As counsel for Dr. Seuss Enterprises, La Jolla attorney Karl ZoBell works to protect the creations of the beloved children's a...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - As Daily Journal EXTRA scoured the state for holiday reading recommendations, we had to wonder w...
Like a proud parent, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth has guided Powerwave Technologies Inc. as it has grown and matured. T...
Equal parts Zen master, consultant, visionary, taskmaster and best friend, executive coaches, long a staple of corporate Ameri...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Sincere Opening Statements Bring Best Mediation Results
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Column - ADR Strategy - By Lee Jay Berman - A bright line differentiates client advocacy in mediation from other forms of clie...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Retires After Two Decades on Superior Court Bench
By Erica Williams
After 20 years, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner John Ladner has stepped down from the bench. Ladner retired Nov. 7. Hi...
When the three founders of the Women's Law Center established the organization in 1989, it was the only center dedicated solel...
Motown phenomenon and American music icon Stevie Wonder made a surprise appearance at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law...
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius last week offered a West Coast twist to what looked to be essentially an East Coast acquisition. ...
The Scene was on the move to Santa Monica on a drizzly Saturday night, looking forward to getting a read on the night's main e...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CARSON - Grubb & Ellis' Sean O'Donnell represented Aeronet Inc., an Irvine-based airfreight and logisti...
LOS ANGELES - About two dozen young people, dressed in orange jail T-shirts, rallied Friday outside the downtown Los Angeles C...
Although a grand jury decided not to indict him for criminal misconduct, the actions of a San Jose police officer who shot to ...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley - Do California courts have personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state seller t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Nonverbal Cues Can Give Counsel Vital Information
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Most people underrate the amount of communication that ta...
LOS ANGELES - A man who showed up outside the Artesia home of his former girlfriend, shouted insults and threats and then stab...
LOS ANGELES - On Wednesday, affordable-housing advocates will celebrate the collaboration of two organizations that have helpe...
SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Thomas Spielbauer will stand trial on a misdemeanor charge of misl...
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar Court has recommended that one-time civil rights attorney A. Thomas Hunt, who resigned from the ba...
LOS ANGELES - Californians soon will have a say in major administrative and financial decisions by the courts, the courts' pol...
WASHINGTON - Police question a woman about a structure fire for a half-hour without telling her she has the right to remain si...
Judges and Judiciary
Fresno Judge Achieves Goal of Lessening Civil Backlog
By Xenia Kobylarz
FRESNO - When Stephen Kane decided to apply for a vacant seat on the Fresno County Superior Court in 1992, he had a pretty goo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County Superior Court Judge William McGivern has decided not to seek re-election and has filed for disab...
Criminal
Prosecuting Cops for Civil Rights Violations Is Often a Lost Cause
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Civil rights prosecutions of police officers are rare and tough to win. That makes the current federal grand j...
Forum Column - By Zoran K. Basich - Many estate planners don't know that revocable living trusts are a disaster for long-term ...
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CANOGA PARK - J.H. Snyder Co. sold Warner Marketplace, a 157,000-square-foot retail complex, to an undiscl...
Focus Column Insurance Law By Kirk Pasich Insureds can look to a number of policy provisions, as well as the doctrine of miti...
Employment Column By Deanna M. Wilkinson Autumn is always a busy time for law firms. Firms conduct on-campus interviews, stud...
Zoning, Planning and Use
State Refuses to See Big Picture in Yuba City-Marysville Flood Litigation
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Forum Column By Michael M. Berger One has to wonder what it is about large bureaucracies that makes them incapable of seeing ...
Real Estate/Development
High Court Should Uphold Edict on Section 8 Housing
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Forum Column By David Pallack Section 8 tenants in California face a difficult dilemma when their landlord decides that it no...