U.S. Court Awards Israeli Arab Asylum on Economic Grounds
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli Arab, repeatedly attacked by fellow Israeli citizens for his ethnicity and religion, deserves asyl...
Riverside County Conservation Plan Is Largest Multiple-Species Prototype
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Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Michele A. Staples and Alene M. Taber - On June 17, the Riverside County Board of Superv...
Bail Out
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Forum Column - By Michael P. Judge, John J. Vacca and Ronald Yorizane - On June 25, the Los Angeles Daily Journal ran a story ...
Duane Morris Takes Trio From Luce Forward
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Three weeks after it lured 12 insurance lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Duane Mo...
Man Gets Life for Molesting Boys
By Jim Adamekn
SANTA ANA - Former Newport Beach recreation director Trenton Michael Veches, who was convicted in May of sucking the toes of n...
Warren Gets New Bench Job
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren, the grandson of a former U.S. Supreme Court justice, who recently presided ...
Judge's Duty: To Educate Jurors
By Xenia Kobylarz
FRESNO - Civility is not optional in Judge Kent "Buck" Levis' courtroom. It says so in bold, capital letters at the bottom of ...
In Daily Journal Extra this week: Please Stand By
By John Ryan
WASHINGTON - The federal government's case against the alleged 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could be the ul...
Persecuted Israeli Merits Asylum, Says Circuit Panel
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli Arab, repeatedly attacked by fellow Israeli citizens for his ethnicity and religion, deserves asylu...
Counties Lose Suit Over Pension Payments
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Five California counties owe their retirees hundreds of millions of dollars in additional pension benefits, a ...
What Better Career For a Tired Attorney Than Interviewing Baseball Players and Legends?
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Probably every lawyer has asked himself sometime during his career: Why do I continue to do this? Many feel bu...
Accounting for Capital
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Weak fundamentals may be driving the commercial real estate outlook, but investment capi...
The $5 Million Set
By Jeff Berg
Man Unleashes Suits Over Poodle
By Susan Mc Rae
LOS ANGELES - Squinting in the noonday sun, the bespectacled, gray-bearded David Marc Greenstein, toting a heavy tan leather s...
Speed-Judging Wins Jurist Accolades From Attorneys
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - For Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs, life's been quite a journey - from displaced schoolgirl fleeing post-wa...
Gray Area
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Forum Column - By Julie Ruiz-Sierra - Thirteen years ago, in Washington v Harper , 494 U.S. 210 (1990), a case involvin...
Justices Join Culture Wars On Side of Right to Privacy
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Forum Column - By Chris Ford - America's modern "culture war" dates to President Richard Nixon's attempt to redefine the divis...
White-Collar Lawyer Is Needed If Criminal Liability Is Possible
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Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Bryan D. Daly - Civil litigators frequently find themselves counseling corporate clients and ...
Billable-Hour Model Has Some Major Side Effects
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Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Billing by the hour is central to private law practice today. However, using time...
Panel Finds Roller Rink Blameless in Rave Deaths
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - A roller-skating rink is not responsible for the 1999 deaths of two teenagers or the injuries of two others, who...
MoFo Picks Mark Danis For Top Spot
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Morrison & Foerster have elected Mark W. Danis as one of three firmwide managing partners for ...
Chief Lawyer at PUC Named
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Randolph L. Wu, a former attorney for a ratepayer advocacy organization, was named Thursday as the chief lawye...
Federal Prosecutor Joins Cleveland Firm
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Tom Warren, who successfully prosecuted former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III on corrup...
Criminal Files in Flux At S.F. Hall of Justice
By Dennis Opatrny
Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis J. Opatmy - When the San Francisco Superior Court's criminal division decided to consolidate i...
Infant's Parents Sue LAPD, City
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The family of a infant boy whose arm was partially severed in a police chase last year have filed suit against t...
Bar Election
By Don De Benedictis
LOS ANGELES - A former Municipal Court judge and county bar president defeated six other candidates to win election from Los A...
Trevor Law Attorneys, Facing Disbarment, Resign from Bar
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES -Three Beverly Hills attorneys targeted by authorities for misusing the state's unfair-competition law to file tho...
Panel Castigates Sloppy Work
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno Court of Appeal panel gave three land use lawyers a public spanking for submitting a flawed administr...
Impasse Lifts As Sex Predator Finds a Home
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The first person to qualify for release under California's Sexually Violent Predator Act will be sent within three ...
Harris: New Blood
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala D. Harris recalls prowling San Francisco's Tenderloin at midnight looking for an Oakland girl who had t...