Herrera Pressured for Restitution
By Tyler Cunningham
Reporter's Notebook By Tyler Cunningham While Dennis Herrera was campaigning to become San Francisco's city attorney, he prom...
Law Enforcement, Health Services May Face Cuts
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - As expected, the county's proposed budget released Monday won't spare law enforcement or child protection from t...
Brown to Fund Public Defender With $1.2 Million for 17 Staffers
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - At a time when San Francisco is facing a $347 million deficit, Mayor Willie Brown has dedicated $1.2 million ...
Activist Wants to Do His Time, Won't Pay Fine
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - The first protester against the Iraq war to be sentenced in Los Angeles said Monday he would refuse to pay his f...
High-Security Makeover for Gang Trial
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be a sign of the times, federal judges in San Francisco plan to transform a spare courtroom into ...
S.F. Litigators Head Class In DRAM Class Action
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - After some minor controversy among plaintiffs' counsel, a San Francisco judge has handed San Francisco litiga...
Only Law School Can Save Spider-Man From Litigation Insecticide
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Spider-Man may be one of the greatest superheroes in history. But he's no match for the judicial syst...
Bank, Regents Accuse AOL of Inflating Profits
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The University of California regents and a New York-based bank owned by the garment workers' union filed a secur...
Attorneys for Tree Activists: Recuse Judge
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing North Coast activists who were pepper-sprayed during antilogging demonstrations in 1997 ...
Rite Aid Settles With Employees for $67.7 Million
By Joan Osterwalder
Eight months of negotiations resulted in a $67.7 million settlement for Rite Aid Corp. workers who alleged that their Pennsylv...
Act 2 for Hollywood & Highland
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The buzz was palpable at Hollywood & Highland the week leading up to the March...
Latham Handles $68 Million Deal For Pan Pacific
By Toni Vranjes
Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, has sold the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza for $68 million....
Rent a Change of Scenery
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Sometimes, those motivational posters just don't have what it takes and pastel lands...
I4 Commerce Raises $23 Million More
By Toni Vranjes
Baltimore company I4 Commerce Inc. wants to shake up the traditional way of paying for items on the Internet. And it has won t...
Kelley Drye Partner Wastes No Time Starting New Gig
By Liz Valsamis
Following the closure of the Los Angeles office of New York-based Kelley, Drye & Warren, corporate partner Ronald Husdon h...
Two New Premises-Liability Decisions Favor Plaintiffs
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS There can be little question that when it comes to holding those who own or manage property liable for...
Years of Planning Comes to a Head
By Riley Guerin
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The harbor revitalization isn't the only development project in the pipeline in Dana Poi...
Teen Center Opens With a Little Help From Law Firm
By Tina Spee
"Give me a K!" cheerleaders from Los Angeles' James A. Foshay Learning Center joyfully commanded their audience at the Winston...
Dana Point Harbor to Get 'Killer' Facelift
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Orange County is preparing to embark on a major overhaul of Dana Point Harbor, a 210-acr...
Court Seeks Public Comment on Reappointments to Central District
By Pat Alston
The U.S. District Court seeks public comments regarding the reappointments of Magistrate Judges Charles F. Eick, Arthur Nakaza...
Manatt Phelps Enlists Two New Partners at L.A. Office
By Liz Valsamis
Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has added two new partners - land-use attorney Timi Anyon Hallem and project financ...
Groups Offer 111-Page Guide to Common Legal Problems
By Stefanie Knapp
Glen Peterson, executive director of Los Angeles' JobStarts Inc., doesn't have a legal background, and his organization doesn'...
Miami's Feldman Gale Brings IP Practice to City of Angels
By Liz Valsamis
Miami-based Feldman, Gale & Weber became a two-office firm April 1 when it opened an outpost in downtown Los Angeles. The ...
Brokers Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief
By Joan Osterwalder
Brokers can breathe easier after a San Francisco appellate court made it more difficult in fraud suits to hold brokers liable ...
Change in Leadership, Change in Focus
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When Grubb & Ellis ousted its top management last month, including its New York-base...
There's More to Civil Suits Than Monetary Damages
By Tanya Rothman
Litigation Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Cynthia F. Pasternak - Civil lawsuits focus on monetary damages. Certa...
Turning Junkyards, Warehouses Into Art
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer An old almond warehouse and auto-parts junkyard in North Sacramento is now a piece o...
After 13 Years, Lawyers Finally Free Client
By Stefanie Knapp
Edward Sousa and Gerald Schwartzbach waited at the front gates of San Quentin State Prison March 21. They watched as their cli...
Litigator Moves to Katten Muchin
By Liz Valsamis
Chicago's Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman hired John Arai "Mitch" Mitchell as a litigation partner. Mitchell, who joined on March...
Brave Hearts
By Staff Writer
It's not as if they have nothing else to do. This issue of EXTRA features four of the special lawyers who likely will travel t...