SAN FRANCISCO - A software producer that already won more than $1 million from two other Silicon Valley companies for spilling...
Judges and Judiciary
Judicial Umbrage Signals New Limit for Bush's War Powers
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - First, a judge stands down from a special court that oversees government surveillance after the Bush administrati...
Administrative/Regulatory
National Security Fence Trumps Six Endangered Species
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - "The dogs came in low and fast, bouncing like hailstones, tongues on fire, trailing drool. Fahey took them head ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland's novel lawsuit to force the state highway department to take trash seriously had ended in a tidy truc...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Monterey County prosecutor looked to have the right stuff to win a rape-murder conviction: A suspect who adm...
THOUSAND OAKS - Decron Properties purchased the 110,074-square-foot Park Oaks Shopping Center at 1640-1790 Moorpark Road from ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Pushy Courts Tainted Mediation of Clergy Case
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Every year, one appellate decision stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of elab...
Administrative/Regulatory
Tookie Blew His One Last Chance to Do Good
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor In the Dec. 15 Daily Journal, you printed three letters by persons who opposed the execution of Stanley ...
Focus Column - Louis R. Dienes - Venture capital firms are often judged by their rates of return. Rates of return are a functi...
Forum Column - By Carl Tobias - On Nov. 10, the U.S. Senate passed 49-42 an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorizati...
LOS ANGELES - Energy attorneys could ride a wave of consolidation in 2006 as cash-rich oil and gas companies look to boost th...
LOS ANGELES - Alvin S. Kaufer, a 45-year veteran of Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliot and respected appellate attorney, died...
Firm Watch
Salary Wars Pick Up Pace, With Gibson's First-Years at $135,000
By Drew Combs
LOS ANGELES - The associate salary wars got off to a slow start this year, but now they are officially under way. Gibson Dunn ...
LOS ANGELES - Facing mounting criticism from federal judges across the nation, the U.S. Justice Department is moving to ease p...
LOS ANGELES - In June, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Victor M. Rodriguez was unable to convince a jury to delive...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco trial lawyers group scored a victory when an appellate court ruled that a big California HMO c...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Silicon Valley executive charged with intimidating witnesses and soliciting the murder of a judge who...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld an $18,950 court-ordered fine against attorney Thomas A. Mese...
L.A. Judges Pick Commissioner - Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Referee Joel Wallenstein has become the court's newes...
LOS ANGELES - Federal judges of the Central District of California appointed U.S. Magistrate Judge Ralph Zarefsky to a four-ye...
LOS ANGELES - First Community Will Acquire Bank Operator First Community Bancorp , a bank holding company in Southern Californ...
AUBURN - Through the large, wavy, century-old windows in his chambers, Assistant Presiding Judge Larry D. Gaddis has a bucolic...
INDUSTRIAL FREEMONT - Bedford Property Investors Inc. brokered the sale of a five-building portfolio to a single buyer for $29...
Forum Column - By Enrique E. Zepeda-Vzquez - In 1978 when the Extradition Treaty was signed, the governments of Mexico and the...
Government
Unlucky Libby Draws Trial Judge With Record of Disdain for Leaks
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - "Scooter" Libby can't catch a break. Out of the entire Bush administration, he is the onl...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
The 'Standard' Release Poses A Trap for the Unwary Lawyer
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Leonard S. Levy - As practicing attorneys, we have all drafted release language designed to provide our clie...
LOS ANGELES - The Saddam Hussein trial in Baghdad has been a theatrical courtroom drama par excellence. But for several Americ...
SACRAMENTO - Several insurance and business groups have sued the state Insurance Department contending new restrictions on dis...
Law Practice
Still a Dreamer, Attorney Has Few Illusions About Himself
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Roger SeLegue has had more ups and downs in his life than a bungee jumper on a Flubber rope. By his account, he'...
LOS ANGELES - Nell Jessup Newton has been appointed the new chancellor and dean at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisc...