Justices Split on Decryption Suit
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Just because it's the World Wide Web doesn't mean cybersuits can be filed anywhere someone takes offense. In a...
Bush Used Unscrupulous Ways for U.N. Resolution
By Columnist
FORUM The Bush administration used unscrupulous tactics to persuade the U.N. Security Council to sign on to Resolution 1441.
Bankruptcy Trustee In Scandal Withdraws
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Robert Dennis Pryce Jr., who was indicted last week on money-laundering and other charges r...
Six Bar Exam Questions and Sample Answers
By Jeff Berg
Experts who cram three years of law-school study into intense bar-review courses for graduates offer sample answers to six que...
New Bar Admittees Going Solo Need Patience and Practicality
By Columnist
Focus Column - Law Practice - By Daniel Zohar - In starting your own practice, you will confront virtually nothing that others...
Liberty Bind
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Liliana M. Garces and Jayashri Srikantiah - The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether mandatory detention...
Survey Shows Crosscurrents
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Market conditions in the apartment industry were mixed over the past quarter, according to the National Multi...
TDK TKOs Silicon In Legal Round Over Chip Patent
By Christina Landers
It was one small step in the mire of patent infringement litigation worldwide - but a victory all the same. Manufacturer TDK S...
Spin Cycle
By Contributing Writer
Litigation Column - By Julie Campanini - As employment cases continue to flourish across the country, counsel is constantly tr...
Ground Support
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Here's a way for real estate professionals to support America's actions against Iraq whil...
Creating a Blueprint for the Future
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The San Bernardino and Riverside area, besieged by record population growth and overstresse...
Thelen Reid Moves Three Offices at Once
By Erik Cummins
Last week was moving week for Thelen Reid & Priest, the 425-lawyer firm that had the unfortunate task of moving its New Yo...
S.F.-Based TMC Development Picks Up Sole General Counsel
By Staff Writer
Nol Nino joined San Francisco's TMC Development as its lone general counsel Nov. 4. Until the hiring of Nino, TMC outsourced ...
Good Areas for Ownership
By Wire
BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Where's a good market to own apartment buildings? Newark, N.J., believe it or not. While ...
Bank of the West Heads South
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Bank of the West tripled its commercial real estate lending to $1.3 billion and has become...
High Resolution
By John Ryan
The most sought-after neutrals in California sure have a lot of friends. Hundreds of attorneys from a variety of legal markets...
Coach Calls on Soccer-Playing Lawyers for Bar Group World Cup
By Staff Writer
Calling all soccer-playing lawyers. Those lifelong dreams of slicing a perfect shot into the corner of the goal or drilling a...
Intel Loses Pair of Patent Infringement Cases
By Joan Osterwalder
Microchip technology meant macro dollars for Intergraph Corp. Intergraph, a Huntsville, Ala.-based computer services company, ...
Neutral Revives Insurance Agency
By Erik Cummins
Harry Low took a two-year break from his work as a highly paid neutral at JAMS. But it wasn't a peaceful rest. Gov. Gray Davis...
Common Ground
By Joseph Sorrentino
BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO CREJ Contributing Writer As urban sprawl encroaches on the state's prime farmland the battle between deve...
Study: Merit Pay, Turnover for Apartment Managers Slowing
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT The slowing economy is enabling apartment firms to hold the line on compensation increases and reduce employ...
Los Angeles Leads West in Rent Growth
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Los Angeles led the entire Western Region in growth of rents for apartments in the third quarter of 2002, ac...
Judge Likely Will Sign Off On Domain-Name Accord
By Eron Yehuda
A Los Angeles judge is expected to give preliminary approval Dec. 6 to a settlement of a nationwide class action that accused ...
Saved by the Loft
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer When David Armstrong moved to Pomona in 1944, the city's downtown area was a heavily travel...
Jury Awards City Solutions $9.8 Million
By Joan Osterwalder
This was a newspaper war of another sort. Outdoor advertiser City Solutions Inc. sued its former business partner, Eller Media...
Weston Benshoof Sets Up Practice In Insurance Law
By Liz Valsamis
Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish has established an insurance counseling and litigation group. Richar...
Work Drought Plagues Silicon Valley Firms
By Joel Rosenblatt
It came as no real surprise when, on Nov. 15, Cooley Godward laid off 46 associates and staff members, and Fenwick & West ...
Christie Patent Partner Goes to Jeffer Mangels
By Liz Valsamis
Grant T. Langton has left intellectual property boutique Christie, Parker & Hale for Los Angeles' Jeffer, Mangels, Butler ...
Lewis and Roca Gets Six Attorneys After Brown & Bain Closes Outpost
By Staff Writer
The Arizona law-firm scene is undergoing a bit of reshuffling - at least as far as the attorneys at two Phoenix firms are con...