With God, the Angels and Bratton, L.A.'s Future Is Way Too Bright
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - In the city that inspired noir film and fiction and that spawned the all-too-real Rampart police scan...
Patent Defense Criticized for Harm to Poor Countries
By Xenia Kobylarz
SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property owners aren't particularly popular these days. Increasingly, copyright, patent and trade...
Employers Can't Be Sued for Clients' Acts
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - California employers cannot be sued under the Fair Employment and Housing Act when their customers or clients se...
Grand Dame of Bench in State Out-Served All
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Justice Mildred L. Lillie, the grand dame of the California bench and the longest-serving judge in the history o...
Candidate Can Run As DA/Law Professor
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has decided that judicial candidate Craig Renetzky can run with the ballo...
Still Counting
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dave Gilliard - Does allowing people to register to vote on Election Day, without providing any official ID,...
Shackles Were Unfair, Appellate Court Rules
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Disagreeing with California courts, a federal appellate court ruled Monday that seeing a Riverside County murder...
S.F. Prosecutor's Daughter Testifies
By Robert Selna
SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor's daughter testified Monday that she lied during earlier hearings and omitted informat...
Franchisor Can Make Renewal Contingent on New Conditions
By Columnist
Focus Column - Franchise Law - Most franchise agreements provide the franchisee with a right of renewal. But few allow renewal...
Still Counting
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Chip Nielsen and Lance Olson - Election experts predict Proposition 52 will increase voter turnout in Califo...
Still Counting
By Columnist
Forumn Column - By Dave Gilliard - Does allowing people to register to vote on Election Day, without providing any official ID...
Ervin Cohen Lawyer Writes of Diamonds' Ugly Facet
By Stefanie Knapp
The advertisements want you to believe that diamonds are beautiful, but as Nicolas Kublicki shows in his new novel, the diamon...
ING Unit Buying Crow Holdings' Industrial Property Portfolio
By Wire
BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires The U.S. real estate investment-management business of ING Group NV of the Netherlands h...
Chastised Honda Settles Rollover Case
By Joan Osterwalder
Sarah Davis' trial against American Honda Motors Co. took an unexpected turn. The quadriplegic sued Honda for causing her crip...
District Judge Wins Maynard Toll Award From Legal Aid Foundation
By Staff Writer
The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles will present federal Judge Dickran Tevrizian of the U.S. District Court for the Centra...
Merger Talks End for Pennie & Edmonds
By Liz Valsamis
With merger mania and law firm economics, it's often here today, gone tomorrow. That seems to be the case in the latest round ...
Conference Will Target Toxic Mold, Welcome Author of Protection Act
By Staff Writer
Lorman Education Services will sponsor a daylong conference on toxic mold Nov. 7 at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa...
IXI Mobile Obtains $15 Million in New Round of Funding
By Toni Vranjes
Palo Alto's IXI Mobile Inc., which develops software that enables cutting-edge wireless devices to interact, has raised $15 mi...
Pasadena Bar Group Celebrates 9th U.S. Circuit Justice at Dinner
By Staff Writer
The Pasadena Bar Association honored Justice Dorothy Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the Judge of the Yea...
Covering One's Assets
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ It's a myth that you can't get terrorism coverage for your commercial property. But skyroc...
State Needs Prop. 46
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL J. NOVOGRADAC California voters will be asked Nov. 5 to decide whether to authorize $2.1 billion in bonds for a va...
Moody's Downgrades CMBS on Lack of Terrorism Insurance
By Wire
BY DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires Moody's Investors Service , following through on an earlier warning, downgraded $4.5 bil...
Slow-Growth Initiatives SOAR
By Contributing Writer
BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Ventura County, the birthplace of the Southern California slow-growth movement, finds itself ...
Crosby Heafey Joins Reed Smith In Trendy Cross-Country Merger
By Erik Cummins
The combination of Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May with Pittsburgh's Reed Smith is the latest law firm merger with a b...
Due on Encumbrance
By Columnist
BY WILLIAM J. BERNFELD Imagine this scenario: It's 1995 and a commercial property owner has a $6 million first trust deed loa...
Firms Await Ruling on Use of Synthetic Leases
By Wire
BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Although some companies are pulling out of controversial so-called synthetic leases, many...
Merger Unites Two Sides of Coal Industry
By Toni Vranjes
A lump of coal is a precious commodity, as two newly merged Utah companies can attest. The companies, which extract value from...
Title Update
By Columnist
BY STATHI MARCOPULOS Failing to periodically update title insurance checklists and standard coverage requirements could be a ...
Lord Bissell Snares a New Partner
By Liz Valsamis
Lord, Bissell & Brook has hired finance and real estate partner Cherie Raidy away from the Los Angeles office of New York'...
Battling Ballot-Box Planning
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Thanks to one of the latest challenges to beset the real estate industry, many developer...