Lions Gate Gets $30 Million For Stock Offering
By Toni Vranjes
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. of Canada raised $30 million in a public stock offering last month, generating legal work for s...
IREM Turns 70
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...
Prepare for Corporate Crisis In Product Liability Lawsuits
By Contributing Writer
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
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
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
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...
New Officers Take Reins Of County Bar Association
By Pat Alston
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
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...
Second Quarter Office Market Rates Stabilizing in So. Calif.
By Michael Gottliebn
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
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...
Court Attacks Provision Of Unfair-Competition Law
By Eron Yehuda
While Sacramento lawmakers argue about relatively minor reforms to the state's unfair-competition law, an appellate court opin...
Sole Practitioner Joins Litigation Boutique
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 ...
Lawyer Moves Back East To Work for Bristol-Myers
By Erik Cummins
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
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Although the economic times seem to call for hamburger, developers of new apartment proj...
Pacific Bell Owes $4.6 Million to Calling-Card Firm
By Stefanie Knapp
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
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
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...
Time Has Come to Wean Angelenos From Freeways
By Columnist
Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Every day of the week, morning or afternoon, truck traffic on the Long Beach Freeway, In...
Lead Balloon
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...
Tenant May File Bankruptcy to Limit Its Damages for Termination of Lease
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By Stephen C. Seto - In these times of downsizing and declining rents, many financially healthy...
Federal and State Discrimination Laws Are Diverging
By Columnist
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'
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
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
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
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
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
By Stefanie Knapp
Despite laws that limit marriage to heterosexuals in 37 states and a proposed federal amendment that would do the same nationw...
High Court Makes 2002-03 Session One to Remember
By David Pike
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
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...
Reporter's Notebook: Latest Plan Against File-Sharing Isn't Much of One
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - The recording industry's recent announcement that it would start suing individuals who trade songs online prov...