Retailers Still Buying Into Ventura County
By Contributing Writer
BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Tepid holiday sales and growing uncertainty over consumer buying power weren't enough to dampe...
Judicial Council Announces Annual Service Awardees
By Stefanie Knapp
By Stefanie Knapp The Judicial Council of California will present its 10th Annual Distinguished Service Awards at the 2003 Ca...
Continued Strength Expected in San Diego
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer For the San Diego County retail market, 2003 is shaping up to be another strong year. Re...
Railroad Faces Arraignment On Chemical Leak Charges
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda The Union Pacific Railroad is scheduled to be arraigned next month in three Central Valley counties on doz...
Litigator Sues Former Law Firm for Sabotage
By Toni Vranjes
LOS ANGELES - San Diego business litigator Michael J. Perez has filed a breach-of-contract suit against Haight, Brown & B...
Judges Association Fetes Judge For His Contributions to Group
By Stefanie Knapp
The California Judges Association honored retired Judge Roy Wonder with its 2002 President's Award for Outstanding Service to...
For First Time, Heller Ehrman Hires Chief Marketing Officer
By Staff Writer
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe made a big change in the marketing department, hiring a chief marketing officer for the f...
Screening Firms Merge To Make First Advantage
By Toni Vranjes
By Toni Vranjes Business information provider First American Corp. of Santa Ana has agreed to merge its background-screening ...
Coastal Commission Inoperative After Ruling
By Peter Blumberg
BY PETER BLUMBERG Special to CREJ SAN FRANCISCO - Like a judicial tsunami, a state appellate court all but wiped out the Cali...
OUTLOOK
By Columnist
BY MARTIN S. STOLZOFF California and the nation will enjoy better property markets in 2003. That's the consensus of nationall...
Retail Weathers Storm in Bay Area
By Contributing Writer
BY JIM EMERSON Special to the CREJ Certainly, the retail real estate sector in the San Francisco Bay Area will feel more bump...
Orange County Gains Traction in a Soft Economy
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With all the dips and turns in the economy last year, one might have expected to see Oran...
Silicon Valley Copes With Loss of Buying Power
By Contributing Writer
BY BRAD BERTON Special to the CREJ Silicon Valley retailers today certainly aren't experiencing the bubbling levels of consum...
St. Francis Winery Names L.A. Litigator as Its President, CEO
By Staff Writer
The St. Francis Winery & Vineyards has appointed a former Los Angeles litigator as its president and chief executive offi...
Crosby Heafey Trio Opens Litigation Firm
By Erik Cummins
By Erik Cummins Kenneth Seeger, Adam Salvas and Brian Devine really got to know one another in the last couple of years. In f...
McDermott Will Picks Zelnick As Head of Trademark Group
By Staff Writer
Robert Zelnick, a partner in McDermott, Will & Emery's Washington, D.C. office has been named head of the firm's trademar...
Chief Probation Officers Honor San Mateo Superior Court Judge
By Stefanie Knapp
The Chief Probation Officers of California selected assistant presiding Judge Mark Forcum as its Judicial Officer of the Year...
Growth Pressures Inland Empire's Health Care Infrastructure
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer As the search for affordable housing continues to draw new residents into the Inland Empire,...
Inland Empire Retail Goes Upscale
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Capitalizing on the Inland Empire's growing number of white-collar workers, local developer...
Retailers Continue to Invest in Sacramento
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer If new storefronts are a sign of what's to come, Sacramento's retail market is posit...
Retiring Solano Jurist Calls His Staff 'Greatest in Universe'
By Leslie Simmons
Longtime Solano County Superior Court Judge Eric Uldall retired Dec. 16, just weeks shy of the 19 th anniversary of his appoi...
DA Ready for Humboldt Challenge
By Karen Coleman
By Karen Coleman Former Eureka defense lawyer Paul Gallegos upset the established order of things in the Humboldt County when...
Hogan & Hartson Leader Acclimates to New Role
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis Neil R. O'Hanlon spent the last month of 2002 getting accustomed to his new role of managing partner at the C...
Trading Spaces
By Tanya Rothman
LAW FIRM MANAGMENT By Sandy Lechtick In the Chinese language there is a well-known symbol with two distinct meanings - danger...
Ex-New York Mayor Will Keynote Defense Counsel Group's Seminar
By Stefanie Knapp
The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel will hold its annual seminar Feb. 27-28 at the Century Plaza Hotel and...
Litigants Face New Round of Fee Hikes
By Karen Coleman
By Karen Coleman California litigants rang in 2003 with another round of statutory hikes in court fees. The increases, effect...
Manatt Phelps and Karkines Arky Merge
By Liz Valsamis
By Liz Valsamis Manatt, Phelps & Phillips began 2003 by taking a bite out of the Big Apple. On Jan. 1, the Los Angeles-ba...
Quinn Emanuel Expands L.A. Office Space With New 10-Year Lease
By Staff Writer
Litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges brushed up on its real estate when it signed a new lease for...
Davis Names Two Superior Court Commissioners to the L.A. Bench
By Leslie Simmons
Longtime Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioners Robert A. Schnider and David Sotelo were appointed judges by Gov. Gr...
Lawyers Group Lauds Woman With Attorney of the Year Award
By Stefanie Knapp
The Orange County Women Lawyers Association has honored Jennifer Keller with its Attorney of the Year Award. The association ...