Real Estate Pro Looks to Grow at Stephan Oringher
By Liz Valsamis
Following the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, Douglas Workman has joined Century City's Stephan, Oringher, Richman...
Two Shaw Pittman Lawyers Set Up New L.A. Law Firm
By Liz Valsamis
After stints at her own corporate boutique and at a large firm, Clara Martin is going it alone. ...
Despite Reimbursement, Tenants Pursue Landlords
By Joan Osterwalder
Santa Monica sole practitioner Jack L. Schwartz says he is in a David versus Goliath fight in a tenant-landlord case against a...
A Case for Drinking Bottled Water
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Three households in Cape Coral, Fla., were none too pleased to get the straight poop rega...
Four Luce Forward Lawyers Head to Jenkens & Gilchrist
By Liz Valsamis
Four Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps attorneys have left the West Los Angeles office of that firm for Jenkens & Gilc...
Gibson Dunn Goes High-Tech in Depositions
By Stefanie Knapp
When Jeffrey Dintzer of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher deposes an expert in an environmental case, he always has consultants with...
Judge Finds Attorney Liable in Malicious-Prosecution Case
By Eron Yehuda
A Monterey attorney didn't mince words in a federal complaint filed against a restaurant owner who allegedly teamed up with a ...
Nanotechnology Draws Increasing Funding
By Toni Vranjes
The cutting-edge field of nanotechnology is attracting an increasing amount of venture-capital funding, according to a New Yor...
Movie Houses on the Rebound
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer It's not just about popcorn and trough-sized sodas anymore. The movie theater industry is find...
State High Court Hands Win to Property Owners
By Hudson Sangree
BY HUDSON SANGREE Special to CREJ A divided state Supreme Court has ruled that apartment landlords who wish to remove a prope...
Coudert Helps Jomed Sell Assets
By Toni Vranjes
Jomed Inc., a subsidiary of bankrupt European company Jomed NV, has sold much of its U.S. assets to Volcano Therapeutics Inc. ...
Avoiding Losses When Tenant Requests Option to Expand
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL P. CARBONE Desirable tenants with growing businesses sometimes will bargain for the option to expand their premise...
No More Grandstanding for Cal Expo
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer It's been 17 years since Cal Expo came up with its current master plan, but a much-needed upd...
Graphic Press Hails Verdict Against Competitor
By Joan Osterwalder
Startup commercial printer Graphic Press Inc. has hailed a jury verdict as a blow to its competitor, ColorGraphics Inc., which...
Mediators Need Knowledge, Persuasion to Build Solutions
By Contributing Writer
Column - Construction Defects - By Lee Kanon Alpert - A multiparty construction dispute is a unique animal. When selecting a m...
Fight or Flight
By Tanya Rothman
Column - Media Relations - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - Law firms and other businesses have much to learn from the e...
Saving a Life Could Be a Matter of Minutes — and Market Demand
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With all the problems that property managers have to worry about, why add heart attacks t...
Defendants Prevail in Breach of Contract Suit
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer A Sacramento real estate law firm recently procured $660,000 in damages and attorneys' fees fo...
Church Wants Judge to Revisit Land-Use Case
By Susan Mc Rae
BY SUSAN MCRAE Special to CREJ Clergy across the nation will be watching closely as lawyers for the Elsinore Christian Center...
Help Wanted: Law Schools Need Deans
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda California law schools have twice as many vacancies for the position of dean as the national average, accor...
'Humorist at Law' Pokes Fun at Legal Foibles
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
CHINO HILLS - Hear the one about the lawyer who became a comedian? True story. He was a corporate attorney pulling down six fi...
Gray Cary Helps Invitrogen With $350 Million Offering
By Toni Vranjes
With Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich serving as its counsel, life sciences company Invitrogen Corp. has raised $350 million i...
Disney Hall Arrives
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor After a sometimes-stormy development voyage of more than 15 years, the Walt Disney C...
Renovis Gathers $45 Million for Clinical Pipeline
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Renovis Inc., a South San Francisco company that makes drugs for neurological diseases, has raised an extra $...
Trash Bucks
By Columnist
BY DAVID F. LITTLE I have good news and bad news. First, the bad news: As a property manager in California, there is a 92-perc...
What's a Nice Guy Like You Doing In a Place Like This?
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - It's hard to imagine a more bleak or difficult job than that of San Francisco Court Commissioner William Garga...
Muslim Executive's Bias Case Against Tech Firm Starts Today
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Advanced Micro Devices goes on trial today after a leading company executive claimed it forced him out of his job ...
Exclusion of Search Results
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Scott Wm. Davenport - I hate trite legal expressions, the foremost offender of which is the proverbial "you ...
Lawyer Chucks Law for Stand-Up
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
CHINO HILLS - Hear the one about the lawyer who became a comedian? True story. He was a corporate attorney pulling down six f...
Recent Decisions End Trend of Limiting Parolee Privacy Rights
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - For California parolees, 2003 hasn't been such a bad year. Two recent ca...