Long Road to Redevelopment
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer After sitting nearly vacant for years, the Riverside Plaza is now boarded up in preparation...
Big Deal in a Hot Market
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Orange County's hot apartment market posted another large deal, with Eagle Real Estate G...
Howrey Simon Team Scores Big Against Ericsson
By Christina Landers
A team of attorneys led by Howard C. Bunsow, partner with the San Francisco office of Howrey, Simon, Arnold, & White, won ...
Neutral Switches to JAMS From American Arbitration Association
By Stefanie Knapp
Jerry Spolter, formerly of the American Arbitration Association, joined the San Francisco office of alternative dispute provi...
Arnold & Porter's London Office Hires Official of British Agency
By Staff Writer
Arnold & Porter has dipped into the United Kingdom Medicines Control Agency for its latest lateral hire in London. Dr. Li...
Recycling Land to Curb Sprawl Gains Momentum
By Columnist
BY LARRY FINN Like many states, California is concerned about urban sprawl. After all, the state's beautiful landscape is a so...
Ropers Majeski Expands Intellectual Property Group
By Liz Valsamis
Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has hired intellectual property partner James C. Potepan and two associates from Pasadena'...
General Counsel Associates Adds Two partners, One From In-House
By Staff Writer
Mountain View's General Counsel Associates has promoted one attorney to partner and hired another from outside the firm. The ...
Nordman Cormany Initiates New General Counsel Services Group
By Staff Writer
Oxnard's Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton has launched a general counsel services group to help small and medium-size bus...
Fired Car Salesman Blows Whistle, Scores $130,000
By Joan Osterwalder
A felon who turned his life around and became a top salesman at a Ford dealership in Huntington Beach has won $130,000 in a wh...
Merger Creates Access to Quick, Affordable Mediation
By Joan Osterwalder
Mediator Network, a subsidiary of Consolidated Legal Concepts Inc., and Mosten Mediation Centers Inc. merged Oct. 1 to create ...
Law Firm Wins $2.1 Million in Fee Dispute
By Eron Yehuda
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Los Angeles attorney Gregory G. Gorman is beat, even though he recently won a $2.1 million jury verdict aga...
Former Baseball Star Beats Out FTC Suit
By Joan Osterwalder
It looks like former baseball star Steve Garvey is going to hit a home run in a false advertising case that the Federal Trade ...
Selling a City within a City
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer When the 1.7 million-square-foot Park Place Office Campus in Irvine sold last month for ...
THE MARKETS -- Northern California Retail
By Michael Gottliebn
"Buyers are starting to meet sellers' expectations. What that translates into is record low cap rates and high dollars per squ...
Borland Software Agrees To Acquire TogetherSoft
By Toni Vranjes
Borland Software Corp. of Scotts Valley has agreed to buy the privately held software company TogetherSoft Corp. for $185 mill...
Veteran L.A. Superior Court Judge Plans His Retirement for January
By Leslie Simmons
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Keith L. Groneman, who handles preliminary hearings at the Airport Courthouse, has an...
Stay, Spot ... for Eternity
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The dusty graveyard looks like a scene straight out of a Stephen King novel. A stone path s...
Jury Nails Sacramento Developer for Cheating Partners
By Eron Yehuda
Despite winning $7 million in punitive damages earlier this month, veteran Sacramento trial lawyer Edward Freidberg is vexed b...
Health Care Lawyer Jumps To Boutique Hooper Lundy
By Erik Cummins
San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy has a substantial health care practice with 15 lawyers focusing ex...
Employment Law Practitioner Switches to Greenberg Traurig
By Staff Writer
Michelle Lee Flores has joined Greenberg Traurig where she will be a member of the firm's labor and employment practice. The ...
Archer Norris Gains Asbestos Litigator From Strickland Haapala
By Staff Writer
Christopher Harnett, formerly a name partner with Oakland's Strickland, Haapala, Altura, Harnett & Thompson, has joined W...
Litigator Returns To O'Melveny for Energy Practice
By Liz Valsamis
Charlie Read has rejoined Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers after a three-year stint working with Steptoe & Johnson's ene...
VersusLaw Inc. Inaugurates Line of Legal Research Tools
By Stefanie Knapp
VersusLaw Inc. introduced a new line of legal research tools Oct. 29. A user can choose between three different subscription ...
War Worries
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer During the 1991 Gulf War, the North San Diego County apartment market, already soft becau...
Alameda Women Lawyers Give Award to Boalt Hall Professor
By Stefanie Knapp
The Women Lawyers of Alameda County honored Herma Hill Kay, the first female dean of Boalt Hall, with its lifetime achievemen...
Biotech Specialist Moves Practice to Fenwick & West
By Erik Cummins
Although biotechnology work has dropped off measurably since the late 1990s, it remains a robust practice, according to Fenwic...
Presidential Powers
By Staff Writer
With 13,000 members and 43 local chapters across the United States and abroad, the American Corporate Counsel Association is t...
Events Prompt 3 Property Management Trends
By Columnist
BY BOB HITCHCOCK The tragic events of Sept. 11 coupled with the slide of stock prices have changed commercial property as an i...
UPS Settles Lawsuit With 6,000 Workers
By Christina Landers
In what is being hailed as an unprecedented victory for part-time employees in California, 6,000 current and former United Par...