Commercial Law
Sony Accuses Company of Theft And Unfair Business Practices
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has warned Connectix Corp. that Internet downloading of publicly accessible trade secrets alle...
Controversial police brutality and civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman is back from the legally dead. A federal judge ruled las...
William S. Garr, after 16 years of legal practice, has hit his stride in and out of the courtroom. He manages a demanding lega...
By Kelly E. Lee. In a three-day bench trial, after nearly 2 1/2 years, Hahn & Hahn partner William S. Garr led trial team ...
By John McCloud Although the outward focus of the investment market is on acquisition of properties, every acquisition involv...
By Jon Walz The San Diego County office, industrial and retail markets continue to report record-breaking performance, with e...
By Eric Von Berg The dot-com sector may have lost steam but the Bay Area economy shows few signs of slowing down. Bay Area em...
By Stephen M. Uthoff. Mediators are not magicians. While they facilitate and encourage communication and negotiation among par...
By David Steinberg. Earlier this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals limited the situations where police officers may...
By Ted Gibson In the autumn of 1998, many economic analysts - from both within and outside California - viewed with considera...
Real Estate/Development
San Mateo County a choice setting for doing business
By Ron Mc Nees
Sandwiched between the core of Silicon Valley and San Francisco, San Mateo County plays go-between in another way as well: it...
By William H. Curtis The Orange County economy continued to gain momentum and has recorded another six months of sound expans...
Government
Does Following God's Word Require Casting the First Stone?
By Contributing Writer
By Mike Farrell. I'm confused. They say politics and religion don't mix, but I can't get away from them. They've become the Si...
By Deborah Rosenthal. Some people grow up knowing what they want to be. Others, like Bay Area neutral Barbara S. Bryant, know ...
By Randall L. Mason and Jeffry A. Miller Our clients' stress level has just gone down. In a triumph for common sense, the Cal...
KEY TO VICTORY. Herbert Hafif simplified a bitter business valuation dispute by using the plaintiff as the only witness on all...
By John McCloud If there is a hotter, tighter office market in the country than San Mateo County, it must be hot and tight in...
By Geoffrey C. Arrobio Overall, those living in the Southland region feel "very positive" about their economic future as the ...
Real Estate/Development
Ventura County relatively affordable for business
By Ron Mc Nees
When the local tax bill comes due Ventura County is a relatively affordable location for business, but tight growth policies ...
TORT LAW By Lorenzo E. Gasparetti and Eric T. Jorgensen. Those who suspect that their trade secrets have been misappropriated ...
By Ross Johnson. Memo to: Joe Eszterhas: Hollywood screenwriter, big-foot journalist, heavy thinker From: Joe Lieberman; U.S. ...
By Donald H. Oppenheim. Mergers of firms of equal size and strength are the most difficult kind to actuate as they often end u...
TORT LAW By Raphael Metzger. Three years ago, the California Supreme Court issued a landmark toxic-tort decision in Rutherford...
By Tim Snodgrass With inventories at a minimum in many regions throughout the United States, would-be or current real estate ...
By Ronald McNees Conejo is the Spanish word for rabbit, but there will be no puns about how the Conejo Valley office market i...
Labor/Employment
Whistle-Blower From UC Irvine Sues Over Firing
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld
SANTA ANA - A former assistant vice chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, has sued the school, two of its admini...
A Los Angeles judge Thursday sternly ordered the city attorney's office and police investigators to turn over videotapes seize...
A 23-year-old El Segundo man was arrested Thursday and accused of fabricating a press release that caused the high-tech firm E...
SAN DIEGO - County officials pressured one of their employees to push through a lease that now is the subject of a public corr...
A federal appellate court ruled Thursday that a lawyer need not be disqualified from a case just because another member of his...