Criminal
Plethora of Procedural, Substantive Flaws Plagues Execution in State
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Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Barring a last-minute stay, by the time you read this, the state of California will have ...
Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In the case of In re Lisa G. , 2005 DJDAR 311 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Jan. 10, 2004), a thr...
SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland lawyer who trumpeted a court victory against a drug store chain in a press release Tuesday lost he...
LOS ANGELES - Days after the first federal indictment in the city's pay-to-play scandal, Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chi...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Westlaw's Parent Buys Legal Consulting Firm Hildebrandt
By Lorelei Laird
LOS ANGELES - Legal management consulting group Hildebrandt International was acquired Tuesday by information company Thomson ...
Judges and Judiciary
Sheriff Blames Judiciary for Violent Man's Early Release
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Sheriff Leroy Baca said Tuesday that a judge or prosecutor should have intervened to order domestic-violence tre...
SANTA ANA - A Tustin-based company that markets vitamins and other supplements has agreed to pay $3.6 million in mostly civil...
SAN FRANCISCO - Is it a disaster when landslides, traveling a matter of feet over a period of decades, warp fences, bend stre...
SAN FRANCISCO - A unanimous federal appellate panel Tuesday shot down a Board of Immigration Appeals Catch-22-style policy tha...
Gordon & Rees' San Diego office scooped up Carlsbad-based intellectual-property boutique Murphey & Murphey Jan. 3. The...
Many view college as a haven for students who want to challenge preconceived notions and traditional attitudes. But a suit rec...
Reaching the presidency of the American Board of Trial Advocates would be a signal honor for almost any litigator. For Donna M...
When New York partner C. Anthony Mulrain decided to pack up his entertainment law practice and move it closer to his West Coas...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
JAMS Adds Retired Jurist, Defender to Its Neutrals List
By Eron Yehuda
Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS recently boosted its neutral ranks on both ends of the state, with the addition o...
INDUSTRIAL CITY OF INDUSTRY - Vistar Corp. signed a 10-year, $12.5 million lease for 184,206-square-foot industrial facility ...
A battle between the city of Stockton and groups representing 250 low-income residents who were displaced from unsafe housing ...
Archipelago Holdings Inc. is acquiring the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, which has been in operation since 1882. Th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Even when they screw up, prosecutors enjoy absolute immunity from civil lawsuits. That's why legal observers ...
EXTRA Closer Column - By Harry J. Plotkin - Take note, savvy trial attorneys: Recent research suggests that the ingredients of...
Embracing the spirit of giving that swept the world following December's South Asian tsunami, law firms throughout the nation ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Often Medical License-Suspension Cases Turn on Procedural Questions
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Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Stuart Miller - In the past few months, the California courts of appeal have issued an unu...
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for Anthony J. Sousa, a veteran Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. Sousa, a membe...
RANCHO MIRAGE - The owner of an upscale outdoor shopping mall in Rancho Mirage has backed down from a challenge to the desert...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Gone are the days of Big Tobacco and billion-dollar verdicts. Instead, 2004 saw tort reform take...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has yanked a sizeable workers' compensation contract from a local law firm after one of...
LOS ANGELES - A trial originally set for today on charges the Securities and Exchange Commission brought against embattled for...
Greenberg Traurig's 10-month-old East Palo Alto office acquired Bill Goines in December, and he will form the core of the offi...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether Michigan can impose two different annual fees on truckers op...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Homeowners' Signs Bar Access to Trail
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - For hundreds of years, people have freely used the pass that cuts through the foothills above Altadena for trave...
Labor/Employment
Mobilized Staffers Can Receive Payments If There Is No Ethical Conflict
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Employment Column - By Adrian G. Driscoll - As the burden of the global war on terrorism continues to fall heavily upon civili...