Administrative/Regulatory
Throwing the Book at a Crip
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
MURRIETA - It's a raw, up-close-and-personal look at his life as a member of the Crips. Now, Colton Simpson's critically accla...
Administrative/Regulatory
Young Black Men Must Take Responsibility for Their Lives
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - New studies by researchers from Columbia, Princeton and Harvard again found that you...
Focus Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - Effective Jan. 1, the Legislature raised the uppermost jurisdictional limit of the sma...
Forum Column - By Daniel M. Kolkey - It's counterintuitive, but true: You have to learn to be a judge before you can learn to ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges Oppose Moving Immigration Cases to Federal Circuit
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - As Congress races to adopt some kind of immigration reform, a group of prominent federal judges is asking lawmak...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding t...
Intellectual Property
Broad Medical Patent Dispute Perplexes Justices
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to struggle with weighty intellectual property issues and thorny proce...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Peruvian man linked to the torture of members of a violent left-wing political group lost his bid for asylum...
SAN DIEGO - Usually, it's the Superior Court judges who covet a temporary assignment to the appellate court - not the other wa...
SAN FRANCISCO - The commercial value of three Native American petroglyphs: $800. The archaeological value of three Native Amer...
LOS ANGELES - In an aborted bid to represent himself, celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano recently told a federal judge he...
SAN DIEGO - A big man in a suit swaggered toward a youth wearing a leather coat and ordered him to stand up. "I could kick you...
Letter to the Editor - Paralleling Erwin Chemerinsky's thought in his first paragraph regarding the Supreme Court ("Court Snub...
Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Can unmarried parents stipulate to the termination of...
Judges and Judiciary
Senate Confirms Judge for Riverside
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The Senate has unanimously confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen G. Larson to fill a vacancy on the federal Dist...
Judges and Judiciary
Continuing Public Service, on the Superior Court
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - Gus Gomez is no stranger to public office. He's been a Glendale city councilman as well as Glendale's mayor. So ...
LOS ANGELES - Voicing concern over attorney-client confidentiality, the State Bar has decided to oppose proposed legislation t...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Litigation Bogs Down State's Stem Cell Leap
By Kevin Livingston
SAN FRANCISCO - When the elite of San Francisco society gathers at a black tie gala Wednesday to raise money for California's ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court considered Monday whether 911 calls and other out-of-court statements made by crime victim...
Letter to the Editor - I am certain you'll be pleased that I am not writing this time to accuse the Daily Journal of having a ...
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards - It was a short story in the March 12 edition of the Washington Post - ...
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has tapped Michael E. Meyer to become managing partner of the firm's Los Angeles offices. Meyer, a...
DLA ADDS LAND USE LAWYERS - Paul Hastings real estate lawyer Mark Nelson and four associates have decamped to DLA Piper Rudnic...
Intellectual Property
'Victoria's Secret' Didn't End Splits on Trademark Dilution
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Rachael G. Samberg - Three years ago, in Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003) ("Victoria'...
Administrative/Regulatory
Marrying Your Attorney Doesn't Protect Letters
By Don Debenedictisn
SANTA ANA - If you're in prison, marrying your lawyer won't protect your letters home from prying government eyes. The 9th U.S...
LOS ANGELES - Kevin L. Cole will become the new dean of the University of San Diego School of Law, effective in April, the sch...
LOS ANGELES - As homes collapsed and streets transformed into white-water rapids during Hurricane Katrina, second-year law stu...
Law Practice
Jewish Academy Honors Manatt Attorney for His Spiritual Work
By Tamadhur Al Aqeel
LOS ANGELES - During business hours Monday through Friday, Stanley Levy is senior counsel with Manatt Phelps & Phillips. E...
LOS ANGELES - Lord, Bissell & Brook has added litigator Christopher S. Reeder as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Reed...
LOS ANGELES - Long before Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping scandal shook Hollywood to its core, infamous Tinseltown madam Heidi...