Court Orders Jesus Christ Out of Prayers
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Irv Rubin, head of the Jewish Defense League, may be on the wrong side of the law lately, as he sits in federal ...
PG&E Creditors Favor Utility's Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's re...
In Remembrance
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - In just one hour and 42 minutes, manifest U.S. symbols of economic might known all over...
Fencing Off the Public Domain
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Vawter "Buck" Parker wasn't scared when he got the ominously worded letter last fall from a member of Congress...
Civil Rights Suit Protests INS Jailing
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prison guards forced an Egyptian immigrant, Hady Hassan Omar, to undergo humiliating body searches and...
Career Prosecutor Received His Dying Wish
By Sandra Corrales
LOS ANGELES - Services for Irwin N. Bloom of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office will take place today in Inglew...
Firm Sues Ex-NBA Star Over Unpaid Legal Bills
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Lavely & Singer has sued former basketball star and consummate bad boy Dennis Rodman for $193,818.92 in unpa...
Jurors Don't Let Their Fear Prevent Fairness
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - On Sept. 14, 2001, Dennis Cunningham of San Francisco, the attorney for the Earth First environmental group, s...
MTV Icons Occupy Changed U.S. in Which Torture Is Debated
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - A day after last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks comment...
New-Spouse Income Cannot Be Considered in Awarding Support
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In the recent case of Romero v. Romero, 2002 D...
MTV Icons Occupy Changed U.S in Which Torture is Debated
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - A day after last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks comment...
Eminent Domain Rule Altered
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1999, when a jury ordered the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency to pay more than twice what it offered to own...
Firms Pull Together After Terrorist Attacks
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - As Drinker Biddle & Reath New York managing partner Matther Farley walks past ground zero each morning, his ...
School Must Allow Religious Club
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Student-led religious clubs must be given equal access to the same school resources as nonsectarian student cl...
PG&E Creditors Favor Utility's Plan
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy case have allowed rival plans for the utility's reo...
Person of Interest
By Columnist
Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - Oscar Wilde famously said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being tal...
James Frolik, Attorney, 81, Tennis Pro
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - James Frolik, a San Francisco attorney for more than 50 years, has died after a six-month struggle with leuke...
Paving a New Path for Commerce
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer It may look like just a mini-version of the Alameda Corridor, but a $450 million grade-s...
Survey Reveals Little Demand for U.S. Office Space
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT The uncertain business environment, exacerbated by recent disclosures of accounting irregularities among sev...
Snell & Wilmer Sets Up Medical Devices Practice
By John Ryan
Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has launched a medical devices and pharmaceuticals practice group, the firm announced last mo...
Landlord Cannot Sue Law Firm Partners for Fraud
By Katherine Gaidos
BY KATHERINE GAIDOS Special to CREJ Former members of an Orange County law firm cannot be sued for fraud for taking partnersh...
Valley Business Park May Change Hands
By Toni Vranjes
A hot piece of real estate in the San Fernando Valley soon may be in the hands of a new owner. AH Warner Center Properties has...
Fault Lines
By Contributing Writer
Column by Eugene C. Moscovitch - Many attorneys and mediators who specialize in employment law are quick to distance themselve...
Gray Cary Cuts Loose 55 Associates, Staff
By Joel Rosenblatt
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has added yet another chapter to the year-old tale of law firm layoffs. The firm's announceme...
Orrick Herrington Loses Corporate Leader
By Liz Valsamis
While Lyon & Lyon attorneys were busy moving into Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Los Angeles office last week, Blase...
Experienced Litigator Joins Panel At JAMS in Southern California
By Stefanie Knapp
June Lehrman joined the panel of resolution experts in Southern California at JAMS. Lehrman, 43, brings with her a decade of a...
Purchase of Co-Design Will Expand Synopsys' Offerings
By Toni Vranjes
Following two months of intense negotiations, Mountain View software maker Synopsys Inc. has signed an agreement to buy privat...
Carroll Burdick Nabs Lawyer In Latest 'Humongous Catch'
By Erik Cummins
With her employment litigation practice "going gangbusters," Carroll, Burdick & McDonough's Angela Bradstreet is pleased a...
$2 Million Settlement in Rape CaseBodes Well for New Firm
By Joan Osterwalder
David M. Ring of Taylor & Ring didn't take a single deposition in pursuing a sexual assault and negligence lawsuit against...
The Big-Box Trade-off
By Contributing Writer
BY LARRY KOSMONT Cities have been tradingsales tax for residential development for the past 20 years. They've done this becaus...