LOS ANGELES - Three months ago, Olympic silver medalist Tanith Belbin didn't know whether she would qualify for the U.S. Olymp...
LOS ANGELES - Gregory G. Gorman and Johnny Darnell Griggs have joined Los Angeles-based Strategic Counsel to launch a litigat...
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys representing white men in reverse discrimination lawsuits need to work hard for their money. It took...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Plaintiff Wins Fees for Asbestos Hospital Suit
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco hospital already in hot water for exposing visitors and employees to asbestos will have to pay a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco District Attorney's Office announced Friday that a criminal grand jury has refused to indict...
WASHINGTON - Election law will take center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court this week as the justices consider two issues of pr...
LOS ANGELES - When detective-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano emphatically announced his not-guilty plea to charges he ran a ra...
WORK OF FAITH - Julia Ten Eyck's path to becoming a Buddhist has been long and winding - much like her career as an attorney. ...
FREEDOM TO RANT - "Got AIDS Yet?" So reads a T-shirt an evangelical Christian preacher wears to events celebrating tolerance o...
LOS ANGELES - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced Joseph M. Malkin will assume the newly created role of managing par...
RIVERSIDE - Government Properties Trust purchased three two-story office buildings totaling 117,168 square feet, part of the H...
LOS ANGELES - The last time Carlos got out of youth prison he vowed he was not going back. He had been in and out of lockups s...
Focus Column - By Diane L. Becker - Conducting business in today's legal climate is increasingly complex and treacherous. As n...
Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff - The international controversy surrounding the printing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mo...
Labor/Employment
It's No (Trade) Secret: Nondisclosure Pacts Protect Other Hush-Hush Info
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Scott N. Yamaguchi - Employers often use confidentiality agreements, also known as nondisclosure agreem...
Editor's Note - You may notice something different about today's Daily Journal. We've narrowed our pages and made other design...
Constitutional Law
Zealots' Protests at Military Funerals Deserve Protection
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Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - Americans have often been quick to judge the First Amendment by the company it keeps. T...
Forum Column - By Jack Schaedel - Can a small-business owner fight back against a massive government agency that persecutes it...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday provided lawyers with broad protection under the litigation privilege...
LOS ANGELES - Max Factor spells "life" with a capital L. "Life has such meaning; it just seems to make sense," Factor said. So...
SACRAMENTO - Three weeks after he said he would fight the Bush administration's embattled prescription drug plan, state Attor...
Judges and Judiciary
From His Father's Footstool to State Appellate Bench
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - There appears to be a judicial gene in the family of William R. McGuiness. McGuiness' father, William J. McGui...
WORK OF FAITH - For 20 years, I had done high-tech marketing and engineering work. I had a good job, a good future, but I want...
SAN DIEGO - After nearly 20 years on the bench, San Diego County Superior Court Judge William C. Pate has retired. Pate, 62, r...
SANTA ANA - SIC-Leed 1015 Santa Ana LLC, a partnership between Leed Properties and the State of New Mexico Investment Counsel,...
SAN FRANCISCO - Estate planning attorney Mike Welty returned Sunday from a ski trip in Colorado to find his Healdsburg law off...
INDIO - Judge Randall D. White hears juvenile delinquency cases. But turning 18 isn't a ticket out of his courtroom. White, wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed a San Diego County prosecutor and former reality TV star to the San Diego...
Environmental
Complying With National Plan Is Key to Recouping on Cleanup
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Focus Column - By William D. Wick - Failure to evaluate alternatives for cleaning up contaminated property and failure to prov...
LOS ANGELES - While the federal judge assigned to hear the racketeering, wiretapping and conspiracy case of private eye Antho...