Surviving El Segundo's Perfect Storm
By Contributing Writer
BY MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ Los Angeles' South Bay market wasn't known as a hotbed of dot-coms, but the s...
Top IP Attorney Was Computer Consultant at 12
By Stefanie Knapp
Daniel Harris remembers a time when computers didn't dominate the landscape and consumers couldn't just bop into any electroni...
'Victoria's Secret' Case Illuminates Confusion Over 'Dilution' Definition
By Columnist
Focus Column - By William F. Abrams and Paul E. Thomas - When Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc. , 2003 U.S.Sct.Lexis 1...
Drug Treatment Program Graduates First Class
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and others who entered Department 40 of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Friday mo...
Judge Makes House Calls at Homeless Shelter: A Win-Win Situation
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The small, cramped room in a homeless shelter run by the Emergency Housing Consortium seems an unlikely location fo...
Under Attack
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dorothy Ehrlich and Sanjeev Bery - The Department of Justice is considering sweeping new legislative proposa...
A Recent Book Recalls the Bad Old Days at Harvard, When Men Were Men and Women Were Ladies
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - When Judith Richards Hope started at Harvard Law School in 1961, her property law professor set aside special...
Lawyers Praise Judge's Common-Sense Approach
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph F. Biafore is not the sort of jurist who enjoys the limelight. Duri...
Hitchens' Plan Reasserts Control Over Flow of Cases
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Significant changes are under way in the San Francisco criminal courts, with a new plan to expedite cases and...
Residential Hotels Must Be Improved, Not Torn Down
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Barbara Schultz - Skid Row has been discovered by loft dwellers, redevelopment boosters and, most recently, ...
Invention Record Is Crucial, Even Without Patent Filing
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael J. Sacksteder - When the issue is whether an accused patent infringer came u...
Admission of Guilt Won't Halt Capital Case
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - Defense attorney Neil B. Quinn's client is willing to admit to one of the more sensational crimes in recent Ventura...
Student-Run Legal Clinics Aid Investors Fleeced by Brokers
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - James Belay is neither a wheeler nor a dealer. He's an industrial painter with an eighth-grade education livin...
AG Gets Three San Diego Priest Abuse Cases
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Three cases in San Diego County alleging sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests have been turned over to state At...
Courts Apply SLAPP Law to Malicious-Prosecution Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column Litigation By Kenneth C. Feldman The year 2002 was a bellwether year for opinions issued involving the tort of ma...
Child Advocates, Officials Report Landmark Pact
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Children's advocates joined with Los Angeles County officials Thursday to announce what they described as a lan...
In Limbo
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Each year, 40,000 children in California are removed from parents who have abused them ...
Family, Work Help Judge Carry on Despite Cancer
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Judge Robert A. Sandoval needs a break - perhaps more than the average stressed-out employee. Last spring, Sando...
Judge May Toss Legal Fight for Picasso Work
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor Persn on Thursday appeared to be leaning against trying in California a ...
American Flag Must Share The Overpass, Circuit Rules
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Peace signs have just as much right to hang from highway overpasses as the American flag, a San Francisco fed...
Frank Howard, EBMUD Attorney
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service has been scheduled this weekend for Oakland lawyer Frank Howard, an enthusiastic backer of...
Poorer and Wiser, Popov and Hayashi Talk Baseball
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - They wrestled each other on the concrete floor of Pac Bell Park. They filed reams of legal paperwork. They ba...
When Questions Get Tough, Seek High Ground
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - At some point in the interviewing process, virtually all candidates are asked tou...
Bill Proposes Reforms for Election Law
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers are scrambling to find fixes for a campaign reform law that allowed a political party to channel nearl...
AG Sues Hollywood Fund-Raiser for Fraud
By Joan Osterwalder
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday sued Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken, lawyer Kevin M. Clarke...
Judge Allows Blake to Make Bail
By David Houston
By David Houston Nevada Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge reversed himself Wednesday and allowed acto...
State Bar Moves Against Trevor Attorneys
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Thursday moved to stop Trevor Law Group attorneys from practicing law, citing "serious miscond...
Justices Give Triplets' Mom Chance at Suing Blue Cross
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A woman facing $1 million in medical bills for her prematurely born triplet daughters may get a shot at challen...
Lawmakers Must Suppress Predatory Lending Practices
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dan Grunfeld and Hernn Vera - For decades, an essential part of the American dream has been the attainment o...
SFUSD Ups Damages in Fraud Suit
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Unified School District upped the ante Thursday in its lawsuit against Progress Energy Corp...