San Andreas attorney Kenneth M. Foley will try once again to convince a judge that a law enforcement officer should face poten...
Los Angeles sole practitioner Rachel Roth is a music management attorney with high-profile clients worth millions. But she say...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Inland Empire Bar Groups Select Presidents for 2005
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
The county bar associations in Riverside and San Bernardino counties recently named new presidents, and both leaders have big ...
Intellectual Property
Biotechnology Patents Meet World of Board Games
By Lorelei Laird
San Diego intellectual-property attorney Richard Warburg was on vacation in England in the summer of 2003, watching his family...
After working at Winston & Strawn for only a year, Chuck Birenbaum, a labor and employment pro, has been named managing pa...
The California Minority Program honored Santa Monica's Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan with its Drucilla Stender Law Firm...
Owners of 19 single-family homes in Yucaipa have filed two construction defect lawsuits against Redlands builder Howard Robert...
Administrative/Regulatory
Nonprofit Act Will Be Helpful If It Does Not Cost Too Much
By Columnist
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Thomas C. Klein - In August 2004, the state Legislature passed the Nonprofit Integrity ...
Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - May the government punish the Boy Scouts of America for the "offense" of embracing old-fash...
Appellate Practice
Judiciary Applies Own Rules in Interpreting 'Organic' Constitution
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - History, as they say, is written by winners. One of those on history's winning side is...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Draeger Martinez - When an expert witness takes the stand, the lawyer who called him is banki...
Technology & Science
Frog Design Fends Off Litigation Over Wireless Eyewear
By Amy Spees
It sounds like a device straight from an episode of "The Jetsons," but wireless eyewear could be the next big thing in cellula...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dan O'Malley traveled the world as flight attendant, managed a popular bar and may have had enough talent to b...
Personal Injury & Torts
Trial Lawyer of the Year Led Oakland Raiders to Victory
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Personal injury lawyer Roger Dreyer of Sacramento has been named California Trial Lawyer of the Year by the state...
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area disability rights proponents celebrated around a unique species of turkey this Thanksgiving as Oaklan...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bruce F. Marrs, a former Marine company commander who saw combat in Vietnam, ca...
Appellate Practice
Noted Federal Appeals Judge Ponders Extinction, Says Law Can Help
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Just in time for the holidays, Richard A. Posner, the well-known federal appellate judge, Universit...
SAN FRANCISCO - Most of the jurors in the trial of suspended San Francisco police officer Matthew Tonsing concluded he should ...
INDUSTRIAL BRISBANE - Peking Handcraft signed a lease for 132,700 square feet of warehouse space at the Gilmore Envelope buil...
LOS ANGELES - State tax officials must disclose to citizens the personal information they have gathered on them, an appellate...
Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - Appearing recently on Bill Maher's HBO program, Alan Simpson, the folksy former Repu...
Labor/Employment
New Law Provides Some Relief to Employers Facing Frivolous Claims
By Amy Kalinn
Employment Column - By Elise R. Vasquez - As part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget on July 29, 2004, the state Legislatu...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
New Advice for Arbitrators: Disclose, Disclose, Disclose
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Ruth V. Glick - Adoption of the Ethics Standards for Neutral Arbitrators in...
Forum Column - By Simon A. Cole and William C. Thompson - This past spring, Oregon attorney and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfie...
PALO ALTO - Jason Borrevik, the former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati senior associate who was sentenced Wednesday to f...
SANTA ANA - Former Orange Superior Court Judge Floyd H. Schenk has died from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease. ...
LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Tuesday for Thomas A. Romeyn, a Los Angeles County prosecutor who spent 34 y...
LOS ANGELES - A man incarcerated for sex crimes against minors cannot see his children in prison, even though they were not h...
Appellate Practice
9th Circuit Decision Forces Release of Violent Immigrant
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A violent rapist who is a Vietnamese citizen must be freed from federal custody in the United States, the 9th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former partners of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have resolved a major bone of contention with the bankrupt...