Tenants Take Charge
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor "Politics, politics, politics," seems to be replacing "location, location, locatio...
Is a Landlord's Duty to Screen Windows a Smoke Screen?
By Ron Mc Nees
BY PAUL D. GUTIERREZ A 3-year-old lives with her parents on the second floor of an apartment building. The child's mother, whi...
Employment Law Pro Joins Gordon & Rees
By Liz Valsamis
Mark Saxon has left Newport Beach's Saxon, Barry, Gardner & Kincannon, a firm he helped establish in 1979, to join Gordon ...
Retired Venture Superior Court Judges Take Positions at JAMS
By Stefanie Knapp
The Ventura County office of JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider, added two neutrals Oct. 7, Judge Melinda...
Polo's Dress Policy Cramps Workers' Style
By Christina Landers
Polo employees are fed up with having to buy clothes bearing the company's signature horse and rider logo. Some retail store p...
Attorney Breaks the Bank With $28 Billion Jury Award
By Christina Landers
By now, attorneys and regular joes worldwide have heard about litigator Michael Piuze's record-breaking $28 billion jury verdi...
Insurance Bad-Faith Litigation Practice Welcomes New Leader
By Staff Writer
The Quisenberry Law Firm has landed a new lawyer to head its eight-attorney insurance bad-faith litigation practice. Anthony ...
Crosby Heafey Partner Moves to Foley Business Law Department
By Staff Writer
Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has picked up Richard W. "Jack" Lasater II from Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May. Lasater, who ...
Ahmanson Ranch Battle Nearing End
By Wire
BY JIM CARLTON Dow Jones Newswires Ahmanson Ranch is one of the last untouched pieces of developable land in Southern Califor...
Merger Work in U.S. Ranks Latham & Watkins in Top 10
By Stefanie Knapp
Only one California law firm - Latham & Watkins - landed a place among the top 10 legal advisers in the United States for ...
Piper Rudnick Brings Brothers Together
By Liz Valsamis
Jeffrey Weiner and Perrie Weiner probably haven't had adjoining rooms since the late 1960s, when they were kids. But, now that...
Weak Apartment REITs Outlook to Drag Into 2003
By Wire
BY JANET MORRISSEY Dow Jones Newswires The outlook for apartment real estate investment trusts appears even bleaker than prev...
Nixon Peabody Continues Steady Growth
By Erik Cummins
A little more than a year after it merged with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, Nixon Peabody appears to be taking the n...
Lawyers Reap Awards At State Bar Gathering
By Staff Writer
As the State Bar's annual meeting wrapped up, several lawyers traveled home with new memorabilia for their office walls. The a...
Here Comes the Neighborhood
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer With no end in sight to the demand for new housing, more under utilized commercial sites ...
Fenwick & West Elevates Five to Partnership During Annual Meeting
By Staff Writer
At Fenwick & West's annual partnership meeting, held Oct. 5, the firm elected associates Rodger R. Cole, Jedediah Wakefiel...
There's No Place Like a Home
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Somewhere over the rainbow lies the dream of homeownership for many Southern Calif...
Appeals Court Finds Landlord Liable for Assault
By Columnist
BY MICHAEL PAUL THOMAS Unpublished appellate opinions generally may not be relied on for precedent or even cited. However, th...
A Vision of Growth
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Southern California planners will spend the next 25 years determining how the regi...
Rooms with a View
By Julie Nakashima
JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Ten years after one developer packed its bags and checked out, another is beginning constru...
We Three Kings
By John Ryan
To visit the three kings of insurance bad-faith law, you need to get in your car and jump on the freeway heading east out of L...
Ropers Majeski Makes Space For Lyon & Lyon IP Practitioner
By Staff Writer
San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has picked up former Lyon & Lyon partner Arnold Sklar. Sklar joined the fir...
Apartment Notice Law Changes Create Confusion
By Columnist
BY LAWRENCE RUBENSTEIN I've recently had numerous discussions with staff and fellow property managers about how to handle cer...
Zi Will Battle $9 Million Award for Patent Infringement
By Christina Landers
Zi Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, announced recently that it will fight a $9 million jury verdict awarded against it for patent in...
Of-Counsel Goes to Allen Matkins' Outpost in San Diego From Heller
By Staff Writer
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory hired Peter Townshend as of-counsel from Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe's Menlo P...
Malpractice Issues Highlight Beverly Hills Bar Group Event
By Stefanie Knapp
The Beverly Hills Bar Association will host an alternative dispute resolution dinner Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. at McCormick & Schm...
E-Résumé Flood
By Joan Osterwalder
Job seekers are increasingly getting online help in their hunt for work. Search engines such as Monster.com, hotjobs.com and c...
Jury Awards $59 Million to Girl Brain-Damaged During Birth
By Joan Osterwalder
Caitlin Greenwell is turning 3 today. The girl is permanently brain-damaged from a birth injury, but she may have a happier ce...
Judge Awards Woman, 97, $1.36 Million
By Joan Osterwalder
Yvonne Wilson says she wasn't only up against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but also her own age. The 97-year-old...
Quinn Emanuel Adds Veteran Pillsbury Litigator to Its Stable
By John Ryan
Choosing challenge over comfort, renowned litigator Kenneth Chiate has left the Los Angeles office of San Francisco's Pillsbur...