Solo and Small Firms
San Diego Employment Boutique Opens Outpost in San Bernardino
By Lorelei Laird
San Diego employment boutique Trovillion Inveiss Ponticello & Demakis has branched out with opening of a San Bernardino of...
Dennis Herrera didn't realize what he was creating when he gave Mayor Gavin Newsom the go-ahead to conduct marriages for same-...
Technology & Science
Domain Ruler ICANN Wins First Round Against VeriSign
By Amy Spees
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a global nonprofit that regulates Internet space and accredits agenci...
LOS ANGELES - Three lawyers from Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office arrive for a hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland, t...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Accident Victim Sues Blue Cross Over Balance Billing
By Draeger Martinez
Ronald Gass has caught some bad breaks since 1997, when he lost control of his 1993 Infiniti J30 and rolled it in a single-car...
Column - Adviser - By William L. Buus - Congratulations. You've won a judgment against a corporation. At some point afterward,...
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's Steven L. Miller actually enjoys it when someone tells him to go take a flying leap....
We all know lawyers are enthusiastic attendees of operas, the symphony, the ballet and the thea-tah, but under those dark-suit...
Entertainment and media litigator Jonathan Anschell takes over today as executive vice president and general counsel of New Yo...
This is not as easy as it looks. As our staff entered hour 1,253 working on this year's list - and through the haze of eating ...
Column By Garry Abrams - Like millions of others who are privileged to live, work and drive in the Los Angeles area, I sometim...
Government
Civics-Challenged Citizens Need to Support Independence of Judiciary
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Forum Column - By James M. Mize - How do you make God laugh? Talk about your plans. Dusting off that ancient joke, I am remind...
Administrative/Regulatory
Private-Property Owners Have Rights in Takings Cases, Too
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Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Timothy J. Dowling, chief counsel of the Washington, D.C.-based Community Rights Counsel...
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Helen Duncan and Peter H. Mason - When our law firm set out to survey corporate law departmen...
SAN JOSE - San Jose City Council members want to know why City Attorney Rick Doyle's office's didn't do more to prevent the ci...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - The world descended on San Francisco in February. As same-sex couples stood in line for hours to...
Personal Injury & Torts
L.A. Diocese Cannot Join Iowa Challenge to California Statute
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ruled the Los Angeles Archdiocese cannot join an Iowa diocese in challenging the California ...
Dr. Carl E. Franklin, law professor emeritus and vice president emeritus for financial affairs at the University of Southern C...
LOS ANGELES -What do you do when you get caught red-handed violating a court order by blocking a lawyer's access to his own pa...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Supporters Say Remark About Reporter Was Hyperbole
By Dan Evans
SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge's comment that he would like to see a Los Angeles Times reporter taken out of his courtroom...
Judges and Judiciary
Some Jurists Place Equity Over Procedural Purity
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - That was some piece of work that Justice David A. Sills produced last week. Writing Wednesday in ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court will reconsider its decision limiting the Securities and Exchange Commission's power t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court decision may help guarantee a payday to attorneys in environmental disputes, even if...
SAN FRANCISCO - The former Guantanamo Bay translator who once faced the death penalty on suspicion of spying was handed a bad-...
SAN FRANCISCO - In or out? Two conservative religious law firms have been fighting California's same-sex marriages since rough...
Employment Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A police officer markets a video of himself, masturbating, on the Internet. Should ...
Intellectual Property
'Knorr-Bremse' Tackles Simple Part of the Willfulness Problem
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Focus Column - Patent Law - By Robert P. Taylor - A year ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered supple...
Forum Column - By Vincent Imhoff and Claudia Rosenbaum - Recently, the Due Process Clause guarantees afforded by the U.S. Cons...
SAN FRANCISCO - A deal's a deal, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali ruled in denying a Los Angeles law firm's request to boo...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for families suing over the Santa Monica Farmer's Market crash cannot release an accident report on th...