Transgender Student Settles With School
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A transgender woman starts cosmetology classes today after settling a lawsuit against a Los Angeles beauty colle...
Don't Lose Your Head When Reporters Call
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - Columnist George Will said in a 1981 interview that "being a lifelong Ch...
Circuit Rejects Edison Rate Deal With PUC
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a major victory for consumers, a federal appeals court Monday rejected as potentially illegal the $3.3 bill...
Judge Lets Fate Take Its Course
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge-elect Robert A. Dukes says he lives with a "serendipity philosophy of...
Panel Finds No Objection To Governor's Parole Policy
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis' steadfast refusal to grant parole to murderers survived an appellate challenge Monday, giving...
Budget Shortfall Might Shutter Court Lockups
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Officials with the Los Angeles County Superior Court and the Sheriff's Department hope to have some answers Thur...
Courts Should Not Ignore Campaign Finance Realities
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Luke McLoughlin - The famous quotation by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The life of the law has not been l...
Iraq Redux
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - President Bush has cited the possibility that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction...
Raiders' Suit Against NFL Gets New Life
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The Raiders football team has won a new trial in its five-and-a-half year fraud litigation against the National ...
New Bar President Has Major Agenda
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Brian C. Pearcy has some major changes up his sleeve for the Riverside County Bar Association. As new president of...
Don't Lose Your Head When Reporters Call
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - Columnist George Will said in a 1981 interview that "being a lifelong Ch...
Courts Should Not Ignore Campaign Finance Realities
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Luke McLoughlin - The famous quotation by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The life of the law has not been l...
Iraq Redux
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - President Bush has cited the possibility that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction...
Justices Don't Fear to Discuss Different Treatment of Sex Acts
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Gerald Z. Marer - You have to love those appellate justices in San Jose. No prudish, cloister...
Corporate Partner Leaves Brobeck, Picks Gray Cary
By Joel Rosenblatt
Michael Dunn says a lasting fissure between the litigation and transactional practices at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison led ...
Attorney Honors His Father With Loyola Building
By Christina Landers
Like any good son, attorney Thomas V. Girardi loves his 92-year-old father, Albert H. Girardi, very much. The two still work t...
Court Approves $175 Million Award Reversal Against Plant-Gene Maker
By Catherine Cavella
Encino attorneys Ellis J. Horvitz, David M. Axelrad, Jon E. Eisenberg and Andrea M. Gauthier of Horvitz & Levy, along with...
Thespians Train Trial Lawyers to Be Storytellers
By Joan Osterwalder
Actors Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James have many converts in the lawyer community. The couple has worked with more than 25...
Kintera Raises $8 Million for Software
By Toni Vranjes
Kintera Inc., which provides high-tech tools for charitable fund raising, has closed another round of financing. The participa...
Building Blocks
By Contributing Writer
Column - By Michael McSweeney - While the recession technically may be behind us, the last 18 months have hit the legal indust...
Unjust Enrichment
By Columnist
BY JAMES ACRET Though poor in lucidity, the mechanics lien law is abundantly rich in unintended consequences, and its enforce...
Balanced Diversity
By Columnist
BY GEOFFREY C. ARROBIO Lets talk about the bad news first, since our regional headlines bombard us with it every day: Higher...
Investors Pour $20 Million More Into Tech Firm
By Toni Vranjes
Venture investors have poured another $20 million into Northern California tech company Zeevo Inc. The Santa Clara-based compa...
McDermott Will Lures Litigator To Growing Silicon Valley Office
By Joel Rosenblatt
Edwin Wheeler, an intellectual property litigator, has left Howrey Simon Arnold & White to become a partner at the Palo Al...
172,500-Square-Foot Shopping Center in La Mesa Sells for $14 Million
By Ron Mc Nees
La Mesa Crossroads shopping center has been sold for $14 million. Burnlington Coat Factory, El Torito Restaurant and 99 Only ...
9th Circuit Will Decide Muslim Inmate Suit
By Joan Osterwalder
Several Muslim inmates at the California State Prison at Solano allege the state is incarcerating their beliefs. They claim th...
Gaining Ground
By Columnist
BY JON WALZ Despite the roller coaster ride of the stock market and concerns over corporate performance and misconduct, the i...
Looking Forward
By Columnist
BY SANFORD GOODKIN One new rule is that change is the epidemic over which we have no control except to comprehend it as it ha...
Scandals of '02
By Catherine Cavella
On July 30, attorneys from a who's who of big-ticket corporate litigation met with mediator Jeff Kichaven to discuss recent tr...
Judge Builds Case for Temples of Justice
By John Roemer
BY JOHN ROEMER Special to CREJ Shovels and a hard hat adorn the Fresno chambers of Senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Coyle,...