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...
LOS ANGELES - In the latest backlash against lawyers abusing the state's unfair competition law, a Moreno Valley law firm is i...
Judges and Judiciary
Unusual Cases Don't Throw Bench Novice
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
HEMET - Riverside County Superior Court Commissioner Pamela A. Thatcher listened intently recently as a police officer defende...
LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney Alan J. Jackson has been assigned as co-prosecutor in the murder case against music pro...
EMERYVILLE - Fremont Investment & Loan provided a $109 million acquisition and construction loan to Port Kihei Investments...
LOS ANGELES - City officials didn't think much of Jorge Hernandez's claim that Los Angeles police officers falsely arrested an...
Focus Column - By Peter M. Stone and Jay C. Gandhi - Having not reviewed an issue concerning private securities litigation for...
Letter to the Editor - For decades, we never questioned the long sentences men received for having sex with minor girls. But n...
Letter to the Editor - Regarding "In Support of 'Tookie': Distortions of Fact, Distortions of Justice" (Dec. 15 Daily Journal)...
Forum Column - By Kirsten Schlenger - Preserving competitiveness is at the heart of many U.S. domestic and foreign policy deci...
SAN FRANCISCO - You've made a list and checked it twice, but have you forgotten your favorite lawyer? Here are some gift idea...
SAN FRANCISCO - Michael M. Roddy, a longtime court administrator currently serving as regional director for the California cou...
LOS ANGELES - Steven J. Ipsen, the outspoken Los Angeles County prosecutor, was re-elected in a landslide 344-40 vote to his ...
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Los Angeles attorney Michele Wein Layne has been promoted to one of the top posts at the U.S. Securitie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kirk Dublin, a 27-year veteran litigator and former managing partner of Seattle's Preston, Gates & Ellis,...
Corporate
Redwood Shores Company Files Patent Suit Against Microsoft
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - A Redwood Shores company that provides mobile e-mail service filed a federal lawsuit last week alleging that Micros...
Judges and Judiciary
Varied Professional Past Informs Judicial Insights
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - For some, Judge James R. Dunn's professional life might seem like a roller-coaster ride. The California native r...
Administrative/Regulatory
Courts' Fee Increase Triggers Outcry From Poor
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Paralegal Carol J. King, who helps poor people file family law cases in Bakersfield, is outraged by the Legislat...
SAN FRANCISCO - For the third time, a federal appeals court Friday rebuffed prosecutors' attempt to increase the sentence of ...
PROBATIONS Boyd, John Roberts , Irvine Gernsbacher, David L. , Beverly Hills Pecel, Alexander J. , Valencia PUBLIC REPROVALS D...
LOS ANGELES - Robin D. Ball has joined Chadbourne & Parke as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. Ball's practice f...