San Diego's Gordon & Rees has hired three new lawyers in its Newport Beach office. Partners Steve Waimey and Eduardo Bolt ...
Venture Law Group, the Silicon Valley corporate boutique that saw its fortunes rise and fall with the dot-com boom, is being a...
A Beverly Hills psychiatrist was not defamed when a prominent lawyer called her "Looney Tunes" and "mentally unbalanced" on Co...
You like potato and I like potahto. Let's call the whole thing off. If it were only that easy. Couples calling it quits are u...
LOS ANGELES - Of the 40 cases slated for any given day in downtown Los Angeles' Division 20U, one might involve a graffiti spr...
Kelly Crabb has negotiated entertainment deals for big-name musicians like Paul McCartney and Dave Matthews and for the produc...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - After a marriage falls apart, there are plenty of mediators offering their services, ready to me...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Plus: The Good and Bad of the Collaborative Law Movement
By Joan Osterwalder
Divorce lawyers specializing in collaborative law tout their practice as a cheaper, faster and less combative alternative to l...
A San Francisco couple, together for 27 years, has been forced to spend the last eight months apart because of a job. Daniel K...
Litigation
The Top-Ten List of Things You Shouldn't Say in Court
By Contributing Writer
Column - Courtroom Etiquette - By Douglas G. Carnahan - New lawyers need to know the rule against hearsay and what the grounds...
California law firms continue to expand into China. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Morrison & Foerster are the ...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The Carson Harbor Village Mobile Home Park should be renamed the "Peri...
Forum Column - By Julia Harumi Mass - On April 7, 2003, Oakland police used "less-than-lethal" weapons against peaceful anti-w...
Forum Column - By Thomas W. Hiltachk - After five years in office, Gray Davis clearly has governed without any vision; he simp...
LOS ANGELES - The Western Center for Law and Poverty has broken last year's fund-raising records for the annual Garden Party, ...
State Bar Notebook - By Don J. DeBenedictis - Judiciary officials plan to bring together groups of lawyers and judges soon to ...
LOS ANGELES - A recent decision by Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to slash a proposed rate increase by a major medical-...
COLTON - A federal appeals court has decided that former Mayor Karl Gaytan must pay the city of Colton the $61,000 in bribe mo...
WASHINGTON - Lawyers for two groups that attempted to keep Proposition 54 off the Oct. 7 recall ballot are disappointed with t...
LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Western State University College of Law in Fullerton won provisional accreditation from the Amer...
Product Liability
Plaintiff's Claims in Seat-Belt Case Will Test Ford's Defense
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - A trial in Chatsworth pitting a disabled 12-year-old against the Ford Motor Co. could expose the automotive gian...
LOS ANGELES - The district attorney's office asked a retired judge Friday to make public his decision on whether to force the ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The only IBM Selectric II typewriter still in existence in the San Francisco Superior Courts can be found clea...
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals panel on Thursday affirmed racketeering and conspiracy convictions against 11 members of the no...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich - Diamond Woodworks v. Argonaut Insurance Co. , 109 Cal.App.4th 10...
Employment Column - By Gail Kaneshiro - Rebuilding Iraq will be costly. According to Asia Times, "the United Nations Developme...
Forum Column - By Alan D. Pauw - Coverage of the election to recall Gov. Gray Davis consists mostly of high-octane political r...
SAN FRANCISCO - A bitter consumer health fight over second-hand tobacco smoke in hotels has coughed up a new lawsuit - this on...
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature sent two bills to the governor Thursday that would enable public prosecutors to sue publicl...
Personal Injury & Torts
Disabilies Act Demands Action, Kennedy Says
By Don De Benedictis
ANAHEIM - Ted Kennedy Jr. sometimes tells people that he is glad that he lost a leg to cancer 30 years ago when he was 12. "I ...