Decision Clarifies Rights of Aliens
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court's Hoffman decision in March doesn't flatly stop an un...
Business Tax on Law Firms Likely to Show Up on Ballot
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial proposal to extend San Francisco's payroll tax to the profits of professional partnerships, in...
Judge Brings Intellectual Edge
By Ed Kimble
LOS ANGELES - When Presiding Judge James A. Bascue picked up the phone to give newly enrobed Judge David M. Mintz his court as...
Oil Companies Settle Lawsuit Over MTBE In Lake Tahoe
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Four big oil companies agreed Monday to pay $28 million to settle a landmark trial concerning the controversia...
Westerfield's Defense Won't Call More Witnesses
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The defense team for David A. Westerfield, charged with the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, ...
Jury Must Decide Airbag Question
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES -A jury should decide whether the airbag on a Honda Civic was defective because it did not inflate during a collis...
San Joaquin Judge Is Removed From Bench
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt was removed from the bench by the state's judicial watchdog ...
High Court Clears Way for Tobacco Suits
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declared open season on cigarette makers Monday in a pair of rulings expected to...
Courthouse Steps
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Although new rules went into effect July 1 expanding public access to electronic court records, actual access ...
MoFo Associates Learn Litigation From a Master
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - There are two types of large law firms, according to James Brosnahan. The first is designed solely to enrich s...
Former City Official Faces Corruption Trial
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - After an appeal court rejected a claim that the district attorney's office has a conflict of interest in prosecu...
Montali Won't Halt Creditors' Vote
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal bankruptcy judge Monday denied a request by the state Public Utilities Commission to order a new vo...
Pointing Out Bias
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Has the University of California developed a sneaky way around Proposition 209, the 1996 Ca...
Growing Business
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - As most attorneys know, pro bono work such as donating your expertise to a nonprofit group o...
New Law Targets Corporate Officers and Accounting Firms
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Focus Column - By Andrew B. Serwin ...
'More Skin' Request of Dancer Isn't Entrapment, Court Rules
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Asking an exotic dancer at a strip club to show "more skin" is not entrapment, a state appellate court has ruled...
DA Wants Death for Child-Slaying Suspect
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors will seek death for the man accused of killing Samantha Runnion, District Attorney Tony ...
Meditating on Jurors' Whimsical Ways
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Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Trying to read a jury is a lot like trying to read a crystal ball: You think you see so...
Growing Business
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - As most attorneys know, pro bono work such as donating your expertise to a nonprofit group o...
Meditating on Jurors' Whimsical Ways
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Trying to read a jury is a lot like trying to read a crystal ball: You think you see so...
Orrick Litigator Receives Judicial Nod
By Joel Rosenblatt
For the second time in two years, an Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe litigation partner is headed for the bench. On July 25...
Firm Celebrates Anniversary of Merger With a Pair of Parties
By Erik Cummins
When law firm partners describe successful mergers, they talk about things like synergy, cultural fits and cross-selling. So i...
Akin Gump Expands Land Use Practice
By John Ryan
Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld continues to build out its project and infrastructure development department...
Born Again
By Contributing Writer
BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer If everything goes according to plan, up-and-coming executives and entrepreneurs will one da...
Southern California Hotels Coming Out of Their Slumber
By Contributing Writer
BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Where business is strong, hotels are sure to follow. That real estate aphorism holds especial...
Pillsbury Winthrop Severs Ties With Corporate Shop
By Liz Valsamis
San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop has parted ways with its Tysons Corner, Va., corporate practice. Two partners and two assoc...
Starr Focuses on Rehnquist's Court During Bar Speech
By Christina Landers
Former independent counsel and U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr addressed the Federal Bar Association's Orange County chap...
Alschuler Grossman Makes Its Move to Santa Monica Office
By Staff Writer
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has finally moved into the Water Garden office complex in Santa Monica. ...
Non-Profit Leases in Aero Park
By Ron Mc Nees
The San Diego Workforce Partnership signed a 36-month, $2.58 million lease for 53,000 square feet of office space from Aero P...
IMPCO Spins Off Its Fuel-Cell Subsidiary
By Toni Vranjes
Alternative fuel company IMPCO Technologies Inc. of Cerritos has spun off its subsidiary Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Wor...