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Paul Hastings LLP Los Angeles Specialties: finance and transactions ...
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Sidley Austin LLP Los Angeles Specialty: transactions and financing ...
Gilchrist & Rutter PC Santa Monica Specialty: commercial real estate transactions ...
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Los Angeles Specialties: transactions, financing ...
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP San Francisco Specialty: transactions ...
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Real Estate/Development
'Bad boy' carveouts shift power to lenders
By Andrew Mc Intyre
A handful of exceptions to the non-recourse rule have evolved over the past 80 years, but it was not until recently that many ...
Real Estate/Development
Death of redevelopment agencies could trigger wave of transactions
By Omar Shamout
Last year's shutdown of redevelopment agencies triggered hand-wringing in the real estate community, but lawyers and market ob...
Though market observers shy away from saying the market has recovered completely, they're optimistic about the future as the p...
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has had a busy couple of weeks in the Bay Area, adding three partners to its San F...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Objectors face uphill battle to scuttle Nvidia settlemet
By John Roemer
Objectors to a class settlement over a defective computer component appeared to face an uphill fight Tuesday before a 9th U.S....
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Landowners may be eligible for asylum, 9th Circuit rules
By Fiona Smith
An appellate court ordered immigration officials to reconsider whether wealthy landowners who are persecuted in their home cou...
Labor/Employment
San Francisco Housing Authority fights wrongful termination suits
By Laura Hautalan
The first of three jury trials that will decide claims of wrongful termination against the San Francisco Housing Authority and...
Litigation
Federal panel upholds ruling tossing condo owners' fraud case
By Henry Meier
A federal appellate panel Tuesday affirmed a district court ruling throwing out a securities fraud case brought by purchasers ...
California Courts of Appeal
Appeals court upholds move to limit effects of air pollution on people in urban areas
By Fiona Smith
A state appellate court has upheld the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's move to limit the effects of air pollution o...
Real Estate/Development
Residential real estate industry: lessons from the recession
By Ben Armisteadn
Looking back on what challenges we faced as we tried to fix "broken" projects can help to ensure there are fewer challenges th...
Edwin B. Stegman, a Santa Monica attorney and political activist, died in July. He was 92. ...
Litigation
Eyewitness in Toyota trial says Camry's brake lights flashed 10-15 times as it sped past
By Omar Shamout
Plaintiff calls its first eyewitness Tuesday during a $20 million bellwether lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. over its cars'...
Labor/Employment
Private attorney general act claims to stay in state court
By Laura Hautalan
A split 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that claims filed under California's Private Attorney General Act, or P...
Law Practice
Real estate-related malpractice claims are up for third year in a row, studies show
By Alexandra Schwappach
For the third year in a row, insurers last year cited real estate as the practice area generating the highest number of legal ...
Litigation
Semiconductor company must pay competitor more than $8.4 million in fees
By Kevin Lee
Semiconductor company O2 Micro International Ltd. must pay rival Monolithic Power Systems Inc. more than $8.4 million in legal...
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Century City Specialties: transactions, debt and equity financing and capital markets