Focus Column - By Bryan Otake - In both professional sports and the public-contracting industry, nothing beats having the home...
Labor/Employment
Arbitration Pacts Are Cost-Effective Despite Questions Unresolved by Courts
By David Minkown
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - To arbitrate, or not to arbitrate - that is the question with employee claims. ...
Labor/Employment
L.A. Council Needs to Take Agency's Boot Off City's Cabbies
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Betty Hung - A year and a half ago, I visited Detroit for the first time, arriving after midnight with no id...
Arbitrator Profile
Warm, Folksy Neutral Creates a Comfort Zone
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Mark L. Eaton performs 90 percent of his work as a neutral at Carnegie Hall. No, it's not the fabled Midtown...
Law Practice
Attorneys Prove Quite Adept at Playing the Delay-the-Discovery Game
By David Houstonn
Column - By Garry Abrams - If Columbus had been a lawyer, the chances are good that he would never have come to America. That'...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal will kick off its Mediation Awareness Month with some intensive, advanced train...
LOS ANGELES - A woman charged with murder of a fetus after allegedly attacking a pregnant rival was acquitted after jurors dec...
Judges and Judiciary
Court: More Than One Subject Per Ballot Initiative Is a No No
By Itir Yakarn
The state Supreme Court clarified the ground rules Thursday for ballot initiatives sponsored by lawmakers, reaffirming the lon...
Government
Congress' Fuss Over FBI Raid Is Missing a Legal Leg, Experts Say
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Back in 1969, a U.S. senator was indicted on charges of taking a bribe while in office. Sen. Daniel B. Brewster,...
SANTA ANA - It's an ordinary lawsuit raising ordinary issues about a contract. It's the contract itself that's extraordinary....
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury as early as today begins deliberating whether to soak some of the nation's biggest chemic...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the June 6 primary election, this week the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candid...
LOS ANGELES - For Corinn Medina, walking into Thunder Valley Casino to work the late shift was like entering a virtual den of ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Has Room for Private and Court-Sponsored Opportunities
By David Minkown
Letter to the Editor - With regard to Charles Parcelle's article "L.A.'s Policy of Free Mediation Benefits Everybody but Media...
Education
University Fails to Spin Away a Major First Amendment Defeat
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris - In July of 2004, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education wrot...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
How to Make Sure Your Clients Succeed in Commercial Arbitration While Really Trying
By David Minkown
Focus Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - Arbitration allows parties to have control over adjudication and resolve their matter ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who for 20 years oversaw fair hiring practices at Bay Area Rapid Transit has filed a lawsuit accusing th...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has rejected a Bay Area construction equipment company's attempt to sue the lawyer who a...
LOS ANGELES - Edward Sanders divides his life into three chapters. Chapter 1 was his life before Washington. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether grandparents can use a probate ado...
Law Practice
Starr Joins Conservative Battle Against Same-Sex Marriage
By Leslie Simmonsn
You might say law practice has become a religious experience for Kenneth Starr. Most recently, the Pepperdine Law School dean...
Government
Judge Threatens to Toss Indictment of Agent in National Security Case
By John Hanusz
LOS ANGELES - For the second time in as many years, a judge has taken federal prosecutors in Los Angeles to task for blocking ...
Litigation
National Security Creates a Slippery Line Between Secrecy and Justice in the Courts
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers have made much ado about "secret" documents in the lawsuit alleging that AT&T helped the governmen...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said Wednesday he will resign from the California District Att...
San Diego County Superior Court Judge Larrie R. Brainard makes it a point to have fun on the bench, whether it's in his courtr...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the June 6 primary election, this week the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candid...
SAN FRANCISCO - After a battle lasting the better part of a decade, a band of San Francisco law students, many of them now law...
Forum Column - By Cynthia Loo - Though the 14-year-old youth was being charged with murder, the boy had a surprised expression...
Focus Column - By Justin M. O'Connell - Many attorneys are faced with the challenge of fulfilling the desires of a physically ...
SAN FRANCISCO - While activists and city officials celebrate the closing of one problematic power plant in San Francisco, they...