Presidential Powers
By Staff Writer
With 13,000 members and 43 local chapters across the United States and abroad, the American Corporate Counsel Association is t...
Events Prompt 3 Property Management Trends
By Columnist
BY BOB HITCHCOCK The tragic events of Sept. 11 coupled with the slide of stock prices have changed commercial property as an i...
UPS Settles Lawsuit With 6,000 Workers
By Christina Landers
In what is being hailed as an unprecedented victory for part-time employees in California, 6,000 current and former United Par...
Milbank Tweed Grants Partner Status to Insurance Litigator
By Staff Writer
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy elevated Sally Agel to partner, the firm announced Nov. 5. Agel has been at Milbank Tweed...
Thinking Outside the Jack in the Box
By Riley Guerin
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A lot of retailers succeed by thinking outside the box, but one company with a knack for...
Voters Help Three Prosecutors Reach the L.A. County Bench
By Leslie Simmons
Voters elected three veteran criminal prosecutors and a State Bar judge to the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench on Nov...
New State Law Requires More Disclosure From Corporations
By Toni Vranjes
The state of California has something waiting for all the businesses out there. More regulations. Spurred by the uproar over t...
Nuisance Abatement Units Offer New Solutions
By Columnist
BY PETER M. WEIL AND ELIZABETH J. GIFFIN What do you do when your client calls complaining about an ostrich farm that has grow...
Brobeck Partners Meet to Do Business
By Liz Valsamis
When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's partnership got together at the Marriott Hotel in San Mateo Nov. 8-10, the agenda wasn'...
Commission Unveils Model Rule For Lawyers as Third-Party Neutral
By Stefanie Knapp
The CPR-Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards in ADR released the "Model Rule of Professional Conduct for the Lawyer ...
Retired Judge Travels to Ukraine, Lectures to Jurists and Students
By Stefanie Knapp
The State Department sent retired San Diego County Superior Court Judge Milton Milkes to Ukraine on Oct. 26 for a 21-day visi...
Moving Forward
By Contributing Writer
In Closing Column - By Gerald F. Phillips - Doctors associated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center give patients a publication ti...
SEC Chooses Baker Attorney for New Accounting Oversight Board
By Staff Writer
The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Baker & McKenzie's Daniel L. Goelzer to the five-member Public Company A...
Real Estate Star Finds Partnership At Allen Matkins
By Liz Valsamis
Lured by a partnership offer from Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, Kevin Corbett has left the Los Angeles office of Ma...
Winthrop Couchot Inks Five-Year Lease for Newport Beach Office
By Staff Writer
Winthrop Couchot has signed a five-year lease for 12,500 square feet of office space in Newport Beach to accommodate the firm...
Judges Elect Dondero as APJ in S.F.
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court judges have elected Judge Robert L. Dondero to be the court's next assistant presiding judge. ...
Judge Allows Noncitizens to Work as Airport Screeners
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Critics of the Homeland Security Act are celebrating after a Los Angeles federal judge issued a sweeping ban aga...
Lockout Limits
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The issue of "unpublished" judicial opinions will not go away. A federal rules advisory...
Patent Office Can Deny Application Based on Laches
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jeffrey Brill - In Bogese, the Federal Circuit upheld the authority of an adm...
La Jolla Biotechnology Firm Files for Chapter 11
By Toni Vranjes
Cutting-edge technology doesn't mean a thing if you don't have the cold, hard cash to support it. So La Jolla biotechnology co...
Infield Fly Rule Pales Next to Ball Dialectics
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - After hearing a dozen days of evidence, two days of argument and expert opinions from four law professors, th...
After Tribulations, the Trial
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - There has never been anything like it in a bankruptcy court. Trial opens today in the largest utility bankrupt...
Defendant Can Utilize Motion for an Undertaking to Enforce Award of Costs
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Brian T. Hafter - Given the difficulty often experienced in enforcing cost awards against out-o...
Fiery Marshall Moves on to Third Round
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - The waiting is always the hardest part. On Wednesday, members of John Marshall High School's mock-trial teams an...
African-American Was First on State Bar Board
By Claude Walbert
LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Edwin J. Wilson, the first black lawyer to practice in Long Beach and the first African-Am...
Kaiser Will Pay $1 Million Fine for Deaths of Patients
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Agreeing to pay the largest fine ever levied by state regulators against a full-service health plan, Kaiser Foun...
John Cruikshank, 75, East Bay Jurist, Mentor
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Services for John F. Cruikshank Jr., a judge and lawyer who was beloved to both bench and bar throughout the E...
Court Administrator Quits to Be With Kids
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Jose Guillen, chief executive officer of Riverside County Superior Court for the past 19 months, is quitting his j...
Salt Flats May Turn Out Costly
By Dennis Pfaff
PALO ALTO - California taxpayers won't entirely escape liability for cleaning up any toxic wastes discovered within thousands...
Lawyer Becomes Envoy to Tijuana
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Irvine attorney Ruben A. Smith, who helped engineer approval for a Mexican-themed supermarket in Anaheim, has been...