Immigrant Injustices
By Lauren Dodge
A report issued by Hastings College of the Law raises questions about a recent immigration policy designed to streamline the ...
Jurist Leads the Best-Kept Secret Of L.A. Courts
By Rebecca Kuzins
David Joe Searcy often jokes that his courtroom has the highest-volume caseload - and the lowest public profile - in Los Ange...
Securities Pacts Are Criticized as Wealth Transfers
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - A frustrated federal judge has grudgingly approved settlements totaling $14 million in two shareholder suits,...
Governor Signs Legislation to Revive State Bar
By Don De Benedictis
Ending nearly two years of doubt and political crisis, Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Monday to revive the State Bar of C...
E-Mail Emerges As Culprit in Termination Suit
By Denise Levin
A legal secretary at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel claims she was ejected from her employment based on e-mail. And the firm a...
Golden Age
By Jeffrey Anderson
Golden Age Pasadena's Hahn & Hahn is celebrating its 100th anniversary. What's the secret to its longevity? By Jeffrey An...
Horse Sense
By Columnist
Horse Sense When the bookie lawyer jumps out of the starting gate, he plays to win By Mark B. Vezzani My first assignment as ...
Stress Fracture
By Columnist
^^Professional Responsibility^^ Stress Fracture Immunity for Emotional Distress Caused During Negotiations The court's holdin...
Filling Excess Office Space Should Not Tear a Hole in Your Pocket
By Columnist
Filling excess office space shouldn't tear a hole in your pocket By Kimberly Quackenbush When a law firm has extra office spa...
Open House
By Stacy Cohen
By Stacy L. Cohen In May, Jerry A. Hager, a partner at Los Angeles' Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, got a call from r...
Pact Reached in Cross Controversy
By Claude Walbert
Pact Reached in Cross Controversy SAN DIEGO - After nine years of litigation over a Christian cross in a county-owned park, t...
Water Providers Cannot Be Sued For Pollution
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Private companies supplying water to residents of the San Gabriel Valley - much of which constitutes one of t...
Absence of Marketable Skills
By Columnist
By Susan R. Wasserman The Social Security Administration has proposed significant regulatory changes that would make it easie...
Independence Day
By Columnist
Just because a firm intends to establish a contractor relationship doesn't mean state and federal agencies won't classify the ...
Prosecutor Facing Possible Charges
By Matthew Heller
Prosecutor Facing Possible Charges INDIO - The state attorney general's office is reviewing possible misdemeanor charges agai...
Cooley Godward SOFTBANK'S NEW VENTURE FOCUSES ON THE INTERNET San Jose-based Softbank Technology Ventures announced the creat...
'Success' of Welfare Reform May Be Bane of Foster Care
By Columnist
By Nell Bernstein In 1994 Newt Gingrich sparked a short-lived tempest by suggesting that welfare payments be stopped and the ...
Seeing Stars
By Garry Abrams
By Garry Abrams On a recent day at his office at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp in West Los Angeles, attorney Daniel Petroc...
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Samuel Smiles CORR...
O.C. Firm Dissolves as Lawyers Sue Each Other
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - Lawyers representing a partner in the Fountain Valley law firm of Bridgman, Mordkin & Shapiro confirmed Frida...
Attorney Gets the Maximum in DUI Conviction
By Matthew Heller
VICTORVILLE - After apologizing to the family of two young girls he killed while driving under the influence of alcohol, a fo...
Irvine Investment Firm Executives Arrested
By Martin Bergn
By Martin Berg Daily Journal Staff Reporter Authorities last week arrested four executives of an Irvine-based investment firm...
County Supervisors to Vote on New Curfew
By Lauren Bartlett
Hoping to avoid a legal challenge, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled today to vote on whether to give ...
Prosecutors Link Man to Teen Fatality
By Martin Bergn
For months, undercover agents had been buying LSD from a young Pasadena man. Then last week, as they were arranging to buy mo...
Ready for Takeoff
By Anne La Jeunesse
Any courthouse employee or visitor who has encountered a shackled inmate in an elevator or hallway, or who has witnessed a de...
L.A. County Will Ponder Limiting Internet Access
By Lauren Bartlett
Despite several court rulings finding similar laws unconstitutional, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled...
DA Faces Tricky Task Prosecuting Sara Jane Olson
By Michael Harris
With conviction at her pending trial far from a sure thing, former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson...
Prosecutor Writes a New Chapter With Global Intrigue
By Anne La Jeunesse
Alan Michael Genelin's crime-stopping days did not end when he retired last year as chief of the Los Angeles County district ...
Five Minority Clerks Hired for New Term
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - After a term in which the U.S. Supreme Court saw a protest and congressional scrutiny over the dearth of minorit...
Jury Recommends Death Penalty
By Matthew Heller
Jury Recommends Death Penalty SAN BERNARDINO - Despite hearing the "horror story" of the defendant's early childhood in war-t...