SAN FRANCISCO - The current fraud and conspiracy trial of Enron founder Kenneth Lay and ex-Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Ski...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission has fined attorney Pierce O'Donnell $147,000 for campaign finance violat...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles has given state health officials four months to come up with a plan to provide h...
By Robert Selna San Francisco Daily Journal George Kennedy's imminent retirement means that Santa Clara County will soon have ...
Immigration
Bill Would Limit Courts' Handling of Immigration Cases
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Lawmakers looking to curb the flow of illegal workers are considering a broad range of sweeping reforms, includi...
LOS ANGELES - Terry N. Christensen may be down, but he's not out. Although the prominent entertainment attorney faces federal ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Does the First Amendment protect a private lawyer who published information about an individual's criminal pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall can proudly tout the recent appointment of its Law Review's first black editor, who joins the schoo...
SAN FRANCISCO - After five years at the Federal Trade Commission, Silicon Valley veteran Susan Creighton will rejoin Wilson So...
Litigation
If the Gist of a Cause of Action Is Legal, Then a Jury Is Proper
By Columnist
Focus Column - By John A. Sturgeon - 'But I requested a jury," cried the disappointed plaintiffs' lawyer. "The gist of your ac...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Toss Bar Exam to Protect Public, Improve Lawyers
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - I read with great interest a recent news report about many prominent people who flunked the California ...
Government Contracts
San Bernardino County Picks New Public Defender
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A deputy associate defender in Orange County was named Tuesday to replace San Bernardino County's public def...
SAN FRANCISCO - Two big mistakes sunk the U.S. government's convictions of 10 Colombians in a two-ton cocaine bust at sea: the...
LOS ANGELES - Howard Dean had his yell. Michael Dukakis had his time in a tank. John Kerry whizzed by on a wind sail. "Sometim...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Panel Lets Doctors Argue Their Christian Beliefs
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Two fertility doctors who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian because of their Christian beliefs should...
SANTA ANA - A federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday about a secret message that launched a race war between the Aryan Brother...
Judges and Judiciary
Consensus Builder Battles Judge Shortage
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - In 15 years on the bench, Larry W. Allen has switched assignments almost as much as he moved around with his ...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Berkeley City Attorney Manuela Albuquerque gazes from her large, fourth-floor office window, she's treate...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made three Superior Court appointments Monday - two in San Joaquin County and one i...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of Finkbeiner v. Gavid, 2006 DJDAR 2301 (Cal. App. 2nd Dist. Feb. 14, 2006...
Solo and Small Firms
Newspaper, Judge Wrongly Blame Ex-Prosecutor
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - Judges can and often do speak without foundation or knowledge. That is the essence of the Daily Journal...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposals to rebuild California's infrastructure may prove re...
Column - By Peter Blumberg - You can't blame lawyers for trying every trick in the book to overturn a death sentence. After al...
LOS ANGELES - When Lawrence H. Cho was a child, his parents took him to lower Manhattan to watch the construction of the ill-f...
LOS ANGELES - A class action against 24 Hour Fitness settled for $38 million after managers, personal trainers and other empl...
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to appeals cases, March has been a maddening month for the Orange County Superior Court. In the l...
LOS ANGELES - While celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano allegedly recorded telephone calls of foes and even his own client...
SANTA ANA - The thought of defending a convicted murderer on capital charges of ordering more murders and running a vicious, n...
SAN DIEGO - Neptune Hospitality Advisors arranged a $25 million, five-year fixed-rate loan for the 333-room Radisson Hotel Har...
SAN JOSE - The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing ahead this week with its controversial demand that the world's largest I...