To solve the state's budget crisis, legislative leaders and the governor had to do what lawyers, judges and mediators do every...
If you are a consumer holding a gift card to a financially distressed retailer, now is the time to redeem those cards before t...
Immigration
Driving Drunk on a Suspended License Is a Deportable Crime, Court Rules
By Sandra Hernandezn
Writing for a six-member majority, the enbanc 9th U.S. Circuit panel found that drunken driving "offenses committed with the k...
Criminal
Appellate Court Upholds Teenager's Murder Sentence of Two 25-to-Life Terms
By Greg Katzn
The 4th District Court of Appeals in Santa Ana let stand a double sentence of 25-year-to life for a fifteen year old convicted...
William E. Adams Jr., an expert in elder law and gay rights, will replace Maryann Jones, who is retiring, as the new dean of W...
Perspective
Lawyers Will Play a Direct Role in Developing Clean Tech Industry
By Sara Libbyn
The rapid glowth of the clean technology industry has created myriad opportunities for lawyers. ...
Columnist Martin Berg finds one place where the bubble hasn't burst: The Los Angeles County Counsel's Office. ...
Former Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo and possibly other high-ranking former executives with the mortgage giant...
City Councilman Jack Weiss and environmental litigator Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich are set to face off in a May 19 runoff election...
Forum (Forum & Focus)
Some of the Most Questionable Anti-Terror Practices Are Still Alive
By Sara Libbyn
The new administration cannot survive being held responsible for future acts of terrorism, or being accused by its opponents o...
Perspective
Think IP Litigation Can Wait Until Better Times? Think Again
By Sara Libbyn
Waiting until economic conditions improve to protect your property might do more harm than good. ...
Judiciary Committee chairmen from both the Senate and the House of Representatives tried yet again to overhaul U.S. patent law...
A federal judge on Tuesday accepted the guilty plea of a man facing the death penalty in one of the first capital trials in th...
Magazine sues Los Angeles County over jail payouts, says county has failed to respond to public records requests. ...
In the course of his career, John Edward Sparks represented a marijuana smoker, oil companies, developers - and occasionally h...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court Bars Environmentalists' Lawsuit Over Forest Service Rules
By Lawrence Hurleyn
A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday to bar California environmentalists from proceeding with a lawsuit challe...
A case against cigarette companies accused of producing false advertising could spell the end of California's unfair competiti...
Antitrust practices in Northern California are buzzing. ...
Lawyers are busy shepherding biotech deals. ...
Only days after huge cuts were announced at Latham & Watkins, Ralph Baxter, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's CEO, anno...
See what some of Northern California's most respected partners are doing to guide their firms through turbulent economic times...
The federal government's $787 stimulus package is likely to fuel cleantech projects.
Legal consultant Richard Gary, who served as chair of Thelen in the 1990s and early 2000s, taps into his experience to remind ...
Along with our annual survey of Northern California’s 20 largest law firms, this year the Daily Journal introduces its first M...
It certainly wasn't business as usual. Our roundup of how the local legal market has changed in the last year.