Brother-in-Law Testifies in Toxicologist's Trial
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Bertrand de Villiers, whose brother died from an overdose of a powerful painkiller, testified Monday that three da...
Judge Is Methodical but Not Popular
By Craiq Anderson
PALO ALTO - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Diane Northway is not the sort of jurist who banters with attorneys or tri...
Lawyers Ask High Court for Bail for Blake
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's attorneys on Monday asked the state Supreme Court either to grant the actor bail or to order the ...
Rejection of Widow's Suit Faces Review
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In its lone grant of review Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of a federal proce...
For-Profit Fund-Raising Firm Will Close
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - After weeks of confusion, Pallotta TeamWorks, the controversial for-profit fund-raising firm behind AIDS and bre...
Companies Must Examine Work Provided by Auditors Worldwide
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Veronika Albus and Peter Denwood - There has been a great deal of publicity about the Sa...
Lawyer Salutes Tadich, Its Food And Its Tradition
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - John Briscoe's first memory of San Francisco's oldest restaurant, Tadich Grill, dates to August 1953, when San...
Limits on Care
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jim Preis - The ink had barely dried on the Governor's signature making AB1421 law when the Los Angeles Coun...
Ruling Has Firm All Shook Up
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The makers of a 16-hour Elvis documentary just checked into Heartbreak Hotel. Passport International Productions...
New Presiding Judge Elected in Riverside
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Judge Douglas P. Miller has been elected as the new presiding judge of Riverside County Superior Court. ...
Ruling Has Firm All Shook Up
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - The makers of a 16-hour Elvis documentary just checked into Heartbreak Hotel. Passport International Productions...
Rejection of Widow's Suit Faces Review
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In its lone grant of review Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of a federal proce...
Companies Must Examine Work Provided by Auditors Worldwide
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Veronika Albus and Peter Denwood - There has been a great deal of publicity about the Sa...
Tenants Take Charge
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor "Politics, politics, politics," seems to be replacing "location, location, locatio...
Is a Landlord's Duty to Screen Windows a Smoke Screen?
By Ron Mc Nees
BY PAUL D. GUTIERREZ A 3-year-old lives with her parents on the second floor of an apartment building. The child's mother, whi...
Employment Law Pro Joins Gordon & Rees
By Liz Valsamis
Mark Saxon has left Newport Beach's Saxon, Barry, Gardner & Kincannon, a firm he helped establish in 1979, to join Gordon ...
Retired Venture Superior Court Judges Take Positions at JAMS
By Stefanie Knapp
The Ventura County office of JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider, added two neutrals Oct. 7, Judge Melinda...
Polo's Dress Policy Cramps Workers' Style
By Christina Landers
Polo employees are fed up with having to buy clothes bearing the company's signature horse and rider logo. Some retail store p...
Attorney Breaks the Bank With $28 Billion Jury Award
By Christina Landers
By now, attorneys and regular joes worldwide have heard about litigator Michael Piuze's record-breaking $28 billion jury verdi...
Insurance Bad-Faith Litigation Practice Welcomes New Leader
By Staff Writer
The Quisenberry Law Firm has landed a new lawyer to head its eight-attorney insurance bad-faith litigation practice. Anthony ...
Crosby Heafey Partner Moves to Foley Business Law Department
By Staff Writer
Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has picked up Richard W. "Jack" Lasater II from Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May. Lasater, who ...
Ahmanson Ranch Battle Nearing End
By Wire
BY JIM CARLTON Dow Jones Newswires Ahmanson Ranch is one of the last untouched pieces of developable land in Southern Califor...
Merger Work in U.S. Ranks Latham & Watkins in Top 10
By Stefanie Knapp
Only one California law firm - Latham & Watkins - landed a place among the top 10 legal advisers in the United States for ...
Piper Rudnick Brings Brothers Together
By Liz Valsamis
Jeffrey Weiner and Perrie Weiner probably haven't had adjoining rooms since the late 1960s, when they were kids. But, now that...
Weak Apartment REITs Outlook to Drag Into 2003
By Wire
BY JANET MORRISSEY Dow Jones Newswires The outlook for apartment real estate investment trusts appears even bleaker than prev...
Nixon Peabody Continues Steady Growth
By Erik Cummins
A little more than a year after it merged with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, Nixon Peabody appears to be taking the n...
Lawyers Reap Awards At State Bar Gathering
By Staff Writer
As the State Bar's annual meeting wrapped up, several lawyers traveled home with new memorabilia for their office walls. The a...
Here Comes the Neighborhood
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With no end in sight to the demand for new housing, more under utilized commercial sites ...
Fenwick & West Elevates Five to Partnership During Annual Meeting
By Staff Writer
At Fenwick & West's annual partnership meeting, held Oct. 5, the firm elected associates Rodger R. Cole, Jedediah Wakefiel...
There's No Place Like a Home
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Somewhere over the rainbow lies the dream of homeownership for many Southern Calif...