SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Oleon's best experience since taking the Alameda County bench 18 months ago was when an 11-year-old gir...
The Los Angeles Times has filed suit to obtain audiotapes and other papers documenting two secret meetings the County Board o...
LOS ANGELES - The state's worker's compensation system has won a $14.6 million default judgment against two Rancho Cucamonga ...
Law Practice
Imitation of Life: Fictional Blog Captures Venal Lawyer's Barren Heart
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Who works obsessively in a high-rise, suit-and-tie gulag and delights in making associates and law ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration dominated the agenda for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004, by sheer volume of cases a...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Pillsbury Winthrop Supports Diversity in Orange County
By Lorelei Laird
When Dawn Steele moved to Pillsbury Winthrop's Costa Mesa office in 2001, she saw only one thing missing from her new home: la...
This holiday season, the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif have planned so...
Appellate Practice
Panel Finds the RAW Facts in Asylum Applicant's Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - India does, indeed, have a spy agency known as RAW. You can look it up on the Internet. That's apparently what...
A San Francisco jury dealt a heavy blow to a Bay Area information technology consulting company, awarding former employee Anni...
Year in Review - By Tina Spee - When the clock strikes midnight this New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest law-firm merge...
A 62-year-old former employee of noted advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi finds herself sending out dozens of rsums aft...
Free Time - By Amy K. Spees - Randall Keen, a senior associate in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Los Angeles office, spends a ...
The legal principle Thomas Jefferson described as a wall separating church and state may demolish an effort to preserve and re...
On the evening of Dec. 13, 600 guests, dressed to the nines in their Hollywood chic, gathered in the dimly lit ballroom of the...
A heated, 18-month takeover battle between two California-based software giants ended with a $10.3 billion deal that lawyers s...
Government
Panel OKs Strip Club Owner's Suit Against City of La Habra
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In the latest twist in a decade-long legal battle, a state appeals court has cleared the way for the owner of an a...
Two California-based law firms helped pave the way for a $22 million merger between mobile phone software providers on opposit...
LOS ANGELES - For many, the holiday season is a time for reflection. For Martha Stewart, contemplating her first Christmas beh...
Closer - Law Firm Management - By Sandford A. Lechtick - Clifford Chance is the world's largest law firm. It has 29 offices in...
Trusts & Estates
Heirs Tangle Over Copyright for 'Pink Panther' Story
By Draeger Martinez
While MGM Studios has high hopes for its new "Pink Panther" movie next summer, several heirs of the Panther's co-creator have ...
Intellectual Property
Timing Is Right for Studios' Bid to Shutter Film File-Sharing on Internet
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - The mythological Pandora released evils into the world when she opened her famed box. In t...
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - One of the toughest issues in Fourth Amendment search and seizure ...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Our system of justice is founded, in large part, on the premise that a cause brought befor...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Jason W. Armstrong - Jon Velie isn't an American Indian. But the Norman, Okla.-based attorney...
"With your support, you can help us continue to investigate the murders of Laci and Conner Peterson so that we can free the ma...
LOS ANGELES - A gang member convicted of murdering the granddaughter of Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks cannot be sl...
SAN FRANCISCO - When companies commit fraud, even if it doesn't result in property loss or bodily injury, they are subject to ...
Judges and Judiciary
Veteran State Deal-Maker Adapts Quickly to Bench
By Hudson Sangree
SACRAMENTO - Before he took the bench, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Robert C. Hight helped broker some of the biggest envir...
Teenagers Justin Black and Jesse Holcomb were good friends. They went to the same schools, and they frequently socialized toge...
SAN FRANCISCO - After months of trading arguments in written briefs, lawyers crowded into a San Francisco courtroom Wednesday ...