Hopkins & Carley Adds to its Estate Practice
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Hopkins & Carley, a 40-lawyer corporate and litigation firm, has added two veteran estate planning lawyers...
Protecting the Shore
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - The California Coastal Commission is constructed in a way that threatens freedom by defying...
Various Defenses of Immunity Often Surprise Plaintiff Counsel
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - Defenses based on various immunity doctrines arise in innumerable civil rights cases agains...
Public Interest Law Provides Indigent People With a Voice
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Lew Hollman - More than a generation ago, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that due process of law required...
Morrison & Foerster: DA'S OFFICE LOSES TOP TRADEMARK LITIGATOR
By Staff Writer
Lee Hwang has joined the intellectual property litigation group at the Los Angeles office of San Francisco-based Morrison &...
Buchalter Nemer: THREE-YEAR COURTSHIP NETS SEASONED LAWYER
By Staff Writer
After 31/2 years of saying no, seasoned litigator Debbie Miede finally accepted a partnership at Los Angeles' Buchalter Nemer ...
In-House Counsel Don't Trust Their Fire-Fighting Skills Until Crises Arise
By Liz Valsamis
Vincent Gonzales remembers the phone call he got on June 10, 1999, from an Atlantic Richfield Co. refinery worker. A 400-mi...
Real Estate Services Firms to Announce Deals
By Wire
BY MOTOKO RICH Dow Jones Newswires In a sign that companies are increasingly consolidating their real estate needs with one f...
Phoenix Arisen
By Toni Vranjes
A pioneer of California legal recruiting who scaled back his business several years ago, Gregg Ziskind has returned to headhun...
NEXT WEEK
By Ron Mc Nees
Look for these stories in the July 22 California Real Estate Journal. SPECIAL REPORT: TECHNOLOGY Elevators have gone high-te...
Ask and You Shall Receive
By Contributing Writer
BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer If you've got commercial, retail, industrial or multifamily property to sell, now is the tim...
Realty Stocks Sink on Business, Terrorism Concerns
By Columnist
BY L. RIED SCHOTT Illegal business practices continue to widen, from improper accounting practices and energy trading to ille...
Sept. 11, Economic Slump Keep Legal Recruiters Busier Than Ever
By Toni Vranjes
Associate layoffs, staff hiring freezes and sluggish per-partner profits - no one in the legal community seems immune from the...
Moving On Up
By Toni Vranjes
It's been a frenzied year in the law business, with California firms gobbling up lateral talent at a fast and furious pace. Th...
CHUMASH TRIBE SECURES $150 MILLION TO EXPAND
By Stefanie Knapp
The Chumash Indian Tribe closed a $150 million note offering July 3. Banc of America Securities served as the sole manager. Th...
BAE Systems Controls Signs $47.85 Million Lease at Wateridge Two
By Ron Mc Nees
BAE Systems Controls signed a long-term lease for 150,000 square feet of class A office space at Wateridge Two in a transacti...
Stabilization Under Way
By Wire
BY PETER GRANT Dow Jones Newswire Office vacancies continued to grow in the second quarter and rents kept falling, but at the...
Akin Gump: CHIEF COUNSEL OF ACLU ENTERS PRIVATE ARENA
By Staff Writer
Expanding its appellate practice, Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld hired constitutional and civil rights lawyer...
Jumping Ship Entails Ethical Responsibility on Part of Lawyers
By Toni Vranjes
Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's controversial ouster of Tower Snow Jr. in May for allegedly orchestrating the defection of 17...
SOLECTRON FORKS OVER $70 MILLION IN CASH DEAL
By Stefanie Knapp
Solectron Corp. has acquired Magnetic Data Technologies in a cash deal that closed June 11. The deal was worth $70 million. Mi...
FULLAUDIO CRANKS UP VOLUME WITH FUNDING
By Staff Writer
FullAudio Corp. announced its third round of funding June 19. It brought in $14 million for the company. New Enterprise Associ...
Breaking the Chains
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A number of cities in California are clamping down on so-called "pattern" or "formula" r...
Apartment Outlook Bright
By Columnist
BY MARTIN S. STOLZOFF Most of California's apartment markets should improve in the second half of the year as a rebounding ec...
Hogan & Hartson: IP VETERAN JUMPS SHIP DESPITE MERGER MANIA
By Staff Writer
As San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen merged with Boston-based Bingham Dana , the former chairman of McCutche...
Carr & Ferrell: BROBECK PARTNER WANTS DIFFERENT TYPE OF WORK
By Staff Writer
John Montgomery , a corporate partner at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison who billed $10 million in the past two...
Political Refugee
By John Ryan
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw partner Philip Recht is a refugee of the Bill Clinton administration - and a proud one at that. Whi...
Developing a Distribution Base
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Development plans for the area surrounding the San Bernardino International Airport are now...
Little Change in Central Business District Parking Rates
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Despite an economic climate in which fewer people are employed and office vacancy rates have dramatically in...
In the Shadows
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Real estate lore has it that a "monster" is hiding in the neglected spaces of comm...
Trizec Optimistic; Kilroy's Media Center Filling Slowly
By Wire
BY PETER GRANT Dow Jones Newswire Trizec Properties Inc., the new U.S. spinoff of the former Canadian real-estate giant Trize...