ASSOCIATION RECOGNIZES LEWIS D'AMATO MANAGER
By Stefanie Knapp
The San Francisco Bar Association has given Duane Musfelt, managing partner of Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard's San Fra...
State's New Law Partners Named Over the Holidays
By Donna Huffaker
In early December, California Law Business reported that the state's law firms had elevated 92 associates to partner. The prom...
Klee Tuchin: BANKRUPTCY SPECIALIST DEPARTS SIDLEY AUSTIN
By Staff Writer
After nearly 15 years at the Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 's downtown Los Angeles office, insolvency partner Tom Patterson ...
INVESTORS POUR $16 MILLION INTO STORAGE CHIP STARTUP
By Stefanie Knapp
Aristos Logic Corp. raised nearly $16 million in its second round of financing. The deal closed on Dec. 10. The lead investors...
STEEFEL LEVITT PARTNER GETS SOCIETY'S TOP HONOR
By Stefanie Knapp
The Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha Society, an honorary land economics society, has awarded Edward Steefel, name partner ...
OBITUARY
By Ron Mc Nees
BY STEFANI KNAPP Special to CREJ LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles real estate attorney Allan Albala, who was known as much f...
INLAND EMPIRE'S FLEETWOOD SELLS $86 MILLION IN SHARES
By Stefanie Knapp
Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. closed an $86 million securities offering on Jan. 10. The lead underwriter was Banc of America Secu...
AFRICAN-AMERICAN BAR ANNOUNCES NEW OFFICERS
By Stefanie Knapp
One of the country's oldest African-American bar associations, the John M. Langston Bar Association, has announced its officer...
Resolution Dispute
By Liz Valsamis
To JoAnn Dean, her fight against her former employer is just one more case of an alternative dispute resolution system mired i...
Panel Disputes Davis' Authority To Deny Parole
By Amy Tatko
LOS ANGELES - In the latest round in a controversial murder case, a state appeals court has ruled that Gov. Gray Davis doesn't...
Enron Lawyers Adapt to Difficult Circumstances
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - From his sixth-floor office in Houston, attorney Mark Haedicke remembers the Enron Corp. of yesteryear. In 2000,...
Project Oversight Minimizing Fed Control
By Contributing Writer
Environmental Law Column - By Katherine A. Ellsworth, The National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 4332(2)(c) (200...
SLAPP Happy
By Katherine Gaidos
Barry Langberg is all riled up. Or at least, as agitated as the soft-spoken celebrity libel lawyer is likely to get. Langberg,...
Woeful Might-Have-Beens Accompany Sara Jane Olson to Prison
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - Tardy tears of regret and sorrow flowed like Niagara Falls on Friday at the sentencing of Sara Jane O...
Off-Hours Accident Remedied Only by Workers' Compensation
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO -Asserting that "no good deed goes unpunished," a state appellate court has wiped out a $512,900 judgment won by...
Sonnenschein Nath Lures Insolvency Pro
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Chicago-based Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal has recruited insolvency expert Michael Lubic to anchor the fir...
Stipulated Reversal Is Rejected
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - As part of the secret settlement of the nation's largest employment-related racial bias jury award, attorneys ...
Large Firm Says $500 Million Malpractice Suit Won't Hurt It
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - WhenCooley Godward became the first large firm in the Bay Area to ax associates last year, it never could have e...
Offensive Speech
By Columnist
International Law Practitioner Column - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson, Speech today finds expression and is made highly accessible t...
Treaty Trials
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Gideon Kracov and Joseph F. C. DiMento, Recognizing the growth of global trade and economic interdependence,...
Asked and Answered
By Columnist
Most experienced trial lawyers think of voir dire as the opportunity to ask a series of questions at the outset of a trial tha...
Golden Years
By Columnist
Once counsel have decided that mediation is appropriate for resolving an elder abuse case, the next step is the selection of a...
Lesson Plan
By Eron Yehuda
When Chapman University School of Law opened its doors in 1995, one of its goals was to teach its students to litigate. They s...
Taking the Paper Route
By Eron Yehuda
Although the plantiff had a history of making sophisticated investments, her attorney emphasized her age and memory problems t...
Maximum Impact
By Columnist
Often, when parties appear at mediation, they approach the process as an opportunity to "hammer" the other side. Their concept...
Employment Strategy Involves Research and Precision
By Jim Adamekn
Employment Column - By Lynda Stevens and Geoffrey Crisp, There is a new world order in the legal field, or at least in Orange...
Prankster Grows Up
By Eron Yehuda
Despite having little regard for higher education as a teen-ager, Southern California attorney Jennifer L. Keller ended up def...
Couple Sues Sheppard Mullin for $68 Million
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - An Orange County couple has sued Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton for $68 million, claiming the law firm ...
Bringing Justice to Rural Poor People Inspires Director Of Legal Assistance
By Paul Wilborn
SAN FRANCISCO - It might have been just a fading memory, an insignificant incident, that first brief meeting in El Centro betw...
U.S. Jurisdiction Over Porn Is Left Open
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO -A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a conviction for possession of child pornography downloaded from the In...