City, Church Agree to Land Swap
By Xenia Kobylarz
ASSOCIATED PRESS CYPRESS - The City Council completed a deal announced last week by voting to approve a land-swap that ends a...
Perkins Coie Focuses on Patent Practice
By Joel Rosenblatt
With the lateral hire of partner Paul Andre last month, Ed Wes, managing partner of Perkins Coie's Bay Area offices, says he's...
Housing Prices Push Sprawl Across California Landscape
By Wire
By JIM WASSERMAN Associated Press Writer MENIFEE - Below the big open sky in the rural spaces of Riverside County, people sti...
Improving L.A.'s Real Estate Development Process
By Columnist
EDITOR'S NOTE: In light of the difficulties developers face actross the state in getting urban projects approved and built, t...
Egghead.com Trustee Will Pay Claims of Its Creditors
By Toni Vranjes
The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a final resolution. ...
Orrick Herrington Recruits Six From Portland Practice
By Erik Cummins
One month after it acquired the remnants of Cooley Godward's shuttered Kirkland, Wash., office, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcl...
Iranian Human Rights Activist's Detention Remains Mysterious
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Alireza Ghazi Zahedi had big hopes when he arrived in the United States a year and a half ago from Iran as a del...
Coming Apart
By Tanya Rothman
In Closing Column - By Richard S. Levick - When Robin Hood and his Merry Men launched their first act of justice against the P...
Biotech Firm NPS Merges With Enzon in Stock Swap
By Toni Vranjes
In yet another merger in the fast-consolidating biotechnology industry, Utah biotech company NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agre...
Littler Mendelson Spins Off Immigration Work to Affiliate
By Erik Cummins
Employment and labor law boutique Littler Mendelson has closed its immigration law practice, spinning it off into a separate b...
Remodeling for Retail Synergy
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer The smart play for an owner of an outdated, underperforming shopping center with a g...
Cooley Business Department Dwindles
By Erik Cummins
Palo Alto's Cooley Godward has lost three business partners in as many weeks. ...
Jury Awards Insurance Agency $500,000
By Joan Osterwalder
John Sargeant's wrongful-termination suit backfired. The 73-year-old insurance broker sued Costanza Insurance Agency Inc. afte...
Plan Takes the Threat Out of Growth
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer As retail and housing development continues to crop up throughout several desert communitie...
New Names In Brobeck Liquidation
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's liquidation committee has hired Henry Kevane and Kenneth Brown to advise th...
8th and 10th Circuits Disagree On Issue of 'Overfiling' by EPA
By Columnist
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Can the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sue a defendant for the s...
Surf City Isn't a Laid Back Place, Judge Finds
By Tyler Cunningham
SANTA CRUZ - Like many immigrants to Santa Cruz, Superior Court Judge Michael E. Barton was lured by the promise of sun, surf ...
Rare Oakland Police Pact Aims for Reform
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Less than a week after the Oakland Police Department announced it would pay $10.9 million to settle claims of widesp...
Egghead.com Trustee Will Pay Claims of Its Creditors
By Tina Spee
By Toni Vranjes The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a f...
Uniting for Peace May Offer Alternative to a War on Iraq
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - George W. Bush's war machine has propelled inexorably toward war with Iraq. The rest of the ...
Hearing for Blake Reveals Flaws in Case, Experts Say
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - As Robert Blake's preliminary hearing on murder charges heads into its final week, people in and out of the case...
Trial Granted In Manager's Refusal to Fire Not-Hot Clerk
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Elysa Yanowitz knew better than to fire one of her cosmetics sales clerks for not looking sexy enough. But she...
Stop Loss Discipline Fails Stock Brokerage
By Eron Yehuda
When the stock market tanked three years ago, a lot of investors lost their shirts. ...
Attorneys Coming, Going Trade Spaces at Pillsbury
By Erik Cummins
Jonathan Joseph and Forrest Hainline III could have passed each other in Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco lobby, as Joseph e...
Herrera Hires Kimiko Burton
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco Public Defender Kimiko Burton is scheduled to start her new job at the city attorney's o...
Overture Buys Up AltaVista, Fast Search
By Toni Vranjes
Pasadena-based Overture Services Inc. has inked a pair of deals to broaden its Internet search capabilities. On Feb. 25, Overt...
End of an Era
By John Ryan
Irell & Manella without Morgan Chu at the top? It just doesn't seem right. The famed litigator has been the firm's co-mana...
Different Strokes
I got another speeding ticket. Damn! - on the Pacific Coast Highway about eight miles north of where I got my previous speedin...
This Is Best Time of Year To Look For That New Job
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - The good news for job-seekers is that now is the best time of year to begin or re...
Dondero Ends Long-Running Feud of Alioto And McCoy
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has resolved the bitter feud between San Francisco mayoral candidate Angela Alioto and Ethics Commiss...