Walden Family Services, a Southern California-based nonprofit foster care-to-adoption and transition-age youth housing agency, celebrated its committed philanthropists March 16 at the organization’s third annual Fostering Hearts Legacy Luncheon. The event at the San Diego-landmark Mister A’s honored current and former Board of Directors members and long-time donors who have made a lasting pledge to....
A Wilson Turner Kosmo trial team achieved a major appellate victory in an employment-retaliation case on behalf of national retailer Target Corporation (TGT-NYSE), finally bringing the case to a close. WTK partners Claudette Wilson and Emily Fox, and associate Mark Rein, successfully defended two post-trial orders in the Fourth District Court of Appeal. In its....
San Diego’s 2018 Super Lawyers List was announced earlier this month with a notable fourteen Wilson Turner Kosmo attorneys being selected for inclusion on the prestigious list to which no more than five percent of practicing regional attorneys are named. Three firm partners, Michael S. Kalt, Frederick W. Kosmo, Jr. and Claudette G. Wilson, were....
Westcore Properties has purchased Silicon Valley Research Center, two R&D buildings located at 1110 and 1120 Ringwood Court in San Jose, California, from LBA for an undisclosed sum. Building one, at 1110 Ringwood Court, contains 46,040-square-feet of shell-condition space. Building two, at 1120 Ringwood Court, offers 32,552-square-feet of turnkey space. Both buildings were vacant at....
Fish & Richardson won a unanimous Federal Circuit opinion today that affirmed its June 2016 post-trial wipe-out of a $200 million jury verdict against client Gilead Sciences, Inc. after proving Merck had forfeited its right to assert its hepatitis C drug patents against Gilead because of litigation and business misconduct constituting unclean hands. The Federal....
A student team from San Diego State University and The Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate submitted the winning development plan at NAIOP San Diego’s 8th annual University Challenge, held on Wednesday, April 25 at Paseo Del Mar. The SDSU student team, comprised of Jeremiah Taylor, Trey Golston, Holly Miller, Shelly Chen, Nick Zalkow and....
Fish & RichardsonSan Diego-based principals Juanita Brooks and Jon Singer were named to the Daily Journal’s 2018 list of “Top Intellectual Property Lawyers” in California. Both Brooks and Singer have been named to the list multiple times. The publication highlighted recent high-profile cases that saw Brooks and Singer deliver extraordinary outcomes for clients in both....
Brixton Capital purchased the 216-unit Sawgrass Apartments, located at 6301 Meadowvista Drive in Corpus Christi, Texas, for an undisclosed price. Sawgrass, purchased from Kahn Sawgrass, LP, marks Brixton’s second acquisition of 2018. Built in 1985, Sawgrass Apartments is a two- and three-story, garden style apartment community totaling approximately 163,000 square feet. The property offers tenants....
Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith, LLP has announced that Scott Biel has joined the firm as a partner. Biel joins Solomon Ward’s expanding real estate department. With more 25 years of broad commercial real estate experience, his practice focuses on commercial lease transactions and lease‐related issues, particularly involving research and development (R&D) and manufacturing facilities of technology‐based companies.....
Fish & Richardson is donating $50,000 to civil legal aid organizations across the country – representing $140 per attorney – to honor and celebrate the legacy of Frederick Fish, the firm’s founder who was admitted to the bar 140 years ago in May 1878. Frederick Fish was one of the most well-known patent attorneys in....