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Untangling Tenants' High-Tech Web

Dec. 30, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Oh, what a tangled web tenants weave, when they fail to remove old telecommunications ca...


New Tenants Sought for McCarthy Center

Dec. 30, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Marketing efforts are under way to fill a Northern California space occupied by what was...



Rus Miliband Loses Lawsuit Over Fees

Dec. 30, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

Irvine's Rus, Miliband & Smith showed a hardened heart and engaged in "pure overkill" by withdrawing from an insurance bad...


Paper Cutter

Dec. 30, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Law Firm Management - By Gerald Knapton And Patti Bentley - E-invoicing by third-party auditing/data processing compa...



Focus Column - Employment Law - By Mark L. Eisenhut - In the world of class actions, one new trend is the increase in actions ...


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Helene J. Wasserman - Many employers in the retail and hospitality industries provide incen...



Respect for All

Dec. 30, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - One of the low points on the California legal scene in 2003 was the blow dealt the Boy Scou...


Lawyer Previews His High-Court Cases

Dec. 30, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Seth P. Waxman has had some remarkable experiences at the Supreme Court arguing 37 cases in the last decade. In ...



On the Bench, A Family Focus

Dec. 30, 2003
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Jerilyn Borack loves to sail, but being landlocked in the heart of California's food basket ...


Veteran Probate Lawyer Handled Big Cases

Dec. 30, 2003
By Lorelei Laird

LOS ANGELES - Funeral services are scheduled for today for Arne Lindgren, a partner at Latham & Watkins specializing in ta...



Attorneys Lead Master Chorale

Dec. 30, 2003
By Draeger Martinez

LOS ANGELES - For Ted McAniff, it all comes back to the voices: the soaring swell of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, its membe...


LOS ANGELES - Judge Malcolm H. Mackey loves being on the fast track. Having done "just about everything in the court system," ...



The Eye of the Legal Storm

Dec. 30, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Other federal circuit courts have their five minutes of fame, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is nev...


Rogan Ends Short Reign at Patent Office

Dec. 30, 2003
By Xenia Kobylarz

SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, who has earned praise and criticism since he took the post of director of the U.S. Patent and Tra...



Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - SACRAMENTO - First it's there. Then it's gone. Then it's back. But not for long. So goes the sa...


'We Tried' Might Be Epitaph for Plan Foes

Dec. 30, 2003
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Loretta Lynch sat glumly in the courtroom of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali last week, trying to orchest...



Manatt Creates 62-Lawyer New York Outpost in 2003

Dec. 30, 2003
By Draeger Martinez

When 2003 began, Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips had no lawyers in New York City, arguably the co-capital of A...


Birth of the Exchange

Dec. 30, 2003
By Staff Writer

The concept of 1031s originated in California, which is where a majority of the activity has taken place, according to Tim Eg...



DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 26

Dec. 27, 2003
By Angela Gottula

KINGS COUNTY HANFORD - Just in time to reap the benefits of the holiday bounty, Passco Real Estate Enterprises Inc. has acquir...


Focus Column Employment Law By Dominick C. Capozzola A state Court of Appeal recently upheld the termination of a sales manag...



Unjust System

Dec. 27, 2003
By Columnist

FORUM A study in the Santa Clara Law Review concludes that California's system is seriously flawed and dangerously unjust. Pa...


Firms Sued by Staff Lawyers Need Outside Counsel

Dec. 27, 2003
By Sandra Corrales

By J. Kevin Lilly Lawyers are a lot like other people. When you fire them, they often get angry and frequently sue for wrongf...



Martinez OK'd to Sue Texaco Over Oil Spill

Dec. 27, 2003
By Dennis Opatrny

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arrived like Santa on Christmas Eve for the city of Martinez. In a unan...


'Good Luck Gomes'

Dec. 27, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

FRESNO - An album cover of "Pope John Paul II Sings at the Festival of Sacrosong" adorns the windowsill in the chambers of Co...



Steinhart to Merge With Piper Rudnick

Dec. 27, 2003
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - Steinhart & Falconer, a small but nationally recognized San Francisco business and litigation firm, will ...


Lawyer Previews His High-Court Cases

Dec. 26, 2003
By David Pike

WASHINGTON - Seth P. Waxman has had some remarkable experiences at the Supreme Court arguing 37 cases in the last decade. In D...



Wal-Mart Takes on Inglewood for Store

Dec. 25, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - A 60-acre dirt lot in Inglewood has become the latest front in the fight between the world's largest retailer an...


DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 24

Dec. 25, 2003
By Angela Gottula

LOS ANGELES COUNTY WESTLAKE VILLAGE - A 6,616-square-foot area of Westlake Plaza I, the 2801 Townsgate Road business developme...



MTBE Settlement

Dec. 25, 2003
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

Big-name oil companies will spend almost $313 million to remove the gasoline additive MTBE from Santa Monica's groundwater und...


Jury Deadlocks in Handgun Design Case

Dec. 25, 2003
By Robert Selna

SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a case that has drawn the attention of the nation's gun makers and their opponents ended in a mis...