Court Will Consider Release of Suicide Photos
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide whether the federal government must release to a Santa Cla...
Caldwell: Enron Probe Near End
By Pamela Mac Lean
SANTA ROSA - Leslie Caldwell, leader of the team of federal prosecutors investigating Enron, said over the weekend that she ex...
VC Investors Banking that Tertiary Liability Theory Fails
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley venture capitalists have not been having the best of times lately. Seed funding for technology ...
Richmond Residents Sue Police
By Karen Coleman
RICHMOND - A dozen Richmond residents commemorated Cinco de Mayo on Monday by filing a $1.7 million police-abuse lawsuit in fe...
Ruling Allows RICO in Police Suit
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - In two rulings that a civil rights attorney said could affect hundreds of other civil rights cases, a federal ju...
Hallway Pyrotechnics Enliven 'Pooh' Excursion Into Copyright Hell
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - The Winnie the Pooh royalty case exploded with verbal pyrotechnics Monday in the seventh-floor hallwa...
Federal Law Governs Pond At Dump Site, Judge Rules
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists are cheering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who has held that an enclosed po...
Harrassment Allegations Rock Police Department
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Over the past 21/2 months, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury has heard graphic allegations of sexual harassment ...
Patel Tells Judges to 'Stand Up'
By Riley Guerin
SANTA ROSA - Chief U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel told lawyers gathered for the Northern California judges' conference...
Who Started It?
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The scenario by now is familiar: Three off-duty, rookie police officers - including Alex Fagan Jr., the son of...
Prosecuting Lying Telemarketers Is Not a Speech Violation
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Telemarketers for charities are free to keep most of the donations they solicit, but if they lie about it they...
Presiding Judge Stresses Inclusion in Evolving System
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Presiding Judge Richard E.L. Strauss speaks passionately about the growing isolation of judges and the evolving co...
Incorrect Use of Marks Can Become Costly for Owners
By Catherine Cavella
Now that my trademark application is on file, can I use the (r) symbol on my packaging and advertisements? Should we use the (...
Environmentalists Sue to Halt Base Redevelopment
By Wire
RIVERSIDE (AP) - Environmental activists are suing to halt redevelopment of March Air Reserve Base because they say the plan ...
Shop Puts Bank's Financing Matters in New Hire's Hands
By Liz Valsamis
Dallas' Jenkens & Gilchrist has hired Gary Samson to handle financing matters for firm client Bank of America. Samson, who...
'Dean' of Limited Liability Takes Expertise to Hanson
By Erik Cummins
Jack Johal was the first tax lawyer to join Neumiller & Beardslee, Stockton's largest law firm. When Johal took his practi...
Bankruptcy Star Changes Firm, Not Title
By Liz Valsamis
Richard M. Cieri has settled into his new job as chair of the business restructuring and reorganization practice at Gibson, Du...
Orrick Centers Its Support Services in West Virginia
By John Ryan
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's September 2001 announcement that it was moving most of the firm's support services to a g...
Lawyer Discovers Court Is More Laid Back in Samoa
By Stefanie Knapp
Dean Hansell arrived in American Samoa with boxes of law books for legal research, exhibits, several copies each of motions an...
Waiting for the Ax to Fall
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Redevelopment agencies throughout the state are struggling with how to bring more bus...
Another Telecom Firm Files Chapter 11
By Toni Vranjes
San Diego's Leap Wireless International Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 relief, swelling the ranks of bankrupt telecommunication...
O'Melveny Helps Construction Firm Put Together Deal
By Toni Vranjes
Construction-materials company Hanson is building a bigger business. The London company has agreed to buy Better Materials Cor...
Ex-Aviation Pupils Air Grievances in Court
By Joan Osterwalder
Leticia Mendez and Robert Torres met in flight school at Glendale Community College in the summer of 2000. They dated for a ye...
Arzoon Gains $10 Million Boost During Fourth Round
By Toni Vranjes
Investors have pumped $10 million into Arzoon Inc., a manufacturer of trade and transportation software. New investors Redrock...
Belting Out the Hits
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Employees of ADCS Inc., a high-technology company in Poway, don't have to sing for their...
Former Prosecutors Open Private Firm
By Liz Valsamis
Daniel Nixon still is getting used to the view from the 39th floor of his Bunker Hill office building. From his perch, Nixon c...
Technology Can Win Cases If Lawyers Use It Correctly
By Staff Writer
In a recent trial in Los Angeles, jurors literally fell asleep until the defense presented a spectacular multimedia demonstrat...
Seven-Decade Water Dispute Ends With Tentative Accord
By Joan Osterwalder
A seven-decade water rights dispute may have reached an end with a tentative settlement between three Southern California wate...
Students Resolve Disputes by Using Mediator Service
By Stefanie Knapp
Bob Dobalina broke up with his girlfriend, Alison Smithers, recently at a local high school. Smithers was quite crushed, but D...
New Rules Worry In-House Counsel, Survey Concludes
By Toni Vranjes
It's a tough time to be an in-house lawyer. A new survey has found that strict new corporate-reform laws and the high costs of...