Corrections Officials Stifle Investigators
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Department of Corrections is attempting to muffle complaints from its own internal affairs staf...
FDA's Ephedra Ban Likely Will Spark Legal Challenges
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Though Food and Drug Administration officials said last week that their decision to ban ephedra was the culminati...
Order Has Collateral Estoppel Effect on Ethical Breach Issue
By Columnist
Focus Column - Legal Ethics- By Alec H. Boyd The decision in A.I. Credit Corp. Inc. v. Aguilar & Sebastinelli, 2003...
Panel Will Review Its Ruling on DNA Samples From Parolees
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to reconsider its October decision that paroled inmates ca...
Rebuilding Iraq
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Sam Z. Gdanski - Halliburton Co. has become the lightning rod for critics of the Iraq war and rebuilding pro...
Agency Must Prove Dietary Supplement Poses Significant Risk of Illness or Injury
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Though Food and Drug Administration officials said last week that their decision to ban ephedra was the culminat...
3.5% Raise May Not Be Last Word
By Craiq Anderson
Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County and its salaried lawyers have settled into an uneasy truce over h...
Victims' Group Flays Church Study
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - A survey commissioned by Catholic bishops and scheduled for release today is expected to show most dioceses nati...
PG&E Plan: No Delay For Appeals
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali refused Monday to delay Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s Chapter 11 reorgan...
Landini to Be Top Investigator
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris is prepared to name Lou Landini, an Alameda County district attorney ins...
9th Circuit to Revisit Ruling On Collecting Parolee DNA
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to reconsider its October decision that paroled inmates can...
Back Where He Started
By Karen Coleman
OAKLAND - Judge Carl Morris is so practical and easygoing it's hard to imagine him listening to lawyers' arguments all day. "T...
Court Protects All Statements to Police
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Parting ways with most other states, a deeply divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that people cannot...
Court Restricts Forcible Medication of Offenders
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that mentally ill criminal offenders locked up in state hospitals ca...
Defense Counsel Gather in S.F. for Holiday Meeting
By Stefanie Knapp
As holiday shoppers hustled through Union Square in San Francisco to finish their gift-buying, the defense attorneys in the cr...
Volcano Welcomes Flow of $50 Million in New Funding
By Toni Vranjes
The holiday season was bright for Volcano Therapeutics Inc. Volcano, a medical device manufacturer, has completed a $50 millio...
Identity Theft
By Contributing Writer
Focus: Law Firm Management - By Neil Shapiro - Law firm consolidations, rare just a few years ago, now occur with the regulari...
Wal-Mart Takes on Inglewood
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
BY LAWRENCE KOOTNIKOFF Los Angeles Daily Journal Writer A 60-acre dirt lot in Inglewood has become the latest front in the fi...
Bills That Failed Passage in 2003
By Columnist
The commercial real estate industry dodged a few bullets in the last legislative session, but a new governor doesn't mean tha...
Armenian Heritage Inspires Judge's Focus on Justice
By Sarah Garveyn
LOS ANGELES - In 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Zaven V. Sinanian took a one-year leave of absence from his job at...
Governor Flexes Muscle to Provide Funding for Local Governments
By Columnist
BY REX HIME Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger turned to his executive branch power to ensure that scheduled payments will be made to...
Tenet Hires New Counsel To Get Through Legal Woes
By Liz Valsamis
Tenet Healthcare Corp. has tapped E. Peter Urbanowicz to steer the company through its legal troubles as its new general couns...
Real Estate Lawyer Moves To Follow Industry Changes
By Erik Cummins
Some of the country's megafirms have scaled back their real estate practices in recent years, says Douglas Van Gessel, a veter...
Analyze This
By Columnist
Column - Law Firm Management - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - In addition to providing its clients with quality legal service...
Electronic-Design Firms Merge
By Toni Vranjes
Silicon Valley high-technology companies Verisity Ltd. and Axis Systems Inc. are joining forces to create a bigger player in t...
Counting Every Last Cent
By Joel Rosenblatt
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Faxes, photocopies, Internet research, and telephone calls all make their way onto legal bills. ...
Landlords Lose Right to Evict, Close Single-Room Occupancy Hotels in 3 Cities
By Olivia Loy
BY OLIVIA LOY CREJ Staff Writer As of Jan. 1, big-city owners of single-room occupancy hotels will have a harder time closing...
German Investors Finance U.S. Movies
By Toni Vranjes
When "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" made its European premiere in Berlin in December, attorney Larry Ulman at...
Lawyers Can Prepare Clients for Small-Claims Court
By Contributing Writer
Column - Trial Strategy - By Douglas G. Carnahan - As the state Legislature and the Judicial Council continue to consider incr...
Intellidot Attracts $15 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Intellidot Corp.'s small hand-held device for preventing medication mistakes has piqued the interest of venture capitalists, w...