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By Liz Valsamis Giving in to client demand, the partners at Los Angeles employment law boutique Gartner & Young have merg...

By Erik Cummins Nixon Peabody's newest partners took different routes to come to the firm's San Francisco office. The first, ...

Greenberg Traurig has joined the growing number of U.S. law firms to enter the European legal market, thanks to new offices i...

BY JOY C. SHAW Dow Jones Newswires In an environment where corporate financing has been hard to get, especially for smaller, c...

Clifford Chance has joined Singapore firm WongPartnership in a joint law venture there, the London-based firm announced early...

CORPORATE By Toni Vranjes Los Angeles attorney Michael Gisser is used to working on cross-border deals, but his latest one is...

FINANCING By Toni Vranjes Seagate Technology Holdings launched an initial public offering earlier this month, which was greet...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor The evergreens sprouting recently in Los Angeles amid dustings of snow and ice-cov...

BY CHRISTOPHER OSTER AND DEAN STARKMAN Dow Jones Newswires Even with the new federal terrorism-insurance program, coverage for...

BY DANIEL J. CURTIN JR., CECILY T. TALBERT AND CHARLES J. HIGLEY The term "smart growth" has been buzzing in planning and envi...

By Erik Cummins What spelled the doom of one law firm will soon welcome another. The San Francisco Ferry Building, one of the...

Law firms fire with one hand, hire with the other. Page XX By Justin Pope Associated Press At Palo Alto's Cooley Godward, wor...

BY TODD RICHARDSON The property management business is undergoing dramatic change. New technology, pressure to increase revenu...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Retail is far from down and out in downtown Sacramento. It's taken years to build dow...

CORPORATE By Toni Vranjes After taking a beating in the stock market for the past few years, some businesses have decided eno...

BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO CREJ Contributing Writer GLENDALE - Glendale City Council formally approved a settlement Dec. 10 in whic...

BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Tough times can be rough on partnerships. And with the economy staying soft and real estat...

By Joan Osterwalder El Nio causes more than droughts and floods throughout the world. The warm-water weather phenomenon also ...

Attorney Robert Scott Dreher fights to protect the homeless in San Diego County. Page XX. LITIGATION Eron Ben-Yehuda After a ...

FINANCING By Toni Vranjes Aliso Viejo's eEye Digital Security has picked up $9 million in its third round of financing, which...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Recent development activity at the former George Air Force Base is transforming the 5,000-a...

Terrorists are a serious threat to the safety of a building's air supply, but not the only threat. "Buildings don't have to b...

By Liz Valsamis Prompted by a string of partner defections at their firm, two Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly litigators hav...

By Stefanie Knapp A graphic designer is suing Adobe Systems Inc. claiming that the software giant stole his technology and in...

By Erik Cummins Kirkland & Ellis finally has confirmed one of the Bay Area's worst-kept secrets. After months of speculat...

BY JAMES ACRET On the last day of its 2002 session, the Legislature passed SB800 at the urging of a coalition of trial lawyer...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Joining the nation's refinancing wave, one of Orange County's most prominent developers,...

Martin Appel has joined New York's Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner as senior counsel. Appel began at the firm's ...

Her first job was research, but not what she'd thought. Page XX By Stefanie Knapp In 1984, Shannon Hansen thought that her su...