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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. of Canada raised $30 million in a public stock offering last month, generating legal work for s...


IREM Turns 70

Jul. 8, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Staff Writer In June 1933, a group of 14 property managers in Chicago formed the Institute of Real E...



Column - Media Relations - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - By their nature, major-product cases can generate more media...


Women Live, Learn, Pass the Healing On

Jul. 8, 2003
By Cheryl Romo

OCEANSIDE - What began eight years ago as a simple act of compassion for women incarcerated in San Diego's jail system has bec...



Gibson Dunn Finds Antitrust Cornucopia

Jul. 8, 2003
By Erik Cummins

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has seen an explosion of antitrust work in the Bay Area, where it has three senior lawyers focusin...


Gun Battle

Jul. 8, 2003
By Erik Cummins

On the afternoon of July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri strode into the offices of Pettit & Martin with a .45 caliber automatic...



The Los Angeles County Bar Association has installed Robin Meadow, a partner at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, as its...


FOX Wins Rights In 'Goosebumps' Nonjury Verdict

Jul. 8, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

A ruling on the distribution rights to the scary Goosebumps children's TV series gave FOX a warm fuzzy. FOX won a defense verd...



Southern California's commercial office vacancy rates appear to have stabilized as the region's real estate markets performed ...


Big Trend in Small-Office Sales

Jul. 8, 2003
By Andrea Rosas

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer When it comes to office buildings, size matters. And recently, in Orange County and the Inl...



While Sacramento lawmakers argue about relatively minor reforms to the state's unfair-competition law, an appellate court opin...


Sole Practitioner Joins Litigation Boutique

Jul. 8, 2003
By Erik Cummins

After 19 years as a sole practitioner, Berkeley's Berne Reuben says he was tired of being on his own. "I wanted to be part of ...



Joseph Campisi says leaving Pillsbury Winthrop wasn't so much about leaving the San Francisco firm as it was about re-examinin...


Rentals Set High Watermarke for Luxury

Jul. 8, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Although the economic times seem to call for hamburger, developers of new apartment proj...



A Los Angeles jury awarded a telephone calling-card provider $4.6 million last month in its dispute with Pacific Bell Telephon...


Mixed Use Goes to College

Jul. 8, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Following a recent wave of university-related development, San Diego State University is...



Litigation Warhorses Fight the Good Fight

Jul. 8, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

In the 1986 film "Tough Guys," Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas play train robbers who finally are set free after 30 years in t...


Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Every day of the week, morning or afternoon, truck traffic on the Long Beach Freeway, In...



Lead Balloon

Jul. 8, 2003

It has been said that the only things certain are death and taxes. As is evident from my last several columns, I must add "err...


Focus Column - Real Property - By Stephen C. Seto - In these times of downsizing and declining rents, many financially healthy...



Focus Column - Employment Law - By Karl Gerber - Not long ago, an employment attorney with a California Fair Employment and Ho...


Federal Judges Seek Earnings 'Catch-Up'

Jul. 8, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

POIPU, Hawaii - It's tough to have sympathy for federal judges seeking a 16.5 percent hike in their $150,000 a year salaries ...



Press Interview Prompts Recusal in Murder Trial

Jul. 8, 2003
By Matthew Heller

RIVERSIDE - Saying he erred by making comments to the media, a judge has recused himself from the murder trial of a woman accu...


Ruling Nulls Charges Against Former Priest

Jul. 8, 2003
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - A former Roman Catholic priest whose female cousin recently testified that he molested her more than 40 years ag...



Confidentiality

Jul. 8, 2003
By Contributing Writer

In Closing Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - One of the oldest tenets of mediation is the confiden...


Officer Convicted

Jul. 8, 2003
By Jim Adamekn

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court jury late Thursday found a 20-year veteran investigator with the Riverside district attorney's of...



Hope, Faith and Love

Jul. 8, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Despite laws that limit marriage to heterosexuals in 37 states and a proposed federal amendment that would do the same nationw...


WASHINGTON - Time passes quickly when you're having fun, and the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed 2002-03 term really z...



Ex-Employee At Livermore Can Sue Lab

Jul. 8, 2003
By Karen Coleman

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge has given the green light to a lawsuit alleging that a former employee at the Lawrence Liverm...


SAN FRANCISCO - The recording industry's recent announcement that it would start suing individuals who trade songs online prov...