Lawyer Quits Case After Blake Decides He'll Talk to the Public
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Just six weeks after losing his first criminal lawyer, Robert Blake on Tuesday suffered another defection from h...
Lawyer Pressures Stadium to Comply With Law
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Back in 1997, when Amy B. Vandeveld began negotiating better access at Qualcomm Stadium for disabled people, she w...
White Collar Group to Be Invigorated
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel Bookin and Douglas Young, two well-known San Francisco white collar criminal defense lawyers, have tak...
Justices Uphold Expansion of Death Penalty
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a voter-approved initiative that broadened the cir...
Perkins Coie Litigator Leaves for Boutique
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - After 18 years of practicing law at Perkins Coie, Colleen Regan is leaving the firm to join Santa Monica litigat...
Ownership Of Stock Not Enough for PUC Ouster
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Even in death, Joe Remcho can't be beat as a champion of the rights of public officeholders. California's ren...
Last One Standing
By John Roemer
SAN RAFAEL - Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael B. Dufficy has withstood his detractors, regained his health and fought...
Pillsbury Winthrop Expands to Houston
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - In an effort to spur the growth of its energy practice, San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop has opened a Hous...
Judge Serves as Mentor, Inspiration to Lawyers
By Jenna Bordelon
LOS ANGELES - Even in kindergarten, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Laura Knight Jackson wanted to put criminals in jail ...
Top Fenwick Litigator Tim Roake Moving to Gibson Dunn
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that illustrates an intensifying demand for litigators, Timothy K. Roake said Monday he is leaving ...
Blake's Lawyer Will Urge Him To Stay Mum
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. said he planned to instruct actor Robert Blake to assert his Fift...
Faces Looks Familiar at Reed Smith
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - The newly merged Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped two former Crosby Heafey litigators to run the firm's Oa...
Formula Applies to Community Expenditures for Improvements
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Harold J. Cohn and Pamela Wax-Semus - How does the community get compensated for funds expended...
Court Won't End Confusion in Guidelines for Sentencing
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Despite pleas from both defense attorneys and federal and state prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Monday decline...
Tracing a Long Story of Abuse
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A teen-ager from India, who was granted asylum in the United States after relating a horrific tale of child abu...
S.F. Firm Was Uncowed by World's Largest Software Maker
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The California lawyers who led the antitrust charge against Microsoft Corp. took a big gamble on the case. Tw...
Corporate Contributions Fly Away
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - Pity the plight of corporate California. Dismayed at the stranglehold anti-business liberals h...
Extremism in the Defense of Fuel Economy Is No Virtue, Just Gas
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Drive an SUV; make Osama bin Laden happy. That's the message, more or less, behind a self-righteous anti-SUV ca...
Sheriff's Two Hats Upset Some
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Now that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors has begun to flex its newfound power over the probation department,...
Tracing a Long Story of Abuse
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - A teen-ager from India, who was granted asylum in the United States after relating a horrific tale of child abus...
AG Sues Drug Firms for HIgh Prices
By Wire
By Laura Wides Associated Press Writer State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a complaint Tuesday against two pharmaceutic...
Hospitality Sector Resting Easier in 2003
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor No doubt the real estate sector that felt the most pain in 2002 was hospitality. T...
Tomlinson Picks Managing Partner
By Joel Rosenblatt
By Joel Rosenblatt Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko has elected James R. Janz, the mayor of Atherton, as its managing partner. Jan...
Construction Litigator Forms Firm To Represent General Contractors
By Karen Coleman
Construction litigator Paul A. Lax has left Castle & Lax to form Lax & Stevens, a new firm specializing in representi...
Cooley Facilitates $4 Million Deal for Software Publisher
By Toni Vranjes
A Paris-based software publisher has invested $4 million in Elibrium Inc., the second round of financing for the San Mateo com...
Carroll Burdick Goes Into Expansion Mode
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Carroll, Burdick & McDonough will continue its lateral hiring spree in 2003 under Jim Walsh, the firm's n...
Homeowner Treads on Familiar Ground
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Ostewalder Orange County picked on the wrong guy when it challenged an administrative ruling that put a $100 property...
Jury Rejects Bias Claim of Woman Earning $860,000
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder A San Francisco Superior Court jury rejected claims by an investment bank saleswoman who alleged her boss...
Religious Group Wins Round in Court
By John Ryan
BY JOHN RYAN Special to CREJ LOS ANGELES - A federal judge backed off holding the city of Los Angeles in contempt Jan. 6 afte...
Kring & Chung Ups Blakely to Partner, Ontario Managing Partner
By Staff Writer
Irvine's Kring & Chung has promoted John R. Blakely to partner and, at the same time, managing partner of the Ontario off...