Sidley Austin Draws Former Brobeck Phleger Partners
By John Ryan
By John Ryan Count Chicago's Sidley Austin Brown & Wood among the list of firms benefiting from Brobeck, Phleger & Ha...
Inland Empire Promoted As Tourist Destination
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer In years past, the Inland Empire developed a reputation as a drive-through destination: an ...
Enforce Vagrancy Laws Stiffly
By Columnist
BY HANS HANSSON As a commercial real estate broker responsible for leasing commercial properties in San Francisco, I have fir...
Buchalter Gains Corporate Partner
By Liz Valsamis
Keith Bishop has become Los Angeles-based Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger's first corporate partner in its Newport Beac...
Townsend and Townsend Attracts Two to Palo Alto
By Joel Rosenblatt
An "evolved" intellectual property attorney from Venture Law Group and a patent litigator from dissolved Skjerven Morrill have...
L.A. Sued Over Transfer of Building Bonds
By Leslie Simmons
BY LESLIE SIMMONS Special to CREJ LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County illegally diverted $16.2 million in community-improvement ...
Show Puts Lawyer's Passion on Display
By Stefanie Knapp
Looking for a diversion from her coursework at Pepperdine University School of Law, Veronica Gray enrolled in a darkroom cours...
Herculean Task
By Erik Cummins
Stephen Snyder, Jim Miller, Luther Orton and G. Larry Engel began their careers at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in the 1970...
Surviving El Segundo's Perfect Storm
By Contributing Writer
BY MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ Los Angeles' South Bay market wasn't known as a hotbed of dot-coms, but the s...
Top IP Attorney Was Computer Consultant at 12
By Stefanie Knapp
Daniel Harris remembers a time when computers didn't dominate the landscape and consumers couldn't just bop into any electroni...
'Victoria's Secret' Case Illuminates Confusion Over 'Dilution' Definition
By Columnist
Focus Column - By William F. Abrams and Paul E. Thomas - When Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc. , 2003 U.S.Sct.Lexis 1...
Drug Treatment Program Graduates First Class
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and others who entered Department 40 of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Friday mo...
Judge Makes House Calls at Homeless Shelter: A Win-Win Situation
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The small, cramped room in a homeless shelter run by the Emergency Housing Consortium seems an unlikely location fo...
Under Attack
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dorothy Ehrlich and Sanjeev Bery - The Department of Justice is considering sweeping new legislative proposa...
A Recent Book Recalls the Bad Old Days at Harvard, When Men Were Men and Women Were Ladies
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - When Judith Richards Hope started at Harvard Law School in 1961, her property law professor set aside special...
Lawyers Praise Judge's Common-Sense Approach
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph F. Biafore is not the sort of jurist who enjoys the limelight. Duri...
Hitchens' Plan Reasserts Control Over Flow of Cases
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Significant changes are under way in the San Francisco criminal courts, with a new plan to expedite cases and...
Residential Hotels Must Be Improved, Not Torn Down
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Barbara Schultz - Skid Row has been discovered by loft dwellers, redevelopment boosters and, most recently, ...
Invention Record Is Crucial, Even Without Patent Filing
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael J. Sacksteder - When the issue is whether an accused patent infringer came u...
Admission of Guilt Won't Halt Capital Case
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - Defense attorney Neil B. Quinn's client is willing to admit to one of the more sensational crimes in recent Ventura...
Student-Run Legal Clinics Aid Investors Fleeced by Brokers
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - James Belay is neither a wheeler nor a dealer. He's an industrial painter with an eighth-grade education livin...
AG Gets Three San Diego Priest Abuse Cases
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Three cases in San Diego County alleging sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests have been turned over to state At...
Courts Apply SLAPP Law to Malicious-Prosecution Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column Litigation By Kenneth C. Feldman The year 2002 was a bellwether year for opinions issued involving the tort of ma...
Child Advocates, Officials Report Landmark Pact
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Children's advocates joined with Los Angeles County officials Thursday to announce what they described as a lan...
In Limbo
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Each year, 40,000 children in California are removed from parents who have abused them ...
Family, Work Help Judge Carry on Despite Cancer
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Judge Robert A. Sandoval needs a break - perhaps more than the average stressed-out employee. Last spring, Sando...
Judge May Toss Legal Fight for Picasso Work
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor Persn on Thursday appeared to be leaning against trying in California a ...
American Flag Must Share The Overpass, Circuit Rules
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Peace signs have just as much right to hang from highway overpasses as the American flag, a San Francisco fed...
Frank Howard, EBMUD Attorney
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service has been scheduled this weekend for Oakland lawyer Frank Howard, an enthusiastic backer of...
Poorer and Wiser, Popov and Hayashi Talk Baseball
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - They wrestled each other on the concrete floor of Pac Bell Park. They filed reams of legal paperwork. They ba...