Christopher Ruhland has returned to San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as of-counsel after a stint at The Walt...
To corner the pineapple market, Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. allegedly engaged in a campaign of misinformation and "sham" pate...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Werner S. Lewin Jr. - Law office use of part-time contract attorneys continues to expand. Wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was poised to emerge from bankruptcy today after a federal judge denied a last-di...
Aspiring Navy SEAL Joel Roberts has won a jury verdict topping $6.6 million in a personal injury lawsuit against Riverside bus...
Encino attorney Greg Stone has racked up an impressive batting average in the courtroom. Stone, 40, has defended clients in 45...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Erik Cummins - Globalization has been the name of the game for the world's largest law firms ...
Forum Column - By Matt Daniels - Have you heard anyone say, "Marriage is not the business of government?" This sounds great un...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
High Court Must Ensure That HMOs Fulfill Their Promise
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Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Jeffrey A Lowe - Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two consolidat...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey L. Fillerup - In recent years, a dozen state and federal courts in California have foun...
LOS ANGELES - Her supervisors laughed it off when Shanese Exum complained that her female boss, Marianne Theus, was sexually h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The defense pummeled the government's key witness during two days of intense questioning last week in the mone...
SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay judge who was ousted for repeatedly bullying lawyers and his staff as well as a former Fresno juri...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - In 1977, Gov. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. made one of his most unusual judicial a...
SAN FRANCISCO - There is little dispute about who was involved in the grisly murder of transgender teenager Gwen Araujo. But w...
Constitutional Law
Suspect Waits Eight Years in Jail for Trial
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Prosecutors say Anthony Williams stabbed Talvin Bright 50 times in a Moreno Valley apartment in April 1992. Willia...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Malpractice Insurance Won't Cover All That Mediators Do
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeff Kichaven - Mediators need help from our brethren who practice insuranc...
Snow astonishing their hammered faces, the prisoners of Saint Lawrence, island men, remember in Spanish the island places ...
I sat in the car, window down in summer, waiting. ...
Employment Column - By Richard Sheldon - California has a long history of aversion to covenants prohibiting employees from com...
Criminal
Racer Whose Rival Died Must Spend Year in Jail
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A San Bernardino County Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced a street racer to a year in jail and three ...
RIVERSIDE - Services have been held for Kathleen M. Gonzales, an assistant city attorney in Riverside who died at her home Apr...
SAN FRANCISCO - Note to Silicon Valley lawyers: Avoid plotting to cover up a trade secret theft while on speaker phone. After ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris reshuffled her office staff Thursday and reached into Solano Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - A crime committed in another state and expunged from the defendant's record can still be counted as a felony f...
WASHINGTON - Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George P. Schiavelli appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Th...
Forum Column - By Vincent Schiraldi, Doug McVay and Jason Ziedenberg - In March, the Maryland House of Delegates passed a bipa...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Court Sets New Rules for Out-of-State Counsel
By Stefanie Knapp
LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court adopted new rules Thursday for out-of-state attorneys who want to practice in California...
SAN FRANCISCO - Manuel Reyes-Alcaraz is a Vietnam-era U.S. Army veteran, but that won't save him from deportation to his nativ...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Kamins keeps a photograph of a gravesite under his desk blotter. It'...