Focus Column - By Diane L. Becker - Conducting business in today's legal climate is increasingly complex and treacherous. As n...
Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff - The international controversy surrounding the printing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mo...
Labor/Employment
It's No (Trade) Secret: Nondisclosure Pacts Protect Other Hush-Hush Info
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Employment Column - By Scott N. Yamaguchi - Employers often use confidentiality agreements, also known as nondisclosure agreem...
Editor's Note - You may notice something different about today's Daily Journal. We've narrowed our pages and made other design...
Constitutional Law
Zealots' Protests at Military Funerals Deserve Protection
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Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - Americans have often been quick to judge the First Amendment by the company it keeps. T...
Forum Column - By Jack Schaedel - Can a small-business owner fight back against a massive government agency that persecutes it...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday provided lawyers with broad protection under the litigation privilege...
LOS ANGELES - Max Factor spells "life" with a capital L. "Life has such meaning; it just seems to make sense," Factor said. So...
SACRAMENTO - Three weeks after he said he would fight the Bush administration's embattled prescription drug plan, state Attor...
Judges and Judiciary
From His Father's Footstool to State Appellate Bench
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - There appears to be a judicial gene in the family of William R. McGuiness. McGuiness' father, William J. McGui...
WORK OF FAITH - For 20 years, I had done high-tech marketing and engineering work. I had a good job, a good future, but I want...
SAN DIEGO - After nearly 20 years on the bench, San Diego County Superior Court Judge William C. Pate has retired. Pate, 62, r...
SANTA ANA - SIC-Leed 1015 Santa Ana LLC, a partnership between Leed Properties and the State of New Mexico Investment Counsel,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Estate planning attorney Mike Welty returned Sunday from a ski trip in Colorado to find his Healdsburg law off...
INDIO - Judge Randall D. White hears juvenile delinquency cases. But turning 18 isn't a ticket out of his courtroom. White, wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed a San Diego County prosecutor and former reality TV star to the San Diego...
Environmental
Complying With National Plan Is Key to Recouping on Cleanup
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Focus Column - By William D. Wick - Failure to evaluate alternatives for cleaning up contaminated property and failure to prov...
LOS ANGELES - While the federal judge assigned to hear the racketeering, wiretapping and conspiracy case of private eye Antho...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday waded into a contentious labor law battle between workers and employ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Many investors might find it hard to believe that the executive who calls the shots at the company in which th...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that a Las Vegas builder could not file a race discriminati...
SANTA ANA - An elderly woman who wandered unnoticed away from a residential care facility only to be injured by a hit-and-run...
Administrative/Regulatory
Seeking Help for Nontraditional Victims of Domestic Violence
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - A woman stopped by the Gay & Lesbian Center in Los Angeles a couple of days after Christmas frustrated and a ...
WORK OF FAITH - On Sept. 21, 2001, I went to the Metropolitan Corrections Center prison in San Diego to meet my client Osama A...
LOS ANGELES - If living well is the best revenge, then dying in paradise could well be the last, best laugh. So, maybe legenda...
TAX EVASION BRINGS PRISON - A Campbell divorce attorney was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison after a jury convicted him of ev...
Focus Column - By Thomas B. Snyder - In Crawford v. Weather Shield Manufacturing Inc ., a subcontractor was held liable for pr...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel Admonishes Jurist for Using Staff on Personal Work
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has rebuked Orange Superior Court Judge John M. Watson for using court s...
LOS ANGELES - What's the cost of taking property off the competitive San Francisco rental market and displacing its occupants?...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back a challenge by two tobacco companies to California's Proposition 9...