New Rules Will Assign Lawyers a New Role
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISO - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate responsibility is forcing lawyers to wade into waters normally inhabited b...
L.A. Bar Wants To Ban Judges As Scout Chiefs
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association wants the state Supreme Court to ban judges from being Boy Scout leaders ...
New District Attorney Picks Supporting Cast
By Jim Adamekn
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Bonnie M. Dumanis, who will take office as district attorney Jan. 6, on Monday named another ...
Jury Spares Inmate's Life for Prison Murder
By Jeffrey Anderson
LOS ANGELES - In the first capital murder trial in the state to weigh a defendant's claim that he is ineligible for the death ...
Justices Rule Resistance Doesn't Define An Abduction
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - That's why they call it kidnapping. A teen-age girl who stole a friend's baby is guilty of kidnapping even th...
High Court Backs Davis on Parole Denials
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the governor has broad authority to deny parole to murderers, ...
Developer Loses Wetlands Battle
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Dealing a blow to a California land developer, an equally divided Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a federal appe...
Westerfield Seeks Sentence of Life Without Parole
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Attorneys for David A. Westerfield, convicted of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, on Monday a...
Jury Rejects Claim in Isuzu Rollover Suit
By Jim Adamekn
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury rejected claims Monday that Isuzu Motors manufactured a defective sport utility vehicle that ...
San Francisco's TIC Law Struck
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Andrew Zacks has clearly won his battle with the city over a local housing ordinance that would have limited ...
Pacific Gas Bankruptcy Raises Host of Novel Legal Questions
By Columnist
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By John T. Hansen - On Nov. 18, a trial began in the courtroom of San Francisco Bankruptcy Jud...
Panel Upholds Verdict Against Police
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A Long Beach man once accused of being the "Belmont Shore Rapist" can keep a $1.75 million judgment against the ...
2002 Saw Enactment of Many New State and Federal Employment Laws
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By John P. LeCrone - This year has been a busy one for state and federal lawmakers, particular...
Companies Cautiously Look to Reissue After 'Festo'
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Amir H. Raubvogel - A reissue application allows a patentee to seek broader claims for a patent that already...
Officials Ponder Legal Services Tax
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Put your ear to the ground around the state Capitol these days and along with the grumbling over California's $21...
Lott Uproar May Halt Judge's Renomination
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The anticipated re-nomination of Charles W. Pickering to the federal appellate court could be in deep trouble. Th...
Wilson Sonsini Guides Purchase Of Client by IBM
By Toni Vranjes
IBM Corp. has agreed to buy a Silicon Valley software company for $2.1 billion in cash. The target company, Rational Software ...
Corporations Rush to Sell Property in 3rd Quarter
By Wire
BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Companies such as AT&T Corp., Citigroup Inc. and MetLife Inc. are cashing out of some...
So You Want to Become a Commercial Property Owner/User?
By Ron Mc Nees
BY SCOTT FARB With the stock market in the doldrums, interest rates lower than low and business owners across the board evalu...
Litigation Boutique Gains Attorney
By John Ryan
Robin Wofford has ended a 16-year stint at San Diego's Duckor, Spradling & Metzger to join Wilson, Petty, Kosmo & Turn...
Bingham McCutchen Wins Ramey Award for Diversity
By Erik Cummins
At a time when many nonprofits are complaining about slumping membership rolls and donations, the California Minority Counsel ...
Construction Specifications Handbook Gets Rewrite
By Wire
BY RYAN CHITTUM Dow Jones Newswires A major expansion of the construction industry's specifications handbook is under way, an...
Passing the Hot Tamale
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer One of downtown Riverside's most popular lunch spots will move to a new location adjacent to...
LAUSD Forces Developer to Rethink Project
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Best-laid real estate development plans rarely come to fruition exactly as expected, espec...
Two Partners Leave Crosby Heafey, Join Sedgwick Detert
By Erik Cummins
Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May has lost two more partners, this time as a direct result of its planned merger with Pittsburgh...
Raising Hope for Underfunded Projects
By Columnist
BY YEHUDI GAFFEN In the building industry, the successful completion of just about every development project is contingent on...
Modest Growth Forecast for State Building in 2003
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT BURBANK - The state's construction volume for the first 10 months of 2002 was up fractionally, at 0.8 percen...
Toxic-Mold Problem Proliferates in Shops, Hotels
By Wire
BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones News Service Mold has become a huge legal and financial problem for homeowners and insurers, not to ...
Holland & Knight Picks Executive
By Liz Valsamis
Bruce S. Ross will be the new executive partner of Tampa-based Holland & Knight's Los Angeles office at the beginning of t...
Public Counsel Hands Out Annual Awards
By Stefanie Knapp
Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law firm in the country, honored 13 attorneys and nine others at its annual volunteer awa...