Defendant Gets Death in Police Ambush
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A judge has sided with a jury to decide that a defendant should die for killing a Riverside police officer two yea...
Hotel-Conversion Fight Loses in Federal Court
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has tossed a decade-old suit challenging San Francisco's controversial hotel-conversion ordin...
Injury Lawyer Arraigned on 25 Counts of Theft, Forgery
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - After being arraigned on 25 counts of grand theft, embezzlement and forgery Friday, a former San Francisco per...
Police Charge Man Days After He Signaled He Might Sue Them
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - The city of Inglewood has filed criminal charges against a man whose attorney notified them only days earlier of...
Judge Walker Won't Rule on Bias Recusal, But Steps Aside
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has decided not to weigh in on whether he should be recused for bias from a...
Hearings on Hispanic Judges Caught in Partisan Politics
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - In the hyperpoliticized arena of federal judicial appointments, Connie Callahan may have just the right stuff...
Take Time Out to Explore Possibilities for Mediation
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Laurel G. Kaufer - Employment disputes frequently are infused with intense emotion, which often hinders...
Gibson Dunn Bolsters Its Bankruptcy Practice
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher gave its reputable bankruptcy practice a boost when it acquired Richard M. Cieri to ...
Judicial Play
By David Houston
9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski began his dissent in the U.S. v. Ramirez-Lopez illegal alien smuggling case with the followin...
In a Bind
By Columnist
Forum Column - By James Acret - Licensing laws are anathema to libertarians. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman...
Three New Cases Assist With Defense of Section 17200 Suits
By Jennifer Orff
Focus Column - Litigation - By Matthew G. Ball - In the last five months of 2002, state appellate courts decided three cases t...
Trial Begins in Partnership Dispute
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Brian Lysaght did not mince words describing to a Malibu jury the behavior of Debra Pole and William Fitzgerald ...
First Night Court Session Takes Place Since Cuts
By Mark Cromer
SANTA ANA - It's a quarter to five on Tuesday evening and, as thousands of commuters are settling in for another arduous freew...
Daily Journal Staff Writer Wins Statewide Award
By Jeff Berg
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal staff writer Stefanie Knapp has been honored by the California Teachers Association fo...
Veteran PD Named to Head OCC
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Police Commission on Thursday named longtime deputy public defender Kevin Allen as interim ...
Defendant's Attack on DA Adds to His Term
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - An alleged gang member was convicted Thursday of assaulting a prosecutor but acquitted of attempted murder in a ...
State Lets Reversal Stand
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The state attorney general's office has decided not to challenge the reversal of the double-murder conviction...
Trevor Law Group Acted Out Of Greed, State Bar Contends
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group filed hundreds of unfair competition lawsuits against small-business owners out of greed, not i...
Colleagues and Friends Reminisce About O'Hern
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick O'Hern, who handled government contracts and other transactional work as deputy chief counsel for Law...
LexisNexis to Publish California Case Law
By Tyler Cunningham
SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking with 150 years of tradition, state officials announced Thursday that they have hired LexisNexis to p...
The Report on Los Angeles County's Juvenile Halls
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice found that Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls are in violation of numerous...
The Power of Judge Kozinski's Pen
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in San Diego got what they wanted earlier this year when a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Unum Plaintiff Won't Retry His Case After Punitives Cut
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco lawyer says the U.S. Supreme Court forced him to junk his plan to challenge a judge's $25 mil...
Court to Sample 'Napa' Wine Statute
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to step into the long-running battle over what constitutes Napa...
Delayed Notice May Not Result in Coverage Loss
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Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Most insurance policies contain provisions requiring that an insured notify...
Look Closely
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The pending nomination of Carolyn Kuhl to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals raises i...
Party Relationships Make ADR Suited to Entertainment Cases
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Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard S. Reisberg - To understand the entertainment industry's approach t...
Messinger Memorial Date Set
By Karen Coleman
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial for the late Sheldon Messinger, a UC Berkeley administrator and retired Boalt Hall faculty member ...
Publication of Ruling Rebuking Jurist Wins Praise
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - Family-law experts Wednesday praised the decision to publish an appellate court ruling rebuking a family-court c...
Council OKs Some Campaign Reforms
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday on some provisions aimed at limiting independent campaign spending b...