Rivals and Colleagues Mourn Firm's Passing
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - The idea that Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison would dissolve was unthinkable just weeks ago, according to sur...
DCA Strikes Gang Rule as Too Vague
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Police can't order a convicted street gang member to disclose "areas frequented" in his required registration...
Surprise, Surprise: Court Takes on Only 75 Cases
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - It's amazing how the justices manage to do it. Every term the Supreme Court gets between 7,000 and 8,000 petitio...
Ex-Director of Jewish Group Will Plead Guilty
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Earl Krugel, the former West Coast director of the Jewish Defense League, has agreed to plead guilty to federal...
Too Bad Everyone Knows Cannabis Means Marijuana
By Riley Guerin
SAN FRANCISCO - Papaver somniferum by any other name would smell as sweet. To Latin-proficient drug agents, it just smelled. ...
Fee-Splitting Agreements Are Void Without Client's Consent
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Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael R. Brown - A Nov. 4 decision by the California Supreme Court, Chambers v. Kay , ...
To Which Firms Will Brobeck's Clients Go?
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at insolvent Brobeck Phleger & Harrison planned to continue working day and night over the weeke...
Telecom Founder Scores in Court
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Global Crossing founder Gary Winnick on Friday scored his first courtroom victory since the demise of his telec...
Southland Shops Revel in Financial Fortune
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - If the market's bad, bet on Southern California law firms. That was the message for the second year in a row as ...
Peregrine Files Chapter 11 Proposal for Reorganization
By Tina Spee
By Toni Vranjes Four months after seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, San Diego software company Peregrine Systems Inc....
Court Upholds Disbanding of Compton Police
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court has upheld a decision two years ago by the crime-plagued community of Compton to di...
New Leadership in the East Bay
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Oakland business attorney Richard Waxman was set to become president of the Alameda County Bar Association during c...
Apartments Get Chic in Chino Hills
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The Morgan Group Inc. will wrap-up construction next month on the first multifamily housing...
Struck Down
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Forum Column - By Peter J. Hammer - By default, the leading regulator of national health care markets is the U.S. Supreme Cour...
Realities of In-House Work Diverge From Myths
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many associates want to become in-house lawyers. They believe that such a move wi...
Job Furloughs Foreseen as Courts Submit Budget Plans
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A worst-case budget scenario would require San Francisco Superior Court to lock up early every other Friday, ...
Search for Asbestos Closes Courthouse
By Jim Adamekn
BANNING - The Riverside County Courthouse in Banning will be closed until Monday because workers in the building found floor ...
Farella Environmental Group Grows
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Three more environmental lawyers have joined San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, adding to a practice...
Defense Attorney Mentored Young Lawyers
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Funeral services are scheduled today for criminal defense lawyer Stanley P. Berg, who died in his sleep last we...
Justices Rebuke Trial Judge for His Ruling of Factual Innocence
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The Supreme Court of California ruled Thursday that a Los Angeles judge erred in making a rare finding of factua...
Luce Forward, Preston Gates May Merge
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has entered preliminary merger discussions with Preston Gates...
EEOC Gets $250 Million for Disabled
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Some 1,700 retired public safety officers statewide who got lower disability retirements because of their age...
Money Troubles
By Toni Vranjes
Should San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison seek bankruptcy protection, it wouldn't be the first law firm to do...
Cash Worries Don't Relieve County of Health Care Duty
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Forum Column - By John A. Kotick and Kimberly Westmoreland - When a county slashes budgets and threatens publicly funded healt...
Scouts Come Under Fire, Again
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - In the first-known lawsuit of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union is contending that a local counci...
County Hosts Tour of Jail Diversion Program
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - It was unusually quiet at the hospital of last resort Thursday afternoon. Security was tight as women inmates p...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By R. Duane Westup, Mark Van Buskirk and Donald J. Winkler - In a contingency case involving a $1 mil...
Innovative Judge Changes Compton Court's Image
By Christina Landers
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John J. Cheroske beams with pride as he offers a sneak peak at the newl...
Health Care Files
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Forum Column - By Eric S. Daar and Judith F. Daar - President Bush recently unveiled a timetable for vaccinating the nation ag...
Bet Tzedek Raises $2 Million at Annual Dinner
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - Bet Tzedek held its 15th annual dinner Saturday night, raising $2.1 million for the nonprofit firm. More than 1...