Retroactive Effect of Unlicensed Contractor Law Unclear
By Columnist
BY DANIEL LEE JACOBSON AND GEORGIA M. LINKLETTER California's Business and Professions Code is unforgiving to building contra...
Chip Developer Buys Assets of Bankrupt Firm
By Toni Vranjes
Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...
Suits Over Concrete Failure Require Step-By-Step Investigations
By Columnist
BY KENNETH S. KASDAN Construction defect litigation related to concrete often involves issues not always present in typical de...
Pair of Entrepreneurs Leaves Large Firm
By Stefanie Knapp
Starting their own firm seemed to be in the stars, or at least in the fortune cookies, for Nedy Williams and Julianna Yasinski...
Luring Clients
By Columnist
Partners and partner-track associates face pressure to attract new business to their firms. But if they try to act like tradit...
Tired of Waiting for Entitlements?
By Columnist
BY JOEL B. MILLER One of the most frustrating aspects for a developer is the inordinate amount of time it can take for a loca...
Sustainable Design Boosts Bottom Line
By Columnist
BY ROBERT L. NOBLE Sustainable design is becoming the standard for achieving top environmental performance. The greener we bu...
Lawyer Pays Father of Man Killed With Princess Diana
By Stefanie Knapp
A Los Angeles entertainment attorney last month agreed to pay $100,000 and issue a written apology to the father of Dodi Al Fa...
3Com Trades CommWorks for $100 Million
By Toni Vranjes
3Com Corp. of Santa Clara will sell its CommWorks telecommunications equipment division to UTStarcom Inc. for $100 million cas...
Xerox Centre Sale Gets Copied
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Further underscoring the disconnect between Southern California's slow office leasing ma...
High Ideals
By Tina Spee
The Scene arrived early for the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Southwest Region's 2003 Jurisprudence Award dinner on March 12....
Cities, Communities Contemplate Higher Taxes, Lower Services
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT LOS ANGELES - Business leaders nationwide are nervously assessing the possible repercussions of higher taxes...
Catellus Converting to Industrial REIT
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor SAN FRANCISCO - Catellus Development Corp. plans to switch tracks from developing ...
Federal Law Has Little Impact on Religious Land Use in State
By Columnist
BY TERENCE R. BOGA Local governments increasingly are having to litigate disputes involving religious land uses. Morgan Hill,...
Foley Bolsters Bankruptcy Practice
By Tina Spee
Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has hired bankruptcy lawyer Peter Ito to lead its West Coast bankruptcy practice. Ito, who joi...
Chip Developer Buys Assets of Bankrupt Firm
By Tina Spee
Chip manufacturer Broadcom Corp. of Irvine has acquired some of the assets of bankrupt company Gadzoox Networks Inc. Broadcom ...
For Richer, For Poorer
By Tina Spee
In early January, Marc Beilinson received a tip that Wherehouse Entertainment Inc. had hired a bankruptcy lawyer and likely wo...
New Bills Aim to Stem Police Car-Chase Crisis in California
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Law enforcement officials have been chasing bad guys in automobiles since...
Continuing Threat
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Forum Column - By Daniel Felizzatto - In upholding the constitutionality of Megan's Law in Connecticut Department of Public...
Santa Clara Picks Law School Dean
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara University Law School's new dean once roamed the campus as a junior high school student when his father...
Two Litigators Seek State Bar Presidency
By Don De Benedictis
LONG BEACH - Just two lawyers are running to be president of the State Bar for 2003-04. Anthony P. Capozzi and Nancy Hoffmeier...
Governor Names Four to L.A. Superior Court
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Friday appointed four new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench. The four appointees...
Asylum Seekers From Mideast Face Obstacles
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration lawyers and human rights advocates are objecting to the federal government's new policy of jailing...
As Embassies Close, Business Gets Difficult
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The abrupt closure of many U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide as war with Iraq began will harm internatio...
Inmate Is Free After Patel's Order
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Glen "Buddy" Nickerson walked out of San Quentin on Friday after 18 years in prison for a San Jose double murd...
Disqualification Motion Is Unusual
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor is appealing to disqualify a judge from handling a domestic violence trial on groun...
Fears Mount for Iraqi-American
By Mark Cromer
LOS ANGELES - For Iraqi-American Ban Al-Wardi, the silence on the other end of the line spoke as loudly as a B-52 air strike. ...
'Political Animal' From the Start
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - When he takes office today as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, with the expectation t...
CDAA Chief, Scott's Top Aide
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Lawrence Brown, who until Friday served as executive director of the California District Attorneys Association, ...
Black Santa Suffered No Bias, Jury Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - An oceanfront hotel did not discriminate against a black Santa Claus, a Superior Court jury decided Friday. On a 9...