CORONA - Hammer Ventures purchased The Crossing, a 296-unit apartment complex at 2125 High Point Drive from Archstone-Smith fo...
Letter to the Editor - In the Dec. 21 Daily Journal, you printed a letter by a person who criticized Stanley "Tookie" Williams...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Turning Mediation into a 12-Step Program
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Forget trying to pry even the tiniest detail from Gordon Wallack about the cases he has mediated over the years....
Letter to the Editor - It is never harder to preserve democracy than when we are in physical danger. The instruments of justic...
Labor/Employment
So You Have the Option of Mandatory Arbitration: Is It Worth Pursuing?
By Columnist
Employment Column - By John T. Hansen - Recent decisions by both state and federal courts in California have limited the terms...
Focus Column - By Lawrence R. Jensen - The California courts last month reaffirmed their recent trend of dealing harshly with ...
Government
Out-of-Control Initiative Process Is Hijacking California Politics
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Whether they are approached by signature-gatherers outside grocery stores or puzzled by ba...
Litigation
Marvel Settles Lawsuit Against Computer Game 'City of Heroes'
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - As one of the first cases to examine the limits of expression on the Internet, the suit had the potential to tr...
LOS ANGELES - Sources inside St. Louis-based Bryan Cave have confirmed reports that the firm is in merger negotiations with Cl...
Real Estate/Development
Historic Status Not Enough to Save Venice Tenants
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Bill Delvac isn't very popular with the tenants of Venice's Lincoln Place apartments. The Latham & Watkins ...
SAN JOSE - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may have thrown a lifeline to the company that makes the popular BlackBerry e-...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday upheld a decision to dismiss a complaint against a woman charged with...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges Thursday against two former San Francisco hedge fun...
LOS ANGELES - For the second time this year, a prominent Proskauer Rose partner is departing the Los Angeles office. Richard M...
LOS ANGELES - Firing the latest salvo in a battle that has visited state courts for years, Insurance Commissioner John Garamen...
Judges and Judiciary
Ethics Code Would Let Judicial Candidates Comment on Issues
By Don De Benedictis
SANTA ANA - Candidates in judicial elections would gain the right to comment on controversial issues but remain barred from m...
CLERGY ABUSE RULING - A San Diego federal judge Thursday upheld a 2002 law that allows alleged victims one year to file a civi...
SANTA ANA - When Don Dewberry entered Orange County's innovative program after his third drunken-driving arrest, the former au...
SAN BRUNO - Archstone-Smith has acquired Meridian at the Crossing, a 300-unit community at 1099 Admiral Court, for $101.2 mill...
Bankruptcy
When Reforms Hit the Fan, Bankruptcy System Failed to Answer Mayday
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Dennis McGoldrick - Nov. 21, 2005. I walk into the U.S. Trustee hearing room for five 341a bankruptcy credit...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco County Superior Court Judge James McBride has been assigned to the master criminal calendar cour...
Forum Column - By William J. Aceves - Earlier this month, the British House of Lords issued a landmark ruling on torture. In a...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Carefree Abandon of Rules Defeats Point of Arbitration
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael E. Ballachy - Since retiring from the Superior Court, I have been privileged to preside over a numbe...
SAN FRANCISCO - A firm must be disqualified from handling a lawsuit if it previously has obtained confidential information fro...
LOS ANGELES - Nicole Wool ditched criminal procedure the day her Southwestern University School of Law professor made the seat...
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...