No More Mr. Nice Guy at Cooley, As Partners Lose Staff
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...
2 Vie for Assistant Presiding Judge
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges Paul H. Alvarado and Robert L. Dondero have nominated themselves to be assistant presiding judge of Sa...
No Written Fee-Sharing Pact Means No Fees, Court Says
By Peter Blumberg
By Peter Blumberg Nevada Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court taught a lesson Monday to lawyers ...
Mother Faces Scrutiny In Death of Daughter
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Ten years ago, Riverside County sheriff's deputies found Terese Stewart, 29, dead in her mother's home, her body s...
Actress' Shoplifting Case Goes to Jury
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Jury deliberations are slated to begin today in the shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of...
Fee Dispute Makes Strange Allies
By Peter Blumberg
A bid to have the state Supreme Court reinstate an $88.5 million class-action fee award that was rejected as grossly excessiv...
JDL President Tries Suicide, Officials Say
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, the fiery president of the Los Angeles-based Jewish Defense League, has been hospitalized in grave co...
Court May Disconnect Telemarketer
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider what steps states can take to regulate telemarketers who seek dona...
Cooley Lays Off Staff Without Telling Bosses
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...
CJP Releases 10-Year Study
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The Commission on Judicial Performance, the state's judicial watchdog agency, Monday released a 10-year summa...
Pot Club Attorneys Protest DEA Raid
By Riley Guerin
ATTORNEY ASSAILS POT RAID - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative were not engaged in interstate commer...
Legal Malpractice Insurance Application Must Be Complete
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - Law firms should do everything in their power to ensure that the information provided in th...
Strong-Arming the Scouts
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Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - More than two years have passed since the United States Supreme Court ruled that public off...
Fee-Sharing Agreements Must Be In Writing
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court taught a lesson Monday to lawyers who fail to get fee-sharing agreements in writ...
Citizens' Groups Better Bring Six-Figure Checks to Hollywood Lawsuits
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Hollywood movie studios recently won an important round in this country's everlasting culture war o...
Strong-Arming the
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Forum Column By Harold Johnson More than two years have passed since the United States Supreme Court ruled that public offici...
Pot Club Attorneys Protest DEA Raid
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The operators of Santa Cruz's medical marijuana cooperative were not engaged in interstate commerce and therefore ...
Prisons Could Better Help Inmates, Experts Say
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - While prisons have made strides in reducing suicide risk, they need to do more, experts say. ...
Buchalter Nemer Chief Executive Has Big Shoes to Fill in New Role
By Liz Valsamis
Rick Cohen is settling into his new role as the next president and chief executive officer of Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, F...
Negative Outlook for REITs Next Year
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ All eyes are expected to be on third-quarter earnings reports when the National Associatio...
Coastal Commission in Question
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BY PETER M. DOUGLAS As usual, when Michael M. Berger gets on his soapbox to bash the Coastal Commission, his writing is reple...
Oculex Nets $50 Million to Back Clinical Trials Program
By Toni Vranjes
Sunnyvale's Oculex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised a hefty $50 million in its latest round of venture funding, which will supp...
Slippery Slope?
By Eron Yehuda
Alarm is spreading among neutrals throughout the state. They see a core principle of mediation - confidentiality - threatened ...
Study Finds Male Partners Reign
By Stefanie Knapp
The old adage of law firms being boys' clubs still holds true, according to a study released by the National Association for L...
The Markets -- Los Angeles Multifamily
By Michael Gottliebn
Southern California continues to be one of the best performing markets in the country in terms of rent growth and occupancy le...
House Poor
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The Inland Empire, for decades the reliable, affordable bedroom community compared to its d...
Perking Along
By Contributing Writer
In Closing Column - By Nina B. Ries - The 1996 film "Jerry Maguire" coined the phrase, "Show me the money," and the term quick...
Howrey Simon Picks Up a Big Name for Los Angeles Outpost
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
Litigation powerhouse Howrey Simon Arnold & White has focused most of its California expansion efforts of late on the firm...
Mall Vacancies Stay Flat as Rents Edge Up
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BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires Shopping mall and strip-center vacancies were flat in the third quarter at 6.7 percent, ...
Unhappy Donor Wants Gift Returned
By Christina Landers
A philanthropist who gave $1.6 million to USC wants his money back, and he's taking the issue to court. Paul F. Glenn, 71, hea...