Kelley Drye Partner Wastes No Time Starting New Gig
By Liz Valsamis
Following the closure of the Los Angeles office of New York-based Kelley, Drye & Warren, corporate partner Ronald Husdon h...
Two New Premises-Liability Decisions Favor Plaintiffs
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS There can be little question that when it comes to holding those who own or manage property liable for...
Years of Planning Comes to a Head
By Riley Guerin
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The harbor revitalization isn't the only development project in the pipeline in Dana Poi...
Teen Center Opens With a Little Help From Law Firm
By Tina Spee
"Give me a K!" cheerleaders from Los Angeles' James A. Foshay Learning Center joyfully commanded their audience at the Winston...
Dana Point Harbor to Get 'Killer' Facelift
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Orange County is preparing to embark on a major overhaul of Dana Point Harbor, a 210-acr...
Court Seeks Public Comment on Reappointments to Central District
By Pat Alston
The U.S. District Court seeks public comments regarding the reappointments of Magistrate Judges Charles F. Eick, Arthur Nakaza...
Manatt Phelps Enlists Two New Partners at L.A. Office
By Liz Valsamis
Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has added two new partners - land-use attorney Timi Anyon Hallem and project financ...
Groups Offer 111-Page Guide to Common Legal Problems
By Stefanie Knapp
Glen Peterson, executive director of Los Angeles' JobStarts Inc., doesn't have a legal background, and his organization doesn'...
Miami's Feldman Gale Brings IP Practice to City of Angels
By Liz Valsamis
Miami-based Feldman, Gale & Weber became a two-office firm April 1 when it opened an outpost in downtown Los Angeles. The ...
Brokers Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief
By Joan Osterwalder
Brokers can breathe easier after a San Francisco appellate court made it more difficult in fraud suits to hold brokers liable ...
Change in Leadership, Change in Focus
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When Grubb & Ellis ousted its top management last month, including its New York-base...
There's More to Civil Suits Than Monetary Damages
By Tanya Rothman
Litigation Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Cynthia F. Pasternak - Civil lawsuits focus on monetary damages. Certa...
Turning Junkyards, Warehouses Into Art
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer An old almond warehouse and auto-parts junkyard in North Sacramento is now a piece o...
After 13 Years, Lawyers Finally Free Client
By Stefanie Knapp
Edward Sousa and Gerald Schwartzbach waited at the front gates of San Quentin State Prison March 21. They watched as their cli...
Litigator Moves to Katten Muchin
By Liz Valsamis
Chicago's Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman hired John Arai "Mitch" Mitchell as a litigation partner. Mitchell, who joined on March...
Brave Hearts
By Staff Writer
It's not as if they have nothing else to do. This issue of EXTRA features four of the special lawyers who likely will travel t...
Briefs from The Associated Press
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Kern County to Rewrite Building-Rental Policy BAKERSFIELD - Kern County officials say they will rewrite their rental facility ...
Suit Calls McDonald's PlayLands Unsafe
By Eron Yehuda
McDonald's is facing a lawsuit in Los Angeles that questions the safety of the restaurant's playgrounds throughout the country...
Sect. 8 Landlords Caught in Legal Waiting Game
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Landlords and apartment owners have plenty of new laws to deal with this year, inclu...
Feb. State Building Totals $5.1 Billion
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CREJ WIRE REPORT BURBANK - California's statewide construction volume for February totaled $5.1 billion, down 0.6 percent fro...
Copycat Blues
By Liz Valsamis
To take on Hollywood with its deep pockets, in-house counsel and legions of outside law firms, you need lawyers with a lot of ...
Seattle's Perkins Coie Lures Partner From Wilson Sonsini
By John Ryan
Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has lost partner Bruce McNamara to the Menlo Park office of Seattle's Perkins...
Heller Ehrman's Bay Area Outpost Appeals to Lawyer
By Erik Cummins
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe told Warrington Parker III he could do appeals full time if he joined the firm's new appea...
Video Teaches Teen-agers Trial Fundamentals
By Stefanie Knapp
Students throughout San Diego County have heard the story of Andy Adams and Beth Baker, two kids on trial for scheming to sell...
Defender Stages Gender-Bias Workshop
By Stefanie Knapp
Michael Judge, Los Angeles public defender, is determined to make his office a pleasant one to work in for all his employees. ...
Battling City Hall Over Aging Properties
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Mario Moreno, a Sacramento gardener, poured most of his money and free time into sav...
DHL Will Buy Airborne's Ground Assets
By Toni Vranjes
In a controversial deal that has piqued the interest of top Washington lawmakers, DHL Worldwide Express has agreed to buy the ...
Picking Process
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In Closing Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Law firms that check and provide employee references need to know about changes in the l...
Employment Firm Nabs City Attorney
By Karen Coleman
Longtime Oakland city attorney Ines Vargas Fraenkel has taken a private-practice gig with the public sector employment law fir...
Lawsuit Can Grow From Simple Reprimand
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Forum Column - By Johanna Y. Ong and Robert J. Becher - Recently, the 1st District of the California Court of Appeal in Yan...