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Being at a firm that's looking ahead rather than back is fun, says Peter Heinecke, who recently joined Kirkpatrick & Lockh...


BY DIANA S. PARKS As the amount of property available for residential and commercial development in California continues to d...



Open Forum for Properties

Oct. 14, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Got a property listing to market? For 15 years, the Irvine-based real estate investment ...


Hospital Wins Despite Towel Left in Man

Oct. 14, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

After performing a liver transplant procedure, the surgical staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center failed to remove a towel from...



Make Sure Class Benefits Are the Best They Can Be

Oct. 14, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Attorney Fees - By Andrew A. August - With the rise in the number of private attorney general representative actions ...


Taking Home the TOBY

Oct. 14, 2003
By Chris Tolles

BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant When a 532,815-square-foot office building in Los Angeles is 0.7 percent vacant, a few "o...



Three months after San Diego managing partner Mark Danis assumed firmwide management duties, Morrison & Foerster has found...


Pro Bono Caseloads Grow as Funds Shrink

Oct. 14, 2003
By Mark Cromer

SANTA ANA - Hazel Harris was planning to live out the rest of her life peacefully in the Fullerton home she bought in 1950. It...



Inland Empire Drives SoCal Growth

Oct. 14, 2003
By Contributing Writer

BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer Vastly transformed from its bedroom-community roots, the Inland Empire is the shining ray ...


Labor relations law firms Castle & Krause and the Petersen Law Firm joined this summer to form Castle, Petersen & Krau...



San Francisco-based UnionBanCal Corp., the parent company of Union Bank of California, plans to continue its buying spree of r...


Morgan Lewis Draws 27 Attorneys From Boutique

Oct. 14, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

One day after insurance recovery boutique Zevnik Horton dissolved, 27 lawyers from the Washington, D.C.-based firm joined Morg...



Jury Finds No Trademark Infringement

Oct. 14, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

A Dallas-based company that provides information management for hospitals won't have to change its letterhead after all. Not y...


Lanny Davis joined the Clinton White House as special counsel in 1996 as the Whitewater scandal was winding down. For the next...



BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Real estate brokers who use work time to play poker, bid on eBay or check the value of their ...


Finishing First

Oct. 14, 2003
By Contributing Writer

Column - Law Firm Management - By David Roberts And Stan Stahl - The modern law firm competes in a world very different from t...



When Charles Birenbaum lost a March election to run Thelen Reid & Priest by one vote, he had no idea he'd end up at Winsto...


A Convoluted History

Oct. 14, 2003
By John Ryan

BY JOHN RYAN Special to CREJ Fred Nicholas squints into the late September sun as he approaches a large stainless-steel struc...



Asian Marketplace Coming to Rancho Cordova

Oct. 14, 2003
By Olivia Loy

BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer Tucked out of site behind a large Target-anchored retail center, Zinfandel Square in Rancho C...


The approval of plans for a massive power plant in the Central Valley has sparked a recent petition to the state Supreme Court...



Judge Restores Medi-Cal Benefits to Infants

Oct. 14, 2003
By Stefanie Knapp

Thanks to a recent order by a San Francisco court, infants born under Medi-Cal will continue to receive those benefits until t...


Broadening the scope of its online travel services, e-commerce company InterActiveCorp has agreed to buy discount travel Web s...



A private investment firm has agreed to buy San Diego's Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp., operator of the Souplantation and Sweet...


Foreign Agenda

Oct. 14, 2003
By Joel Rosenblatt

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - During the boom, technology was king and anyone trying to battle indigenous Silicon Valley firms...



Focus Column - Insurance Law - By William G. Short - Insurers should take heed, if they have not already, of a little-noticed ...


Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Michael J. Roberts - Consider a common situation: An employment mediation t...



Column By Garry Abrams It's the money. No, it's the trash. The preceding is the short, uncomplicated, relatively nonparanoid ...


Systematic Abuse

Oct. 14, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Marisa Gonzalez - Should courts be permitted to require mothers who allege domestic violen...



Caeton 'a Marvelous Man' Who Puts Kids First

Oct. 14, 2003
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - In Dennis Caeton's courtroom, kids come first. That's the consensus among attorneys and social workers who hav...


Court Won't Revive Suit by Victim's Kin

Oct. 14, 2003
By Lawrence Kootnikoff

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit filed against a Los Angeles-area Jewish Community Center by ...