Piper Rudnick Forms Strategic Alliance With The Cohen Group
By Staff Writer
Piper Rudnick has formed a strategic alliance with consulting firm The Cohen Group to combine its legal services with the busi...
Fast Times at the Sherman Oaks Galleria
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer It's as if the Valley Girl had grown up, gotten a job and learned to speak proper Englis...
Going Topless
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor It is hard to imagine today, but the Santa Monica Place indoor mall was designed t...
Calpine Gets $106 Million To Help Build Power Plant
By Toni Vranjes
Calpine Corp. has obtained $106 million to help finance the construction of a power plant near Denver, Colo. Credit Lyonnaise ...
Write It Down
By Contributing Writer
In Closing Column - By Dennis L. Sharp and John M. Seitman - While there are many advantages to contractual arbitration, perh...
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Adds Partner to Handle International Tax
By Staff Writer
In the nation's capitol, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw added another international tax partner to its ranks Sept. 4. Hal Hicks,...
Our Lady Comes to Life
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor For the first time since excavation began in 1998 for Our Lady of Angels Catholic ...
Levene Neale Handles Gadzoox Reorganization
By Toni Vranjes
A Los Angeles law firm is representing Gadzoox Networks Inc. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Northern California. ...
MicroVention Attracts Venture Capital
By Toni Vranjes
Venture capital money continues to flow into Orange County medical device manufacturer MicroVention Inc. The Aliso Viejo-based...
ADR Panels Stand Out at State Bar's Annual Meeting
By Christina Landers
In the six years since the State Bar of California first developed a committee on alternative dispute resolution, continuing e...
International Price-Fixing Conspiracy Case Settles
By Joan Osterwalder
After three years of litigation, an international price-fixing conspiracy class action brought by livestock producers and feed...
Superior Court Judge Draper Retires After Serving 16 Years
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge William B. Draper Jr. has retired after more than 16 years as a trial judge. His final assign...
Appligent Software Lets Firms Control Classified Information
By Stefanie Knapp
Appligent Inc. has released new software that allows law firms to redact sensitive information from portable document format, ...
Saddling Neighbors With Litigation
By Matthew Heller
SANTA BARBARA - You could hardly get horsier than Hope Ranch. In the exclusive Santa Barbara-area community, riders gallop dow...
A Heavy Load
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Upon returning to the adult criminal courts last month after spending four years defending juvenile cases, Jea...
Investigation Targets Figure at Heart of Hollywood and Politics
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Cody Cluff, the insider's insider who has built a career at that point where the glittery worlds of Hollywood an...
Compliance With State Won't Shield Local Agency From Flood Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Todd W. Blischke - In Arreola v. Monterey County, 99 Cal.App.4th 722 (2002), the 6th District Court o...
Inventorship Decision Requires Claim Construction
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Elizabeth E. Launer - The concept of joint inventorship, where two or more people make a single patentable i...
Lawyers in U.S. Must Lead Fight for Justice
By Contributing Writer
Column by Melody Divine - How has Sept. 11 changed us as American lawyers and required us to view the world differently? It's ...
Using Students' Citations as Weapons, Justices Open Fire
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald George and Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown are at it again. Three weeks ...
Slavery Reparations Make No Sense, Period
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The movement to secure reparations for African-Americans who are the descendants of slave...
Judge Snuffs Class Suit by Teen Smokers
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge has tentatively dismissed a class action brought by six San Diego teen-agers who alleged that big cigarett...
Lawyer May Face Embezzlement Charge
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles lawyer is expected to be arraigned today on an embezzlement charge for allegedly stealing a dying ...
Woman to Lead Judicial Panel
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time a woman has been named to head the Judicial Conference Executive Committee, which helps for...
Judge Refuses to Bar Death for Westerfield
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A judge has rejected convicted murderer David A. Westerfield's motion to bar the death penalty, saying that the st...
Taking Control of Corporate America
By Columnist
Forum Column - By R. William Ide III - In the past year, the American people have been shaken by numerous corporate scandals, ...
Land Deal to Bring L.A. Downtown's First Private Office Project in a Decade
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor A land sale completed last Monday will set the stage for the first privately-funde...
Inventorship Decision Requires Claim Construction
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Elizabeth E. Launer - The concept of joint inventorship, where two or more people make a single patentable ...
Attorney Files Countersuit Against Judge After Divorce
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A family law attorney has sued a San Francisco judge, saying he failed to pay for work on his divorce case. Su...
Daily Deals -- San Diego County
By Jack Briggs
CARLSBAD - Sonja and Abel Cassel, doing business as What A Girl Wants (a clothing boutique), leased 1,036 square feet of reta...