Forum Column - By Norman Abrams - Most legal scholars and members of Congress assume that the National Security Agency's White...
Letter to the Editor - Your publication of a reader's response to an earlier constitutional law article by my special counsel,...
Focus Column - By William E. Winfield - Among the recent amendments to the Bankruptcy Code are some changes that are very bene...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Times Agrees to Pay Injured Cyclist $3.2 Million
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - The Los Angeles Times will pay $3.2 million to a bicyclist because a delivery driver ran him down while driving o...
Firm Watch
Prodigal Daughter Returns to Loeb & Loeb as Labor Partner
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Ivy Kagan Bierman, an entertainment labor lawyer, has joined Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles as a partner. Bierm...
LOS ANGELES - Berger Kahn, a 65-attorney law firm with four offices, continues the expansion of its business and corporate pr...
Judges and Judiciary
Lawyers Appreciate Unflappable Judicial Nomad
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John P. Doyle sits in chambers filled with family photos, golf balls and...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyer, activist and author Oscar Acosta is perhaps best known as the sidekick to the late Hunter S. Thompson,...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Doffs Robe, Runs for Mayor of San Bernardino
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - In 30 years as a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge, Patrick J. Morris made a name for himself start...
SALARIES UP - Sullivan & Cromwell is increasing associate salaries by $20,000, sources said Friday. The move by the New Yo...
LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Peter S. Smith has been honored for his novel, "The Magistrates....
LOS ANGELES - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has announced that it has appointed partner Susan E. Hollander as co-manager of th...
Appellate Practice
Judge Erred During Discovery For Economic Espionage Case
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A federal appellate court has given the government a boost in one of the first cases in the nation to test a 1996 ...
CUPERTINO - Archstone-Smith purchased a 311-unit apartment community for $88 million. Archstone-Smith funded the acquisition p...
LOS ANGELES - For Mayela Rodriguez, the smell is constant, oppressive, inescapable. "It smells like garbage," she said through...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Dandurand admits that, as a young man, he never really intended to go into law. "I always thought I'd b...
Labor/Employment
Employers: Touch Up Your Employee Handbooks, Start Doing It Now
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - The year 2005 was a slow one for employment legislation, requiring little updat...
Letter to the Editor - In an Op-Ed piece originally printed in The New York Times and reprinted in the Daily Journal on Jan. 2...
Civil Rights
Coretta Scott King's Gifts Stand Side by Side With Her Husband's
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - "I certainly appreciate your concern, and I would appreciate anything that you can d...
Focus Column - By John Sturgeon - Your kid may not be the only nuisance in town. Others may include your neighbor's overhangin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Securities litigator Bruce Vanyo, who founded Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's litigation department mo...
Administrative/Regulatory
Mahony Petitions High Court to Shield Files
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Cardinal Roger M. Mahony filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday seeking to block pro...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Memorial Set for Historian, Bar Leader Pfeiffer
By Amelia Hansen
From Staff Reports - A memorial service will be held Saturday for James E. Pfeiffer, noted Bay Area historian and founding dir...
Education
Finding Restorative Justice, Lawyers Integrate Faith, Work
By Anne Marie Ruff
LOS ANGELES - In 1999, Cheryl Ward-Kaiser met with a man in prison to ask him questions. Eight years earlier, he had held her ...
LOS ANGELES - Prominent trial lawyer Pierce H. O'Donnell pleaded no contest Thursday to five misdemeanor charges that he laund...
Forum Column - By Steven L. Berman - On July 2, 2001, I was sworn in as an "as-needed" court referee at the Edelman Children's...
Administrative/Regulatory
S.F. Prosecutor Moves From Gangs to Homicide
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Kamala Harris appointed a veteran gang prosecutor Thursday as the new head of her homicide u...
Personal Injury & Torts
Critics Find Flaws in Firms That Buy Clients' Annuities
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Most people wouldn't consider trading a dollar for 13 cents. But Eddie Solivan, an unemployed 22-year-old, need...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed two Republicans to judgeships in San Bernardino and Santa Clar...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted 6-0 Wednesday to decide whether police can be sued for civil rights violati...