Companies Expanding Abroad Must Consider the Tax Issues
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Joanne L. Siu - A U.S. company seeking to expand operations abroad must consider in structuring its operatio...
One-Room Courthouse
By Hudson Sangree
MERCED - Long before he became the district attorney and then a superior court judge in Merced County, Frank Dougherty grew u...
Good Work Ethic Distinguished Civil Litigator
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
PALM SPRINGS - Services have taken place for Ray R. Goldie, who owned an appliance store before earning a reputation as a resp...
Church vs. State
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Religion and government: never a good idea to mix these topics at cocktail parties, and ...
Getting a Technical Lift from Technology
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Passengers on elevators now have something else to do besides staring awkwardly at flashing...
Legal
By Ron Mc Nees
BY DONNA DOMINO Special to CREJ A state appellate court on July 15 threw out the remaining $900,001 from the original $41.8 m...
New Age
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By Daniel McNary The data center overbuilding of recent years has companies more concerned than ever with designing and build...
Real Estate Pickup May Be Short-Lived
By Wire
Dow Jones Newswires The nation's retail real estate industry gained momentum in the second quarter, as demand for space picke...
300% Return on Six-Year Investment
By Ron Mc Nees
Equus Realty Advisors Inc. sold a 106,000-square-foot, three-building office, research and development complex located at 917...
Property Values Continue to Deteriorate
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Commercial property values continued to deteriorate in the second quarter across all sectors of U.S. real es...
'Hackett' Preserves Promise of Just Compensation
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BY ETHAN K. FRIEDMAN Under eminent domain, public entities may seize private property, but they must pay fair market value. I...
U.S. Landlords Brace For Flood of Office Space
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BY RAY A. SMITH AND MOTOKO RICH Dow Jones Newswires The corporate scandals racking the business world are giving office landl...
Rubber Sole
By Joseph Sorrentino
BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO CREJ Contributing Writer Nine years ago, veteran public works inspector Richard Valeriano was having a n...
San Jose Firm Scores Bigger Digs, as Market Cools
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BY JOEL ROSENBLATT Special to CREJ Facing an expiring lease, Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel set out 18 months ago to move from...
Bringing High End Inland
By Michael Gottliebn
BY ANDRA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer An Ontario-based real estate company is on a mission to change the face of the Inland Empire...
Inside Information
By Contributing Writer
BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer In this brave, bold Age of Information, commercial real estate agents still face a 20 th cen...
Surviving in a Suddenly Low-Tech World
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Two-and-a-half years ago, a cadre of veteran professionals from the worlds of real estat...
Israel Lawfully Belongs in Land Called the West Bank
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Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - News reporters are supposed to provide listeners and readers with facts, leaving opinions...
Tech-Savvy Judge Runs His Civil Courtroom Like Fine-Tuned Piano
By Tamara Scott
LOS ANGELES - Ludwig van Beethoven's "Second Piano Concerto" reminds Judge Richard A. Adler of his sometimes prickly relations...
Eliminating Gender Divide
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination in all programs at schools that receive fede...
Jurist Must Stand Trial for Molestation Charges
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Ronald Kline, facing allegations that he sexually abused and stalked a teen-age boy, will stan...
Holocaust Case Spurs Fee Fight
By Amy Koval
LOS ANGELES - A Century City lawyer is fighting to keep the fat legal fee that a German reparations fund paid him for settling...
Court Rejects Pasadena Campaign Finance Law
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - As the saying goes, money talks - and, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has ruled, it should be allowed to exe...
City Likes Look of Water Cleanup Agreement
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - An agreement with Exxon Mobil and Chevron Texaco to clean up MTBE contamination in the city of Santa Monica's dr...
Differing Cases Fuel Confusion About Franchise Termination for Violation of Law
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Focus Column - By Mitchell S. Shapiro Virtually every well-drafted franchise agreement contains an "obey all laws" clause. A t...
He Wasn't On His Client's Side
By Tyler Cunningham
From Staff Reports SAN FRANCISCO - James M. Rogers, a Richmond City Council member who advertises himself as the "People's La...
Bus Search Case Puts Defendants in Catch-22 Situation
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Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - The police board a bus when passengers are eight hours into a trip away from home. The b...
Israel Lawfully Belongs in Land Called the West Bank
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - News reporters are supposed to provide listeners and readers with facts, leaving opinions...
Eliminating Gender Divide
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination in all programs at schools that receive fede...
Bus Search Case Puts Defendants in Catch-22 Situation
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - The police board a bus when passengers are eight hours into a trip away from home. The b...