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Feng Shui for the Masses

Jun. 17, 2003
By Michael Gottliebn

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Step on to the platform of the Gold Line's Chinatown station in downtown Los Angel...


Forest Service Faces Wrongful-Death Suit

Jun. 17, 2003
By Eron Yehuda

The U.S. government is partially responsible for the deaths of four intoxicated teenagers who crashed in a car after attending...



Online Matchups for El Toro Developers

Jun. 17, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The development opportunities presented by the former Marine Corps Air Station at El Tor...


Finding the Right Balance

Jun. 17, 2003
By Columnist

BY THOMAS P. COX Historic adaptive reuse can be an opportunity to revitalize blighted areas for new homes and businesses, and...



Entertainment Pro Returns to Manatt Phelps

Jun. 17, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

After spending 23 years as an executive in the entertainment industry, Fred Bernstein, a former president of Columbia TriStar ...


Earlier this month, PeopleSoft Inc. agreed to buy J.D. Edwards & Co. in a $1.7 billion deal that would create the world's ...



Business Parks Go Condo

Jun. 17, 2003
By Christine Malamanig

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Despite Silicon Valley's double-digit vacancy rates in office, research-and- developm...


Rush Hour

Jun. 17, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Plenty of people said it couldn't be done, but Rancho Bernardo-based Cymer Inc., a leadi...



BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Staff Writer Though common in most major cities throughout the nation, transit-oriented development ...


Client Conflicts Force Lawyers to Move on

Jun. 17, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

In February, Alan Blankenheimer and a handful of lawyers joined Boston's Fish & Richardson from Phoenix's Brown & Bain...



Credibility Boost

Jun. 17, 2003
By Columnist

Column - Business Development - By Karen Kaplowitz - You want to be a rainmaker. Where do speaking and writing fit in your gam...


Myra Pasek spent 2-1/2 years in charge of litigation at Santa Clara's Affymetrix Inc. Managing patent disputes over the firm's...



The legal battle between two of the biggest stars in the amateur telescope universe rages on. In 2001, Meade Instruments Corp....


A week after closing offices in Palo Alto and Newport Beach, the partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly were still cons...



Quinn Emanuel Lures IP Lawyer From Fenwick

Jun. 17, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has lured a big shot intellectual property lawyer to its offices there...


The $10 Million Crew

Jun. 17, 2003
By Tina Spee

RAINMAKERS - The economy on the rebound? At the very least business must be good for California law firms. According to our so...



Play Ball

Jun. 17, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

When Kenneth Chiate graduated from Columbia Law School in 1966, he was sure he'd spend the rest of his career with the same gr...


Builder Change Name, Focus

Jun. 17, 2003
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When two firms combine through an acquisition, the resulting entity typically assumes th...



San Diego's Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson has added a veteran litigator to its ranks. Bruce Bailey joined last month fr...


Focus Column - Employment Law - By Joseph L. Beachboard - In an important decision for professional corporations and many othe...



Focus Column - Litigation - By Randy L. Turtle - A 2001 newspaper article disclosed a surprising and disturbing fact: Evidence...


Answering to a Higher Authority

Jun. 17, 2003
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Deputy Attorney General Joel Davis' recent column entitled "Improper Fidelities: Attorney Gen...



Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The United States is about to embark on the largest post-war reconstruction project since ...


Panel Says Judge Committed Misconduct

Jun. 17, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Noting he has been disciplined twice for similar misconduct, a panel of special masters has found that Alameda...



Duane Morris Nabs 12 Luce Forward Lawyers

Jun. 17, 2003
By Liz Valsamis

LOS ANGELES - Duane Morris has scooped up a dozen insurance coverage lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Sc...


Alameda to Begin Allowing Lawyers to Fax Papers

Jun. 17, 2003
By Karen Coleman

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court plans to roll out two filing innovations that will make it easier for litigants to get...



Judge Will Run for Leadership Job

Jun. 17, 2003
By Leslie Simmons

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Lichtman has announced plans to run for assistant presiding judge for 200...


Modifications To Fast Track Are Approved

Jun. 17, 2003
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - A special Judicial Council panel has given its approval to easing the strict "fast track" rules that govern th...



DCA Names Parents in Inadvertent Embryo Swap

Jun. 17, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - A husband who intended that his sperm be used by a fertility clinic to create embryos to impregnate his wife i...


Judicial Indiscretion

Jun. 17, 2003
By Pamela Mac Lean

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal trial judges now face what one senator has called a "judicial blacklist" created by Congress if they i...