Borland Software Agrees To Acquire TogetherSoft
By Toni Vranjes
Borland Software Corp. of Scotts Valley has agreed to buy the privately held software company TogetherSoft Corp. for $185 mill...
Veteran L.A. Superior Court Judge Plans His Retirement for January
By Leslie Simmons
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Keith L. Groneman, who handles preliminary hearings at the Airport Courthouse, has an...
Stay, Spot ... for Eternity
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The dusty graveyard looks like a scene straight out of a Stephen King novel. A stone path s...
Jury Nails Sacramento Developer for Cheating Partners
By Eron Yehuda
Despite winning $7 million in punitive damages earlier this month, veteran Sacramento trial lawyer Edward Freidberg is vexed b...
Health Care Lawyer Jumps To Boutique Hooper Lundy
By Erik Cummins
San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy has a substantial health care practice with 15 lawyers focusing ex...
Employment Law Practitioner Switches to Greenberg Traurig
By Staff Writer
Michelle Lee Flores has joined Greenberg Traurig where she will be a member of the firm's labor and employment practice. The ...
Archer Norris Gains Asbestos Litigator From Strickland Haapala
By Staff Writer
Christopher Harnett, formerly a name partner with Oakland's Strickland, Haapala, Altura, Harnett & Thompson, has joined W...
Litigator Returns To O'Melveny for Energy Practice
By Liz Valsamis
Charlie Read has rejoined Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers after a three-year stint working with Steptoe & Johnson's ene...
VersusLaw Inc. Inaugurates Line of Legal Research Tools
By Stefanie Knapp
VersusLaw Inc. introduced a new line of legal research tools Oct. 29. A user can choose between three different subscription ...
War Worries
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer During the 1991 Gulf War, the North San Diego County apartment market, already soft becau...
Alameda Women Lawyers Give Award to Boalt Hall Professor
By Stefanie Knapp
The Women Lawyers of Alameda County honored Herma Hill Kay, the first female dean of Boalt Hall, with its lifetime achievemen...
Biotech Specialist Moves Practice to Fenwick & West
By Erik Cummins
Although biotechnology work has dropped off measurably since the late 1990s, it remains a robust practice, according to Fenwic...
Presidential Powers
By Staff Writer
With 13,000 members and 43 local chapters across the United States and abroad, the American Corporate Counsel Association is t...
Events Prompt 3 Property Management Trends
By Columnist
BY BOB HITCHCOCK The tragic events of Sept. 11 coupled with the slide of stock prices have changed commercial property as an i...
UPS Settles Lawsuit With 6,000 Workers
By Christina Landers
In what is being hailed as an unprecedented victory for part-time employees in California, 6,000 current and former United Par...
Milbank Tweed Grants Partner Status to Insurance Litigator
By Staff Writer
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy elevated Sally Agel to partner, the firm announced Nov. 5. Agel has been at Milbank Tweed...
Thinking Outside the Jack in the Box
By Riley Guerin
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A lot of retailers succeed by thinking outside the box, but one company with a knack for...
Voters Help Three Prosecutors Reach the L.A. County Bench
By Leslie Simmons
Voters elected three veteran criminal prosecutors and a State Bar judge to the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench on Nov...
New State Law Requires More Disclosure From Corporations
By Toni Vranjes
The state of California has something waiting for all the businesses out there. More regulations. Spurred by the uproar over t...
Nuisance Abatement Units Offer New Solutions
By Columnist
BY PETER M. WEIL AND ELIZABETH J. GIFFIN What do you do when your client calls complaining about an ostrich farm that has grow...
Brobeck Partners Meet to Do Business
By Liz Valsamis
When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's partnership got together at the Marriott Hotel in San Mateo Nov. 8-10, the agenda wasn'...
Commission Unveils Model Rule For Lawyers as Third-Party Neutral
By Stefanie Knapp
The CPR-Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards in ADR released the "Model Rule of Professional Conduct for the Lawyer ...
Retired Judge Travels to Ukraine, Lectures to Jurists and Students
By Stefanie Knapp
The State Department sent retired San Diego County Superior Court Judge Milton Milkes to Ukraine on Oct. 26 for a 21-day visi...
Moving Forward
By Contributing Writer
In Closing Column - By Gerald F. Phillips - Doctors associated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center give patients a publication ti...
SEC Chooses Baker Attorney for New Accounting Oversight Board
By Staff Writer
The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Baker & McKenzie's Daniel L. Goelzer to the five-member Public Company A...
Real Estate Star Finds Partnership At Allen Matkins
By Liz Valsamis
Lured by a partnership offer from Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, Kevin Corbett has left the Los Angeles office of Ma...
Winthrop Couchot Inks Five-Year Lease for Newport Beach Office
By Staff Writer
Winthrop Couchot has signed a five-year lease for 12,500 square feet of office space in Newport Beach to accommodate the firm...
Judges Elect Dondero as APJ in S.F.
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court judges have elected Judge Robert L. Dondero to be the court's next assistant presiding judge. ...
Judge Allows Noncitizens to Work as Airport Screeners
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Critics of the Homeland Security Act are celebrating after a Los Angeles federal judge issued a sweeping ban aga...
Lockout Limits
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The issue of "unpublished" judicial opinions will not go away. A federal rules advisory...