LOS ANGELES - The Newport Beach-based powerhouse firm Robinson, Calcagnie Robimson scored the first plaintiffs' victory in a f...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Pause in Auto Lease Action About to Come to an End
By Hannah Naughtonn
The infamous Trygar action, filed by Masry & Vititoe (of Erin Brockovich fame) against auto dealers in California and know...
LOS ANGELES - The AARP, the massive elder-citizen advocacy group, threw its weight behind the state attorney general's office ...
If things had gone differently for mediator Jeffery P. Castner 28 years ago, this story might never have been written. ...
SAN DIEGO - CBS television decided that the second season of its "Rock Star" reality show would feature a new band called Supe...
Forum Column - As the gubernatorial election looms, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic challenger Phil Angelides are sq...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Writer Misrepresents ACLU's Double Standard on Rights
By David Minkown
Letter to Editor - Stephen F. Rohde objects to John Stewart's criticism of the ACLU for undermining traditional American value...
Two years into his three-year probation, former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser received a court order ...
Labor/Employment
Employers Can Be Held Responsible for Harm Caused By Rogue Employees
By Hannah Naughtonn
Employment Column - A federal judge has allowed former Iraqi prisoners to state negligent-hiring claims, among other common-la...
Law Practice
Polk Case Illustrates Headaches of Right to Self-Representation
By Tim Hay
After 19 Contra Costa County attorneys last week refused to represent convicted murderer Susan Polk in her last-ditch effort t...
Litigation
Detroit Ruling Will Affect S.F. Wiretapping Case, Experts Say
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - Experts say a Detroit federal judge's order Thursday barring warrantless government wiretapping will have a ri...
A proposed California law that would bar secret settlements in sexual abuse cases like the ones that plague the Roman Catholic...
A judge handed a partial victory Thursday to seven women who claim they were victims of sexual harassment and discrimination w...
SAN FRANCISCO - Setting up a showdown this fall between the Judicial Council and hundreds of trial judges throughout the state...
Some say Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eudon Ferrell is inflexible and a rubber stamp for the prosecution. But the Inglewoo...
SAN JOSE - Search for "Check N' Go" on Google and what do you get? A screen showing eight companies that specialize in making ...
Securities
Searching for Deep Pockets in Securities Bankruptcy Cases
By Hannah Naughtonn
Focus Column - The wave of corporate scandals following in the wake of Sept. 11 have led plaintiffs' counsel to target alterna...
SANTA ANA - The judge who spearheaded Orange County's domestic-violence court has been chastised once again for how she handle...
Judges and Judiciary
At a Los Angeles Court, an Outdoor Receivership Auction Turns Heads
By Susan Mcraen
LOS ANGELES - Most court auctions take place inside a courtroom. ...
Letter to the Editor - I have been hearing increasingly frequent criticisms of The Daily Journal as being a lapdog of the libe...
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the city's largest residential landlords was accused of vast and various illegal tactics to oust longti...
Labor/Employment
Follow 'Falkowski' and 'Lucian' to Control Annual-Bonus Programs
By Hannah Naughtonn
Forum Column - The navigation of employee bonus waters is difficult. Often, employers announce a program but do not want or in...
Workers' Comp.
Fewer Claims Prompt Workers' Comp Lawyers to Diversify
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - Caseloads are down for applicant attorneys' across the state by almost a third because of 2004 reforms that over...
A Long Beach attorney will be referred to the California State Bar after filing a juvenile court appeal that justices said was...
The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether plaintiffs who bring private attorney general acti...
A Los Angeles state appellate court threw out a robbery conviction and life sentence Wednesday because a deputy district attor...
WASHINGTON - Environmental activists recently voiced alarm that if Congress splits the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals into two cour...
Intellectual Property
Google's in the Dictionary, and It's Looking Up 'Genericide'
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - Trampoline, yo-yo, zipper and escalator are just a few of the onetime trademarks that fill the graveyard of pr...
LOS ANGELES - Attempting to stanch criticism over internal spending, Legal Service Corp., the federal entity that funds nonpro...
The couple at the center of a politically charged battle over the legitimacy of the Iraq war has enlisted a top California pla...