Feng Shui for the Masses
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
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
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
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
By Liz Valsamis
After spending 23 years as an executive in the entertainment industry, Fred Bernstein, a former president of Columbia TriStar ...
Hostile Takeover Bid Interrupts Billion-Dollar Software Merger
By Toni Vranjes
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
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Despite Silicon Valley's double-digit vacancy rates in office, research-and- developm...
Rush Hour
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...
Transit-Oriented Development to See Golden Age in Los Angeles
By Michael Gottliebn
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
By Liz Valsamis
In February, Alan Blankenheimer and a handful of lawyers joined Boston's Fish & Richardson from Phoenix's Brown & Bain...
Credibility Boost
By Columnist
Column - Business Development - By Karen Kaplowitz - You want to be a rainmaker. Where do speaking and writing fit in your gam...
Patent Litigator Comes in From the Cold With Preston
By Erik Cummins
Myra Pasek spent 2-1/2 years in charge of litigation at Santa Clara's Affymetrix Inc. Managing patent disputes over the firm's...
Stars of Telescope Industry Continue Fight Over Patents
By Stefanie Knapp
The legal battle between two of the biggest stars in the amateur telescope universe rages on. In 2001, Meade Instruments Corp....
Oppenheimer Wolff Votes to Retrench, Try to Stay Open
By Erik Cummins
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
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
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
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
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When two firms combine through an acquisition, the resulting entity typically assumes th...
Bacalski Byrne in San Diego Welcomes Veteran Litigator
By John Ryan
San Diego's Bacalski, Byrne, Koska & Ottoson has added a veteran litigator to its ranks. Bruce Bailey joined last month fr...
Court Uses Control Test to Gauge If 'Shareholders' Qualify as Employees
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Joseph L. Beachboard - In an important decision for professional corporations and many othe...
Careful Handling and Storage Can Avoid Spoliation
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Randy L. Turtle - A 2001 newspaper article disclosed a surprising and disturbing fact: Evidence...
Answering to a Higher Authority
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bill Lockyer - Deputy Attorney General Joel Davis' recent column entitled "Improper Fidelities: Attorney Gen...
Post-War Rebuild Contracts Bypassed Normal Channels
By Columnist
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...