Season's Readings
By Erik Cummins
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - As Daily Journal EXTRA scoured the state for holiday reading recommendations, we had to wonder w...
Stradling Yocca Guides $407 Million Deal
By Toni Vranjes
Like a proud parent, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth has guided Powerwave Technologies Inc. as it has grown and matured. T...
Seniors on the Move
By Laura Coleman
BY LAURA COLEMAN CREJ Staff Writer A generation ago, aging Americans saw retirement as a straight line - a move to senior hous...
In the Game
By Kate Fitzgerald
Equal parts Zen master, consultant, visionary, taskmaster and best friend, executive coaches, long a staple of corporate Ameri...
Sincere Opening Statements Bring Best Mediation Results
By Columnist
Column - ADR Strategy - By Lee Jay Berman - A bright line differentiates client advocacy in mediation from other forms of clie...
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...
Women's Law Center Raises $112,000
By Stefanie Knapp
When the three founders of the Women's Law Center established the organization in 1989, it was the only center dedicated solel...
Just What the Doctor Ordered: A Big Lease
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Kilroy Realty Corp . not only signed one of San Diego's largest office lease transaction...
Stevie Wonder Surprises Blues Brunch Participants
By Tina Spee
Motown phenomenon and American music icon Stevie Wonder made a surprise appearance at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law...
Morgan Lewis Steals 31 Patent Experts
By Joel Rosenblatt
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius last week offered a West Coast twist to what looked to be essentially an East Coast acquisition. ...
Main Event
By Katrina Dewey
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...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 8
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CARSON - Grubb & Ellis' Sean O'Donnell represented Aeronet Inc., an Irvine-based airfreight and logisti...
Marchers Protest Harsh Treatment of Juveniles
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - About two dozen young people, dressed in orange jail T-shirts, rallied Friday outside the downtown Los Angeles C...
Style Pays Off for the Inn Crowd
By Chris Tolles
BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant If your name isn't on the VIP list for the Standard Downtown's bar, chances are you won't...
Northern People
By Joseph Sorrentino
AC MARTIN PARTNERS John McGuire , American Institute of Architects, has joined AC Martin Partners as director of the Sacramen...
Family Sues Officer Who Shot Vietnamese Immigrant
By Eron Yehuda
Although a grand jury decided not to indict him for criminal misconduct, the actions of a San Jose police officer who shot to ...
Out-of-State Companies Selling On Web Risk Suit in California
By Columnist
Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley - Do California courts have personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state seller t...
Nonverbal Cues Can Give Counsel Vital Information
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Most people underrate the amount of communication that ta...
Provoker Cannot Be Provoked, Panel Says
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A man who showed up outside the Artesia home of his former girlfriend, shouted insults and threats and then stab...
L.A. Family Housing Will Honor David Lash
By Tina Spee
LOS ANGELES - On Wednesday, affordable-housing advocates will celebrate the collaboration of two organizations that have helpe...
Former Public Defender to Stand Trial
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Thomas Spielbauer will stand trial on a misdemeanor charge of misl...
Bar Court Votes to Reinstate Attorney
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The State Bar Court has recommended that one-time civil rights attorney A. Thomas Hunt, who resigned from the ba...
Southern People
By Joseph Sorrentino
CITY NATIONAL BANK City National Bank announced recently that Breck Fleming , a senior vice president with the bank, has been...
State Courts Agree to Public Input
By Erica Williams
LOS ANGELES - Californians soon will have a say in major administrative and financial decisions by the courts, the courts' pol...
Court Will Consider Limits On 'Miranda' Questioning
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Police question a woman about a structure fire for a half-hour without telling her she has the right to remain si...
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...
McGivern, Of Marin, Opts for Retirement
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County Superior Court Judge William McGivern has decided not to seek re-election and has filed for disab...
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...
Cost of Living
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Zoran K. Basich - Many estate planners don't know that revocable living trusts are a disaster for long-term ...
DAILY DEALS: Transactions for Dec. 5
By Angela Gottula
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CANOGA PARK - J.H. Snyder Co. sold Warner Marketplace, a 157,000-square-foot retail complex, to an undiscl...