SAN FRANCISCO - Unanimously reversing a 1987 death sentence Monday, the California Supreme Court criticized a defense lawyer f...
Constitutional Law
Will Bryant Transcripts Be Public?
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Although alarmed by what they see as a direct assault on a fundamental right of a free press, media lawyers anti...
Lawyers have elevated arguing about the meaning of words to a fine art. But for those who want to cut to the core of a legal t...
Firm Watch
Heller Ehrman Snares 10 Lawyers To Handle Litigation of Asian Deals
By Erik Cummins
Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe was so bullish on Chinese deal making that it hired 25 corporate lawyers from Hong Kong'...
American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Martha Matthews left her post earlier this month to take over as director of USC...
Human resources outsourcing and consulting firm Hewitt Associates Inc. has agreed to merge with Irvine-based Exult Inc. for $6...
SAN FRANCISCO - If the federal government requires judges to report to the U.S. Sentencing Commission whenever one of their pr...
SB899, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's answer to boosting the economy, aims to cut workers' compensation insurance costs for the ...
The Oregon Public Employees Retirement System Board recently won the dismissal of a U.S. District Court case that challenged l...
Todd Rumberger, managing partner of Greenberg Traurig's East Palo Alto office, sees new partner Wayne Jones as the key piece o...
Entertainment & Sports
Tinseltown Disputes Present Some Unique Challenges
By Columnist
Column - Adviser - By Joel M. Grossman - While every mediation has its own twists and turns, entertainment disputes present th...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Stedim Acquires a Supplier Of Freeze-Thaw Technology
By Megan Thorpe
In its first-ever acquisition, Stedim S.A., a designer and manufacturer of single-use, sterile-plastic-bag systems, purchased ...
"Jane Doe" thought she did everything right before she bought her first house. She scrimped and saved, paid off most of her cr...
During summer and autumn in the San Joaquin Valley, nut harvesting causes dust clouds to rise. The health risks are usually li...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Bob Evans Farms Buys Mimi's Parent for $182 Million
By Megan Thorpe
Bob Evans Farms Inc. has acquired SWH Corp., which owns the Mimi's Caf restaurant chain, for $182 million. Bob Evans offered t...
On Aug. 3, the head of the criminal division at the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., will follow two former high-ra...
Charitable legal organization Bet Tzedek's annual Justice Ball has made Hollywood's to-do list, evidenced July 10 by something...
Partner Barry Katzman has left the Palo Alto office of Pillsbury Winthrop for San Jose's Hopkins & Carley. Katzman, 49, jo...
Criminal
Governor's Veto Exposes Medical-Pot Users to Needless Risk of Prosecution
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Gerald F. Uelman - In a shallow act of political expediency, on July 19, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed S...
Forum Column - By Jonathan A. Loeb and Hartwell V. Harris - Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court in Blakely v. Washington...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - On Wednesday, the Bush administration announced that it is planning to extend the mobiliza...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Alex Ricciardulli - To err is human; to forgive, divine. To fail repeatedly on probation, only ...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed his first two judges to the bench, and one of them is a public defender....
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Erik Cummins - You can't tell the story of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in California without ...
LOS ANGELES - Jerrell Patrick, who was at the heart of a judicial election controversy over the release of 31 suspected felons...
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley darling Google Inc., famous for its anti-corporate mantra "do no evil," is being accused by a f...
SAN FRANCISCO - A generic excuse from a doctor isn't enough to stall an embattled Yuba County judge's date with his disciplina...
Judges and Judiciary
Pillsbury Bids Farewell to Paul Griffin After 26 Years
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has lost another longtime partner, Paul Griffin, a 26-year veteran of the San Francisco fir...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has revived the sexual harassment claims of a Presbyterian minister, saying that the F...
SAN FRANCISCO - Dealing what could be a major blow to some of the first sexual abuse claims litigated against the Catholic Chu...