More Partners Abandon Crosby Heafey
By Erik Cummins
At least nine partners have left Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in as many months, with the most recent departures ...
Single Mother Wins $628,000 Award in Sex-Bias Case
By Joan Osterwalder
First, Kimberly Standmore alleged, her boss told her about orgies he had at the White House and how he had sex with Elizabeth ...
Defending the American Taliban
By John Ryan
Frank Lindh went to the movies in Marin County one Saturday night in December, but, for the life of him, he can't remember wha...
Sheppard Mullin Partner Will Sit On Alumnie Association's Board
By Stefanie Knapp
The University of California, Davis, School of Law Alumni Association invited attorney Joan Story to serve on its 15-member bo...
L.A. Bar Association Event Gives Young Lawyers Tips on Success
By Stefanie Knapp
The Los Angeles County Bar Association kicks off its Breakfast with Giants series Sept. 25. The first breakfast of the six-par...
La Jolla's Prospect Square Sells for $10.3 Million
By Ron Mc Nees
Prospect Square LLC , a joint venture of Ramsey Real Estate Group and Pacific Equity Properties Inc., sold Prospect Square in...
Builders at Play
By Michael Gottliebn
When developers, architects and designers let their dreams run wild for a good cause the results can be truly gratifying. A s...
Elacqua Departs Brobeck With $30 Million in Business, IP Group
By Liz Valsamis
When San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison selected John Benassi to manage its San Diego office, the intellectual pr...
Chart a Safe Crossing
By Columnist
BY WILLIAM F. DEVINE JR. Vacancy rates are dangerously high. Interest rates are dangerously low. Capital is evaporating in 10-...
High Wire Act
By Wire
BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires How do you escape from the upper floors of a burning high-rise when all stairwells are bl...
Judge David A. Horowitz Retires, Will Become Arbitrator, Mediator
By Leslie Simmons
Judge David A. Horowitz retired Sept. 5 after 22 years on the bench. Horowitz, 60, spent the last 12 years presiding over civi...
Chadbourne & Parke Pumps Up Energey Work, Adds Houston Shop
By Staff Writer
Chadbourne & Parke is pumping up its energy practice and opening an office in Houston, the firm announced Sept. 3. The off...
Mediation Practice Keeps Retired Judge on the Go
By Joan Osterwalder
Arnold H. Gold might as well put on a pair of running shoes. The retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge-turned-mediat...
Trio of Patent Litigators Joins Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe continues to expand its intellectual property practice at a rabid pace. On ...
Oppenheimer Wolff Forms New Nanotechnology Practice Group
By Staff Writer
Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has made it easier for clients working at the molecular level - think atoms...
Legal Pioneer
By Christina Landers
Workers' compensation attorney Pauline Nightingale works out of her Los Angeles condominium, just blocks from the bustling, up...
Assistant Sues Director for Pregnancy Bias
By Staff Writer
James Cameron's former executive assistant has sued the director of big-budget Schwarzenegger vehicles for pregnancy discrimin...
Dorsey Recruits Patent Expert From Cooley
By Joel Rosenblatt
Dorsey & Whitney has lured prominent patent prosecutor Ann M. Pease away from Cooley Godward's Palo Alto office. For sligh...
Waiting Too Long for Tenants to Pay?
By Columnist
BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN There is a delicate balance between overly aggressive rent collection and being too passive. Some owne...
Latham & Watkins Hires Three East Coast Securities Litigators
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins has added three securities litigators to its East Coast shops. David M. Brodsky joined ...
Kring & Chung Elects Partner From Its Corporate Department
By Staff Writer
Ross E. Shanberg is the latest partner at Irvine's Kring & Chung. The firm announced Shanberg's election to the partnershi...
Weissman Wolff Recruits New Corporate Securities Lawyer
By Staff Writer
Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall of Los Angeles has added corporate and securities lawyer Howard Hart, t...
See the Light
By Columnist
BY KATE ZOCCHETTI Commercial property owners increasingly are adopting solar energy systems to manage energy demands and help...
Bench Officer Gains New Post as Presiding Judge for Los Angeles
By Leslie Simmons
On Sept. 11, Assistant Presiding Judge Robert Dukes became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court. and Nor...
Waiting for the Turn
By Michael Gottliebn
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Gloom about the economic downturn y is giving way to guarded optimism for San Francisco re...
Manatt Generates Lending Pact for Electricity Company
By Toni Vranjes
Under a multifaceted financing agreement, BluePoint Energy Products Inc. has received a $500,000 loan and could get an additio...
Tax Expert Moves to McDermott's Palo Alto Outpost
By Joel Rosenblatt
Michael Gosk, formerly a corporate tax partner at accounting and consulting firm KPMG, has brought his international and offsh...
'Lawyer's Lawyer' Berne Rolston Moves His Offices to Beverly Hills
By Staff Writer
Berne Rolston, the self-proclaimed lawyer's lawyer, has moved his shop from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills. Rolston, whose new ...
Four Take Their Finance Practice to Loeb & Loeb
By Liz Valsamis
After only 18 months with New Jersey's Lowenstein Sandler, Miriam Cohen and three partners have taken their corporate finance ...
Manatt Nabs White-Collar Crime Authority
By Liz Valsamis
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has lured away the co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's business crimes and investigations ...