PUC's General Counsel Is Leaving to Join Garamendi
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Cohen, the California Public Utilities Commission's top lawyer through much of the state's energy crisis...
U.S. Businesses Should Avoid Violating Chinese Bribery Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By Winston Zee - Doing business in China frequently involves entertainment, favors and gift...
Roadside Banners Get Conflicting Readings
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - California free speech law is at a crossroads: Apparently it's OK for Santa Cruz peace activists to drape ant...
Alternative Weeklies Agree to Settlement
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Village Voice Media and New Times Media have settled a Department of Justice antitrust complaint over the altern...
Complex-Case Judges Say They Know Hellholes and They're Not in One
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The six judges of Los Angeles Superior Court's Central Civil West Courthouse have unanimously objecte...
Company Lets Reservist Keep Job
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - When Army reservist Marc Buckler was called to active duty last month as a part of the U.S. military's preparatio...
Court Reverses Award Of $6 Million for Fraud
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles appellate court has reversed a $6 million punitive damage award against a vehicle parts manufactu...
FCC Can't Force Bankrupt Firm to Give Up Licenses
By Tina Spee
WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federa...
Jurist Takes Step to Toss Suits Against Mechanics
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday asked defense attorneys representing 2,000 Southland auto mechanic...
Vision and 'Blind Luck'
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - When Michael A. Jacobs and William I. Schwartz started Morrison & Foerster's intellectual property group ...
Hallinan Describes Grand Jury's Goal
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Contrary to appearances that a grand jury convening today may examine a high-level police cover-up, District ...
School Admission Denied
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Earlier this month, opening briefs were filed in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bolling...
FCC Can't Force Bankrupt Firm to Give Up Licenses
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the ...
Court Revives Taxpayer Suit Against Prison
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court breathed new life Monday into a suit claiming that a San Diego area prison cheated not on...
Coastal Commission Fix Passes Hurdle
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - A measure that lawmakers hope will satisfy the courts and restore power to the California Coastal Commission too...
Retired Defender Leaves Legacy
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - Carl Holmes cracks a smile as he recalls the sign that the end was near. One morning, Holmes took a quick glance ...
Sex Offender Law Allows Release
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - By accepting civil commitment at Atascadero State Hospital, a habitual child molester who had himself surgically c...
FCC Can't Force Bankrupt Firm to Give Up Licenses
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Dealing a multi-billion dollar blow to the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Federal...
Getting Groovy
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Just when you thought the 1960s and '70s were finally dead and buried, residents in the ...
San Diego Litigation Attorney Joins Gordon & Rees Outpost
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Gordon & Rees ended 2002 with the acquisition of Colin H. Murray as a partner from the San Diego office o...
Outlook Dreary at Apartment Gathering
By Wire
BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires The apartment industry's big annual gathering started Jan. 15 in La Quinta. But the mood ...
Research Forecasts Falling Real Estate Values in 2003
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Investors expect little to no business growth that would require additional space in 2003, according to new ...
Hoge Fenton Entices Additional Land Use Attorney Into the Fold
By Staff Writer
The Pleasanton office of Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel has acquired another land use attorney for its growing practice ther...
Entertainment Partner Returns From N.Y.
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis John C. "Jack" McBride is returning to Los Angeles after spending five years in New York as the general couns...
O'Melveny & Myers Laterals In a Pair of Telecommunications Stars
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has added two telecommunications partners to its Washington, D.C., office, the firm announ...
On the Back Burner
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL J. NOVOGRADAC Last year, housing advocates rallied hard for several goals, and for a time, it looked like many of t...
Drug Distributor Buys Software Company
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Pharmaceutical distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. has purchased Solana Beach's Bridge Medical Inc., which ma...
Co-Branding, Done Correctly, Makes Great Marketing
By Tanya Rothman
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY By Miriam Beezy and Herb Williams It's happening across many industries. You've probably seen the ads -...
Treading Water in the Silicon Valley
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Even California's hardest-hit local economies continue to see single-family prices skyrock...
Screenwriter's Harassment Lawsuit Fails to Sway Jury
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Academy Award winning screenwriter Nancy E. Dowd knows how to tell a good story. But when she claimed at a...