Bankruptcy Bar Fears and Loathes Bill Nearing Approval
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Bankruptcy reform legislation nearing congressional approval will make it harder for lawyers to represent clie...
Two Tales of a City
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer San Diego's office market always generates a wide array of opinions, but none so glaring...
Breast-Feeding Women Stage 'Nurse-In'
By Wire
BY STEFANIE KNAPP Special to CREJ More than 60 mothers openly nursed their babies in the food court of the Santa Monica Place...
Defense Attorney Heads South
By Liz Valsamis
Making the move 120 miles south, white-collar criminal defense lawyer Yvonne Dutton has joined Allen Matkins Leck Gamble &...
Greenberg Starts Brand Media Division at Los Angeles Outpost
By Staff Writer
If you've got a brand name but you just can't break into television or film, Miami's Greenberg Traurig has the answer. The fir...
Partner Quits Orrick Herrington To Try Computer Products Post
By Staff Writer
A Laguna Beach-based computer products company has lured Doug Kari to be its general counsel and senior vice president of busi...
Cooley Godward Seats New Business-Department Chair
By Joel Rosenblatt
Cooley Godward has announced a substitution in the not-so-coveted position of business department chairman. Mark Tanoury, 47, ...
Retail Properties in Orange, San Diego and San Bernardino/Riverside counties
By Michael Gottliebn
"The retail market in the Inland Empire is white hot. The explosion of residential growth has driven high demand for all type...
Latham Represents Amgen In Big Biotech Deal
By Toni Vranjes
The biggest merger in biotech history has closed, with Latham & Watkins representing Amgen Inc. in its $17.7 billion acqui...
Ropers Majeski Nabs Two Lawyers
By Liz Valsamis
San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has nabbed two attorneys: Philip Gregory for its San Jose office and Gerald Kna...
Five Associates Ascend To Partner at Allen Matkins
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory promoted five associates to partner effective July 1. The new partners ar...
Cotkin Collins Relocates Office Along Same Downtown Street
By Christina Landers
The law firm of Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg is moving its downtown Los Angeles offices to 300 South Grand Avenue effective ...
Stripping Away the Years
By Contributing Writer
BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer When she operated her boutique clothing store out of a small leased space on El Camino Avenu...
Lawyer Moves From In-House to Thelen Reid as Of-Counsel
By Staff Writer
Paul Sanner, the former senior corporate counsel to Bay Area engineering firm URS Corp., joined the San Francisco firm Thelen ...
Clifford Countdown
By John Ryan
The Tower Snow-led exodus of partners from San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison to London-based Clifford Chance Rog...
Going Green, North and South
By Columnist
BY KEVIN BROOKS The Northern California Green Team was looking for a breakthrough. How could it assure prospective clients of ...
New Partner-in-Charge Takes the Reins at Heller Ehrman's L.A. Office
By Liz Valsamis
Quickly rising to the upper echelons of management, Jerry L. Marks was named partner-in-charge of Heller Ehrman White & Mc...
Public Interest Firm Chooses Investigator to Climb on Board
By Staff Writer
Public Counsel, the largest public-interest pro bono law firm in the country, elected James Barnes to its board of directors. ...
Out of the Fire Drill and On to the Feast
By Riley Guerin
JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Except for palm trees, no one would mistake Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood for the white san...
San Francisco's Steefel Levitt Opens Outpost in Los Angeles
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss is officially open for business in Los Angeles. The 80-attorney firm began operati...
Firm's Estate Practice Adds Pair
By Erik Cummins
San Jose's 40-lawyer corporate and litigation firm Hopkins & Carley has doubled the size of its estate and tax planning de...
Judge Tosses Case Against Intel by Public Shareholders
By Toni Vranjes
A federal judge has tossed out a case pitting public shareholders against the largest computer-chip maker. The plaintiffs cont...
Public Finance Expert Leaves Orrick for Post at Sidley Austin
By Liz Valsamis
Mary Neale bid farewell to San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she served as Los Angeles managing partne...
Fourth Floor of SunAmerica Becomes Piper Rudnick's Digs
By Staff Writer
Piper Rudnick is moving on up - not exactly to the East Side - but to the fourth floor of the SunAmerica Center in Century Cit...
Manning & Marder Partner Will Serve on Oversight Committee
By Christina Landers
The Orange County Transportation Authority appointed Lawrence Esten, managing partner of the Irvine office of Manning & Ma...
Justice Group Nominates Irvine Lawyer
By Christina Landers
An Orange County attorney was among the finalists for Trial Lawyer of Year, which was awarded to three attorneys from the sout...
Boutique Lyon & Lyon Seeks Suitor to Prevent Dissolution
By Liz Valsamis
These days, the attorneys at intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon probably are wishing they'd stuck with their engin...
Hear the Children's Voices
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lisa Pinto - The brutal murder of five-year-old Samantha Runnion is a frightening reminder that our children...
Control Issues
By Columnist
Column by Palmer Brown - Madden Mediators often begin mediation sessions with an opening statement that includes an explanatio...
The Peacemaker
By Eron Yehuda
San Francisco neutral Michael G. Ornstil admits having a dual personality. He relishes intense competition, a character trait ...