Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyer Quits Case After Blake Decides He'll Talk to the Public
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Just six weeks after losing his first criminal lawyer, Robert Blake on Tuesday suffered another defection from h...
SAN DIEGO - Back in 1997, when Amy B. Vandeveld began negotiating better access at Qualcomm Stadium for disabled people, she w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel Bookin and Douglas Young, two well-known San Francisco white collar criminal defense lawyers, have tak...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a voter-approved initiative that broadened the cir...
LOS ANGELES - After 18 years of practicing law at Perkins Coie, Colleen Regan is leaving the firm to join Santa Monica litigat...
Administrative/Regulatory
Ownership Of Stock Not Enough for PUC Ouster
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Even in death, Joe Remcho can't be beat as a champion of the rights of public officeholders. California's ren...
SAN RAFAEL - Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael B. Dufficy has withstood his detractors, regained his health and fought...
LOS ANGELES - In an effort to spur the growth of its energy practice, San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop has opened a Hous...
LOS ANGELES - Even in kindergarten, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Laura Knight Jackson wanted to put criminals in jail ...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that illustrates an intensifying demand for litigators, Timothy K. Roake said Monday he is leaving ...
LOS ANGELES - Criminal defense lawyer Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. said he planned to instruct actor Robert Blake to assert his Fift...
SAN FRANCISCO - The newly merged Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped two former Crosby Heafey litigators to run the firm's Oa...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Harold J. Cohn and Pamela Wax-Semus - How does the community get compensated for funds expended...
Litigation
S.F. Firm Was Uncowed by World's Largest Software Maker
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - The California lawyers who led the antitrust charge against Microsoft Corp. took a big gamble on the case. Tw...
Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - Pity the plight of corporate California. Dismayed at the stranglehold anti-business liberals h...
OAKLAND - Now that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors has begun to flex its newfound power over the probation department,...
LOS ANGELES - A teen-ager from India, who was granted asylum in the United States after relating a horrific tale of child abus...
By Laura Wides Associated Press Writer State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a complaint Tuesday against two pharmaceutic...
By Joel Rosenblatt Palo Alto's Tomlinson Zisko has elected James R. Janz, the mayor of Atherton, as its managing partner. Jan...
Litigation
Construction Litigator Forms Firm To Represent General Contractors
By Karen Coleman
Construction litigator Paul A. Lax has left Castle & Lax to form Lax & Stevens, a new firm specializing in representi...
Transactions
Cooley Facilitates $4 Million Deal for Software Publisher
By Toni Vranjes
A Paris-based software publisher has invested $4 million in Elibrium Inc., the second round of financing for the San Mateo com...
By Erik Cummins Carroll, Burdick & McDonough will continue its lateral hiring spree in 2003 under Jim Walsh, the firm's n...
By Joan Ostewalder Orange County picked on the wrong guy when it challenged an administrative ruling that put a $100 property...
By Joan Osterwalder A San Francisco Superior Court jury rejected claims by an investment bank saleswoman who alleged her boss...
Firm Watch
Kring & Chung Ups Blakely to Partner, Ontario Managing Partner
By Staff Writer
Irvine's Kring & Chung has promoted John R. Blakely to partner and, at the same time, managing partner of the Ontario off...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Council Announces Annual Service Awardees
By Stefanie Knapp
By Stefanie Knapp The Judicial Council of California will present its 10th Annual Distinguished Service Awards at the 2003 Ca...
By Eron Ben-Yehuda The Union Pacific Railroad is scheduled to be arraigned next month in three Central Valley counties on doz...
LOS ANGELES - San Diego business litigator Michael J. Perez has filed a breach-of-contract suit against Haight, Brown & B...
Litigation
Judges Association Fetes Judge For His Contributions to Group
By Stefanie Knapp
The California Judges Association honored retired Judge Roy Wonder with its 2002 President's Award for Outstanding Service to...
Firm Watch
For First Time, Heller Ehrman Hires Chief Marketing Officer
By Staff Writer
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe made a big change in the marketing department, hiring a chief marketing officer for the f...