SAN JOSE - Essex Apartment Value Fund II purchased The Enclave apartment complex at 4355 Renaissance Drive for $127 million. D...
Tax
Tax-Incentive for Filmmakers Holds Trap in Calculation of Movies' Costs
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Focus Column - By Marvin A. Kirsner - A new film tax incentive that was created by the Jobs Creation Act of 2004 to encourage ...
Forum Column - By Marc Angelucci and Glenn Sacks - At the age of 11, Maegan Woods tried to stop a domestic dispute between her...
Public Interest
Domestic Spying Is in Line With President's Constitutional Powers
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Forum Column - By David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey - Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush ordered surveillance o...
Focus Column - By John E. Lattin IV - The Bernardo Heights Country Club would probably like a mulligan now that the California...
LOS ANGELES - Jurors in Los Angeles can now reschedule their service and retrieve reporting information from the Los Angeles S...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Experts Say Time's Ripe for Merging in the Street
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - It ain't over yet, folks. After a booming year of mergers and acquisitions, 2006 may be the strongest year yet, ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Disk Drive Competition Shrinks as Seagate Purchases Maxtor
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - In a $1.9 billion deal attorneys involved called "legally intensive," disk drive maker Seagate Technology announ...
Law Practice
Grant Will Match Battered-Women's Shelters With Law Firms to Provide Pro Bono Help
By Anat Rubinn
When 10 Los Angeles County battered women's shelters were sued a few years ago for refusing to house a self-described "batter...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who signed a partnership agreement promising to pay his firm a percentage of the business generated by...
LOS ANGELES - Carolina Perez's landlord recently tried to evict her from the $700, two-bedroom apartment she shares with her 4...
MULTIFAMILY SAN DIEGO - Burnham Real Estate's Capital Markets Group arranged a $76.95 million loan for the acquisition and con...
LOS ANGELES - This year concludes much as it began, with the legal industry buzzing about law firm mergers, both realized and ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Terry O'Malley was the 49th lawyer at San Diego's Gray Cary Ames & Frye in 1975. But O'Malley never thoug...
LOS ANGELES - Will the saga of Tookie and the Terminator ever end? Or will we be bombarded forever with an untold number of se...
Labor/Employment
Jury Awards Pilot $12.5 Million In Wrongful Termination Case
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - A North American Airlines captain won more than $12.5 million in a wrongful termination case out of Oakland. Ran...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may have thrown a lifeline to the company that makes the popular BlackBerry...
Judges and Judiciary
'Doing Justice' Inspires Jurist's Search for Pragmatic Solutions
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - It's not uncommon for judges to receive Christmas cards from lawyers, clerks or other members of the court famil...
LOS ANGELES - San Diego-based Grace Hollis Lowe Hanson & Schaeffer has named Rebecca "Becky" Cady partner. Cady specialize...
CORONA - Hammer Ventures purchased The Crossing, a 296-unit apartment complex at 2125 High Point Drive from Archstone-Smith fo...
Letter to the Editor - In the Dec. 21 Daily Journal, you printed a letter by a person who criticized Stanley "Tookie" Williams...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Turning Mediation into a 12-Step Program
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Forget trying to pry even the tiniest detail from Gordon Wallack about the cases he has mediated over the years....
Letter to the Editor - It is never harder to preserve democracy than when we are in physical danger. The instruments of justic...
Labor/Employment
So You Have the Option of Mandatory Arbitration: Is It Worth Pursuing?
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Employment Column - By John T. Hansen - Recent decisions by both state and federal courts in California have limited the terms...
Focus Column - By Lawrence R. Jensen - The California courts last month reaffirmed their recent trend of dealing harshly with ...
Government
Out-of-Control Initiative Process Is Hijacking California Politics
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Whether they are approached by signature-gatherers outside grocery stores or puzzled by ba...
Litigation
Marvel Settles Lawsuit Against Computer Game 'City of Heroes'
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - As one of the first cases to examine the limits of expression on the Internet, the suit had the potential to tr...
LOS ANGELES - Sources inside St. Louis-based Bryan Cave have confirmed reports that the firm is in merger negotiations with Cl...
Real Estate/Development
Historic Status Not Enough to Save Venice Tenants
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Bill Delvac isn't very popular with the tenants of Venice's Lincoln Place apartments. The Latham & Watkins ...
SAN JOSE - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may have thrown a lifeline to the company that makes the popular BlackBerry e-...