Litigation
Justice Panel Urges DAs to Set Exculpatory Evidence Policies
By Ryan Olivern
LOS ANGELES - The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice is recommending that district attorneys across t...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - A proposed bill would reduce the statute of wills to "he says, she says" battles of disap...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Curing Health Care: Medical Services Should Be Available to All
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The United States needs to create a society in which health care is readily available to a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Like the well-worn dirt road that neutral Ronald Sabraw takes to get home to his retreat in the hills, his pat...
LOS ANGELES - The Alliance for Children's Rights, a Los Angeles-based free legal services organization dedicated to protecting...
Focus Column - By Mark J. Hancock and Steven D. Wasserman - Some California provisions encourage the filing of weak claims and...
SANTA ANA - If attorney Alfred G. Rava hadn't won an important civil rights ruling from the California Supreme Court last year...
LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys personal-injury lawyer who signed a lien to pay his clients' medical bills with settlement money cann...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Orders Defamation Trial
By John Roemer
A San Diego County politician who accused Chicago billionaire Sam Zell of rent-gouging senior citizens at trailer parks must f...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court could be poised to give guidance on what has become a murky area of criminal law ...
LOS ANGELES - Grisly cases of homeless patients unloaded on Skid Row by local hospitals have spurred two high-profile lawsuits...
SAN FRANCISCO - Apparently, the lure of $160,000 starting salaries isn't enough to draw more students to the legal profession....
LOS ANGELES - The lawyers in the Anthony Pellicano conspiracy trial tried to define the investigator in their own ways with th...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...
Brian Casey, who took paternity leave in 2007 to help his wife and bond with their new daughter, Ava, is part of an emerging g...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Officials Revive Plan to Cut 70 Beds at Hospital
By Evan George
LOS ANGELES - Facing mounting budget woes, Los Angeles County public health officials have revived a plan to scrap 70 beds at ...
Intellectual Property
Discovery Will Start in Patent Suit by Former Fish Attorney
By Alexia Garamfalvin
SAN JOSE - Lawyers for Scott Harris, a San Diego-based attorney who was forced out of Fish & Richardson last year for sell...
A memorial service is scheduled Saturday in Sunnyvale for Christopher J. Place, a patent litigation associate in Ropes & G...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Here Come the Water Works: Eastern Shortages Signal Need for Changes
By Sara Libbyn
Forum Column - By Thomas M. Berliner - The East Coast will need a Western-minded legal and management approach to survive its ...
Criminal
Pellicano Judge Empanels Jury; Prosecution Issues Witness List
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - On the first day of the Anthony Pellicano conspiracy trial Wednesday, a federal judge empaneled the 12 members o...
Forum Column - By I. Nelson Rose - Although proposals abound, lawmakers are generally averse to the expansion of legal gaming....
SACRAMENTO - Captain Scott Jones, commander in charge of the Sacramento County Jail, says he was searching for a way to addres...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento man who was accidentally shot in the buttocks by the police while he was handcuffed in a patrol c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Swiss bank dropped its lawsuit against a whistle-blower Web site Wednesday, ending a brief but hotly contest...
SAN FRANCISCO - A jury awarded $6.4 million to the San Francisco Bay Guardian Wednesday in the alternative newsweekly's antitr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The city will pay $21 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a 4-year-old girl who was killed wh...
WASHINGTON - Much to the dismay of the tort reform lobby, Congress could give state attorneys general more power to enforce pr...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Santa Clara County Bar Association may have narrowed down the field, but the verdict is still out on who i...
Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...
In a interview with Daily Journal staff writer Jonathan Vanian and associate editor Alexia Garamfalvi, Heller Ehrman Chairman ...