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BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Companies such as AT&T Corp., Citigroup Inc. and MetLife Inc. are cashing out of some...


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

Dec. 17, 2002
By John Ryan

Robin Wofford has ended a 16-year stint at San Diego's Duckor, Spradling & Metzger to join Wilson, Petty, Kosmo & Turn...


At a time when many nonprofits are complaining about slumping membership rolls and donations, the California Minority Counsel ...



BY RYAN CHITTUM Dow Jones Newswires A major expansion of the construction industry's specifications handbook is under way, an...


Passing the Hot Tamale

Dec. 17, 2002
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

Dec. 17, 2002
By Contributing Writer

BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Best-laid real estate development plans rarely come to fruition exactly as expected, espec...


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

Dec. 17, 2002
By Columnist

BY YEHUDI GAFFEN In the building industry, the successful completion of just about every development project is contingent on...


CREJ WIRE REPORT BURBANK - The state's construction volume for the first 10 months of 2002 was up fractionally, at 0.8 percen...



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

Dec. 17, 2002
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

Dec. 17, 2002
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...


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

Dec. 17, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

Warren Lazarow, a corporate partner at San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and a member of Forbes Magazine's 2002 ...


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

Dec. 17, 2002
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...


Veteran Los Angeles trial lawyer John Lawler has long wanted to open a Northern California office of Murchison & Cumming. ...



The Real Deal

Dec. 17, 2002
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

Dec. 17, 2002
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

Dec. 17, 2002
By Christina Landers

One Monday morning in late October, attorney Arturo J. Gonzalez entered his office at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster,...


A little less than a year after Laurence Pretty and his law firm Pretty & Schroeder joined Christie, Parker & Hale, he...



An Engine for Change

Dec. 17, 2002
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

Dec. 17, 2002
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

Dec. 17, 2002
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

Dec. 17, 2002
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

Dec. 17, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

A recent ruling in an intellectual property lawsuit may signal the turning of the tide in cyberspace piracy, the plaintiffs' l...


The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for 2003 are the first since the state Judicial Council implemented a new rule ...



BY JOAN OSTERWALDER Special to CREJ The accidental deaths of two construction workers were not in vain because they brought ab...


Upon college graduation, Wess Gates landed a dream job when Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. offered him a position as an assoc...