Felony-Murder Applies to Co-Felon's Death in Arson
By Columnist
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - The felony-murder rule is one of the most controversial doctrines in the...
Sonsini Will Head NYSE Group Regulating Big Board Issuers
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Purged last month from the board of the New York Stock Exchange, Larry Sonsini is back in a leadership positi...
Overcrowded State Prisons
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Brady Sullivan - All sides in the debate in Sacramento about how to solve California's budget crisis recogni...
Panel Consolidates Paxil Lawsuits in L.A.
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - At least a dozen cases against pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline over its anti-depressant drug Paxil will be ...
Build Success
By Columnist
Column - Construction Defects - By Bruce A. Edwards - Like the real estate mantra of location, location, location, the key to ...
Harris Eyes Giuntini as No. 2
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris is considering reaching across the bay to pluck Alameda County prosecuto...
Veteran Prosecutor Retiring
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Not even the arrest of a state Supreme Court justice for suspected drunken driving could faze Michael Gridley,...
U.S. Death-Penalty Numbers Fall This Year
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - The number of death sentences, executions and death-row inmates in the United States all declined this year from ...
Casden Targets Cooley in Complaint
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Real estate mogul Alan Casden filed a formal complaint Friday with the State Bar charging Los Angeles District A...
NYSE Names Member Who Was Ousted In Shake-up
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Larry Sonsini, purged last month from the board of the New York Stock Exchange, is back in a leadership positi...
Settlement Is Good News to Brobeck's Chief Creditor
By Erik Cummins
SAN FRANCISCO - In a substantial shot in the arm for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's chief creditor, the bankrupt firm's for...
Inaction No Longer an Option
By Staff Writer
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer With the California real estate industry footing the bill for lead-paint abatement and rep...
Fabled Toy Emporium Fading From View
By Toni Vranjes
Parents are keeping a close eye on their wallets when they buy stuffed animals, dolls and video games for their kids - and tha...
Judge Makes Smooth Jump to Federal Court
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - R. Gary Klausner has positive feelings about his first year on the federal bench. That's hardly a surprise to th...
Union Steps Up Pressure to Organize Security Guards
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor Union leaders seeking to organize Los Angeles' security guards vowed to take their f...
Change Agent
By Contributing Writer
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - From the time she joined her parents on the cannery-worker picket lines in high school to her da...
Next Generation
By Columnist
Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - The conference room doors opened. In walked two lawyers and one unassuming engin...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 19
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LYNWOOD - Imperial Shopping Center LLC has signed five separate leases totaling $10.4 million for its 425,...
Despite Tinseltown Couple's Charges, Botox Proves Safe
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Marc A. Levin - More than 500,000 Americans use Botox to smooth out facial wrinkles and relieve muscle disor...
9th Circuit Says Detentions Are Grave, Startling
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - In the second of two significant federal court decisions handed down Thursday regarding the rights of enemy c...
Firms Must Address Perceptions of Gender Bias
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - The State Bar requires continuing education for elimination of bias in the legal profess...
Prosecutor in Jackson Case Is Used to Getting His Way
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Soon after Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Denise de Bellefeuille, a former prosecutor, took the bench in 19...
Gender Neutral
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The historic decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Goodridge v. Dep...
Case May Reduce Employers' Summary-Judgment Motions
By Columnist
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Anthony J. Oncidi - The state Supreme Court again has parted compa...
Politico Adds 'Peace Activist' to His Name
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - It's official: Jerry Rubin, perennial Santa Monica anti-war advocate and local politico, is now Jerry Peace Acti...
Judge Releases More Documents
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday released more documents in the grand jury investigation of sexual abuse ...
Judge Dismisses Enhancements in Rape Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In what defense attorneys called a significant victory for their case, an Orange County judge Thursday granted a m...
DA Charges Pop Star With Sexual Abuse of Boy, 13
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Pop star Michael Jackson was charged Thursday with seven counts of committing a lewd act upon a child under age ...
Court Clears 911 Dispatchers
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Frantic parents whose toddler daughter got a severe electric shock in the bathtub can't sue over 911 dispatch...