Hog Heaven
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
By Jennifer Byrd San Francisco lawyer Christopher Dolan thinks he is a better advocate for his clients because he is a biker....
Where the wild things are
By Contributing Writer
When Sony Development vice president Kari Novatney graduated from Stanford, she did what might be considered the modern busin...
Beachfront renaissance marks millennium
By Ron Mc Nees
Santa Monica - Santa Monica taps 2000 with a $108 million redux of its shoreline, including the opening of two world-class ho...
Information, please
By Julie Nakashima
By Julie Nakashima So you want a job in commercial real estate, preferably one with high demand and good pay where firms will...
Web of Influence
By Garry Abrams
By Garry Abrams Carole E. Handler is quick to point out that her most famous client is just a figment of the imagination. The...
Trustees Deeds (REOs) -- North
By Ron Mc Nees
ALAMEDA COUNTY 2085 W AV 140TH, SAN LEANDRO, CA 94577 APN: 077B-0853-015-0 Use: 410 New Owner: N.A. Mailing: 455 RIVIERA CIR,...
Cabin in the sky
By Julie Nakashima
For vacationers who want to get away from it all, Hilton and other big names in the hospitality business are exploring the ta...
Multimedia or multimania?
By Contributing Writer
By John McCloud Ricky Martin may think he's "livin' la vida loca," but the pop star should try talking to California brokers ...
City planners want height limit raised
By Ron Mc Nees
San Francisco - City planners are recommending that a proposed municipal office building planned for 525 Golden Gate Ave. be ...
Video e-retailer may pose genuine threat
By Ron Mc Nees
San Francisco - Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and myriad independent video stores have become not just major users of retail s...
A Closer Look: John B. Parker
By Julie Nakashima
Title: Chairman Company: Parker Partners Location: Aliso Viejo UC Irvine honored the veteran Orange County developer last mon...
Firm Watch: Three Litigators Join Los Angeles Office -- L.A. Office Expands New-Media Practice -- Los Angeles Office Gains 15 New Associates -- Twelve Fellowships Awarded in California
By Leslie Gordon, Jennifer Byrd & T. Scott
The law is a very mischievous system designed not to achieve but to frustrate the truth. Abraham Pomerantz Thelen Reid THREE ...
Net gain
By Ron Mc Nees
By Ronald McNees In the months to come look for new and enhanced commercial real estate mortgage services on the Internet fro...
Quicker, quickest
By Columnist
By Tom Sorley Competition in Internet and electronic commerce has unleashed a construction boom very demanding of electrical ...
Stately structure renewed
By Julie Nakashima
After decades of disuse, the Broadway Department Store building at Fourth and Broadway in Los Angeles bustles once again with...
Towering profits: S.F. building prices soar
By Contributing Writer
By John McCloud Not surprisingly, San Francisco's dynamic office market has attracted the interest of investors. The level of...
PLAs get green light
By Columnist
By Gary Canepa In a recent landmark decision that is beneficial for the construction industry as well as California, the stat...
Construction contracts
By Ron Mc Nees
Announcements of construction projects started in the last month, listed by square footage. FIRM CLIENT PROJECT SQ.FT. TYPE A...
Redo in store for OC office building
By Ron Mc Nees
Anaheim - The Brutoco Group purchased the former Safeguard Health Enterprises building at 505 N. Euclid St., and plans to spe...
Guidance system
By Columnist
By Connie DeWitt The Web is one of the fastest growing worldwide marketing channels ever devised. For small businesses, an ef...
Apartment REITs can handle more debt
By Ron Mc Nees
Washington - Apartment real estate investment trusts have higher optimal debt levels (approximately 10 percent higher) than o...
Hotel construction
By Ron Mc Nees
FIRM PROJECT ROOMS COST Announcements received in the past month of hotel construction starts, listed by number of rooms. Fra...
Grand Canal could make big splash in Bakersfield retailing
By Ron Mc Nees
Watch out Sony Metreon, CityWalk and Horton Plaza, construction on the next big retail/entertainment destination is about to ...
Legal Battles
By Columnist
Legal Battles Rude behavior and personal attacks are not a necessary part of the litigation By Gig Kyriacou A number of years...
Net or threat?
By Julie Nakashima
By Julie Nakashima Webster's defines disintermediation as "the withdrawal of funds from banks and savings institutions in ord...
Internet retailer catches end of tenants market
By Staff Writer
An e-commerce retailer has taken one of the few - and largest - freestanding buildings in Santa Clara. Beyond.com, which sell...
Lenders promise enables purchasers to move forward without sales contract
By Contributing Writer
Steve Meckfessel and Scott Newman, partners in Alameda-based First Shattuck LLC, found themselves in the uncomfortable positi...
Judge Won't Step Down From Jim Brown Case
By Garry Abrams
Denying that a professional legal organization she belongs to is a "criminal enterprise" or a "radical extremist group," a Lo...
Services Held for Retired Lawyer Robert Morrow
By Emma Varesio
Services have been held for retired lawyer Robert E. Morrow. Morrow died Oct. 22 of congestive heart failure. He was 91. "He ...
County's Oldest Convicted Killer, 95, Goes Home
By Matthew Heller
VENTURA - Concluding a legal saga that began four years ago when Alfred Pohlmeier "snapped" and strangled his ailing wife, a ...