San Francisco Judge Throws Out State's Rules on Rivers
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - State logging rules that environmentalists had attacked as allowing drastic reductions in protections for rive...
Circuit Panel: State's Courts Can Judge in Internet Case
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - In its first ruling on Internet jurisdiction, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday that Californ...
Judge Removed in Pepper Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday removed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco from presiding over...
Commissioner Feels Lucky To Be Dedicated to His Job
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Mitchell L. Beckloff says he thinks of his good fortune almost every mor...
Guatemalan Immigrant Pins Hopes on DREAM
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Juan Manrique is pinning his hopes on a dream - literally. The son of a murdered political dissident from Guatem...
Advocates for Election
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Don't tell Fremont divorce lawyer Bob Lynn Edwards Jr. he's got no chance of winning the Oct. 7 recall election t...
It's Official: VLG Joins Forces With Heller
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group, the high-flying darling of Silicon Valley's dot-com boom, will merge with San Francisco's H...
Judges Dump Death Verdicts Of 100 Inmates
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday reversed 100 death sentences in Arizona, Idaho and Montana. In an 8-3 dec...
Renters Seek to Evict Oakland Judge
By Karen Coleman
BY KAREN COLEMAN Special to CREJ A group of Oakland renters' organizations is trying to get law-and-motion Judge James Richma...
Mr. Nice Guy
By Don De Benedictis
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Members of the State Bar Board of Governors regularly deny that there are "outsiders" and "insid...
Making Affordable Housing Pencil Out
By Contributing Writer
BY MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ When it comes to affordable housing, there is perception and then there is re...
Despite Reimbursment, Santa Monica Tenants Pursue East Coast Landlords
By Joan Osterwalder
BY JOAN OSTERWALDER Special to CREJ Santa Monica sole practitioner Jack L. Schwartz says he is in a David versus Goliath figh...
Sales Searching
By Contributing Writer
Column Marketing By Gail Reysa It's hard to ignore the fact that more and more law firms are hiring in-house marketing directo...
Pair Starts Employment Practice
By Liz Valsamis
Roxanne Davis and Phillip Maltin have formed Santa Monica's Davis Maltin Law Firm, which specializes in employment and labor i...
Palo Alto Outfit Gets $10 Million To Battle Spam
By Toni Vranjes
MailFrontier Inc. has raised $10 million to help with its spam-fighting crusade. The Palo Alto company, which provides anti-sp...
Risk Transfer
By Columnist
BY STUART MINER Constrained markets create interesting scenarios for developers and real estate executives. On one hand, land...
Partners in Credit Finance Will Leave Cooley Godward
By Joel Rosenblatt
Partners Pamela Martinson in Palo Alto and Peter Carson in San Francisco are the latest high-profile departures from Cooley Go...
'Masters of Craft' Will Highlight Annual Gathering
By Stefanie Knapp
More than 1,200 Los Angeles-area plaintiffs' attorneys will converge on Las Vegas this weekend for the Consumer Attorneys Asso...
Models in Ad Campaign Sue Buca di Beppo for Identity Theft
By Eron Yehuda
Trying to attract more couples as dinner guests, an Italian restaurant chain came out with tongue-in-cheek ads that showed a m...
Morrison & Foerster Aids Biotech Firm in First Round
By Toni Vranjes
San Diego-based Kemia Inc. has completed its first round of financing, bolstering the biotechnology company's ability to move ...
Thelen Reid Taps New S.F. Head
By Erik Cummins
A number of partners could have led Thelen, Reid & Priest's San Francisco office, according to Mark Weitzel, vice chairman...
Life's a Beach for Doghouse Dwellers
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Wags might say that Ralph Capo's life has gone to the dogs, thanks to a lovable stray na...
Land-Grant Gumshoes Take On History Heirs
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The past is still present for Los Angeles attorney Dean Dennis. Many of the cases Dennis...
Dangerous Times
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor With Gov. Gray Davis' signature at the bottom of the new state budget, the commercia...
Attorney Successfully Defends Elderly Driver in Injury Case
By Joan Osterwalder
San Francisco attorney Debra F. Bogaards successfully defended a car accident case seemingly against all odds. Her client was ...
Shared Client Spurs Lawyer's Pick
By Liz Valsamis
John R. Tate has joined the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine as of-counsel. Tate, a partner with Arter & Hadden...
Attorneys Running in Recall Have Big Plans
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - One wants to legalize marijuana. Another has the same name as a fitness guru but wants to slim down California's...
Consumer Attorneys Travel To Convention in Las Vegas
By Stefanie Knapp
When attendees of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles enter the Mandalay Bay Resort and Hotel this weekend for t...
Fulbright Welcomes Trademark Expert
By Liz Valsamis
Fulbright & Jaworski has hired trademark lawyer John "Rocky" C. Rawls III from Jones Day. Rawls, who was with the Los Ange...
Prepare for the Worst
By Columnist
BY DANIEL J. VILLALPANDO Recently, Assemblywoman Loni Hancock introduced a split-roll property tax measure that could affect ...