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Jurist Even-Keeled In the Face of Terrible Crimes

Jul. 30, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

STOCKTON - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Richard Mallett bears a striking resemblance to Clark Kent and he is just a...


Column By Garry Abrams - OK, kids, time to put on our fireproof playsuits. Today, we're taking a thrilling ride through "the d...



Disney Suit

Jul. 30, 2003
By Garry Abrams

LOS ANGELES - A former contract writer for the New York Post may pursue her $10 million lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co., ...


SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Monday disqualified the city attorney's office from a lawsuit accusing a former buildi...



Democrats In Assembly Hammering Out Budget

Jul. 30, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The state Capitol was abuzz Monday with speculation about whether the Assembly would approve a budget compromise ...


Two More Suits Seek to Modify Recall Vote

Jul. 30, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In new legal challenges to the Oct. 7 recall election, two prominent appellate specialists Monday filed petit...



Lawmakers Haggle Over Diminishing Court Budget

Jul. 29, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers worked over the weekend on a budget that would allow courts to stay open for the public, though furthe...


By Toni Vranjes Kavado Inc., a New York-based firm whose founders received technology training from the Israeli military, has...



Lawyers: Choose a Medical Specialist Jurors Would Use

Jul. 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column Expert Witnesses By David Feinberg A medical expert witness can be hard to choose. Ideally, when your case is over, yo...


Judge Axes Case, Says Lawyers Ignored Him

Jul. 29, 2003
By Joan Osterwalder

By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in New York threw out a securities-fraud case earlier this month, asserting that the plai...



By John Ryan California law offices continue to benefit from the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden. Citing costly at...


By Joan Osterwalder A federal judge in San Francisco gave final approval last month to an $8.6 million settlement in a class ...



Apartment Investment Red Hot

Jul. 29, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor It all boils down to the law of supply and demand. This fundamental economic baromet...


BY DALE YONKIN Post-World War II office buildings offer an exciting opportunity to increase residential stock, bring new life...



Law for Sale

Jul. 29, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column Law Firm Marketing By Felice Wagner and Elizabeth Lampert Throughout the profession, in almost all legal industry publ...


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

Jul. 29, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis suffered a crisis of confidence earlier this year when a group of partner...


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

Jul. 29, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Schnader Harrison has endured some prominent defections this year, but that's not the reason Robert Gebhardt ...


By Toni Vranjes WorldCom Inc. filed the largest bankruptcy case in the nation's history in July 2002. A year later, the case ...



By Erik Cummins For two guys who began their careers in an employment law boutique, moving to a general-practice firm was "li...


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

Jul. 29, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes Internet portal Yahoo Inc. is strengthening its position in the highly competitive world of Internet advertis...


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

Jul. 29, 2003
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

Jul. 29, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Charles Donovan left Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis earlier this month for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &am...



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

Jul. 29, 2003
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

Jul. 29, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MARCI WORMSER Special to the CREJ In Southern California's more familiar environment of high land costs limiting developme...


BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor It has been said that downtown Los Angeles truly will have arrived when 1100 Wilshir...