Corporations Rush to Sell Property in 3rd Quarter
By Wire
BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Companies such as AT&T Corp., Citigroup Inc. and MetLife Inc. are cashing out of some...
So You Want to Become a Commercial Property Owner/User?
By Ron Mc Nees
BY SCOTT FARB With the stock market in the doldrums, interest rates lower than low and business owners across the board evalu...
Litigation Boutique Gains Attorney
By John Ryan
Robin Wofford has ended a 16-year stint at San Diego's Duckor, Spradling & Metzger to join Wilson, Petty, Kosmo & Turn...
Bingham McCutchen Wins Ramey Award for Diversity
By Erik Cummins
At a time when many nonprofits are complaining about slumping membership rolls and donations, the California Minority Counsel ...
Construction Specifications Handbook Gets Rewrite
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BY RYAN CHITTUM Dow Jones Newswires A major expansion of the construction industry's specifications handbook is under way, an...
Passing the Hot Tamale
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer One of downtown Riverside's most popular lunch spots will move to a new location adjacent to...
LAUSD Forces Developer to Rethink Project
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Best-laid real estate development plans rarely come to fruition exactly as expected, espec...
Two Partners Leave Crosby Heafey, Join Sedgwick Detert
By Erik Cummins
Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May has lost two more partners, this time as a direct result of its planned merger with Pittsburgh...
Raising Hope for Underfunded Projects
By Columnist
BY YEHUDI GAFFEN In the building industry, the successful completion of just about every development project is contingent on...
Modest Growth Forecast for State Building in 2003
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT BURBANK - The state's construction volume for the first 10 months of 2002 was up fractionally, at 0.8 percen...
Toxic-Mold Problem Proliferates in Shops, Hotels
By Wire
BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones News Service Mold has become a huge legal and financial problem for homeowners and insurers, not to ...
Holland & Knight Picks Executive
By Liz Valsamis
Bruce S. Ross will be the new executive partner of Tampa-based Holland & Knight's Los Angeles office at the beginning of t...
Public Counsel Hands Out Annual Awards
By Stefanie Knapp
Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law firm in the country, honored 13 attorneys and nine others at its annual volunteer awa...
Winning Is for Losers: Here's Another Way to Play
Endless articles have been written about how to get to arbitration and what to do after you arrive to present a persuasive and...
Deal Maker's Success Hinges on Credence
By Joel Rosenblatt
Warren Lazarow, a corporate partner at San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and a member of Forbes Magazine's 2002 ...
Macerich Eases Debt by Selling 15 Million Shares
By Toni Vranjes
The Macerich Co. has sold 15.2 million shares of common stock in a public offering, which will help the real estate investment...
Lonely Law Clerk Sues INeedANewGirlfriend.co m
By Joan Osterwalder
An online dating service cons lonely men out of money and leaves them brokenhearted, a class action filed on behalf of a law c...
Murchison & Cumming Opens New Northern California Shop
By Erik Cummins
Veteran Los Angeles trial lawyer John Lawler has long wanted to open a Northern California office of Murchison & Cumming. ...
The Real Deal
By Riley Guerin
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The Santa Barbara office of Daum Commercial Real Estate Services normally competes for br...
Ruling Keeps Alive Cases Against Boeing
By Joan Osterwalder
"It's not over till it's over." Attorney A. Barry Cappello's motto, made famous by baseball great Yogi Berra, rang true in a t...
El Gallo
By Christina Landers
One Monday morning in late October, attorney Arturo J. Gonzalez entered his office at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster,...
Hogan & Hartson Nabs IP Litigator for L.A. Practice
By Liz Valsamis
A little less than a year after Laurence Pretty and his law firm Pretty & Schroeder joined Christie, Parker & Hale, he...
An Engine for Change
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Tenacity has its rewards. For Carey & Co. Inc. , a historic preservation architec...
Delgadillo Reels in Lawyer for Harbor Post
By Liz Valsamis
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo appointed Thomas A. Russell as the managing assistant of the Harbor division of the city attorn...
Step by Step
By Contributing Writer
In Closing Column - By Kate Fitzgerald - Come the first of the year, law firms will pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into...
Contract Specialist Joins Duane Morris
By Erik Cummins
Oliver "Lock" Holmes, a respected name in government contracts law, has followed two prominent figures in Bay Area politics to...
Cyberpiracy Ruling Levels Heavy Damages
By Joan Osterwalder
A recent ruling in an intellectual property lawsuit may signal the turning of the tide in cyberspace piracy, the plaintiffs' l...
Some Judges Change Courtrooms Under New Rule on Assignments
By Karen Coleman
The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for 2003 are the first since the state Judicial Council implemented a new rule ...
Families Settle for $6 Million in Hotel Construction-Death Case
By Joan Osterwalder
BY JOAN OSTERWALDER Special to CREJ The accidental deaths of two construction workers were not in vain because they brought ab...
Withdrawal of Job Offer by Lockheed Prompts Lawsuit
By Eron Yehuda
Upon college graduation, Wess Gates landed a dream job when Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. offered him a position as an assoc...