Survey Reveals Little Demand for U.S. Office Space
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT The uncertain business environment, exacerbated by recent disclosures of accounting irregularities among sev...
Snell & Wilmer Sets Up Medical Devices Practice
By John Ryan
Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has launched a medical devices and pharmaceuticals practice group, the firm announced last mo...
Landlord Cannot Sue Law Firm Partners for Fraud
By Katherine Gaidos
BY KATHERINE GAIDOS Special to CREJ Former members of an Orange County law firm cannot be sued for fraud for taking partnersh...
Valley Business Park May Change Hands
By Toni Vranjes
A hot piece of real estate in the San Fernando Valley soon may be in the hands of a new owner. AH Warner Center Properties has...
Fault Lines
By Contributing Writer
Column by Eugene C. Moscovitch - Many attorneys and mediators who specialize in employment law are quick to distance themselve...
Gray Cary Cuts Loose 55 Associates, Staff
By Joel Rosenblatt
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has added yet another chapter to the year-old tale of law firm layoffs. The firm's announceme...
Orrick Herrington Loses Corporate Leader
By Liz Valsamis
While Lyon & Lyon attorneys were busy moving into Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Los Angeles office last week, Blase...
Experienced Litigator Joins Panel At JAMS in Southern California
By Stefanie Knapp
June Lehrman joined the panel of resolution experts in Southern California at JAMS. Lehrman, 43, brings with her a decade of a...
Purchase of Co-Design Will Expand Synopsys' Offerings
By Toni Vranjes
Following two months of intense negotiations, Mountain View software maker Synopsys Inc. has signed an agreement to buy privat...
Carroll Burdick Nabs Lawyer In Latest 'Humongous Catch'
By Erik Cummins
With her employment litigation practice "going gangbusters," Carroll, Burdick & McDonough's Angela Bradstreet is pleased a...
$2 Million Settlement in Rape CaseBodes Well for New Firm
By Joan Osterwalder
David M. Ring of Taylor & Ring didn't take a single deposition in pursuing a sexual assault and negligence lawsuit against...
The Big-Box Trade-off
By Contributing Writer
BY LARRY KOSMONT Cities have been tradingsales tax for residential development for the past 20 years. They've done this becaus...
NetScreen Will Buy OneSecure For $40 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Most problems have solutions - and the potential for lots of money to be made along the way. Case in point: Sunnyvale's OneSec...
Ballot Box Planning
By Columnist
BY RONALD A. ZUMBRUN One of the major issues of the day relates to how to maintain our quality of life while still allowing fo...
Looser Lips
By Joel Rosenblatt
Meet Courtney Weber, the new voice of traditionally tight-lipped Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. If history is any indic...
On the Rise
By Staff Writer
BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer The last time condominiums were a big deal in Sacramento, "That '70s Show" was a reality. Now...
Casey Gerry Partner Will Become Trial Lawyers President in 2003
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America named David S. Casey Jr., partner at San Diego's Casey Gerry Reed & Schenk, pr...
Think Regionally
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Katherine Perez has a dream for her three young children. She wants them to live with her i...
Workshop Will Focus on Employing Technology in Dispute Resolution
By Stefanie Knapp
The Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service and the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Services will...
Anti-Business, Anti-Development Legislation Goes to Governor
By Columnist
BY REX HIME As anticipated, during the last days of session, the Senate and the Assembly have been approving anti-business an...
Haight Brown Duo Goes to Boutique
By Liz Valsamis
Gary Ottoson has left Haight, Brown & Bonesteel for the Los Angeles office of Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson. The Sa...
Judge Retires After Two Decades Of Service in Los Angeles Courts
By Leslie Simmons
After 20 years on the bench, Judge Alban Niles will retire Oct. 4. Niles, 69, has been sitting as a Superior Court judge since...
Toxic Fungus is Spreading Among Us
By Columnist
BY CHRISTINE SPAGNOLI Mold fear is gripping homeowners, spreading as quickly as the toxic spores themselves. And insurance ca...
New Assignments
By Leslie Simmons
Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge James Bascue recently issued the following assignment orders: As of Monday, crimina...
Apartments Built Using Federal Tax Credits Boast Low Foreclosure Rate, High Returns
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT A new study of the performance of the federal low-income housing tax credit program has reaffirmed the progr...
Start the Presses
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer A Canadian company, often identified as the world's largest commercial printer, will leave ...
Housing Affordability Improves Little in Past Decade
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Affordable housing remains a problem for low-income Americans in many, if not most, housing markets in the co...
Lawsuit Sends Schools a Message
By Joan Osterwalder
If you bash, you pay. That's the message Derek Henkle and his lawyers want to send to school districts nationwide after settli...
This Won't Hurt A Bit
By Matthew Heller
To Shawn Khorrami, they are victims of an insidious poison implanted in the mouths of millions of Americans. One is a Newport ...
Bar Presentation Will Address Litigating in Global Economy
By Stefanie Knapp
If you're planning to take your case around the world, check out the Bar Association of San Francisco's "One Dispute, Two (or ...