SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made three Superior Court appointments Monday - two in San Joaquin County and one i...
Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of Finkbeiner v. Gavid, 2006 DJDAR 2301 (Cal. App. 2nd Dist. Feb. 14, 2006...
Solo and Small Firms
Newspaper, Judge Wrongly Blame Ex-Prosecutor
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - Judges can and often do speak without foundation or knowledge. That is the essence of the Daily Journal...
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposals to rebuild California's infrastructure may prove re...
Column - By Peter Blumberg - You can't blame lawyers for trying every trick in the book to overturn a death sentence. After al...
LOS ANGELES - When Lawrence H. Cho was a child, his parents took him to lower Manhattan to watch the construction of the ill-f...
LOS ANGELES - A class action against 24 Hour Fitness settled for $38 million after managers, personal trainers and other empl...
LOS ANGELES - When it comes to appeals cases, March has been a maddening month for the Orange County Superior Court. In the l...
LOS ANGELES - While celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano allegedly recorded telephone calls of foes and even his own client...
SANTA ANA - The thought of defending a convicted murderer on capital charges of ordering more murders and running a vicious, n...
SAN DIEGO - Neptune Hospitality Advisors arranged a $25 million, five-year fixed-rate loan for the 333-room Radisson Hotel Har...
SAN JOSE - The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing ahead this week with its controversial demand that the world's largest I...
Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Californians are refining NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) into an art form. The concept h...
Labor/Employment
Appeals Court Elevates Ratios for Determination of Punitive Liability
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Jeffrey K.Winikow - By all accounts Roger Misiolek was a horrible boss. He yelled. He berated. He threw obje...
Forum Column - By Robert S. Huie - The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that Congress can require law schools to give ...
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors can proceed with their aiding-and-abetting case against prominent lawyer Pierce H. O'Donnell's secre...
LOS ANGELES - Construction law firm Peckar & Abramson has lured James L. Ferro to its Los Angeles office. Ferro came to th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named Los Angeles federal District Judge Nora M. Manella to the 2nd District Court ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Venture capitalist Arthur Rock and former Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman partner Toni Rembe have donated $10 m...
LOS ANGELES - When Brian Ward started law school, he thought of himself as an average student. Now he's the reigning champion ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rodney E. Nelson has retired and resigned his judicial office e...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Battle Over Urban Garden Could End This Week
By Bobbi Murrayn
LOS ANGELES - The battle over a 14-acre urban garden in an otherwise-bleak South Los Angeles industrial area may come to a wh...
Constitutional Law
Principal Can't Snuff Out Teen's Bid for Bong Hits
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects students' rights to wear black armband...
LOS ANGELES - Joel Alcox, convicted of a murder 18 years ago that he says he did not commit, appeared to be on the path to fre...
LOS ANGELES - As an aspiring young writer, Harvey A. Silberman came to Hollywood straight out of college to break into show bu...
Judges and Judiciary
For Judge, It All Started With Sacco and Vanzetti
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee came to the law through an unusual route, taking inspi...
Foley & Mansfield has named Lori A. Cataldo a partner in the firm's San Francisco office. Cataldo has experience in asbest...
HAYWARD - Sometimes, life really does change in the blink of an eye - or the flash of a knife. At least it did for Alameda Su...
After a 26-year judicial career and 13 years as a neutral, retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Philip M. Saeta fou...
LOS ANGELES - Services for Burton H. "Burt" Ward, founder of Goldstein & Ward in La Habra, will take place Saturday in Ful...