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Column By Garry Abrams Las Vegas criminal defense attorney David Chesnoff wouldn't bet much that the U.S. Supreme Court is go...


Judge Rules PD's Aid Creates Conflict

Nov. 11, 2003
By Craiq Anderson

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender created a potential conflict of interest by agreeing to represent the ...



SAN FRANCISCO - In the early morning hours of Dec. 13, 1999, Leonard Jones allegedly shot his ex-wife, Margiree Warren, to de...


Proposition 21 Mistrial

Nov. 11, 2003
By David Houston

LOS ANGELES - A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a Los Angeles jury split 6-6 over whether two former Glendale high sch...



ONTARIO - An undisclosed party purchased the Dupont Industrial Building at 701 S. Dupont Ave. for $3.15 million . Marcus &...


Happy Together

Nov. 11, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis Once home to Shirley Temple films and a host of popular Westerns, Century City sprang up from the back lot of...



Adapting to an Educational Movement

Nov. 11, 2003
By Joseph Sorrentino

BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO Special to the CREJ At Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in downtown Los Angeles, students get to spend all d...


BY JOEL MILLER Early in December, city officials from Hawthorne and El Segundo, business leaders and military personnel will ...



By Eron Ben-Yehuda Cable TV provider Comcast Corp. is at least partly responsible for a rape allegedly committed against a men...


Street Smarts

Nov. 11, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

By Liz Valsamis Four months after the merger between Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie and Bingham McCutchen, managing part...



Weston Benshoof Steers Court Project

Nov. 11, 2003
By Toni Vranjes

By Toni Vranjes Six months after landing a lucrative contract to implement a 2002 law aimed at reforming the state's court sy...


Westcore Shrinks Name, Widens Scope

Nov. 11, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Real estate investment firm Westcore Properties announced it is diversifying its scope t...



By Toni Vranjes A subsidiary of San Jose energy company Calpine Corp. recently tapped Stoel Rives for an $800 million debt of...


Designing in Builder's Paradise

Nov. 11, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor In the city of Guangzhou, between the fertile plains of China's Pearl River Delta an...



Intellectual Property Pro Takes Gig at McDermott

Nov. 11, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

By Joel Rosenblatt Peter P. Chen, a former vice president of intellectual property at Cadence Design Systems Inc., joined McD...


Competition to House L.A. Team Continues

Nov. 11, 2003
By Chris Tolles

CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant A Los Angeles-area city will have an NFL football team one day, and with the team will come ...



BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Imagine a place where vacancy rates are consistently low, upfront costs are typically less an...


Proposed Asbestos Bill Is Unfair to Prudent Concerns

Nov. 11, 2003
By Contributing Writer

By E. Joshua Rosenkranz When Sen. Orrin Hatch's Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Bill emerged from the Judiciary Commit...



SEC Uses Recruiters to Hire 800

Nov. 11, 2003
By Wire

By Amy Strahan Butler Bloomberg News The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is turning to outside recruiters as the agen...


Dinner Honoring Ziffren Raises $1 Million

Nov. 11, 2003
By Tina Spee

By Tina Spee Entertainment law guru Kenneth Ziffren not only helped secure late-night television host Jay Leno's career, he a...



BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Though your building may not have been damaged in Southern California's wildfires, that d...


Orrick Herrington Taps Human Resources Chief

Nov. 11, 2003
By Erik Cummins

By Erik Cummins Gera Vaz, a former operations director for Clifford Chance and a former human resources manager for Brobeck, ...



By Toni Vranjes A nonprofit group is set to begin developing a $32 million affordable-housing project for low-income resident...


By Tina Spee On the cover of this month's Black Enterprise, a business and investment resource magazine for African-Americans...



DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Riverside County

Nov. 11, 2003
By Angela Gottula

MORENO VALLEY - Joe Chavez, Alexander Garcia and Bill Melton of Marcus & Millichap represented the principals in the sale...


Leading Issue

Nov. 11, 2003
By Columnist

By Robert Fortunato The story has become all too familiar over the past few years: A key leader/rainmaker within a firm leave...



Paper Chase

Nov. 11, 2003
By Contributing Writer

By K. Preston Oade Jr. and Christopher L. Ottele In wake of last year's passage of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and Arthur Ande...


Treble Damages

Nov. 11, 2003
By Contributing Writer

BY TODD J. WENZEL Trebled damages in wrongful-eviction disputes in San Francisco and other counties render awards that are ar...



U.S. Economy Ready to Take Off

Nov. 11, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Declaring that the recovery is under way, the Mortgage Bankers Association predicted str...


Los Angeles' Top 20 Law Firms

Nov. 11, 2003
By Tina Spee

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld continued to shrink this year and slid off the Los Angeles Top 20 chart, beat out by newcom...