MoFo Helps MarketWatch Negotiate Deal for Pinnacor
By Toni Vranjes
San Francisco media company MarketWatch.com Inc. will acquire Pinnacor Inc. in a deal valued at $103 million in cash and stock...
Cross-Examining an Expert Need Not Be Futile Exercise
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By David B. Baum - Awe and trepidation - these are the emotions typical of the trial lawyer approach...
The Importance of a Resident Manager
By Columnist
BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN Apartment property owners often ask about the value of having a resident manager. How much difference ...
Stradling Lawyer Helps Albania Build Legal System
By Stefanie Knapp
In 2001, Lara Callas traveled to Albania to devote her legal skills to helping the Orthodox Church in Albania. Forty-five year...
Trial-Consulting Group Thinks Big
By Stefanie Knapp
Los Angeles trial consultant Richard Gabriel has a lofty goal for his one-term as president of the American Society of Trial C...
Digital River Inc. Nabs $45 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Digital River Inc., which provides e-commerce services for businesses, has raised $45 million in a stock offering. The Minneap...
Lawyer Splits From Merger Partner for Katten Muchin
By Liz Valsamis
After splitting from the firm he merged with two years ago, Eric Klein has found a new home in the Century City office of Katt...
Asset Management Office Switches Identities
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The six-person asset management group of Newmark of California, led by veteran property ...
Netgear, Path 1 Join Ranks Of Newly Public Companies
By Toni Vranjes
More California firms have joined the ranks of newly public companies. Two of the latest initial public offerings came in late...
New State Building Codes Upset Many
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer A brand new set of California building codes was adopted just weeks ago, to the chagrin of a ...
Two Land-Use Partners Go To Nossaman's Irvine Shop
By Liz Valsamis
Los Angeles' Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliot has added two land-use partners for its Irvine office this summer. John C. Con...
Lockyer Blasts 'Collusive' Prop. 65 Deals
By Dennis Pfaff
BY DENNIS PFAFF Special to CREJ A proposed Proposition 65 settlement between the hotel industry and two plaintiffs groups cou...
Breaking New Ground for Charity
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor After three years of planning, the first shovel went into the ground last month for ...
State Building Volume Declines 1.2 Percent in June
By Ron Mc Nees
California's statewide construction activity for June totaled $6.2 billion, down 1.2 percent - the first decline in 2003 after...
No End to Vicious Affordable-Housing Cycle
By Contributing Writer
MARGOT CARMICHAEL LESTER Special to the CREJ For some, affordable housing is a deal-killer. For others, it is an unwelcome ad...
Schnader Maritime Lawyer Sails for Holland & Knight
By Erik Cummins
Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis is open for business in San Francisco despite defections that have shrunk the office to ...
Inventor's Legal Fight With Novell Seems to Be on Last Leg
By John Ryan
Roger Billings' 12-year legal battle against software company Novell Inc. finally may be running out of steam. The inventor su...
Firm, Ex-Employee Arbitrate Sexual-Harassment Complaint
By Eron Yehuda
A former accounting manager at an Orange County law firm alleges that office management tolerated sexual harassment, then reta...
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Column - Legal Technology - By John J. Selbak and Colin C. Elrod - As communication technology develops, more clients expect t...
One of Three Brians Leaves Boutique
By Liz Valsamis
When you run your own successful litigation boutique, you can expect job offers from large law firms - just ask the name partn...
Top-Down Redesign for Architecture Firm
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The San Diego architectural firm of Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle is seeking a new direc...
DAILY DEALS -- Transactions from Ventura County
By Jack Briggs
CAMARILLO - Royce Medical Co. leased 17,784 square feet of R&D space at 4550 Calle Alto from the Snemelof Family Trust fo...
1 Playa Vista Lease Fills Water's Edge to the Brim
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor Dream Works has finally come to Playa Vista, but in a most roundabout way. On Aug. 6...
ERISA Expert Joins Sonnenschein
By Erik Cummins
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has seen its employee-benefits and executive-compensation practice explode in the last three...
Actor, 67, Files Age-Discrimination Suit Against Radio Show
By Eron Yehuda
Film and television actor Marty Ingels considers himself a "very verbose" and "opinionated" guy. So when a radio talk show hos...
Tell All
By Joel Rosenblatt
Securities lawyers and white-collar defense attorneys take note: the Securities and Exchange Commission is busier than ever. ...
New S. Calif. Multifamily Player Taps Latest Trends
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Alliance Residential Co., a full-service apartment company, inaugurated its new Southern ...
Top 50 Counsel
By Tina Spee
Whether their in-house departments have three lawyers - like San Jose's Sanmina-Sci - or 300 (think Hewlett-Packard), Califor...
Skadden Arps Guides SangStat in Buyout
By Toni Vranjes
Biotechnology company Genzyme Corp. is buying Fremont-based SangStat Medical Corp., which sells a lucrative drug for kidney-tr...
Pillsbury Winthrop Attracts Regulatory Agency Counsel
By Erik Cummins
Rosemarie Oda, the former general counsel of California's Department of Financial Institutions, has joined Pillsbury Winthrop....