Here Comes the Neighborhood
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With no end in sight to the demand for new housing, more under utilized commercial sites ...
Fenwick & West Elevates Five to Partnership During Annual Meeting
By Staff Writer
At Fenwick & West's annual partnership meeting, held Oct. 5, the firm elected associates Rodger R. Cole, Jedediah Wakefiel...
There's No Place Like a Home
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Somewhere over the rainbow lies the dream of homeownership for many Southern Calif...
Appeals Court Finds Landlord Liable for Assault
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS Unpublished appellate opinions generally may not be relied on for precedent or even cited. However, th...
A Vision of Growth
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Southern California planners will spend the next 25 years determining how the regi...
Rooms with a View
By Julie Nakashima
JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Ten years after one developer packed its bags and checked out, another is beginning constru...
We Three Kings
By John Ryan
To visit the three kings of insurance bad-faith law, you need to get in your car and jump on the freeway heading east out of L...
Ropers Majeski Makes Space For Lyon & Lyon IP Practitioner
By Staff Writer
San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has picked up former Lyon & Lyon partner Arnold Sklar. Sklar joined the fir...
Apartment Notice Law Changes Create Confusion
By Columnist
BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN I've recently had numerous discussions with staff and fellow property managers about how to handle cer...
Zi Will Battle $9 Million Award for Patent Infringement
By Christina Landers
Zi Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, announced recently that it will fight a $9 million jury verdict awarded against it for patent in...
Of-Counsel Goes to Allen Matkins' Outpost in San Diego From Heller
By Staff Writer
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory hired Peter Townshend as of-counsel from Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo P...
Malpractice Issues Highlight Beverly Hills Bar Group Event
By Stefanie Knapp
The Beverly Hills Bar Association will host an alternative dispute resolution dinner Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. at McCormick & Schm...
E-Résumé Flood
By Joan Osterwalder
Job seekers are increasingly getting online help in their hunt for work. Search engines such as Monster.com, hotjobs.com and c...
Jury Awards $59 Million to Girl Brain-Damaged During Birth
By Joan Osterwalder
Caitlin Greenwell is turning 3 today. The girl is permanently brain-damaged from a birth injury, but she may have a happier ce...
Judge Awards Woman, 97, $1.36 Million
By Joan Osterwalder
Yvonne Wilson says she wasn't only up against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but also her own age. The 97-year-old...
Quinn Emanuel Adds Veteran Pillsbury Litigator to Its Stable
By John Ryan
Choosing challenge over comfort, renowned litigator Kenneth Chiate has left the Los Angeles office of San Francisco's Pillsbur...
Trial Lawyers Association Taps New Officers, Board Members
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Business Trial Lawyers announced its new officers and board of governors earlier this month. All members wi...
Davis Names Six to Benches In Three Southland Counties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis last week continued a recent flurry of judicial appointments, naming six new judges in Los Angel...
First Open-Source Case Has Yet to Resolve Any Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Laura A. Majerus - When counseling clients on matters relating to open-source licens...
Jury Awards High-School Teacher $425,000
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $425,000 to a Locke High School art teacher who said she was retaliated against f...
Lawyer Finds Neutral Role Is 'Energizing and Empowering'
By Eron Yehuda
Many children expect to borrow money from a parent with no strings attached. But not Pasadena neutral Linda M. Lasley, who mad...
Detective Says Toxicologist Looked 'Different'
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - A university detective testified Friday that Kristin M. Rossum looked "dramatically different" from her photograph...
Campaign Violations Put Candidates on Road to Conflict
By Karen Coleman
MARTINEZ - The race for district attorney in Contra Costa County has revealed a hidden bug in the local campaign finance law. ...
Desert Storm Redux
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - The U.S. Congress has voted overwhelmingly to authorize President Bush to use military fo...
Pachulski Stang Handles Peregrine's Insolvency
By Toni Vranjes
In another high-profile bankruptcy handled by Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones, financially beleaguered software com...
New Effort To Remove Van Voorhis
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a continuing pattern of caustic remarks and arbitrary rulings, the Contra Costa County district attorne...
Take My Wife, Please, Says Man Who Thought He Was Wed
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of uncertainty, Jerry Litmon has finally learned that he is indeed a single man. His divorce...
Susceptibility To Persecution Merits Lesser Prison Term
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Montana man who downloaded 1,300 pornographic images of young girls from the Internet is entitled to a 75 pe...
PG&E Legal Fees Questioned
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal watchdog agency wants to hold up millions of dollars in fees due to lawyers and consultants in the P...
S.F. Alleges Minority Business Scam
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Two Peninsula construction companies used a sham joint venture to circumvent city regulations giving minority-...