VICTORIA, B.C. and PORTLAND, OR, Feb.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Pivotal Investments, along with presenting sponsors Perkins Coie, Ernst & Young, the Portland Development Commission and the University of Oregon, today announced the Pivotal Leaders for 2010 (http://www.pivotal-leaders.com), a community-nominated and peer-selected network of the top prospective clean technology business leaders with ties to the Northwest.

Stoel Rives LLP has hired Aaron Courtney to its resources, development and environment practice group.

By Mark Melnicoe, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Apr. 4--Like an online Goliath girding for battle, Craigslist.org moved Thursday to quash a Sacramento man who launched the first national blog about the classified ad Web site that has successfully cultivated a populist community and image.

By ROMINA MAURINO CHICAGO (CP) - A verdict appears imminent in the Conrad Black fraud trial after jurors were ordered back to work Tuesday despite a partial impasse on "one or more counts" against the former media baron and three other defendants. Judge Amy St.