Column - Good Company - By Jill S. Dodd - Congress enacted the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act (comm...
Media and technology company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. and satellite-television provider EchoStar Communications Cor...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Latham Advises Sale of Interpore For $280 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Ten years after taking Interpore International Inc. public, Charles Ruck has guided the company in another milestone. The Cost...
Trying to expand its presence in the data-storage market, semiconductor company Applied Micro Circuits Corp. of San Diego has ...
Some attorneys have found a creative way to plan for retirement, their children's education, or other long-term financial comm...
White-collar defense attorney Michael Attanasio has joined Cooley Godward's San Diego office, leaving his post as partner at S...
Firm Watch
Reed Smith Snags Senior Staff Attorney From State High Court
By Erik Cummins
Dennis Maio spent 17 years as a senior staff attorney to state Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk. When Mosk died in 2001, aft...
Column - Evidence - By Scott Stevens - By now, most litigators are aware of the increasing importance of digital evidence in d...
Aon Corp.'s approach to litigation was a bit unconventional, says Shand Stephens, the former chief trial counsel to the insura...
Judges and Judiciary
Don't Let Cattle-Industry Lobbyist Stampede Onto Bench
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Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The track record of William G. Myers III as Interior Department solicitor demonstrates that ...
Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - We can point with justifiable pride to the many innovations our state ...
Appellate Practice
Peremptory Challenges Guarantee Unbiased Juries, Fair Trials
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Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - A case challenging California's protection against racial bias in jury selection will be th...
LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man's murder conviction must be thrown out because sheriff's deputies failed to advise him of h...
Notebook - By Phillip Carrizosa - To most lawyers and judges, forgiveness is still a foreign concept within the law. The Ameri...
SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge A. Wallace Tashima has announced he will mov...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor David Angel has an unusual new assignment. He's not trying to put people behind bars....
BAKERSFIELD - When John Stoll was sent to prison in 1985 as a convicted child molester, he chose to remain in the general popu...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Brent Kendall - On a blustery January day uncommonly cold for coastal Virginia, dozens of fir...
SAN FRANCISCO - When he slashed the state's vehicle license fee, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger triggered an obligation to pay an ...
LOS ANGELES - Before he ever considered becoming a judge, or a lawyer for that matter, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis...
SAN DIEGO - Just weeks after Los Angeles agreed to pay $500,000 for disciplinary letters it placed in its police officers' fil...
SAN FRANCISCO - The legal campaign to strike down a national ban on late-term abortions opens today in three federal courtroom...
SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy and Vietnam-born David Bui fell in love seven years ago...
SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe is the latest California law firm to stake out a claim in the capital of t...
Poets have gotten a bad rap. Almost as bad as lawyers. At least there isn't a formal genre of poet jokes. But when times get t...
Judges and Judiciary
Duck Blind or Not, Scalia Had Already Made Up His Mind
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Forum Column - By Lou Mathews - I am not a lawyer but I am married to one, which means that I am occasionally forced to bring ...
Intellectual Property
Decision Could Aid Defense Of Copyright Infringement
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Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - It seems as if copyright infringement claims over the creation of ...
Employment Column - By Edward D. Burmeister and Robert G. Marshall II - When planning to offer equity plan awards to employees...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Powell Wins Judicial-Bias Oscar for 'Roe v. Wade'
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Forum Column - By Philip A. Rafferty - Justice Lewis F. Powell, after retiring from the Supreme Court, admitted to Nina Totenb...
Forum Column - By Michael Benner - In the classic "Man's Search for Meaning," Viktor Frankl describes his experience as a pris...