. Wants to Base Layoffs on Experience, Not Seniority
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - With layoffs looming at the Santa Clara County district attorney's office for the first time in years, the Governme...
Judge Tells Trevor Group Settlements Must Wait
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge will wait for the State Bar to determine Trevor Law Group's fate before approving settle...
Defender Pleads Guilty to Giving Client Pot
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles County defense attorney has pleaded guilty to passing a bag of marijuana to her client in a Riversid...
Hollywood Loses Piracy Round in Court
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed the entertainment industry its first major courtroom defeat in the b...