Protecting Ideas Requires More Than Just Registration
By Contributing Writer
Practitioner Column - Intellectual Property - By William R. Hart and David C. Baker - According to American essayist and poet ...
Baker & McKenzie Beefs Up Practice
By Erik Cummins
The Bay Area's wilted economy isn't dissuading Baker & McKenzie from beefing up its corporate and securities practice. Joh...
Industry Watch Briefs
By Liz Valsamis
Real Estate Partner Joins Practice At Reed Smith's Los Angeles Shop Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has recruited real e...
Aristos Logic Nets $20 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Aristos Logic, which develops network storage processors, has raised $20 million from investors in third-round financing. New ...
Frugal Fame
By Tanya Rothman
In Closing Column - By Traci Stuart - While TV ads and high-end trinkets are the most touted of law firm marketing tools, the ...
Associates
By Staff Writer
Riordan & McKinzie has added a trio of associates. Christina N. Lebedeff has joined the firm's Costa Mesa office, and Step...
Tough Row to Hoe
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Michael Jackson's shrinking schnoz isn't the only thing that's been reduced drastically ...
Signs of Smart Growth
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Few would argue the value of redeveloping the urban marketplace, but convincing th...
Legal Politicking
By Stefanie Knapp
Although the Consumer Attorneys of California was founded in 1961 as an organization dedicated to educating its members, the g...
Tribe Borrows Millions for Casino Plan
By Toni Vranjes
A California Native American tribe has borrowed $140 million to finance its ambitious plans for its casino business. The Agua ...
The City Finds Its Center
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Washington, D.C., has one. Chicago has one. New York City has one, maybe two. In f...
Santa Ana School Board Fires Construction-Management Firm
By Wire
SANTA ANA (AP) - The school board fired the consulting firm overseeing the Santa Ana Unified School District's $300 million-p...
Developers Would Get Half of L.A. Air Force Base in Trade
By Wire
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The federal government plans to give away half of the 113-acre Los Angeles Air Force Base to private devel...
New Law on Densities Takes Aim at State's Housing Crisis
By Columnist
BY CHRISTIAN CARRIGAN Effective Jan. 1, AB2292 prohibits local land-use agencies from reducing densities on proposed resident...
Bills Target Public Companies
By Toni Vranjes
California lawmakers have introduced more bills targeted at scandal-plagued corporate America. Last year, following the scanda...
Tug of War
By Katherine Gaidos
The scenario is straight out of a Tom Clancy novel. The Hague in Netherlands, center of international justice, prepares to try...
Following the Development
By Contributing Writer
MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ These days, the talk at tony Maple Drive restaurant in Beverly Hills isn't all a...
Start-up Closes First Deal
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ The start-up company teaming veteran Southland retail real estate figure Steve Plenge and ...
Turning the Tide
By Columnist
BY PETER M. DOUGLAS The coast is never finally saved. It is always being saved. The recent Court of Appeal decision in Marine...
New Thelen Reid Chairman Maps Out Practices' Future
By Erik Cummins
With an uncertain economy and some law firms struggling to survive, Thomas Igoe Jr. hates to think what would have happened if...
Sydney Lawyer Becomes Interlaw Chair
By Liz Valsamis
Jim Harrowell, a lawyer from Sydney, Australia, will be the next chairman of Interlaw Ltd., a consortium of 64 law firms locat...
Coastal Panel Dabbles in Absurdity
By Columnist
BY PAUL A. JACOBS Re: "Enemies of Coastal Protection et al." Peter M. Douglas, executive director of the California Coastal C...
Court Finds for Insurer in Apple Fee Dispute
By Joan Osterwalder
"It ain't over till it's over" could be attorney Mark Goodman's motto. The Barger & Wolen lawyer in San Francisco has repr...
Deals
By Tina Spee
BANKRUPTCY - Craig Millet (Irvine) of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher represented bankrupt Advanced Tissues Sciences, which filed ...
Developer Sues City Saying He Lost Contract Because He Didn't Pay Bribe
By Wire
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A developer filed suit in federal court March 18 against Carson, its mayor, two of its former city council...
CALENDAR - Southern California
By Jack Briggs
MONDAY-WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31-APRIL 2 GLOBALIZATION MARCHES ON With speakers from business, the federal government, science and ...
Judge Disqualifies Lawyers in SUV Case
By Eron Yehuda
A San Bernardino sport utility vehicle rollover suit took a nasty turn last month for the plaintiffs' attorneys when a trial j...
Companies Fend Off E-Commerce Patent Lawsuit
By Joan Osterwalder
A Silicon Valley company and a Massachusetts firm have won a patent infringement case that could have changed e-commerce had t...
Anti-Development Atmosphere
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Just west of the city of Riverside, the unincorporated area of Mira Loma boasts more than 7...
Orrick Attorney Deals Cadence a Victory
By Stefanie Knapp
Jim Brooks and his colleagues at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe faced a trial with the cards stacked against them represen...