Customizing Apartment Living
By Columnist
BY LAURA LITTLE AND AMY RUSHING Many of the most popular and desirable luxury apartment spaces today are built using the comb...
Outsourcing Expert Leaves Cooley to Move to Latham
By Joel Rosenblatt
Daniel Mummery, a technology transactions partner specializing in outsourcing, left Cooley Godward in Palo Alto Jan. 31 to joi...
Appellate Attorneys Team To Form Niche Law Firm
By Draeger Martinez
For San Diego appellate attorney David Niddrie, it was a case of lose a partner, gain a partner. Niddrie's partner, Jennifer S...
Merger Will Save Money, Add Services, Banks Say
By Toni Vranjes
California banks Commercial Capital Bancorp Inc. and Hawthorne Financial Corp. are joining forces. Under a deal announced in l...
Jurists Appreciate Counsel With That Something Extra
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By Douglas G. Carnahan - We know a trial lawyer's job is not to curry favor with the judge. Her job ...
Defense Lawyers Gather for Lunch, Albright's Tales
By Stefanie Knapp
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright isn't popular with everyone, she admitted to the Association of Southern Californ...
Young Moms Behind Bars Want to Improve
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - The youngest girls ask the most heart-wrenching questions. A 16-year-old ward of the California Youth Authority,...
General Counsel at Dolby Wants to Enlarge His Staff
By Erik Cummins
Mark Anderson, general counsel for San Francisco's Dolby Laboratories, wants to boost his three-attorney staff with the additi...
BAE Systems Names New GC
By Liz Valsamis
BAE Systems has tapped Susan Guggenheim Lowenstam to serve as general counsel and ethics officer of the company's Integrated S...
Firm Ups Insurance Group By Absorbing L.A. Boutique
By Draeger Martinez
Full-service firm Michelman & Robinson is bolstering its insurance practice with the acquisition of Los Angeles insurance ...
Safety Storage Must Pay Lender $10 Million Award
By Stefanie Knapp
An Orange County judge ruled against Hollister-based Safety Storage Inc., which allegedly tried to hide assets from a lender s...
Attorney Builds Wage-and-Hour Practice
By Stefanie Knapp
When Bet Tzedek Legal Services secured a recent settlement for four Los Angeles garment workers, no supporter of the nonprofit...
Biotech Comes Out Ahead In Year of Healthy Investing
By Toni Vranjes
The end of the year brought good news for the venture capital community. Investors put $4.9 billion in young companies in the ...
Suit Leaves Water Agency High and Dry
By Amy Spees
After 10 years of litigation, three trials and a 150-page decision, two squabbling water authorities have an interpretation of...
Small Town Must Pay Newspaper's Attorney Fees
By Eron Yehuda
A small Northern California town must pay $46,817 in attorney fees after withholding public information from a local newspaper...
The Big 3-0
By Stefanie Knapp
The Scene arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa a little early for Bet Tzedek's 30th-anniversary dinner. With the score o...
San Diego to Put in Another Strong Performance
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The San Diego multifamily market, one of the nation's top performers, is on course for a...
EBay Agrees to Buy Classifieds Site in Germany
By Toni Vranjes
Online auction site eBay Inc. has signed a deal to buy mobile.de, a classifieds Web site for vehicles in Germany, for $152 mil...
Developers Attempt to Meet Tenant, Investor Demand for Housing
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Want to make piles of cash? Sell your multifamily property in Los Angeles, where a combin...
Silicon Valley to Hit Bottom in 2004
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ If the Silicon Valley's multifamily market hasn't hit the cyclical bottom at this point, i...
Real Estate Lawyer Moves Practice to Allen Matkins
By Erik Cummins
Andrea Clay closed seven major commercial loan deals in her first month at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory. That's evi...
Inland Empire Will See High-End Growth
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer The Inland Empire has long been celebrated as a strong single-family housing market, but m...
New Construction Proves Strength of Orange County's Apartment Market
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Notwithstanding some softness at the upper end of the market, apartments continued to be...
'Prince of Darkness' and Namer of 'Axis of Evil' Make Scary Match
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Rahul Mahajan - When William Shakespeare said, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment," ...
Book Offers Bush a Manual for Victory Over Terrorism
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lee A. Casey - The purpose of David Frum and Richard Perle's new book "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on...
New Statute Exempts Certain Suits From SLAPP Law
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By James J. Moneer - Code of Civil Procedure Section 425.17 (SB515) became effective Jan. 1. The l...
Entity That Trapped Contractor With Technical Error May Not Enforce Bid
By Columnist
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Daniel W. Park - Contractors who do business with state, federal or local governments fac...
Scouts Sue San Diego for Canceling Lease
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - The Boy Scouts of America have filed a federal lawsuit against the city of San Diego, alleging that the city viola...
Web Poster Can't Be Sued for Libel, Panel Says
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - A Canyon Country man who posted unkind things about his former employer on an Internet bulletin board cannot be ...
Texans Seek Sentencing, Prison Reform
By Don De Benedictis
SAN ANTONIO - Texas has a well-deserved reputation for being tough on crime, but leaders of the Texas criminal justice system ...