How Flexible is Flex Space?
By Columnist
BY WILLIAM H. CURTIS "Flex Space" was a new term to most people in the real estate industry just a few years ago. It grew to ...
Room to Grow
By Columnist
BY WILLIAM H. CURTIS The Inland Empire has a significant advantage in Southern California. While large blocks of land and qua...
Few Firms Put Women, Minorities at Top
By Erik Cummins
There are only a handful of lawyers like Ray Wong. Wong, a Chinese-American who has chaired San Francisco's Hancock, Rothert &...
Sacred Ground
By Joseph Sorrentino
BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO CREJ Contributing Writer California State University, Long Beach spent $2.5 million in a five-year legal ...
Rebound or Recession?
By Columnist
BY R. ANSON EEDS In the face of a national recession, Orange County's economy continues to expand as it weathers the downturn...
Don't Get Taken to the Cleaners
By Columnist
BY TIMOTHY K. DAHLSTRAND Because dry cleaning is a business that stores, handles and disposes of hazardous substances and petr...
Training for the Next Hurdle
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate attorneys and their clients have another deadline to sweat under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate...
Gotcha Surfwear Firm Files for Chapter 11 Creditor Protection
By Toni Vranjes
Irvine surfwear company Gotcha International has sought protection from its creditors in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana....
Testimony Ends in Case Against Tobacco Firm
By Gale Holland
LOS ANGELES - Testimony in the first tobacco trial since a California Supreme Court ruling protected cigarette companies durin...
Police Chief Candidate Has Criticized Ashcroft
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - One of the three finalists for Los Angeles police chief recently published an article calling on President Bush ...
Panel Lets Counties Look Into Cable Companies' Finances
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a sweeping expansion of local control over cable television franchises, a federal appeals court has given c...
Critics Are Wrong On Davis' Criminal Justice Record
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Gov. Gray Davis has been extremely tough on criminals. His support of the...
Loyola Honors Al Girardi, 92, With Center
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - He's known to many as "Big Al," but to attorney Tom Girardi, he's simply "Pop." At 92, Albert Girardi continues ...
Panel Won't Reappoint Bankruptcy Judge
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Though the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave no reason for its decision last week not to reappoint U.S. Ba...
Nixon's Lawyer Recalls Pitfalls
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - John W. Dean III, counsel to President Nixon, took the stage as a government legal ethics expert. "What if Dee...
Creditors Choose Irell for Counsel
By Toni Vranjes
The unsecured creditors' committee in the Centis Inc. bankruptcy case has chosen Irell & Manella as legal counsel. ...
Burden of Retardation Proof Should Belong to Defendants
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Forum Column - By Sue Blake - On June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered an opinion in Atkins v. Virginia specifying t...
Court Upholds UPS Vision Policy
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - In a victory for employers, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that United Parcel Service did not violate t...
DCA Limits Back Pay After Arrest
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has ruled that a middle school teacher may not be entitled to full back pay while she ...
Tying Worshipers' Hands
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Forum Column - By Anderson L. Washburn - The Newdow v. U.S. Congress decision, which held that the mention of God in th...
Counties Win Deference in Cable Deals
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In a sweeping expansion of local control over cable television franchises, a federal appeals court has given c...
IP Attorneys Shocked as Henry Bunsow Leaves Keker
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that stunned Bay Area intellectual property lawyers, Henry Bunsow will leave San Francisco litigatio...
Music Festival Performers Face Visa Restrictions
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Members of a gamelan orchestra from Bali arrived in Los Angeles Friday to perform at an international sacred mus...
Defense Experts Back Westerfield's Lawyers
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Talk show hosts and others accusing David A. Westerfield's attorneys of unethical behavior in defending their clie...
Defects Law To Reappear Next Session
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A new state law that builders hope will reduce litigation over construction defects still leaves subcontractors s...
Counties File Suit Over Disaster Rule
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Four California counties are challenging a new Board of Equalization rule they say singles out ailing airline ...
Council Suspends Costa Mesa's City Attorney
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Costa Mesa's city attorney's office was operating without a boss last week after the City Council suspended its to...
Panel Won't Reappoint Bankruptcy Judge
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - Though the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave no reason for its decision last week not to reappoint U.S. Ban...
Tinkering With Rules to Make Process Workable
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Employment Column - By Mark A. Rome - "Simplistic," "informal" and "expeditious" are terms which the U.S. Supreme Court has us...
Judge Charged For Lying About Porn Sites
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Retiring Fresno Superior Court Judge Vincent J. McGraw, a former member of the state judicial watchdog agency,...