Alternative Dispute Resolution
Judicate West and JAMS Improve Their L.A. Outlets
By Eron Yehuda
With the goal of alternative dispute resolution to promote peace between warring parties, it stands to reason that a pair of O...
The Center for Auto Safety reports that more than 7,000 serious injuries and deaths occur each year in roof-crush accidents. E...
Trial lawyer Brian Kabateck and all seven of the associates at Los Angeles' Kabateck & Garris joined forces Sept. 1 with P...
Criminal
Three-Strikes Law Must Be Applied Precisely, Not in Scattergun Fashion
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Forum Column - By Steve Cooley - Proposition 66, if passed by voters on Nov. 2, will eviscerate the three-strikes law approved...
Criminal
Will Proposition 66 Be Able to Repair Law Targeting Repeat Offenders?
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Forum Column - By Maya Harris - Last week, Martha Stewart surprised everyone with her sudden announcement that she'd like to s...
Judges and Judiciary
Council Reforms Voir Dire to Include Gay and Lesbian Reality
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey W. Erdman - Did you know that the Judicial Council of California recently changed the manner in whic...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named three prominent state lawyers to a new Council of Economic Advisers. Named ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Liz Valsamis - Tim Crews and Bruce Anderson have a lot in common: Both are small-town newsmen...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Lawyer Is Glad to Break His High Court Date
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - For most attorneys, getting in the door to argue a case before the California or U.S. supreme cou...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Likes Finished Product in Court, Kitchen
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Martin H. Wegman is in the "twilight of his judicial career," he says, so he's preparing for his ne...
SAN FRANCISCO - The harrowing tale of a Guatemalan immigrant abused in his homeland and in Mexico before reaching the United S...
WASHINGTON - When the Philadelphia Eagles kicked off their football season on Sept. 12, newly acquired wide receiver Terrell O...
Appellate Practice
Mediator With Hospital Ties Is Taken Off Doctor's Case
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A retired state appellate justice with ties to a Salinas hospital had no business presiding over an administra...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Stuart Miller - In most cases in which a person faces a deprivation of life, liberty or prope...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday certified a class action on behalf of 250 Abercrombie & Fitch em...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego City Council vote to remove a rope barrier that bars humans from a popular seal beach has sparked new ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday vetoed a bill, apparently directed at a retired appellate justice, that...
SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court Thursday ordered the San Diego County Civil Service Commission to turn over to a newspaper...
LOS ANGELES - In one of the first applications of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Blakely decision, a state appellate court ha...
Judges and Judiciary
Redding Judge Continues a Community-Minded Lineage
By Xenia Kobylarz
REDDING - Superior Court Judge Stephen H. Baker's appointment to the Shasta County bench last year inspired a bit of a fanfare...
Criminal
Backers Kick Off Campaign for Three-Strikes Reform Initiative
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - What promises to be a nasty campaign over a November ballot measure to rein in California's "three strikes and y...
SAN FRANCISCO - "Do not assist these loved ones. Let their fate be what it is. We know where you are, where you live and where...
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the Los Angeles County ...
SAN FRANCISCO - German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to plead guilty to fixing the price of computer memory ch...
SANTA ANA - A ballot initiative designed to end the "legal extortion" caused by the state's unfair competition laws gained a b...
SAN FRANCISCO - Amie Anderson was trapped in Washington state's foster care system like a passenger stuck on a beat-up Greyhou...
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Max Factor III - In California, the state Legislature and the Supreme Court...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Court Rejects Splitting Up Autistic Boy, Sibling
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - Signaling an important victory for disability rights advocates, a state appeals court Wednesday reversed a trial...
Entertainment & Sports
Battered Oakland A's Fans, Attorney Stand to Win Big
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Like a home run hitter waiting for a fat pitch, Oakland attorney Gary Gwilliam is sitting on a lawsuit against...
SACRAMENTO - California's three-strikes law has reduced crime rates, stabilized the prison population and had other "positive ...