Letter to the Editor - In the Nov. 26, 2004, edition of the Daily Journal on the first page, there was an article concerning a...
Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - All the palaver concerning the CBS News scandal, sometimes referred to as Memogate o...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Lose weight. Recognize inner beauty. Learn employment law. A triumvira...
Appellate Practice
Research Files Find No Takers Among Next Generation of Appellate Lawyers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Katherine J. Hamilton - The wall calendar, improvised on the back of December 2004 to avoid investing in a 2...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has opened an office in Taipei, Taiwan, to serve about a dozen existing cl...
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, and his 2000 campaign treasurer have agreed to pay a $6,000 fine by the st...
The clearest consensus that emerged in the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated portions of the U.S. Sentencing Gui...
LOS ANGELES - An explosion of pro-per litigants is the "largest challenge" to the county's judicial system, William MacLaughli...
SANTA ANA - A prominent Santa Ana law firm has been hit with $24,000 in sanctions for filing a frivolous appeal, an unusual ru...
Corporate
Just Shoot Me So I Don't Have to Read More on Taser's Problems
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Taser International, the manufacturer of an electric stun gun that is used by thousands of police a...
INDUSTRIAL CORONA - JLCL Inc. signed a five-year, $809,049 lease for a 25,707-square-foot industrial building at 2420 Railroa...
Environmental
Courts Must Resolve Safety of Former Nuclear Research Site for Public Use
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bennett Ramberg - Although the Cold War ended a decade ago, its environmental legacy lives on. How to resolv...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Until she was 7, Jackie lived happily with her mother and grandparents. Grandma took ...
Personal Injury & Torts
'Vasquez' Urges Fact-Specific Examination of Duty, Causes
By Columnist
Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Recently, the 4th District Court of Appeal provided some important guidance...
Law Practice
Litigator Got State Supreme Court to Speed Its Opinions
By Allison Schifani
LOS ANGELES - A celebration of the life of longtime insurance defense litigator Stanley M. Sapiro will take place later this ...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner in Hayward Keeps Traffic Court Moving
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Professional sporting events have played a pivotal role in Karen Rodrigue's life. In 1974 she skipped the phys...
Administrative/Regulatory
Panel Says Cops Don't Always Have To Knock
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In the movies, the cops usually knock first when they make a home visit. But if the police park outside your ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles and New Orleans police officials arrested a man Tuesday near the French Quarter who was wanted in a ...
RIVERSIDE - A murdered toddler's siblings cannot sue the county Department of Public Social Services for failing to stop their...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday shelved a plan to hand out raises to its members, the distri...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors do not have to prove an overt act to win a conviction for conspi...
SAN FRANCISCO - James Peterson, the last remaining equity partner in Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis' Silicon Valley offic...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyer Blames Fatal Ventura Landslide on Avocado Ranch
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - As rescuers continue to search for survivors under the tons of mud and debris that washed away homes and buried...
Appellate Practice
Panel Overturns Conviction of Teen Who Took Knife to Class
By Dan Evans
SAN DIEGO - Being mouthy doesn't give a teacher the right to rifle a student's belongings, according to a published ruling by ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles school board on Tuesday approved a $193,000-a-year salary for newly appointed special counsel Ma...
SAN FRANCISCO - An animal rights lawsuit accusing state officials of falsely advertising California cows as "happy" was put o...
SAN DIEGO - Stickball on the streets of Philadelphia was an outlet for Peter L. Gallagher's boundless energy from the time he...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed Monday giving $88.4 million more to the trial courts for the current year's b...
INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - The Koll Co. purchased Hunter Business Park, a three-building industrial center totaling 105,319 squar...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - The 4th District Court of Appeal's decis...