SAN FRANCISCO - Richard L. Patsey attributes his effective mediation style to having served 20 years as a Contra Costa Superi...
Firm Watch
'Stellar' Trial Lawyer Will Lead Alternate Defenders Program
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Public Defender Mary Greenwood on Thursday named David Epps her assistant in charge of the alte...
Litigation
Federal Judge Will Weigh Fair's Ban on Off-Duty Officers' Guns
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - In their line of work, police officers and sheriff's deputies come across a "variety of nasty people," San Diego...
LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Thursday reinstated a proposed class action by emergency room doctors, who claim Blue Cro...
Personal Injury & Torts
County Counsel Allege Jury Misconduct in Ovando Verdict
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Los Angeles County have accused jurors of engaging in rampant misconduct during deliberations in May...
MURRIETA - A Riverside County lawyer who defended people accused of drug offenses was himself convicted Thursday of six felon...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco filed a rare environmental lawsuit Thursday against a concrete company the city accused of pollu...
Administrative/Regulatory
Senate Democrats Choose All Their Words Carefully
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Restraint is not often associated with politics. But that's exactly the word many people are using to describe D...
INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - Randy and Scott Johnson purchased a 28,750-square-foot industrial building in Turner Riverwalk Busines...
Intellectual Property
Recording-Industry Group Pushes Past Copyright Limits
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Christopher Norgaard - The Recording Industry Association of America is rightfully concerned about the exten...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Lawrence R. Jensen - The California Supreme Court in MW Erectors Inc. v. Niederhauser Orn...
Letter to the Editor - It must be a slow op-ed day when you publish such drivel as the July 13 letter to editor, "Law Protects...
Forum Column - By Howard M. Ehrenberg - In April, President Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protectio...
LOS ANGELES - Joanne Caruso, managing partner at Howrey in Southern California, knows firsthand the challenges faced by women ...
LOS ANGELES - With its stock on the skids because of low DVD sales, DreamWorks Animation continues to get the ogre treatment f...
LOS ANGELES - You don't have to tell San Diego paralegal Nancy Huebner about the specialization of paralegal work. Huebner's ...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court jury in Burbank on Wednesday awarded three adult siblings $25.5 million for the St. Patrick's ...
Judges and Judiciary
Political Incontinence Mars Supreme Court Selection
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Leaks! Disinformation! Supreme Court intrigue! Until an hour before President Bush announced his ch...
Environmental
Lockyer Hits Speedbump in Litigation Over U.S. Forest Plans
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has dealt at least a temporary setback to Attorney General Bill Lockyer's chall...
SAN FRANCISCO - Conservative critics of gay nuptials cannot intervene in San Francisco's constitutional attack on the state's...
SAN JOSE - A San Mateo attorney has been charged in Wisconsin with plotting with her then-boyfriend and his brothers to commi...
HOSPITALITY PALM SPRINGS - Highland Hospitality Corp. closed its previously announced acquisition of the 410-room Wyndham Pal...
Forum Column - By Mark Kulkis - I might be expected to have a bias against feminists because I make my living producing pornog...
Bankruptcy
Professionals Learn From 'Movitz' That Disclosure Rules Always Rule
By Columnist
Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Mette H. Kurth and Anastasia Jones - On April 28, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the 9...
The Daily Journal is now accepting nominations for the 2005 Top Women Litigators list. Please include attorney's name, firm, ...
LOS ANGELES - The board of U.S. oil producer Unocal Corp. met near Los Angeles early this week to mull over an $18.5 billion ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate dockets statewide grew to 22,824 cases during the most recent budget year, the most in three years,...
Environmental
Lawyer Co-Founded Pioneering Environmental Law Firm in S.F.
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Mark I. Weinberger, the co-founder of one of California's pioneering environmental law firms, has died followi...
LOS ANGELES - Concerto Software Inc. has agreed to acquire Aspect Communications Corp., a rival vendor of technology that powe...
LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Pasadena-based court-reporting and interpreter company pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he do...