Gray Cary Hires New Head of Life Sciences Practice Group
By Liz Valsamis
Palo Alto's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has hired a former venture capital lawyer and chief legal officer for two life sc...
Nanotechnology Star Goes Over to Pillsbury Winthrop
By Joel Rosenblatt
Tom Thomas has left Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's Palo Alto office to co-chair Pillsbury Winthrop's nanotechnology practi...
Chapters' Merger Boosts Programs, Resources
By Stefanie Knapp
Legal administrators in Los Angeles have earned some bragging rights in the Association of Legal Administrators. Their newly f...
Orange County Adjacent: A Desirable Location
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer In the past few years, the city of Riverside has become a cost-efficient location for indus...
Entertainment Pro Joins Bryan Cave
By Liz Valsamis
Ronald Jacobi, former general counsel of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has joined Bryan Cave's Santa Monica office as of-counse...
Making Peace with El Toro
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Those who have been holding their breath over the future shape of development at the for...
Bay Area Lawyers Look for Greener Pastures, Stability
By Erik Cummins
San Francisco's Deborah Bailey-Wells says Bay Area lawyers are on the move these days as in no other time in recent memory. Ma...
Cadence Leases Excess Property To Health Net
By Toni Vranjes
San Jose technology company Cadence Design Systems Inc. has subleased 45,000 square feet of office space in Oregon to managed ...
Pillsbury Helps Sonicblue Pursue Relief
By Toni Vranjes
Consumer electronics company Sonicblue Inc., which has been entangled in a legal dispute with the entertainment industry over ...
Condo-Mania Hits San Diego
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When Alpine Views sold last month for $137,000 per unit, the unassuming apartment buildin...
Boeing Appealing Property Tax Bill
By Wire
SANTA BARBARA (AP) - Boeing Corp. is appealing its county property tax bill, contesting a $216 million valuation of the aeros...
L.A. County Delays Newhall Ranch
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
BY LAWRENCE KOOTNIKOFF Special to CREJ LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted March 25 to delay appr...
Insurance Against Terrorism-Related Losses
By Columnist
BY SCOTT P. DEVRIES, FREDRIC W. KESSLER AND YELITZA V. COLON In today's increasingly unstable international climate, U.S. com...
New Privacy Rules Will Pain Providers
By Joan Osterwalder
New health care privacy rules taking effect April 14 will give patients new rights but could mean more costs, another layer of...
Firms Invest $52 Million in Matrix
By Toni Vranjes
Venture capitalists have invested $52 million in Matrix Semiconductor Inc. during a fifth round of financing. New investor Tel...
The Markets
By Michael Gottliebn
"The market is excellent. We do a tremendous amount of business in L.A. I can't think of an exception of a particular retail p...
DAILY DEALS -- Orange County
By Jack Briggs
ANAHEIM - Private investors Barry Mycorn and Robert Brown purchased a 24-unit, two-building apartment complex at 1215-1221 N....
Five Tips for Trap-Avoidance Can Help You Manage Time
By Sandra Corrales
Employment Column By Deanna Wilkinson It is 7 p.m. You cannot remember the last time you sat back and relaxed. You have spent ...
Above the Law?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Picture this. The trial is over. One of the parties was so eager to be involved that it ...
God's Presence in Pledge Is About History, Not Worship
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - No provision in the Constitution says that a citizen must never be offended. With the priv...
Offers to Compromise Can Help Settle Cases and Reduce Costs
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Scott P. Ward - The "offer to compromise" under Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 has become ...
Workers' Compensation Jurist Was Called 'Smiling Irishman'
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Retired workers' compensation Judge Ernest Patrick Kiernan has died at the age of 82. Known in the courtroom as ...
Daily Journal Staff Writer Wins Reporting Award
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Cheryl Romo has won a first place public service reporting award in the A...
Noncompliant Companies Face Delisting As SEC Tries to Prevent More Scandals
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - In continued fallout from the corporate scandals that have tainted Enron Corp. and other companies, the Securit...
Five Bar Seats Draw 18 Candidates
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - Eighteen lawyers in the state have signed up to run for five open seats on the State Bar Board of Governors, inc...
Sex Abuse Case Time Limitations Are Frozen
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A measure that allows Los Angeles prosecutors to proceed with their cases against priests accused of molesting ch...
Michael Remy, 59, Fought Nuke Plant
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Remy, a pioneering Sacramento environmental lawyer who led the nation's first successful ballot initi...
Judge Group Honors Alameda Juvenile Court Activist
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - In a year in which state budget cuts are said to imperil the health of the court system, the California Judges A...
SFO Environmental Papers Ordered Released
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The city must grant public access to previously secret environmental documents involving plans to expand San ...
Kerry Leads New BASF Series by Candidates
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Just one month after she took over from Teveia Barnes as executive director of the Bar Association of San Fra...