Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - The court in In re Marriage of Tydlas...
Forum Column - By Sidney Morse - Concern for the American worker must become a top priority to policy-makers, business leaders...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge declined Monday to block new tests off the California coast of a high-frequency sonar system i...
LOS ANGELES - An 18-page questionnaire aimed at gauging whether potential jurors have been tainted by pretrial publicity in th...
Judges and Judiciary
Some Lawyers Call Jurist Decisive; Others Find Her Difficult
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - If you're headed to Department K in the Compton Courthouse, you might consider, first, leaving early enough to a...
Criminal
Veteran San Bernardino Prosecutor Will Retire
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - David Whitney, a veteran San Bernardino County prosecutor who has secured 105 murder and manslaughter convict...
SAN FRANCISCO - Worrying yourself sick about job security in a grim economy does not qualify as a workers' compensation injury...
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature approved an initiative Monday for the November ballot that would give Californians a consti...
SAN FRANCISCO - A longtime deputy public defender has agreed to settle two lawsuits by tenants who claimed he failed to repair...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO - After graduating from Hastings College in 1983, Marie Weiner moved to San Diego with her husband to look...
Criminal
Mad Dog v. Jacko Wacko: 'Dumb and Dumber' Comes to Trial Court
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Finally, we have proof of something that many of us have long suspected. Celebrity trials do in fac...
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors returned to work Monday at San Francisco's Hall of Justice with smiles on their faces and a new bo...
SAN FRANCISCO - More than $2 billion will be paid to Northern Californians suffering from asbestos-related harm after a bankru...
LOS ANGELES - Has the government told the whole story on Project 112? In recent years, the Department of Defense has acknowled...
Appellate Practice
High Court Allows Pursuit of 1994 Northridge Earthquake Claims
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a federal appeals court decision that allows thousands of Southern Californ...
WASHINGTON -In a major victory for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a federal appeals c...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Daniel Callahan was transfixed by Judge Gregory H. Lewis. Specifically by his mouth, which seeme...
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Palo Alto software firm VMware Inc. in its acquisition by EMC Corp. VMware's soft...
Joshua Floum, VISA USA Inc.'s new general counsel, secretary and executive vice president, will advise the U.S. subsidiary of ...
Litigation
Business Trial Lawyers Climb on Boards of Chapters in California
By Tina Spee
The Association of Business Trial Lawyers welcomed new boards of directors to three of its five chapters in California on Jan...
Technology & Science
New Laptop Hooks Lawyer At Sony's Kiosk in Airport
By Contributing Writer
Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - I certainly do seem to be on a techno-binge lately. I go through stages when, fo...
LOS ANGELES - H. Kirkland Jones doesn't fool around when it comes to education. As a requirement for getting off probation, he...
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker plans to merge with Paris' Moquet Borde giving the Los Angeles-based firm 55 lawyers in ...
When cancer victim Osie K. Whitten had his body donated for research at the University of California, Davis, officials at the ...
Column - Trial Strategy - By Laurel Kaufer - Attorneys who try to use their clients' existing health care coverage for the tre...
That the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California's star-studded Bill of Rights dinner last month turned into a p...
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Deborah Rothman And Jeff Kichaven - There are many important considerations that ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Edwards Lifesciences Buys Medical Device Company
By Toni Vranjes
Irvine company Edwards Lifesciences Corp. is buying a privately held medical device company in a deal that could lead to more ...
Last year, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles received three-to-four complaints per week accusing the nonprofit of shoddy...
Educating 12-year-old students about Islam by requiring them to recite a line from a Muslim prayer and to play a board game th...