Labor/Employment
Employers Get More Freedom In Use of Outside Investigators
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By W. Barry Nixon - The Fair Credit Reporting Act was amended recently in a number of ways by ...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Friday recommended death for a Studio City motel operator who strangled four members of a bus...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Imagine yourself in this situation: As supervisor for a local steel company, you ...
Column - Adviser - By Joel M. Grossman - When lawyers ask for my advice on how to prepare for a mediation, I always tell them ...
SAN FRANCISCO - State Sens. Richard Ackerman and Joe Dunn will receive the Scales of Justice Award from the California Judges ...
LOS ANGELES - State legislators on Friday blasted Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca for shrugging off two-year-old violation...
LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer's campaign against bad nursing homes suffered a setback last week when a San...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Toni Vranjes - Attorney Philip Howard was driving back from a canceled event in Florida to hi...
SAN FRANCISCO - When retired Sacramento appellate Justice Daniel Kolkey appeared before his former colleagues in December, jus...
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawrence Stevens may not be much longer for the world of appellate judging. After six years on the 1st Distric...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Learns to Stop Pushing, Become His Own Peacemaker
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Judge Alexander H. Williams III, once known for his fiery brand of dispensing justice, says the single biggest d...
SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. faces a long, hot summer in federal court. A high-stakes duel opens in U.S. District Court in San...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted former Ukrainian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko on all 29 counts Thursday of using hi...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
'Catch-All' Arbitration Clauses Don't Give Parties Firm Footing
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Gerald G. Knapton - Quite a few lawyers seem to want to resolve any and all...
Forum Column - By Michael D. Singer - Should employees depend on self-sacrificing corporate employers to guarantee proper enti...
LOS ANGELES - A nationwide search is underway to replace Leigh H. Taylor, dean of Southwestern University School of Law, who w...
LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday in Walnut Creek for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Robert C....
SAN FRANCISCO - The three men accused of murdering transgender teenager Gwen Araujo were not provoked to kill because she dece...
LOS ANGELES - One "rock-solid" force has kept 17-year-old Allison Bellew from succumbing to the chaos of her upbringing. The t...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky J. Delgadillo and Michael N. Feuer, his opponent in the 2001 election, have agreed to pay fi...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Caseload Reflects Economy's Effect on Families
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Anthony S. Jones began presiding over domestic-violence restraining orde...
Appellate Practice
Phone Providers Must Make Their 'Slamming' Clearer
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court reinstated a fraud lawsuit Thursday against AT&T Corp., saying that when the company ...
LOS ANGELES - Movie producer Bo Zenga has sued imprisoned sleuth Anthony Pellicano and the police officer suspected of feeding...
LOS ANGELES - Last October, Los Angeles County jail inmate Ki Chul Hong was stabbed to death and stuffed into a laundry bin in...
SAN FRANCISCO - Plum growers still have a shot at ending mandatory state-run marketing campaigns, the California Supreme Court...
SAN FRANCISCO - Peter E. Scheer is an attorney and former newspaper publisher who has fought for open government - and once su...
Appellate Practice
New Rule Gives Lawyers More Flexibility in Choosing Citations
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Aimee Mackay and Catherine Valerio Barrad - In the impassioned debate that surrounded the U....
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Mitchell C. Tilner - The state Supreme Court's recent decision in MacKinnon v. Truck Ins....
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration Law Shortchanges Consumers, Small Businesses
By Columnist
Forum Column - By William G. Mitchell - When well-intentioned legislators enact legislation without examining the full extent ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A scene remarkable for its comity, given its participants and its subject matter, was played out late last mon...