Coach Calls on Soccer-Playing Lawyers for Bar Group World Cup
By Staff Writer
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
By Joan Osterwalder
Microchip technology meant macro dollars for Intergraph Corp. Intergraph, a Huntsville, Ala.-based computer services company, ...
Neutral Revives Insurance Agency
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
By Joseph Sorrentino
BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO CREJ Contributing Writer As urban sprawl encroaches on the state's prime farmland the battle between deve...
Study: Merit Pay, Turnover for Apartment Managers Slowing
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT The slowing economy is enabling apartment firms to hold the line on compensation increases and reduce employ...
Los Angeles Leads West in Rent Growth
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Los Angeles led the entire Western Region in growth of rents for apartments in the third quarter of 2002, ac...
Judge Likely Will Sign Off On Domain-Name Accord
By Eron Yehuda
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
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
By Joan Osterwalder
This was a newspaper war of another sort. Outdoor advertiser City Solutions Inc. sued its former business partner, Eller Media...
Weston Benshoof Sets Up Practice In Insurance Law
By Liz Valsamis
Los Angeles' Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish has established an insurance counseling and litigation group. Richar...
Work Drought Plagues Silicon Valley Firms
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 ...
Christie Patent Partner Goes to Jeffer Mangels
By Liz Valsamis
Grant T. Langton has left intellectual property boutique Christie, Parker & Hale for Los Angeles' Jeffer, Mangels, Butler ...
Lewis and Roca Gets Six Attorneys After Brown & Bain Closes Outpost
By Staff Writer
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-Based Brown & Kellner Opens Second Shop in Las Vegas
By Staff Writer
Pasadena's Brown & Kellner has opened a second office in Las Vegas. The three-attorney firm intends to use the office as ...
Officials Turn to Nonprofit Experts To Organize BART Ribbon-Cutting
By Staff Writer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Regents Win $11 Million Water-Leak Settlement
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - The regents of the University of California have recovered $11 million from contractors and an insurance company...
Pair of High-Court Justices Hold Key Votes in Three-Strikes Issue
By Jennifer Orff
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
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - A Guatemalan native who withdrew his asylum application after an immigration judge advised him privately that he...
Saga of Angela Alioto and Waukeen McCoy Is Almost Over
By Tyler Cunningham
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
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...