Value of Jurors' Life Experience Reiterated
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors should apply their own lives' lessons as they ponder a defendant's fate. So a judge's contrary instruc...
Commissioner Brings an Athlete's Attitude to the Bench
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Matthew Gary has set his sights high ever since he recognized in grade sc...
Daily Deals -- Transactions for Dec. 29
By Joseph Pimentel
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Sony Corp. of America signed a 10-year, $10.65 million lease for 43,519 square feet of research and de...
Panel Orders Hearing on Three-Stooges Lawsuit
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - Wiseguy, eh? Ruling reversed, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Hartford Insurance Co. eye-poked Los Angeles Superior Court Jud...
Court Tells Casino Worker: No Makeup, No Job at Bar
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A female bartender at a Nevada casino who refused to wear makeup on the job cannot pursue her sex discriminat...
Blind Child Sues Maker of Drug
By Blair Clarkson
LOS ANGELES - In the latest blow to the pharmaceutical industry, a 7-year-old girl sued Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday, say...
Resist Paying Foreign Official For Any Government Benefit
By Columnist
Focus Column - International Law - By John F. McKenzie - The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. Sections 78dd-1 et seq.,...
The Death Penalty Is Nothing More Than an Expensive Charade
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Scott Peterson murder trial captivated the nation and received extensive media attenti...
Colleges Must Educate Students About Value of Free Speech
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Greg Lukianoff - For those of you who are concerned about the state of free expression on campus, I would li...
Ex-DA's Column 'Reeks of Disingenuousness'
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - In his letter to the editor ("Ex-DA Teaches 'Miranda' Accurately," Dec. 27 Daily Journal), Richard Chry...
Writer Applies Wink And Nod to 'Miranda'
By Contributing Writer
Letter to the Editor - Richard Chrystie's impassioned defense of the hiring of Devalis Rutledge by the Los Angeles County dist...
Coal Miner's Grandson
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Ron Del Pozzo was elected to the Santa Clara County bench a little over two years ago, and he hasn't stopped runnin...
High Court Expands Awards for Fraud-Related Punitive Damages
By Ryan Oliver
A state Supreme Court ruling that companies who commit fraud can be hit with punitive damages even in the absence of property ...
Man Who Stalked Two Attorneys Placed on Probation
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco writer pleaded guilty Tuesday to stalking a Bingham McCutchen partner by impersonating...
Rats Rule Long Beach Courthouse
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Judge Bradford Andrews didn't think much the first time he found his "Get Out of Jail Free" novelty candy bar o...
Insurance Coverage Received State Courts' Attention in 2004
By Columnist
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2004, the state Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendere...
The reaction to UCLA professor Richard H. Sander's recent study of preferential university admission is freighted with more em...
For Sex Predators, 'Purgatory Can't Be Worse Than Hell'
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Sexual predators must be treated better than criminal defendants while authorities determine whether they sho...
Playing Offense
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Sharon Arkin grew up on a chicken ranch in Orange County and somehow wound up a Democrat in that Republican stro...
Commissioner Brings Compassion to Courtroom
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Oleon's best experience since taking the Alameda County bench 18 months ago was when an 11-year-old gir...
Times Sues for Papers From Secret Meetings
By Blair Clarkson
The Los Angeles Times has filed suit to obtain audiotapes and other papers documenting two secret meetings the County Board o...
Worker's Comp Award
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - The state's worker's compensation system has won a $14.6 million default judgment against two Rancho Cucamonga ...
Imitation of Life: Fictional Blog Captures Venal Lawyer's Barren Heart
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Who works obsessively in a high-rise, suit-and-tie gulag and delights in making associates and law ...
The Great Deluge
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration dominated the agenda for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004, by sheer volume of cases a...
Pillsbury Winthrop Supports Diversity in Orange County
By Lorelei Laird
When Dawn Steele moved to Pillsbury Winthrop's Costa Mesa office in 2001, she saw only one thing missing from her new home: la...
Liner Lawyers Fund Scholarships for Foster Children
By Susan Mc Rae
This holiday season, the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif have planned so...
Panel Finds the RAW Facts in Asylum Applicant's Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - India does, indeed, have a spy agency known as RAW. You can look it up on the Internet. That's apparently what...
Jury Awards Woman $4.2 Million in Harassment Case
By Draeger Martinez
A San Francisco jury dealt a heavy blow to a Bay Area information technology consulting company, awarding former employee Anni...
2004 Was Year of Law-Firm Alliances, Big and Small
By Tina Spee
Year in Review - By Tina Spee - When the clock strikes midnight this New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest law-firm merge...
Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Heads to Federal Court
By Adrianna Khoo
A 62-year-old former employee of noted advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi finds herself sending out dozens of rsums aft...