Do Not Confuse Criminal and Civil Subpoenas Duces Tecum
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Business Law - By Antonio R. Sarabia II and William J. Kopesky - A client may ask its regular civil counsel to ...
Six Figures Riding on Determination of Marriage's Demise
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The flowers that Vernon Norviel sent to his wife, Carmencita, on their 15th wedding anniversary may prove to b...
Corporate America On Trial
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - For seven weeks, a San Francisco jury heard detailed evidence about complicated loans that passed between two ...
Deadpan Judge's Courtroom Called The Gold Standard
By Xenia Kobylarz
HANFORD - Kings County Superior Court Judge Peter Schultz runs his courtroom with the precision and efficiency of a well-wound...
AAA Rumpus Said to be Just Starting
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Don't expect Jerry Spolter, Elaine Leitner and Harris Weinberg to be the last panelists to leave the American ...
Justices Will Hear Interstate Tax Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...
Sharing Space
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Peter M. Douglas - As usual, when Michael M. Berger gets on his soapbox to bash the Coastal Commission, his ...
Judge's E-Mail Criticizing Promotion Outrages DA
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - District Attorney Grover Trask on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance charging t...
New Group Replaces Conference of Delegates
By Don De Benedictis
MONTEREY - As the State Bar's 2002 annual meeting drew to a close Sunday, so too did its lively but controversial offspring, t...
Judicial Candidate Takes Opponent to Court
By Staff Writer
SANTA ANA - The inner workings of judicial politicking were revealed Tuesday when Orange County judicial candidate Gay Sandova...
Bejing Group Picks MoFo for Olympics Work
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad has selected San Francisco's Morrison & ...
Fog City Diner Loses DCA Appeal
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A sexual harassment suit filed against an upscale Napa County restaurant is causing tremors in San Francisco. ...
Supreme Court Will Hear Interstate Tax Fight
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...
Do Not Confuse Criminal and Civil Subpoenas Duces Tecum
By Columnist
Focus Column - Business Law - By Antonio R. Sarabia II and William J. Kopesky - A client may ask its regular civil counsel to ...
East Bay Law Center Founder Gets Loren Miller Award
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Bernida Reagan, the founder and former director of the East Bay Community Law Center, has received the State B...
State FPPC Grappling to Open Its Doors Wider
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - There is an incongruous, intimate atmosphere surrounding the monthly meetings of the state Fair Political Practic...
Registration Alone Is Insufficient to Defeat Summary Judgment
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Tie Tech Inc. v. Kinedyne Corp. , 296 F.3d 778...
Driving Ourselves to Distraction
By Columnist
Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Given the traffic congestion and air pollution that literally and figuratively choke Cal...
A Genuine Long Shot
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Republican state Sen. Dick Ackerman was not his party's first choice to run for attorney general against Bill Loc...
Judge's Orders On Logging Spark Dispute Over Meaning
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has twice in the past few months issued orders that environmentalists say should have h...
Neutral Quits In Protest Over Leader's Words
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A prominent San Francisco mediator's resignation from the American Arbitration Association is raising questions ...
Case Against Ryder Provokes Controversy
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - She's a hippie, a rich Westside liberal, a sacrificial lamb for O.J. Simpson. These are just a few of the explan...
Lessons From the Pillsbury Fiasco: Less Publicity, More Prozac
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - The saga of Frode Jensen, the former Pillsbury Winthrop partner who tried to jump ship to Latham &...
9th Circuit Reinstates Critical Doctor's Suit
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco doctor's 1998 protest of physician layoffs at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital may have ...
Sheriff's Laxity is Old News, Civil Rights Bar Says
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has failed to investigate more than 800 claims of deput...
Registration Alone Is Insufficient to Defeat Summary Judgment
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Tie Tech Inc. v. Kinedyne Corp., 296 F.3d 778 ...
Juror Turnoffs
Column by Noelle C. Nelson - Good cases often are lost by lawyers who unwittingly alienate jurors. Jurors expect attorneys to ...
Another Leader Departs Brobeck
By Liz Valsamis
While his departure may not be on par with those of James Elacqua and Tower Snow, Kevin DeBr's decision to leave Brobeck, Phle...
Noted Entertainment Lawyer Harvey L. Silbert Dies at 91
By Staff Writer
Harvey L. Silbert, a noted businessman, entertainment lawyer and philanthropist, died at his home in Century City on Sept. 28....
Catellus, the Chameleon
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Like a chameleon, Catellus Development Corp. changes its build-out strategy to match the ec...