Law for Sale
By Contributing Writer
Column Law Firm Marketing By Felice Wagner and Elizabeth Lampert Throughout the profession, in almost all legal industry publ...
MCI Blamed the Messenger, Termination Suit Claims
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Telecommunications giant MCI WorldCom didn't want to hear the bad news, according to a lawsuit filed last ...
Firm Overcomes Crisis of Confidence
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis suffered a crisis of confidence earlier this year when a group of partner...
Sheppard Partner Heads High-Speed Rail Authority
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Over the course of his career, Joseph Petrillo has handled the enormous task of helping create legislative gu...
Jeffer Mangels Draws Schnader Litigator
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison has endured some prominent defections this year, but that's not the reason Robert Gebhardt ...
WorldCom Settlement May Set Bankruptcy Precedent
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes WorldCom Inc. filed the largest bankruptcy case in the nation's history in July 2002. A year later, the case ...
Two 'Boutiquey' Guys Join Nixon Peabody Out West
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins For two guys who began their careers in an employment law boutique, moving to a general-practice firm was "li...
CB Richard Ellis and Insignia Financial Services Complete Merger
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor The debate over which company is the world's largest commercial real estate services...
Yahoo Acquires Paid-Search Firm
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Internet portal Yahoo Inc. is strengthening its position in the highly competitive world of Internet advertis...
Infill, Adaptive-Reuse Projects Cannot Meet State's Housing Demand, Experts Say
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor Infill development and adaptive reuse have emerged as the best means of easing the s...
Building for the New Apartment Market
By Contributing Writer
The state's multifamily housing market is so hot that everybody's trying to break into it, including single-family, office an...
Lawyer Finds Home at Sheppard Mullin
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Charles Donovan left Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis earlier this month for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &am...
Thorsnes Bartolotta Founder Wins Trial-Lawyer Plaudits
By Tina Spee
By Tina Spee Vincent J. Bartolotta Jr. has been recognized on numerous occasions for the monumental verdicts he has won at tr...
Homeowner Battles for Right to Fly Old Glory
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LA QUINTA - Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Richard Birdsall hoisted an A...
Los Angeles County's Final Growth Frontier
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MARCI WORMSER Special to the CREJ In Southern California's more familiar environment of high land costs limiting developme...
Adaptive Reuse, Urban Infill Revolution Takes Hold Statewide
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor It has been said that downtown Los Angeles truly will have arrived when 1100 Wilshir...
Even '800-Pound Gorillas' Deserve Some Basic Civility
By Columnist
BY JOEL BENOLIEL The column "Taming the Beast" (Michael M. Berger, May 19) purported to tell the story of a lawsuit that Berg...
Gray Cary Guides Virage in Buyout
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes British company Autonomy Corp. has agreed to buy struggling software firm Virage Inc. for $25 million in cash...
Pesticides Threaten Public, Conservation Groups Claim
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Environmentalists warn that the state's use of insecticides to kill a pest that spreads the grapevine-kill...
Reviving a Market Jewel
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer After 30 years of inactivity, a relic from San Francisco's past will be restored and brought ...
Costco SpokesmanFailed to Review Trial Record
By Ron Mc Nees
Before accusing me of "fabrication," "fiction," "fantasies," "nonsense," making "unsupportable claims" and "misrepresent[atio...
Supreme Court Will Address Roadblocks to Find Witnesses
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - A bedrock concept in Fourth Amendment law is that, before the police can ...
Government Pull
By Columnist
Forum Column - By John Burton - The Washington, D.C. Circuit's decision in Center for National Security Studies v. United S...
Feuding Lawyers Reach Agreement in Corridor
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Feuding legal titans Browne Greene and Charles O'Reilly met in court Friday for a hearing on forcing arbitratio...
Street-Closure Plan Hits Roadblock
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - The votes are in, but they may not count. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central Distr...
DeVries Judge Assails Critics
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The judge poised to release the first child molester to complete the treatment program outlined in California's Se...
Cleanup Pacts Open Way for NFL Stadium
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The decades-long battle over cleanup of a Carson landfill long considered a prime spot for a National Football ...
Looking to Build Nanotech, Burns Doane Makes a Hire
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis has recruited nanotechnology legal pioneer Kitu Bindra to join the firm's 15...
Tour de Latham
By Liz Valsamis
When legal-industry strategists decided a global presence was the way to ensure long-term success at the highest levels, U.S....
California's Top 50 Law Firms
By Tina Spee
Ask a law firm to pinpoint its main office location, and you're likely to get some incarnation of the following: "We don't ha...