Panel Prejudice Juror Misconduct Deprives a Defendant of Constitutional Rights Certain extraneous materials, such as dictionar...
THE CLOSER U.S. courts must remain user-friendly to continue as premier venues for intellectual property disputes. By William...
SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court jurors will begin hearing arguments next week to help them decide whether or not to s...
Judges and Judiciary
Early Harvard Law Dean Champions Trial Unification
By Denise Levin
The idea that trial court unification would benefit the justice system originated in the early 20th century. Harvard Law Schoo...
SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate court has for the first time upheld a California law making it a felony to send a child harmful m...
While lawyers for an automaking giant told jurors Friday that "truth doesn't matter" to officials at the leading product ratin...
An ex-judge is suing Ventura County to collect the $72,000 in legal costs he spent defending himself against alcohol-related d...
Litigation
Laches Are Forever, Judge Rules, Awarding MGM Bond Franchise
By Garry Abrams
U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie pounded a fatal stake through one of the movie business's longest-lived litigation monste...
SAN JOSE - Each time the real estate agent stopped by 83-year-old Janis Jepson's house last year, her grandson said she was as...
Seeking to lower its rent at the BankAmerica building in Rancho Cordova, BankAmerica Corp. did what any forward-thinking comp...
Real Estate/Development
Silicon Valley apartment wins $37 million bridge loan
By John Mc Cloud
GE Capital Real Estate provided a $37.24 million bridge loan to Burlingame-based Stonesfair Financial Corp. for the acquisiti...
San Francisco - Catellus Development Corp. is evaluating strategic alternatives for the merchant housing division of its resi...
Real Estate/Development
Study recommends offices for downtown revitalization
By Ron Mc Nees
San Carlos - A market study released Feb. 28 by Economics Research Associates recommends this San Francisco Peninsula city gi...
By John McCloud Don't think the only people with the opportunity of becoming overnight millionaires are dot-com founders and ...
San Diego - Burnham Development Group released architectural renderings for the first new office project to be built in downt...
A 3-acre, two-parcel site fronting on Main, Harrison and Folsom streets in San Francisco, owned by the State of California De...
What new education does a broker need to have to remain successful and bring in new business in today's fast-paced, technolog...
Real Estate/Development
Boom to north filling markets south of San Jose
By Jane Zastrow
By John McCloud Pressure from Silicon Valley has created a tight market heading south from San Jose. Vacancies are low and de...
The remodeling of a four-story office building at 5001 Kearny Villa Road in Kearny Mesa, formerly occupied by General Dynamic...
Fourth quarter 1999 new home sales in the West L.A./South Bay area of Los Angeles County fell for the second consecutive quar...
By Jane Bowar Zastrow It's not real common, but it is more common today than it was a year ago for a broker to do all of the ...
Title: Founder and president Company: DMK Building Professionals Location: Tustin What is the focus of your company's busines...
By W T "Dub" Northcutt Real estate brokers owe it to themselves to learn how to look for structural deficiencies, one of the ...
By Elizabeth Giffin On March 7, Californians approved almost $2 billion in bond money to invest in California's aging water i...
Sacramento - A coalition of business, labor and advocacy groups endorsed 10 bills to be presented to the state legislature th...
Founded in 1964, diGiacomo Inc. of Azusa specializes in the design and construction of elaborate rock formations and water fe...
By Julie Nakashima Brokers and owners, owners and brokers. Like peas and carrots, they just have a certain ring. And for the ...
Real Estate/Development
$50 million gets second phase of retail center under way
By Ron Mc Nees
South Gate - One of Southern California's largest public/private real estate transactions in the past year has been completed...
By Ronald McNees "Real estate seemed to offer the most potential to make a great living, as well as manage my own destiny," s...
By Julie Nakashima The Westside story is increasingly a Web side story, with "dot-comers" and other technology-based tenants ...