Institutional Investors Hungry for New Apartment Deals Despite Interest-Rate Hike, Record-Low Caps
By Columnist
BY HOOMAN GHAFFARI Since 2001, the Southern California apartment market has witnessed a major divergence between prices and t...
Preparing Witness Can Win Your Case Before It Begins
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Techniques - By Sanford Michelman - What attorney wouldn't want to win a case before it begins? While it's not ...
Bill Limits Homeowner Associations' Bans on Banners
By Linda Rapattoni
BY LINDA RAPATTONI Special to CREJ Residents in homeowner associations will be assured of their free-speech right to display ...
Barone Galasso Converts YMCA to Affordable Hotel
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Is it fun to stay at the YMCA? Visitors to San Diego will get a chance to find out when ...
Latham & Watkins Enlists MoFo Real Estate Co-Chair
By Liz Valsamis
Morrison & Foerster real estate co-chair Donald Berger has left the firm's Los Angeles office for Latham & Watkins. Be...
Group Sells Land To Public Agency For Open Space
By Toni Vranjes
A Catholic organization has sold 200 acres of undeveloped property in Northern California to a public agency whose mission is ...
Littler Opens Two More Outposts
By Erik Cummins
When Littler Mendelson decided to become the country's largest employment and labor law boutique in the 1980s, it began a slow...
Suit Says Recording Industry's Fees Squeeze Webcasters
By Eron Yehuda
The legal department of the Recording Industry Association of America is busy these days. After shutting down song-swapping ne...
Lawyer Leaves Government for Bingham
By Erik Cummins
William Kissinger worked, first, for the federal government, then for the state, during the past six years, some of it during ...
Can This Building Be Saved?
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BY PAUL DANESHRAD With 700 people moving into California each day, multifamily real estate, as a property type, is one of the...
Taking a New Look at Multifamily
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Two recent studies, both sponsored by organizations that support multifamily housing deve...
$27 Million Financing Will Support New Clinical Trials
By Toni Vranjes
Drug company Metabolex Inc. has secured $27 million in late-stage financing to support its clinical-trials program. The financ...
City's Payment Settles Suit Over Police Killing of Ill Vet
By Eron Yehuda
The city of Lodi paid $200,000 last month after police shot and killed a mentally ill Vietnam veteran who tried to light a hom...
MoFo Lawyers Help Start New School
By Toni Vranjes
A new school for children with brain injuries has opened in Orange County, with help from the local office of Morrison & F...
McData Pays $187 Million For Two Valley Companies
By Toni Vranjes
McData Corp. is scooping up two privately held Silicon Valley companies to enhance its storage networking capabilities. In lat...
Affordable-Housing Bill Could Discourage New Development
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer A new piece of proposed legislation could tie the hands of developers when negotiating with c...
Federal Circuit Applies On-Sale Bar in Case Involving Software
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert Hulse - To receive a patent for an invention that is new, useful and nonobvio...
Court Baffles Finance-Law Pundits
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Before Monday's historic arguments over the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, mos...
Majority of High-Court Clerks Take Indirect Routes to Posts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - For the second straight term, a majority of the Supreme Court law clerks have taken a nontraditional route to th...
Same-Sex Couples Deserve Fair, Equal Marriage Rights
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Forum Column - By Ramona Ripston - Marriage equality should exist for all Americans, including gay and lesbian couples, in con...
Making Time
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Forum Column - By Bruce M. Brusavich - The new proposals issued by the Judicial Council's blue ribbon panel on the fair and ef...
Lawyer's Theft Plea Won't Affect Wife's Trial
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - A plea agreement that will put former attorney Mark Roseman behind bars will have little effect on the trial of hi...
Firm Agrees to Reimburse Mileage
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
CORONA - One of the largest home-improvement companies in the nation has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a class action i...
Legal Staff Cuts Costs Despite Big Settlement
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo has closed the books on his second full fiscal year as Oakland's city attorney. Even though...
VLG's Don Keller Joins Heller With Rest of Firm
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding months of gamesmanship between San Francisco's most powerful law firms, Heller Ehrman White & M...
Link to Dondero May Revive Feud
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - A man's recent conviction for burglarizing the home of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Robert Dondero has a...
L.A. Jury Awards $2 Million To Muslim in Bias Lawsuit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Two years to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, a Los Angeles jury slapped a Torrance laboratory with a $2.15 m...
Traffic-Court Jurist Welcomes Change From Decades as DA
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The hustle, bustle and hum of traffic court is in contrast with Commissioner Diana Summerhayes' earlier days as ...
9th Revives Gay Doctor's Suit Against U.S. Air Force
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals looks vulnerable, thanks to a 9th U.S. Circuit Co...
Keeping a Secret
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - When a Stockton judge tentatively approved a large national settlement in a consumer fraud class action last f...