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Real Estate/Development


Redo in store for OC office building

Nov. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

Anaheim - The Brutoco Group purchased the former Safeguard Health Enterprises building at 505 N. Euclid St., and plans to spe...


Real Estate/Development


Guidance system

Nov. 2, 1999
By Columnist

By Connie DeWitt The Web is one of the fastest growing worldwide marketing channels ever devised. For small businesses, an ef...


Real Estate/Development


Apartment REITs can handle more debt

Nov. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

Washington - Apartment real estate investment trusts have higher optimal debt levels (approximately 10 percent higher) than o...


Construction


Hotel construction

Nov. 2, 1999
By Ron Mc Nees

FIRM PROJECT ROOMS COST Announcements received in the past month of hotel construction starts, listed by number of rooms. Fra...


Real Estate/Development


Watch out Sony Metreon, CityWalk and Horton Plaza, construction on the next big retail/entertainment destination is about to ...


Law Practice


Legal Battles

Nov. 2, 1999
By Columnist

Legal Battles Rude behavior and personal attacks are not a necessary part of the litigation By Gig Kyriacou A number of years...


Real Estate/Development


Net or threat?

Nov. 2, 1999
By Julie Nakashima

By Julie Nakashima Webster's defines disintermediation as "the withdrawal of funds from banks and savings institutions in ord...


Real Estate/Development


An e-commerce retailer has taken one of the few - and largest - freestanding buildings in Santa Clara. Beyond.com, which sell...


Real Estate/Development


Steve Meckfessel and Scott Newman, partners in Alameda-based First Shattuck LLC, found themselves in the uncomfortable positi...


Family


Judge Won't Step Down From Jim Brown Case

Nov. 2, 1999
By Garry Abrams

Denying that a professional legal organization she belongs to is a "criminal enterprise" or a "radical extremist group," a Lo...


Law Practice


Services have been held for retired lawyer Robert E. Morrow. Morrow died Oct. 22 of congestive heart failure. He was 91. "He ...


Criminal


County's Oldest Convicted Killer, 95, Goes Home

Nov. 2, 1999
By Matthew Heller

VENTURA - Concluding a legal saga that began four years ago when Alfred Pohlmeier "snapped" and strangled his ailing wife, a ...


Criminal


The turbulent history of the Symbionese Liberation Army may be played out during the trial of former fugitive Sara Jane Olson...


NEVADA CITY - Nevada County Public Defender Richard Campbell has been ousted from the post he has held for 22 years, county o...


Health Care & Hospital Law


A state appellate panel has ruled that a blood bank association responsible for setting safety standards for the industry can...


Criminal


Drug-Making Charge Requires Knowledge

Oct. 30, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors must prove in court that defendants accused of manufacturing illegal drugs knew they were making ...


Criminal


S.D. District Attorney Takes Stand

Oct. 30, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - A sometimes sarcastic district attorney for San Diego took the stand Thursday to testify about the circumstances ...


Labor/Employment


Superintendant Fights On

Oct. 30, 1999
By Josh Grossberg

Ruben Zacarias does not plan to go quietly. That was the message the embattled yet defiant superintendent of the Los Angeles ...


Probate


She's blond, says she's broke and she wants upwards of a billion bucks. Those are some of the reasons why a U.S. Bankruptcy C...


Health Care & Hospital Law


RIVERSIDE - The mother of a man whose penis was bitten off when he was attacked by another patient in an intensive care ward ...


Judges and Judiciary


William E. Davis, who once led the state Administrative Office of the Courts, is taking his expertise to Palestine, where he ...


Judges and Judiciary


Justices Defer to Lawmakers

Oct. 29, 1999
By David Kravetz

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declined Wednesday to weigh in on the state's first employment case arising from...


Civil Rights


Giving girls greater access to athletic fields, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a lawsuit settlement that gives a s...


Government


Landlord Told to Pay Tenants' Legal Fees

Oct. 28, 1999
By Denise Levin

A landlord who wrongly tried to evict and then sued tenants who paid lower rents under a federally subsidized program must pa...


Technology & Science


DNA Sleuths Hampered by Blood Money

Oct. 28, 1999
By Peter Blumberg

SACRAMENTO - With its unique ability to identify suspects from microscopic clues, DNA technology is allowing law enforcement ...


Law Practice


Former Director of USD Legal Clinic Dies at 74

Oct. 28, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Charles Lynch strongly believed that law students best learn through practice in actual cases, so after he became...


Law Practice


Services Held for Farmers Insurance's Maloney

Oct. 28, 1999
By Katherine Gaidos

Services have been held for Robert E. Maloney, who served as in-house counsel for Farmers Insurance Group for 35 years. Malon...


Judges and Judiciary


S.D. Assistant Court Administrator Succumbs

Oct. 28, 1999
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - D. Kent Pedersen, who as court administrator watched zealously over Municipal Court employees and judges for 18 y...


Law Practice


ACCA Members Come Ready to Work

Oct. 28, 1999
By Martin Kruming

The San Diego chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association has been selected as ACCA's small chapter of the year, an...


Commercial Law


REDWOOD CITY -- An attorney representing the former owners of a Burlingame Honda dealership accused the Japanese auto giant M...