WASHINGTON - A fast-moving proposal in Congress to tighten border security has immigration lawyers worried that foreigners fle...
COACHELLA - TMC America provided $3.85 million of equity financing to Coachella Land 389 LLC for the acquisition of phases II ...
LOS ANGELES - Demanding $5 from your friend amounts to robbery when, just hours earlier, you harassed him at work, waved a gun...
Education
Large Gift Prompts Endowment of Entrepreneurship-Law Center
By Peter Zuckerman
LOS ANGELES - Jason L. Nazar's first business worked like this: he lent his fellow third and fourth graders $3; a week later, ...
Letter to the Editor - The Daily Journal's March 16 article "Girding for Its Biggest Battle," about Christensen, Miller, Fink,...
Zoning, Planning and Use
In Eminent Domain, What Guides 'Just' Compensation?
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Lester O. Brown - In Kelo, et al. v. City of New London, Connecticut, et al. , 125 S. Ct. 2655 (June 23, 200...
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Arecent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision addresses the potential conflict or...
LOS ANGELES - Scott McPhee, a real estate and finance attorney, has rejoined Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office afte...
LOS ANGELES - Four labor and employment attorneys at Musick Peeler & Garrett are singing a new tune after departing the la...
Administrative/Regulatory
Retired Investigators Scrutinize Cold-Case Files
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is doubling the number of retired homicide investigators hired to wo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A 91-year-old San Francisco woman who almost lost her duplex and saw her bank account nearly drained is part o...
Law Practice
Folksy Criminal Defender Handled High-Profile Cases
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
LOS ANGELES - Carl E. Jones, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney whose folksy demeanor beguiled juries into favoring his c...
Immigration
Judicial Conference Weighs in Against Immigration Court
By Sandra Hernandezn
LOS ANGELES - A national group that speaks on behalf of federal judges is asking lawmakers to drop plans to push all immigrati...
LOS ANGELES - A father whose teenage son shot and killed two students and wounded 13 others at a San Diego area high school in...
CALIFORNIA - Newmeyer & Dillion has added four associates to its roster. Joining the firm's Newport Beach office are Adrie...
DISBARMENTS Cutler, Stephan Z., Long Beach Dorfman, Daniel Blaine, La Quinta Harrington, Mylik R., Los Angeles SUSPENSIONS Hro...
LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has selected longtime Deputy Federal Public Defender Sean K. Kennedy as th...
SAN DIEGO - Laboratory Corp. of America leased 109,780 square feet of research-and-development space in the Sabre Springs Busi...
RED BLUFF - Just beyond a grove of walnut trees huddled together against the chill of a late winter day and across the street ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Being 'Caught in the Middle' Inspires a Career
By Anna Oberthurn
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran mediator Susan W. Haldeman knows a lot about seeing both sides of the story. She's been doing it her w...
Labor/Employment
Federal Law Protects National Guardsmen's Jobs at Home While They Serve
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Stephen P. Wiman - Since 9/11, some 18,000 Californians have served abroad in the California National G...
Letters, Constitutional Law
Chemerinsky's Outdated Liberalism a Wasted Read
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - I am writing in response to Erwin Chemerinsky's predictable attack ("Court Snubs Free Speech to Bow to ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
High Court Reaffirms Separate Enforceability of Arbitration Pacts
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Peter E. Perkowski and Stephen R. Smerek - The U.S. Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that arbitration claus...
LOS ANGELES - Renzo Pietrobon may have thought he was doing his business attorney a favor when he lent him $100,000 back in 19...
SANTA ANA - In 1970, Michael Brenner was a brand-new deputy district attorney in Los Angeles assigned to the "run." Each week,...
SAN FRANCISCO - The government can seize money from a Los Angeles defendant's retirement account for restitution damages becau...
LOS ANGELES - With mixed results in cases tried in other states, plaintiffs and defense lawyers in the Vioxx litigation appare...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Tony Brass once wore a bulletproof vest and carried a weapon during ...
SAN DIEGO - One Superior Court judge has retired, and a second says he'll step down from the bench early in April.
Law Practice
McLean v. Volpe, Brown, Whelan Asset Management et al. - $13.4 million
By Kenneth Davis
PLAINTIFF POWER - James McLean learned that being left out of the loop can be very hard on one's wallet: $8.3 million, to be e...