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Calling all soccer-playing lawyers. Those lifelong dreams of slicing a perfect shot into the corner of the goal or drilling a...


Intel Loses Pair of Patent Infringement Cases

Nov. 26, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

Microchip technology meant macro dollars for Intergraph Corp. Intergraph, a Huntsville, Ala.-based computer services company, ...



Neutral Revives Insurance Agency

Nov. 26, 2002
By Erik Cummins

Harry Low took a two-year break from his work as a highly paid neutral at JAMS. But it wasn't a peaceful rest. Gov. Gray Davis...


Common Ground

Nov. 26, 2002
By Joseph Sorrentino

BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO CREJ Contributing Writer As urban sprawl encroaches on the state's prime farmland the battle between deve...



CREJ WIRE REPORT The slowing economy is enabling apartment firms to hold the line on compensation increases and reduce employ...


CREJ WIRE REPORT Los Angeles led the entire Western Region in growth of rents for apartments in the third quarter of 2002, ac...



A Los Angeles judge is expected to give preliminary approval Dec. 6 to a settlement of a nationwide class action that accused ...


Saved by the Loft

Nov. 26, 2002
By Andrea Rosas

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer When David Armstrong moved to Pomona in 1944, the city's downtown area was a heavily travel...



Jury Awards City Solutions $9.8 Million

Nov. 26, 2002
By Joan Osterwalder

This was a newspaper war of another sort. Outdoor advertiser City Solutions Inc. sued its former business partner, Eller Media...


Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish has established an insurance counseling and litigation group. Richar...



Work Drought Plagues Silicon Valley Firms

Nov. 26, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

It came as no real surprise when, on Nov. 15, Cooley Godward laid off 46 associates and staff members, and Fenwick & West ...


Grant T. Langton has left intellectual property boutique Christie, Parker & Hale for Los Angeles' Jeffer, Mangels, Butler ...



The Arizona law-firm scene is undergoing a bit of reshuffling - at least as far as the attorneys at two Phoenix firms are con...


Pasadena's Brown & Kellner has opened a second office in Las Vegas. The three-attorney firm intends to use the office as ...



After 11 years, the expansion of the BART system to the San Francisco airport is finally complete. With so many bumps along t...


You Got To Know When to Hold 'Em

Nov. 26, 2002
By Julie Nakashima

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The decision to hold onto its recently acquired class A office building in San Diego for...



No-Growth Bind

Nov. 26, 2002
By Columnist

BY MICHAEL M. BERGER Years ago, people labeled them "NIMBYs" - those who opposed local development projects by saying "not in ...


THE MARKETS -- Los Angeles Industrial

Nov. 26, 2002
By Michael Gottliebn

How's business? "We are one of the healthiest markets in the United States. That has to do with the ports without a question....



Speaking Two Languages Boosts Résumé

Nov. 26, 2002
By Erik Cummins

It's rare, if not unprecedented, for a corporate associate to get involved in one-on-one dealmaking in the first year or two o...


Pan Pacific Plans to Buy Center Trust

Nov. 26, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, plans to increase its presence in California by acquiring ...



Voters Support Port Development

Nov. 26, 2002
By Christine Malamanig

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer West Sacramento saw history repeating itself with the Nov. 5 defeat of Measure L, whi...


Startup Firms Struggle to Find Investors

Nov. 26, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

Entrepreneurs want it. But they're having a hard time getting it. With lingering concerns about the economy, young companies a...



Treatment Regimen Keeps Parolee Off Streets

Nov. 26, 2002
By Jeffrey Anderson

LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles parolee Charlie Jones and other repeat criminal offenders with mental illness and a history of ...


Underdog A-Team Hits Wall at Mock Trial

Nov. 26, 2002
By Stefanie Knapp

LOS ANGELES - John Marshall High School's run for top honors in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 25th annual Mock Trial ...



Westerfield May Face Civil Suit

Nov. 26, 2002
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Convicted child murderer David A. Westerfield's woes likely will include a civil lawsuit as he whiles away years i...


LOS ANGELES - The regents of the University of California have recovered $11 million from contractors and an insurance company...



Focus Column - Criminal Law - As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the fate of California's three-strikes law, the key votes li...


Alien Deserves New Hearing, Court Rules

Nov. 26, 2002
By Susan Mc Rae

LOS ANGELES - A Guatemalan native who withdrew his asylum application after an immigration judge advised him privately that he...



SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Waukeen McCoy looked forward to a long and prosperous relationship with Angela Alioto, his lawyer co...


Freed by DNA, He's Still Inside

Nov. 26, 2002
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Albert Kent Johnson can't win for losing. First, he was convicted in 1992 of a rape he didn't commit - all bec...