Moneymaker
By Tina Spee
Imagine how much time it would take to move 600 people through security checkpoints and you'll have a good idea of the wait Th...
How Fed Fiscal Policy Impacts Commercial Real Estate
By Michael Gottliebn
by MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The most important players in commercial real estate today may be a group that has...
Breaking Records
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer An Orange County brokerage firm recently inked a deal that market observers say sets a new ...
Speaking the Same Language
By Columnist
BY STEPHEN WILHEM Attracting equity capital for small to midsize real estate deals, typically $5 million to $25 million in to...
Survival Skills
By Tanya Rothman
In Closing Column - Public Relations - By Judy Leon - Though they don't wear flak jackets or dodge artillery fire, reporters w...
Adaptations
By Joel Rosenblatt
After riding the Vegas-like euphoria of the boom years, corporate shops such as Gunderson Dettmer and Venture Law Group have r...
Lawyers Reunite at Sheppard Mullin
By Liz Valsamis
Matthew Richardson is rejoining some old friends at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Richardson moved to the Los Angel...
Transit-Oriented Development Train Makes a Stop in Sacramento
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Live, work, learn and entertain in your neighborhood. If you need to get to another p...
City Attorney Lands at Boutique
By Erik Cummins
Karin Kramer says Chavez & Gertler's recruiting plans are in high gear. "We're busy with lots of interesting new work, and...
L.A. County Gets the Lemon
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - The Downtown Breakfast Club presented roses to the projects that it says h...
Equity Financing for Those Caught in the Middle
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Small to midsize property owners own the majority of the nation's commercial real e...
Kelley Drye Leader Joins Reed Smith
By Liz Valsamis
Henry Ota has landed on his feet one day after New York's Kelley Drye & Warren pulled the plug on its Los Angeles office. ...
Jury Favors Developer of Dental Implant
By Joan Osterwalder
A University of Southern California study was supposed to be dentist Sargon Lazarof's crowning achievement, but it turned out ...
Insurance Trial Over Outdoor Siding Starts
By Joan Osterwalder
Opening statements are scheduled tomorrow in San Francisco Superior Court in the second phase of a lawsuit filed by a Florida-...
Delaware Ruling Loosens Merger Lockups
By Toni Vranjes
Negotiating merger deals may become even more challenging for corporate lawyers, thanks to a recent opinion by a Delaware cour...
Attorney Helps Young Woman Recover Life Insurance
By Joan Osterwalder
By Joan Osterwalder Attorney Eric Castelblanco's resourcefulness helped change a young woman's life. Six years ago, the Los A...
Luce Forward, Preston End Talks
By Liz Valsamis
Unable to make their practice areas mesh, San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and Seattle's Preston, Gates &...
Level the Playing Field
By Columnist
BY CARL A. MAYER JR. Privately owned real estate companies historically have been built one deal at a time with private equit...
Mall Mirrors Market's Ups and Downs
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer City, county and mall leaders couldn't stop the J.C. Penney Outlet Store at Florin M...
NEW YORK - Looking into the commercial real estate sector for a job or a career change? It's best to avoid hotels, real estate...
Democrats Ask Weiss To Run Against Cooley
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - County Democrats have asked Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss to run against Republican District Attorney ...
Parties Must Try Mediation to Obtain Award of Attorney Fees
By Columnist
Focus Column - Real Property - By David M. Grey - An attempt at mediation is a condition precedent to the recovery of attorney...
Censuring Censors
By Columnist
Forum Column By Jonathan E. Stern Imagine you are a blues guitarist taking a break in the recording studio. You open a comic b...
Brainstorming Sessions Can Help Identify Inventions
By Contributing Writer
Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher M. Tobin - You've conveyed the importance of developing intellectual pro...
Talks About Change in Bribery Plea Continue
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A Laguna Beach businessman who pleaded guilty to bribing several high-ranking Colton officials is in talks wi...
Defendant Gets Death in Police Ambush
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A judge has sided with a jury to decide that a defendant should die for killing a Riverside police officer two yea...
Hotel-Conversion Fight Loses in Federal Court
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has tossed a decade-old suit challenging San Francisco's controversial hotel-conversion ordin...
Injury Lawyer Arraigned on 25 Counts of Theft, Forgery
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - After being arraigned on 25 counts of grand theft, embezzlement and forgery Friday, a former San Francisco per...
Police Charge Man Days After He Signaled He Might Sue Them
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The city of Inglewood has filed criminal charges against a man whose attorney notified them only days earlier of...
Judge Walker Won't Rule on Bias Recusal, But Steps Aside
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has decided not to weigh in on whether he should be recused for bias from a...