Hard Times Don't Dissuade Gray Cary From Washington
By Joel Rosenblatt
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Gray Cary is upping its bet on battered East Coast technology companies by transplanting partner Margaret H...
Your Case Can Turn on Putting Right Pro on the Witness Stand
By Columnist
Focus Column - Expert Witnesses - By Scott P. DeVries - A complex civil case frequently turns into a battle of the experts. Nu...
Keeping the Faith in San Diego Hospitality
By Riley Guerin
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When FelCor Lodging Trust Inc. launched a major makeover of the 600-room Holiday Inn on t...
Contra Costa Judge Plans Semi-Retirement in January
By Staff Writer
CONTRA COSTA - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Douglas Cunningham is planning a retirement that's not far different f...
Judge Upholds $9 Million Award to Tegic
By Christina Landers
SAN FRANCISCO - Tegic Communications Corp. scored another legal victory Nov. 14 when a federal judge in San Francisco denied Z...
Bench Officer Takes Position On Dispute Resolution Panel
By Stefanie Knapp
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Alfred Chiantelli has joined the Northern California panel of Action Dispute Resolution Services. Chiant...
Trade-Secrets Case Felt Like 'Star Wars'
By Joan Osterwalder
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1995, attorney Jeffrey Chanin, a partner at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, took on what appeared to...
Howrey Simon Attorneys Are Partners at Work and Home
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White asked Martha Gooding to join a pro bono case on her first day at the firm. By ...
Police Probe Merits Calling A Grand Jury, Experts Urge
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan should immediately convene a grand jury to investigate three off-duty poli...
Orange County's Top 20 Law Firms
By Staff Writer
Law firms in Orange County have found a way to weather the economic storm, with only six firms in this year's Top 20 losing at...
Neighbors' Legal Fight Rages On and On and On
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The whole thing started in a Noe Valley cul-de-sac. A homeowner there wanted to build a new deck. ...
Judicial Council Reins In Expectations for New Year
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - The California Judicial Council knows when to beg and when to be happy with what it has. With state government fa...
Ryder Follows Others' Footsteps
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Actress Winona Ryder may be spending the next four months tape-recording Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," sup...
Electronics Firm Gets New General Counsel
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Hughes Electronics Corp. of El Segundo has named Larry D. Hunter as its new general counsel. ...
UC Harassment Rules Deficient, Critics Say
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Sexual harassment prevention is largely ignored at law schools such as Boalt Hall because men dominate the fa...
Hard Times Ahead, Davis Says
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Trial courts and the state judiciary will share the pain of more than $10 billion in spending cuts being propose...
Lifting Load of Medical Expense
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeff Lowe - Lost in the national debate over Medicare reform and affordable prescription drugs is the tragic...
Scope of Manager's Privilege Hinges on Subjective Intent of the Advisor
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Clyde M. Hettrick and Steven C. Valerio - Rather than punishing a party to a contract with ex...
Politics Didn't Factor in Contracts, Lawyers Say
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - They may not pass some watchdogs' "smell test," but there is nothing wrong with the $1.25-million in Los Angeles...
Professor Has Shot At President Position
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - UCLA law professor Susan Prager is one of five finalists to become president of Florida State University, accord...
Self-Reliance Guides Conservative Justice
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - A lot of changes have occurred in the 11 years since Justice Clarence Thomas succeeded Justice Thurgood Marshall ...
Dean Takes Prominent Post To Promote Public Interest
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California Law School Associate Dean Karen Lash is leaving the post she founded to join W...
Berkeley's Sea Scouts Policy Upheld
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has published its ruling that cities are free to deny taxpayer subsidies to groups th...
DOJ Official Suggests an Oil Drilling Takings Suit
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate ruling threatening dozens of oil leases off the California coast hands the companies invo...
Small Employers Might Consider Section 412(i) Plans
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Focus Column - Tax Law - By David Brent Jones - For the successful employer with 15 or fewer employees who wants to make maxim...
No Axes to Grind
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - When voters revamped the state Commission on Judicial Performance in 1994, they clearly wanted a major change...
Remaking History
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Restoration work of the historic Montgomery Hotel in San Jose resumed recently and its com...
Alleged Sex Slavery Case Goes to Panel
By Eron Yehuda
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Washington, D.C., federal appellate court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a class action o...
Mics Raised
By Tanya Rothman
Focus Column - Public Relations - By David Silver - Like a relentless avalanche, one corporate scandal after another has tumbl...
Attorney Boosts Litigation Practice at Foley & Lardner
By John Ryan
MILWAUKEE - Litigation partner Stephen McFeely practiced at Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May for more than 30 years b...