Lawyer Finds Home at Sheppard Mullin
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Charles Donovan left Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis earlier this month for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &am...
Thorsnes Bartolotta Founder Wins Trial-Lawyer Plaudits
By Tina Spee
By Tina Spee Vincent J. Bartolotta Jr. has been recognized on numerous occasions for the monumental verdicts he has won at tr...
Homeowner Battles for Right to Fly Old Glory
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LA QUINTA - Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Richard Birdsall hoisted an A...
Los Angeles County's Final Growth Frontier
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MARCI WORMSER Special to the CREJ In Southern California's more familiar environment of high land costs limiting developme...
Adaptive Reuse, Urban Infill Revolution Takes Hold Statewide
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor It has been said that downtown Los Angeles truly will have arrived when 1100 Wilshir...
Even '800-Pound Gorillas' Deserve Some Basic Civility
By Columnist
BY JOEL BENOLIEL The column "Taming the Beast" (Michael M. Berger, May 19) purported to tell the story of a lawsuit that Berg...
Gray Cary Guides Virage in Buyout
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes British company Autonomy Corp. has agreed to buy struggling software firm Virage Inc. for $25 million in cash...
Pesticides Threaten Public, Conservation Groups Claim
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Environmentalists warn that the state's use of insecticides to kill a pest that spreads the grapevine-kill...
Reviving a Market Jewel
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer After 30 years of inactivity, a relic from San Francisco's past will be restored and brought ...
Costco SpokesmanFailed to Review Trial Record
By Ron Mc Nees
Before accusing me of "fabrication," "fiction," "fantasies," "nonsense," making "unsupportable claims" and "misrepresent[atio...
Supreme Court Will Address Roadblocks to Find Witnesses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - A bedrock concept in Fourth Amendment law is that, before the police can ...
Government Pull
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John Burton - The Washington, D.C. Circuit's decision in Center for National Security Studies v. United S...
Feuding Lawyers Reach Agreement in Corridor
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Feuding legal titans Browne Greene and Charles O'Reilly met in court Friday for a hearing on forcing arbitratio...
Street-Closure Plan Hits Roadblock
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, but they may not count. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central Distr...
DeVries Judge Assails Critics
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The judge poised to release the first child molester to complete the treatment program outlined in California's Se...
Cleanup Pacts Open Way for NFL Stadium
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The decades-long battle over cleanup of a Carson landfill long considered a prime spot for a National Football ...
Looking to Build Nanotech, Burns Doane Makes a Hire
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has recruited nanotechnology legal pioneer Kitu Bindra to join the firm's 15...
Tour de Latham
By Liz Valsamis
When legal-industry strategists decided a global presence was the way to ensure long-term success at the highest levels, U.S....
California's Top 50 Law Firms
By Tina Spee
Ask a law firm to pinpoint its main office location, and you're likely to get some incarnation of the following: "We don't ha...
Bush Nominates Janice Brown
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...
No Strict Liability in Transplant Of Tissue
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Suppliers of human tissue for medical procedures cannot be sued for strict liability because they provide a h...
Domain Names Ruled Intangible Property
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, while most people limited their thoughts about sex to the physical world, Gary Kremen was fantasizin...
Web Thieves Discourage Piracy
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - When a dozen federal agents came banging on his door at 7 a.m. with guns drawn and a battering ram, Michael Nguy...
7th Circuit Splits with 9th on Application of 'Betamax' Case
By Columnist
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - With a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision at the end of June, en...
Class Litigation Replaces Negotiation With Unions
By Sandra Corrales
Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - Most people are aware that union membership has been declining for decades. In 2001, the ...
Question of Time
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Judicial review is most important when legislatures enact laws that are overwhelmingly p...
PG&E Parties Dispute Venue
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in a procedural battle that could determine the fate of lawsuits seek...
Governor Puts Quartet on Los Angeles Bench
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of Santa Monica court commissioner Joseph Shiro Biderman and...
Morgan Lewis Wins Cisco Litigation Deal
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has landed an exclusive, two-year deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to handle all of th...
9th Sees And Raises Sanctions
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld three contempt sanctions against a Larkspur criminal defense attorney who...