Breaking New Ground for Charity
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor After three years of planning, the first shovel went into the ground last month for ...
State Building Volume Declines 1.2 Percent in June
By Ron Mc Nees
California's statewide construction activity for June totaled $6.2 billion, down 1.2 percent - the first decline in 2003 after...
No End to Vicious Affordable-Housing Cycle
By Contributing Writer
MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ For some, affordable housing is a deal-killer. For others, it is an unwelcome ad...
Schnader Maritime Lawyer Sails for Holland & Knight
By Erik Cummins
Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis is open for business in San Francisco despite defections that have shrunk the office to ...
Inventor's Legal Fight With Novell Seems to Be on Last Leg
By John Ryan
Roger Billings' 12-year legal battle against software company Novell Inc. finally may be running out of steam. The inventor su...
Firm, Ex-Employee Arbitrate Sexual-Harassment Complaint
By Eron Yehuda
A former accounting manager at an Orange County law firm alleges that office management tolerated sexual harassment, then reta...
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Column - Legal Technology - By John J. Selbak and Colin C. Elrod - As communication technology develops, more clients expect t...
One of Three Brians Leaves Boutique
By Liz Valsamis
When you run your own successful litigation boutique, you can expect job offers from large law firms - just ask the name partn...
Top-Down Redesign for Architecture Firm
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The San Diego architectural firm of Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle is seeking a new direc...
DAILY DEALS -- Transactions from Ventura County
By Jack Briggs
CAMARILLO - Royce Medical Co. leased 17,784 square feet of R&D space at 4550 Calle Alto from the Snemelof Family Trust fo...
1 Playa Vista Lease Fills Water's Edge to the Brim
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor Dream Works has finally come to Playa Vista, but in a most roundabout way. On Aug. 6...
ERISA Expert Joins Sonnenschein
By Erik Cummins
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has seen its employee-benefits and executive-compensation practice explode in the last three...
Actor, 67, Files Age-Discrimination Suit Against Radio Show
By Eron Yehuda
Film and television actor Marty Ingels considers himself a "very verbose" and "opinionated" guy. So when a radio talk show hos...
Tell All
By Joel Rosenblatt
Securities lawyers and white-collar defense attorneys take note: the Securities and Exchange Commission is busier than ever. ...
New S. Calif. Multifamily Player Taps Latest Trends
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Alliance Residential Co., a full-service apartment company, inaugurated its new Southern ...
Top 50 Counsel
By Tina Spee
Whether their in-house departments have three lawyers - like San Jose's Sanmina-Sci - or 300 (think Hewlett-Packard), Califor...
Skadden Arps Guides SangStat in Buyout
By Toni Vranjes
Biotechnology company Genzyme Corp. is buying Fremont-based SangStat Medical Corp., which sells a lucrative drug for kidney-tr...
Pillsbury Winthrop Attracts Regulatory Agency Counsel
By Erik Cummins
Rosemarie Oda, the former general counsel of California's Department of Financial Institutions, has joined Pillsbury Winthrop....
Freeman Nabs Two Partners After Arter Closes
By Liz Valsamis
Freeman, Freeman & Smiley hired two Arter & Hadden partners following that firm's closure July 15. July 16, Jill MacGr...
New Law Addresses 'Hack Heard 'Round the World'
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Devin Gensch - In April 2002, a hacker gained access to the Teale Data Center's payr...
'Echazabal' Increases Uncertainty for Both Sides in 'Direct Threat' Cases
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By David J. Reis and Dipanwita Deb Amar - It came as no surprise that a unanimous Supreme Cour...
Elect to Resolve Balloting Quandary
By Melissa Onstad
Forum Column - By Rick Hasen - Noting ambiguities and internal contradictions in the state's recall laws, state Supreme Court ...
Initiative on Racial Privacy Will Thwart Bias Remedies
By Melissa Onstad
Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - In his landmark 1942 book, "Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race," anthropologist ...
Paralyzed Suspect Can't Sue Deputy
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - An armed-robbery suspect who was paralyzed permanently from the waist down cannot sue a sheriff's deputy for all...
Orange County Courts Reduce Service Hours
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - After months of trying to avoid additional reductions in service, Orange County Superior Court officials announced...
High-Density Bill Gets Mixed Review
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff writer A new piece of proposed legislation would not only speed the approval process for multifamily...
Affidavit a Substitute for Live Testimony
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers accused by defendants of conducting illegal searches now can answer in court with an affidavit...
L.A. Can Gather Billboard Fees
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals panel has upheld two Los Angeles billboard ordinances, overturning a lower-court order that bl...
Prosecutor Accused of Misconduct
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor Ben Field, a potential candidate for district attorney, is under fire for his office'...
Supervisor's Coercive Behavior Makes Employer Liable
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Employers may be held liable for a supervisor who successfully coerces an underling into sexual acts if the vi...