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Do Not Confuse Criminal and Civil Subpoenas Duces Tecum

Oct. 17, 2002
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 ...


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

Oct. 17, 2002
By Tyler Cunningham

SAN FRANCISCO - For seven weeks, a San Francisco jury heard detailed evidence about complicated loans that passed between two ...


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

Oct. 17, 2002
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

Oct. 17, 2002
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...



Sharing Space

Oct. 17, 2002
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

Oct. 17, 2002
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

Oct. 17, 2002
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

Oct. 17, 2002
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

Oct. 17, 2002
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

Oct. 17, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - A sexual harassment suit filed against an upscale Napa County restaurant is causing tremors in San Francisco. ...



WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...


Focus Column - Business Law - By Antonio R. Sarabia II and William J. Kopesky - A client may ask its regular civil counsel to ...



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

Oct. 16, 2002
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - There is an incongruous, intimate atmosphere surrounding the monthly meetings of the state Fair Political Practic...



Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Tie Tech Inc. v. Kinedyne Corp. , 296 F.3d 778...


Driving Ourselves to Distraction

Oct. 16, 2002
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

Oct. 16, 2002
By Hudson Sangree

SACRAMENTO - Republican state Sen. Dick Ackerman was not his party's first choice to run for attorney general against Bill Loc...


SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has twice in the past few months issued orders that environmentalists say should have h...



LOS ANGELES - A prominent San Francisco mediator's resignation from the American Arbitration Association is raising questions ...


Case Against Ryder Provokes Controversy

Oct. 16, 2002
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...



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

Oct. 16, 2002
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

Oct. 16, 2002
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - Reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has failed to investigate more than 800 claims of deput...


Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher T. Micheletti - In Tie Tech Inc. v. Kinedyne Corp., 296 F.3d 778 ...



Juror Turnoffs

Oct. 15, 2002

Column by Noelle C. Nelson - Good cases often are lost by lawyers who unwittingly alienate jurors. Jurors expect attorneys to ...


Another Leader Departs Brobeck

Oct. 15, 2002
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...



Harvey L. Silbert, a noted businessman, entertainment lawyer and philanthropist, died at his home in Century City on Sept. 28....


Catellus, the Chameleon

Oct. 15, 2002
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...