Briefs from The Associated Press
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Kern County to Rewrite Building-Rental Policy BAKERSFIELD - Kern County officials say they will rewrite their rental facility ...
Suit Calls McDonald's PlayLands Unsafe
By Eron Yehuda
McDonald's is facing a lawsuit in Los Angeles that questions the safety of the restaurant's playgrounds throughout the country...
Sect. 8 Landlords Caught in Legal Waiting Game
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Landlords and apartment owners have plenty of new laws to deal with this year, inclu...
Feb. State Building Totals $5.1 Billion
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CREJ WIRE REPORT BURBANK - California's statewide construction volume for February totaled $5.1 billion, down 0.6 percent fro...
Copycat Blues
By Liz Valsamis
To take on Hollywood with its deep pockets, in-house counsel and legions of outside law firms, you need lawyers with a lot of ...
Seattle's Perkins Coie Lures Partner From Wilson Sonsini
By John Ryan
Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has lost partner Bruce McNamara to the Menlo Park office of Seattle's Perkins...
Heller Ehrman's Bay Area Outpost Appeals to Lawyer
By Erik Cummins
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe told Warrington Parker III he could do appeals full time if he joined the firm's new appea...
Video Teaches Teen-agers Trial Fundamentals
By Stefanie Knapp
Students throughout San Diego County have heard the story of Andy Adams and Beth Baker, two kids on trial for scheming to sell...
Defender Stages Gender-Bias Workshop
By Stefanie Knapp
Michael Judge, Los Angeles public defender, is determined to make his office a pleasant one to work in for all his employees. ...
Battling City Hall Over Aging Properties
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Mario Moreno, a Sacramento gardener, poured most of his money and free time into sav...
DHL Will Buy Airborne's Ground Assets
By Toni Vranjes
In a controversial deal that has piqued the interest of top Washington lawmakers, DHL Worldwide Express has agreed to buy the ...
Picking Process
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In Closing Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Law firms that check and provide employee references need to know about changes in the l...
Employment Firm Nabs City Attorney
By Karen Coleman
Longtime Oakland city attorney Ines Vargas Fraenkel has taken a private-practice gig with the public sector employment law fir...
Lawsuit Can Grow From Simple Reprimand
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Forum Column - By Johanna Y. Ong and Robert J. Becher - Recently, the 1st District of the California Court of Appeal in Yan...
Case Limits Section 17200 Remedy to Injunctive Relief
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Thomas H. Clarke Jr. - On March 3, the California Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited op...
'Dodge' Provides Valuable Guidance On Preservation of Computer Data
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Daniel W. Park - By now, everyone knows the power of computer data in litigation, especially e-...
Collaborative Divorce Plan Provides Separation Skills
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Forum Column - By Ron M. Supancic - As Chief Justice Warren Burger stated in 1984, "The entire legal profession ... has become...
Howrey Snags 4 IP Lawyers
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Henry Bunsow, a well-known trial lawyer who opened Howrey Simon Arnold & White's San Francisco office last...
Public Defenders Need Office Support, City Report Says
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Public defenders are working 60 to 70 hours a week, with an average of 80 pending cases, while spending a larg...
Gray Cary to Gather All Its People Under Brobeck Roof
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has answered one of the key unresolved questions following Brobeck, Phleger &...
Jurists Methodically Crank Out Rulings in Constitutional Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - This Supreme Court term is unlike any other in recent memory: The justices are poised to end their work in late J...
Group Raises a Ruckus About Copyright Act
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Four months ago, Robin Gross left her high-profile position as staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Found...
Litigation Briefs
By Tina Spee
Attorneys Association Will Present Program on Creating a Trial Theme - The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles holds...
CALENDAR -- Northern California
By Jack Briggs
TUESDAY, APRIL 22 RECOVERY, WHENEVER IT HAPPENS The University of California, Berkeley, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urb...
Pacesetters
By Joseph Sorrentino
1031 EXCHANGE OPTIONS 1031 Exchange Options appointed Christian Mirner as the company's new vice president of real estate. Mir...
THE MARKETS
By Michael Gottliebn
How's business? "Despite relatively weak apartment fundamentals Bay Area-wide, the East Bay continues to outperform the other ...
Lawyers Should Study Nanotechnology's Potential
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Employment Law - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Lawyers, like surfers, are looking to ride the next big wave. Law practice ebbs and ...
Juggling Act
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Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the quasi-governmental pension protection agency, a...
Even 30 Years After 'Roe,' Abortions Services Are Rare
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Forum Column - By Magaly de Oliveira Marques, Ann Hayman and Lourdes Rivera - Women in America had reason to celebrate on Jan....
Company May Require Stock Option Plan Rules to Be Uniform
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Focus Column - Employment Law - By Thomas C. Klein - Employees of a publicly traded company expect to be participants in the c...