Real Estate/Development
Morgan starts third apartment development in San Diego County
By Ron Mc Nees
Oceanside - Luxury apartment developer The Morgan Group Inc. has broken ground on its third multifamily rental community here...
Oakland/San Francisco Friendly persuasion They have a few things in common, mayors named Brown, for instance. But even here t...
By Ronald McNees "Are You Being Served?" is the name of a British sitcom, but it's also a good question to ask income propert...
TRI Commercial Real Estate Services Inc./Oncor International appointed Thomas W. Martindale senior vice president of the San ...
Hines placed a large bet on the downtown L.A. market last month when it purchased Sanwa Bank Plaza building in downtown Los A...
Real Estate/Development
Highest business tax rates in Southern California
By Ron Mc Nees
In the Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey (r), Los Angeles was one of five Southern California communities to receive a Ve...
Giving new meaning to the term "entertainment retail center," shoppers at a mall in Fairfax, Va., can watch as people have th...
Fremont - Marriott has been busy of late in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the end of August, SCS Fremont Development Corp. o...
Judges and Judiciary
Court Settles Sexual Harassment Case for $200K
By Anne La Jeunesse
The Compton Judicial District of Los Angeles County Municipal Court has paid $200,000 to a former division chief who accused ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called on California lawyers Thursday to commit themselves to defending the environment and to resist a...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Services Held for Retired Lawyer Robert J. Rubin
By Liz Valsamis
Memorial services were held Tuesday for former corporate lawyer Robert J. Rubin. After a long illness, the retired attorney a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court said Thursday it will reconsider a May ruling rejecting Clinton administration regula...
SAN FRANCISCO - The scene allegedly was like something out of "Apocalypse Now": A formation of helicopters thudding in over a...
SAN DIEGO - An administrative law judge for the State Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board has been indicted by a federal gra...
SACRAMENTO - The public release Thursday of a legislative report alleging that minority motorists bear the brunt of the Calif...
Los Angeles Superior Court research attorneys took the first step toward unionization Thursday by putting the court on notice...
By Ashby Jones Special to The Daily Journal SEATTLE - To say that Lisa Kirk wears her heart on her sleeve would perhaps be ov...
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., the flashy, supremely confident Los Angeles lawyer catapulted to fame and controversy by his successf...
VENTURA - It was another routine victory for the news media, a ruling by a judge that terms of a settlement agreement between...
Public Interest
Presiding Justice Leads Rescue Of Victims From Fatal Car Crash
By Jean Guccione
Presiding Justice James A. Ardaiz was among the first rescuers on the scene of a deadly car crash Tuesday evening in Fresno. ...
A state appeal panel Thursday tossed out part of an Anaheim ordinance that punishes lap dancers for engaging in intimate body...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Stanford releases master plan for future growth
By John Mc Cloud
Palo Alto - For the first time in 30 years, Stanford University gave Santa Clara County a land plan covering the next decade ...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Cel-Wreck Court Addresses Below-Cost Pricing by L.A. Cellular
By Columnist
^^Antitrust Law^^ Cel-Wreck Court Addresses Below-Cost Pricing The court strengthened the remedial power of the Unfair Compet...
Criminal
Police Board Delays Consideration Of Proposed Anti-Gang Ordinance
By Lauren Bartlett
The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners has decided to put off consideration of the proposed enactment of a city anti-g...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Court To Hear Huntington Beach Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
HUNTINGTON BEACH - It looks like a prime spot for towering, luxury condos or an upscale business establishment. But more than...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Chastened State Bar Meets With A Less Contentious Conference
By Don De Benedictis
For the most part, the State Bar annual meeting, which begins today in Long Beach, will be much like the annual meetings of t...
The Los Angeles police inspector general and members of the police department have finalized details on how the inspector gen...
Realizing that hundreds of thousands of apartment buildings in the city remain dilapidated despite court orders to fix them, ...
VENTURA - A San Diego attorney just two years out of law school has won one of the largest settlements since passage of an el...
From Staff Reports SACRAMENTO - A controversial period in California legal history came to an end Wednesday as Gov. Gray Davi...