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Real Estate/Development


New-home sales dip in San Fernando

Feb. 2, 2000
By Jane Zastrow

Overall trends for the San Fernando Valley/Santa Clarita Valley housing market decreased 10.4 percent in the fourth quarter o...


Real Estate/Development


A Closer Look: Javier G. Vande Steeg

Feb. 2, 2000
By John Mc Cloud

Title: President/CEO Company: Asset Preservation Inc. Location: Granite Bay What is the focus of your company's business? Ass...


Real Estate/Development


Finalists chosen for campus hotel project

Feb. 2, 2000
By Ron Mc Nees

Davis - UC Davis narrowed the field to three finalists for the right to develop a $15 million to $18 million hotel on the uni...


Real Estate/Development


Kearny-Scripps LLC, a partnership led by Lankford & Associates Inc., is developing a second facility for the wireless pho...


Real Estate/Development


By John McCloud The Sonoma and Marin county retail markets showed little growth in the past year, but given the tight land ma...


Real Estate/Development


Park is the Place

Feb. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

For a property owner and manager, it's the stuff of nightmares. Your largest tenant is making a run for its own office comple...


Zoning, Planning and Use


Irvine - Orange County has requested a continuance of a February public hearing by the California Coastal Commission on the C...


Real Estate/Development


Cities make decisions on waterfront development

Feb. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

San Francisco - At the same time this city selected a winning bid in the competition to develop a new cruise terminal on the ...


Real Estate/Development


New construction projects in Valley pipeline

Feb. 2, 2000
By Julie Nakashima

By Julie Nakashima A growing pipeline of projects characterized the San Fernando Valley commercial real estate market at the ...


Transactions


Neoforma.com Inc. issued an initial public offering of 7 million shares of stock at a proposed offering price of $10 to $12 pe...


Large Firms


Bruin Background Bonds Merger Team

Feb. 1, 2000
By Emma Varesio

Fortunately for Scott Alderton and Scott Galer, their similar interests aren't limited to the practice of law. For instance, b...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Mountain View's Blaze Software Inc. is conducting an initial public offering worth $44.9 million. ...


Large Firms


Double Vision

Feb. 1, 2000
By Meredith Alexander

By Meredith Alexander Some say it's a tale of two cities. There's the old Sacramento, the venerable but dusty state capital, a...


Family


Easy Delivery

Feb. 1, 2000
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis Chris Sigmon, a Sacramento insurance claims adjuster, and her husband, Martin, wanted children, but their opt...


Large Firms


As Salaries Escalate, So Do Tensions

Feb. 1, 2000
By Leslie Gordon

Just hours after San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison announced it was beating the massive associate salary increa...


Public Interest


Fleeting Freedom of Speech

Feb. 1, 2000
By Columnist

The John Rocker saga smacks of the "re-education" practices and psychiatric gulags that existed in the former Soviet Union. ...


Judges and Judiciary


Nobody Laughing at Judge's 'Jokes'

Feb. 1, 2000
By Jean Guccione

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the judge's "unique 'joking' relationship" with his accuser, a divided Commission on Judicial Performan...


Law Practice


SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco-based Pillsbury Madison & Sutro has raised associate salaries to match the massive increases...


Mergers & Acquisitions


East West Bancorp Inc. recently completed its acquisition of American International Bank for an all-cash value of $33.1 millio...


Solo and Small Firms


Corporate Lawyer Goes Public - as Mayor

Feb. 1, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Sal Torres, a partner at Gutierrez & Associates, spends many of his weekend hours cutting ribbons. As the new mayor of Dal...


Banking


Click and Mortar

Feb. 1, 2000
By Columnist

By Jonathan Meretsky Banks are highly regulated, primarily to ensure the safety of the public's deposits. In this era of Inte...


Litigation


Defense Wins Earthquake Case

Feb. 1, 2000
By Denise Levin

State Farm Insurance Co. did not low-ball a Simi Valley condominium owners' association with its estimate of damage to the com...


Solo and Small Firms


Freshman Marantz Merges with Pittsburgh Firm

Feb. 1, 2000
By Tamara Scott

Beverly Hills-based Freshman, Marantz, Orlanski, Cooper & Klein, a general practice boutique with 17 attorneys, will merge...


Litigation


DA Accused of Marrying In-House to Get Ahead

Feb. 1, 2000
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

SANTA ANA - During testimony in which he was grilled for the actions of his office during his tenure as the county's head pros...


Employee Benefits


Basic Benefit

Feb. 1, 2000
By Columnist

In Rich v. Southern California IBEW-NECA Pension Plan, 73 Cal.App.4th 419, (2nd Dist. 1999), the court held that, if an...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Los Angeles-based DVD Express and Las Vegas' Maximum Holdings Inc. are merging in a transaction valued at more than $500 milli...


Law Practice


A Fair Chance

Feb. 1, 2000
By Columnist

By Linda Dakin-Grimm The Jan. 3 issue of California Law Business reported that the percentage of female law school students a...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Peabody, Mass.-based ScanSoft has agreed to acquire Los Gatos' Caere Corp. in a deal worth more than $140 million. The transac...


Firm Watch


Mattel Counsel Moves to Pasadena Start-Up

Feb. 1, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Todd Piccus, in-house counsel at Mattel Inc.'s software division, joined Pasadena-based HomePage.com as the fledgling company'...


Firm Watch


Murphy Sheneman Promotes Four Lawyers

Feb. 1, 2000
By Katherine Gaidos

Murphy Sheneman Julian & Rogers, a 40-attorney San Francisco firm, has elevated four associates to partner, effective Jan....