3-D Image Firm Gets Flattened
BIOTECH: FDA snub pushes Imaging3 into bankruptcy.
Imaging3 files for bankruptcy as its 3-D imaging system has yet to take shape.
Burbank Imaging Firm Files for Chapter 11
Burbank medical device company Imaging3 Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company announced.
Best-Seller Hit, Miss for Maker
VIDEO GAMES: ‘Darksiders’ casts pall over THQ’s future.
Analysts are talking apocalypse after THQ’s Four Horsemen title fails to score.
Liking Sound Of New Digs
Business speaker series picks Gensler’s designer space to host talks.
Business speaker series has designs on Gensler’s stylish new downtown L.A. office.
Food Trucks Serve Up Fight
REGULATION: Industry group driving against city laws
Food truck group rolls into court to challenge city restrictions on service.
Food Truck Vendors Fight Back on Restrictions
Two years ago, food trucks famously clashed with restaurants and local politicians over where they could park on the Miracle Mile. Today, that seems like a grammar school food fight.
Hollywood Figure, Arts Patron in Family Feud
Death of parents sets off fight over big oil company.
Steven Roth, once a high-profile Hollywood player, is fighting his brothers for control of the family oil business.
Homebuilder’s House Divided
REAL ESTATE: KB Home investors challenge exec pay.
REAL ESTATE: Investors in money-losing KB Home have put out the unwelcome mat for executives’ pay packages.
KB Home Investors Challenge Exec Pay
To get a sense of the struggles at KB Home, look no further than the second quarter loss it reported this summer. The company’s performance has spilled over into shareholder anger over executive pay, including a recently filed lawsuit.
So Much Walking at Car Museum
More than 30 years ago, Terry L. Karges was feeling burned out from a career working in theme parks such as Disneyland and Sea World.
Betting Big
Green card-for-startup program draws capital – and critics
INVESTMENT: Some foreign investors are giving small businesses a go to get green cards under the EB-5 program – which has drawn critics.
Silicon Valley Firm High on Westside Tech Industry
Cooley LLP opens six-attorney office in Santa Monica.
Silicon Valley law firm Cooley LLP’s opening of a Santa Monica office is the latest sign that the L.A. tech sector is gaining notice elsewhere in the country.
Double Play
Dodgers look to score multibillion TV-rights deal and sponsorships to pay for improvements to team, stadium.
Dodgers President Stan Kasten goes to bat for the new ownership’s business plans for the team.
Dole Might Opt To Slim Down
Industry giant ponders spinning off packaged products.
Dole could be looking to seal up a deal for its fast-growing prepackaged product business.
Santa Monica Firm Stays Put, But Slims Down
Bingham reduces office at Water Garden to 19,000 square feet.
Three months after Miami-based Greenberg Traurig LLP left Santa Monica’s Water Garden office complex for Century City, Boston’s Bingham McCutchen LLP has reduced its footprint in that same facility.
Doing Some Fancy Footwork
In January of last year, attorney Sanford H. Perliss felt a sudden urge to start telling his old stories again – much to the chagrin of his 15-year-old son.
Market for Small Business Sales Softens
The market for small business sales in the Los Angeles area softened in the second quarter in yet another indicator of a weakening economy, according to data from website BizBuySell.com.
Burger Chain Has A Big Beef With Rival’s Similar Fare
Umami chain turns up the legal heat on former employees’ rival Fusion burger joint.
Ex-U.S. Fraud Investigator Makes Real Big Shift
EMPLOYMENT: Jones Day nabs Beong-Soo Kim for issues and appeals.
As chief of the major frauds section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, Beong-Soo Kim oversaw the prosecutions of former KB Home executive Bruce Karatz, bankrupt baseball slugger Lenny Dykstra and the bankrupt real estate mogul Ezri Namvar.
Leasing Heating Up While Seaside Santa Monica Cools
Though demand has yet to fully recover from the downturn, the Westside office market posted its best average vacancy rates and asking rents in more than two years.
AIDS Charity Turns Ire on L.A.
Non-profit: County denies condom-fueled feud with AHF.
NON-PROFIT: AIDS Healthcare Foundation courts controversy by filing suits against L.A. County.
Open, Shut
Aggressive attorney Louis R. ‘Skip’ Miller says forget trying to make a case for his sensitive side.
Attorney Louis R. “Skip” Miller courts tough cases, whether defending the city of L.A. from Rodney King or wrangling with his former firm over compensation.
Ad Firm at Loss With Network
ValueClick shares fall as exchange system surges.
Investors have broken links with ad “network” ValueClick as “exchanges” have scooped up online business.
Managed Care Provider Pursues Medicaid Infusion
Managed care provider Molina could get shot in the arm from further Medicaid expansion.
Landlords Don’t Dig Subway Plan
Pair tap CEQA to bury Metro project.
Downtown L.A. property owners court controversy by filing CEQA suits to challenge Metro subway project.
Trio to Travel Century City-to-Downtown Route
Katten’s new partners to launch second L.A. outpost.
The Century City office of Chicago’s Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP just landed three new partners – but they won’t be there long.
Outsized Pay Not Reserved for the Corner Office
SPECIAL REPORT: Executive Compensation
Pair of local non-CEOs bring in the highest executive pay.
A Fine Day At the Office
SPECIAL REPORT: Executive Compensation
Most CEOs of local companies are taking home more even as shareholders look to rein in pay.
Tool Maker Says Fix Is In at Rival
Harbor Freight alleges lumber business stole trade secrets.
Harbor Freight Tools hopes to build case against alleged employee-poaching flooring company.
Heated Courtship For Top Lawyers
Rivals rush in to grab high-profile talent from flopped firms.
Collapsed firms can offer rivals their pick of top legal talent and sometimes entry into the tight L.A. market.
Marginal Returns
SPECIAL SECTION: Wealthiest Angelenos 2012 - L.A.’s wealthiest residents saw their fortunes sway with the stock market this year. In the end, they reaped some ‘small’ million-dollar gains.
L.A.’s wealthiest saw modest gains after years of wild swings.
Pulling Up Roots
SPECIAL SECTION: Wealthiest Angelenos 2012 - L.A. Hair care mogul Talks about moving to Texas
Hair care billionaire and Texas resident John Paul DeJoria says keeping his business in L.A. is a “family” issue.
Firm Grows Roster of Former Government Officials
Mickey Kantor helps Mayer Brown
Since ending his tenure as California’s attorney general in 1991, John Van de Kamp had worked as an attorney at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP’s downtown L.A. office. But when the New York firm’s financial troubles began making headlines, friends at other law firms reached out to offer him a place to land.
Casden Property Battle Hits Home
Lender fight entangles Beverly Hills HQ.
Alan Casden’s’ latest lender dispute could cost the developer his Beverly Hills headquarters.
New Century City Firm Works for Labor Attorney
LAW: Seyfarth Shaw’s Ken Sulzer moves to Proskauer Rose office.
Proskauer Rose LLP has landed a big name with the hiring of attorney Ken Sulzer from Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
Port Spins Wheels On Fuel-Cell Truck
Former employee alleges trouble at L.A. contractor.
Port of Los Angeles has yet to catch sight of contractor Vision’s hydrogen fuel cell truck.
Beverly Hills Cap Protested
Landlord challenges medical zoning.
Beverly Hills landlord sues city after losing patience with cap on medical office space.
WESTSIDE: Silicon Beach Shores Up Rents For L.A. Leader Santa Monica
Special Report: REAL ESTATE QUARTERLY
Main events in Los Angeles County commercial and industrial submarkets in the fourth quarter.
If Cochran Partners Don’t Fit, They Might Just Split
Gloves come off in fight over L.A. office of late O.J. lawyer.
Feuding partners take off gloves in fight to control L.A. firm founded by the late Johnnie Cochran.
Keeper of the Einstein Rights
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When attorney Steven E. Bledsoe was growing up, he generally got good grades but he was no science whiz.
Binding Chains?
Malibu mulls space limits for national retailers
Malibu activists are looking to bind large retail chains with space limits.
Firm Forms for Mid-Range Litigation Business
LAW: Hobart Linzer to specialize in cases worth less than $100 million.
Big law firms are churning out record profits and revenues, and acquiring smaller firms at an accelerating rate. But many still believe the downturn has opened opportunities for boutique firms, especially in middle-market Los Angeles.
Staffing Company Investors Respond to Hire Power
Move to acquire IT-focused peer lifts On Assignment’s shares.
Staffing company On Assignment’s plan to acquire IT-focused rival works for investors.
Dominic Ng: MADE IN AMERICA
Special Report: BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR
CEO Dominic Ng has widened the gap between East West Bank and most of its rivals by building bridges to Asia.
Ordinance Would Ban Chinatown Wal-Mart
City Councilman Ed Reyes is proposing to block retail chains from moving into Chinatown, an apparent reaction to the news that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is planning to open a grocery store in the neighborhood.
Framing Appeal
Appellate attorney Irving Greines has had his fine art photos courted by galleries.
Irving Greines takes his shots in court as an appellate attorney and on the streets as a fine arts photographer.
Fielding for Clients
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Keith Gregory spends much of his time at the downtown L.A. office of law firm Snell & Wilmer LLP representing electronic component makers in complex litigation.
Life Sciences Provide Healthy Career Opportunities
LAW: Barry J. Thompson among local vets joining new firm.
Lateral hiring of attorneys in the health care industry has picked up recently, with several local partners switching firms since February.
Wall Street Doesn’t Really Dig Seeds for Ethanol
Ceres’ public launch opens at $14.50 after delay, price cut.
Maker of seeds for ethanol production fails to reap Wall Street bounty with IPO.
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