Unseen Scene
By Eron Yehuda
Amy Ellington, a 31-year-old wife and mother of three, lost control of her car on a remote mountain road in Ventura County and...
Mouse House
By Columnist
By Bonnie E. Eskenazi and Walter Mansing Intellectual property drives American business, especially in the world's new electr...
Cyber Summit
By Columnist
Mediators should not ignore new online communications methods when conducting a mediation. ...
Elder Abuse
By Columnist
Although enacted in 1982, California's elder abuse laws, Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 15600 et seq., have only recen...
Miami Doctor Accuses LAPD of Racial Profiling
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - The attorney for a Miami surgeon who says he recently suffered debilitating nerve damage to his hands after Los ...
Skirting Legal Sand Traps
By Eron Yehuda
Matthew B.F. Biren of Biren & Katzman in Los Angeles won a $3.8 million settlement in November in a confidential case invo...
Former Whittier Law School Dean Dies of Cancer
By Claude Walbert
COSTA MESA - John A. FitzRandolph, who served nearly two decades as dean of Whittier Law School, died of cancer Thursday in La...
State AG Defends New Quake Law
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has defended a new state law extending the limitations period on Northridge earthq...
Investigator Gets Time For Leaking Records
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - A legal investigator who leaked confidential records to a TV reporter showing that the Los Angeles Police Depart...
Half Full
By Eron Yehuda
Former amateur baseball pitcher Geoffrey S. Wells learned a valuable lesson about practicing law from Hall of Famer Frank Robi...
Disclosure Dilemma
By Columnist
Q: What happens to mediation confidentiality when, during a joint session, it appears that the human resources director obstru...
Judge Tosses Charges Against Lawyer's Wife
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday dismissed charges of grand theft against the wife of a once-promin...
Howard Rice Discovers Less Is More
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - These days, most law firms will admit that growing by merger or acquisition is part of their strategy. Not at ...
A New Report Charts Path of Lobbyists' Money
By Wire
By Brendan Riley Associated Press CARSON CITY - Sens. Mike Schneider, Mark James and Ray Shaffer are at the top of the list o...
Judge Takes Controversial Case Into His Own Hands
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - After failing four times to place the case in other courtrooms, Van Nuys Supervising Judge Paul Gutman announced...
Power, and Light
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - As a plaintiffs' lawyer who has fought his share of corporate giants, state Sen. Joe Dunn may be uniquely qualifi...
Coalition Sues U.S. Agencies Over Aerial Shooting of Wildlife
By Tamara Nowlin
By Tamara Nowlin Nevada Journal Staff Writer A coalition of environmental groups and wildlife protection advocates filed a la...
Justices OK Mandatory Employment Arbitration
By David Pike
By David F. Pike Nevada Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - When Saint Clair Adams applied for a sales job at a Circuit City st...
Attorneys Indicted for Murder, Manslaughter in Mauling Case
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco attorneys were indicted Tuesday in the dog mauling death of their neighbor Diane Whipple, an...
State Director of Prisons Favors Changing Name
By Tamara Nowlin
By Tamara Nowlin Nevada Journal Staff Writer A simple name change can make a big difference, according to Jackie Crawford, Ne...
Investor Admits Trading on Attorney 'Slip'
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto investor on Tuesday admitted lying to securities officials about a "slip of the tongue" by a forme...
Senate Panel Hears Foes of School Vouchers
By Wire
By Siobhan McDonough Associated Press CARSON CITY - Nevada should improve its public education system rather than invest in a...
Officers Enter Pleas in Rampart Police Scandal
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Two former Los Angeles police officers have pleaded no contest and one has pleaded not guilty in response to the...
Pray Check
By Columnist
The genius of the American constitutional system is its recognition that mixing church and state damages both religion and dem...
What Will You Do if the Lights Go Out?
By Pamela Kraver
The Daily Journal asks lawyers what they would do if the lights went out. ...
Complex Interplay
The first question in litigation against a foreign defendant will be whether service over the defendant abroad was effected pr...
Mayor's Firing of Commission Head Shows Ulterior Motives
By Columnist
The reasons Mayor Richard Riordan first gave for his Feb. 5 firing of Los Angeles Police Commission President Gerald L. Chalef...
New System Cuts Jurors' Wait Time
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - Inglewood and Torrance courthouses on Monday joined 19 others around Los Angeles County that have implemented th...
Family of Angels-Flight Crash Victim Sues City
By Donna Huffaker
LOS ANGELES - The family of an 83-year-old New Jersey man killed early last month in the crash of Angels Flight in downtown Lo...
Studio City Entertainment Attorney Dies at 76
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Studio City entertainment attorney Harden C. Bennion. Bennion died March 2...