Cooley Godward Guides Vivace in Sale to Tellabs
By Toni Vranjes
Expanding into a lucrative market, Tellabs Inc. has agreed to buy San Jose network switch maker Vivace Networks Inc. Illinois-...
Tejon Ranch to Preserve One-Third of Property
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Developers of Tejon Ranch have agreed to sell 100,000 acres of the sprawling ranch to a lan...
Oppenheimer Pulls Plug on Bay Area, Southland Shops
By Staff Writer
Following a year of constant scrutiny and rumors about its dedication to its California offices, Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolf...
Linen Retailer Strouds Holds Going-Out-of-Business Sale
By Toni Vranjes
Facing tough competition from national chains, regional linen retailer Strouds is going out of business. Strouds Acquisition C...
Freeway Expansion Blocked
By Contributing Writer
BY JOHN LOESING Special to CREJ Concerned real estate owners fearful of losing their homes and businesses were among those wh...
City Goes After President of Building Firm
By Ron Mc Nees
BY TYLER CUNNINGHAM Special to CREJ OAKLAND - Construction magnate Ronald Tutor will become a defendant when San Francisco la...
Pinch-Hitter in Family Court
By Dennis Pfaff
REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo Superior Court Judge Rosemary Pfeiffer has an unusual passion: Family law. While many members of the ...
Mailblocks Slaps Suits on Earthlink, Other Companies
By Eron Yehuda
The scourge of spam is reaching epic proportions, according to some estimates. By next month, spam, unsolicited computer-gener...
Getting Breaks
By Contributing Writer
By Tony R. Skogen California courts are experiencing a rapid growth in the number of administrative claims, individual lawsui...
Music Publisher Says Oldies Are Goodies With Purchase
By Toni Vranjes
In a deal reportedly worth a whopping $60 million, renowned songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller have sold music catalogs...
Despite Bad Rap, Many Say Unfair-Competition Law Helps People
By Joan Osterwalder
California's unfair-competition law has gotten a bad rap in recent months because of the highly publicized accounts of alleged...
N.Y. Firm Expands Immigration Unit
By Toni Vranjes
Expanding its reach even farther around the world, New York law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has acquired a Pri...
It's Time to Shorten Multifamily Approvals
By Columnist
BY MARK H. CASSIDY California developers often won't consider building apartment projects on sites not already zoned for mult...
DAILY DEALS -- San Bernadino County
By Jack Briggs
FONTANA - Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp. leased a 102,100-square-foot industrial building at 10846 Commerce Way from Irvine-base...
Media Star Goes In-House at Disney
By Liz Valsamis
Karen Frederiksen, formerly a media partner with Seattle's Davis Wright Tremaine, has joined the Walt Disney Co. as a litigato...
There's Wealth in Wildlife
By Columnist
BY LORI SALDANA A few years ago, the market was telling landowners to get rid of wildlife habitat or their land would be wort...
Visalia Farmer Wins $25 Million Against Farmers
By Eron Yehuda
A Visalia farmworker who sued industry giant Farmers Insurance Co. for not providing coverage when he faced a personal injury ...
Taxi Cab Conversions
By Christine Malamanig
BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer Every commercial business needs adequate parking, but arguably no business needs bet...
Brokers Prove Their Value
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer When the Internet gave potential tenants the ability to access property information databas...
Dummy Run
By Contributing Writer
The United States Senate recently released transcripts of secret interrogations conducted 50 years ago by notorious Sen. Josep...
President Bush arguably made the correct decision to invade Iraq. Nevertheless, his leadership in foreign affairs does not mer...
Improper Fidelities
Forum Column - By Joel A. Davis - A funny thing happened on the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Medical Board...
State Fraud, False-Advertising Laws May Violate Constitution
By Columnist
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Thomas H. Clarke Jr. - On May 5, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Illinois v. Tele...
Circuit Bars Last-Minute Party Switch
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A California elections statute that forbids candidates from switching political parties one year before prima...
'Wattstax' Has Tangled Legal Past
By Alice Lee
LOS ANGELES - Over the weekend, the concert film "Wattstax" was rereleased, for the first time ever with its original "lost" e...
Guilty Plea In Varian Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Colorado engineer accused of making online criminal threats against two former Varian Associates research scient...
Confessor May Go Free
By Jim Adamekn
SAN BERNARDINO - A 26-year-old Rialto man who confessed to killing his girlfriend a decade ago could be released from custody ...
17200 Reform Bills Jump Through First of Many Hoops
By Linda Rapattoni
Reporter's Notebook - Linda Rapattoni - Trial lawyers originally hoped they could head off tort reformers' efforts to signific...
Privileged Information Not Available to DA
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant's waiver of the attorney-client privilege as part of a habeas claim that his trial lawyer was ine...
Riverside Prosecutor Survives Reality TV
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Deena Bennett still finds it baffling when strangers ask for her autograph. Whether it's in the grocery store or i...