What About the Election Ending Up in Court?
By Staff Writer
The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about the election ending up in the courts. ...
Drug Court Makes Graduation Plans
By Staff Writer
The West District Coordinated Drug Court Program will hold graduation ceremonies at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 30. The ceremonies will ta...
July 2000 Bar-Passing Rate Escalates to 55.3 Percent
By Don De Benedictis
More than 55 percent of the 7,655 would-be lawyers who took the California bar exam in July passed, the State Bar Committee of...
Larger Electoral College Means More Democracy
By Columnist
While most of the participants in this month's election drama have carefully refrained from labeling it as a constitutional cr...
Council Seeks Crime-Fighting Ideas
By Chris Ford
Because the Los Angeles Police Department can't recruit enough candidates to fill its ranks, the city should spend the savings...
Influential Washington Lawyer Charles Ruff Dies
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Charles Ruff, the powerful Washington lawyer and former White House counsel who successfully defended President C...
Courts Celebrate First 'National Adoption Day'
By Cheryl Romo
Courts across the country celebrated "National Adoption Day" Saturday as more than 1,000 former foster children became permane...
Justices Toss Ruling on Amending Complaint
By Dawn Piimanu
An elderly, illiterate woman crippled by surgery may substitute a fictitious defendant with a real one - an anesthesiologist -...
MoFo Opens Office in Virginia's High-Tech Hub
By Staff Writer
San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster plans to open its 18th office just a stone's throw from the Washington, D.C., office i...
Court Launches New Self-Help System
By Jeffrey Anderson
Technology can and should benefit the poor, first and foremost. That was the message Friday as the Legal Aid Society of Orange...
Homeless Court Brings Justice to the Street
By Ed Kimble
Charles Dobson's relief shone through his calm smile as he stepped up to the makeshift court bench in front of television came...
Court Orders Yahoo! to Block French Access
By Marisa Navarro
In a case that pits U.S. values against European law, a French court ruled Monday that Yahoo! Inc. must block French citizens'...
9th Circuit Accommodations
By Pamela Mac Lean
One effusive e-mail following Judge Ronald M. Gould's confirmation to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals expressed delight ...
Fresh Troops Join Online Music Battles
By Staff Writer
The piper must be paid. That is the resounding message sent by the $53.4 million settlement between Universal Music Group and ...
Rocker, Rapper Take on Accounting Firm to Hear Again Jingling of Millions
By Garry Abrams
It's unlikely that English rocker Elton John and Los Angeles rapper Dr. Dre have much in common except fame and wealth. For in...
State Report: Mentally Ill Require Help To Avoid Jail
By Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - California is making criminals out of the mentally ill who are repeatedly arrested because mental health and crim...
Damage Control
By Columnist
Regardless of how diligent an employer is in managing its workforce, most employers will be served with an employment-related ...
Prudence Poppink, Fair Employment Lawyer
By Staff Writer
Prudence Kay Poppink, a prominent attorney with the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, has died of complicatio...
Retainer Riddle
By Columnist
The determination of the existence of an implied-in-fact attorney-client relationship requires an analysis of the facts and ci...
Double Deal Requires Redoubled Effort
By Victoria Newman
You can call it a double whammy of sorts. Horace Nash, securities group chair for Palo Alto's Fenwick & West, recently put...
Freshman Initiation
By Columnist
Young lawyers, do you really think having a randomized bar number will magically bestow on you the respect and reverence to wh...
Suffer the Children in Families Separated by Divorce
By Columnist
When parents are awarded joint custody, they each gain a new abode and expect the child to shuttle back and forth. ...
Weil Gotshal: CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK ASSOCIATES TO GET $40,000 BONUSES IN CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS
By Staff Writer
While New York firms continue one-upping each other with year-end associate bonuses - and while California firms continue to f...
Buchalter Nemer: PAONE CALLAHAN SPLIT BEEFS UP ORANGE COUNTY OUTPOST
By Staff Writer
The Newport Beach outpost of Los Angeles' Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger has recruited three lawyers from Irvine's Paone...
Unsilencing the Code
By Columnist
Los Angeles jurors no longer assume that all police officers walk the straight line. ...
LARGE CALIFORNIA FIRMS NAME NEW PARTNERS
By Staff Writer
More firms are returning from their year-end meetings with new-partner lists in hand. As the business boom continues, large-fi...
Mr. Turnaround
By Liz Valsamis
What has transpired since Richard H. Sheehan Jr. became special counsel to the beleaguered Los Angeles Board of Education has ...
Crisis Defuser
By Staff Writer
A senior partner with San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, Bill Coblentz is considered the Bay Area's best spokesm...
Troop Steuber: PRIVATELY HELD STAYHEALTHY GAINS HEALTH INFORMATION
By Staff Writer
Stayhealthy Inc. has acquired the Center for Health Information from PharMerica Inc., a subsidiary of Bergen Brunswig Corp. Th...
HEAD CASE
By Staff Writer
Gazillions of dollars, or maybe even more - that's the amount of profit a company potentially can mine from its dormant intell...