Labor/Employment
Employees Have Remedies Outside Unruh Act in Cases of Employer Violence
By David Minkown
Employment Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The California Unruh Civil Rights Act, embodied in California Civil Code Sectio...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the primary election Tuesday, the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candidates in...
LOS ANGELES - Donna D. Melby, the Los Angeles-based attorney who last year was the first woman to serve as president of the Am...
LOS ANGELES - A workers' compensation fraud involving the identity theft of some 200 county employees may only be the tip of t...
Judges and Judiciary
Connected Contender Faces 'Vexatious Litigant'
By Savannah Blackwelln
LOS ANGELES - By September, Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Daniel Lowenthal knew he wanted to run for the seat of Los Angele...
Judges and Judiciary
Seven Compete for Vacant Seat on Superior Court Bench
By Erin Park
LOS ANGELES - The field of seven candidates for Los Angeles Superior Court Office No. 144 includes a family attorney who took ...
SANTA ANA - The three candidates in Orange County's only Superior Court race - Office No. 4 - come from very different sides o...
Labor/Employment
Wage-and-Hour Class Issues Can Complicate Arbitration
By Tamadhur Alaqeeln
LOS ANGELES - Wage-and-hour claims typically seek - and win - class certification from a judge. But in a recent case involvi...
Judges and Judiciary
Appointment by Governor Confuses Santa Clara Race
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - A funny thing happened to Superior Court Commissioner Shawna M. Schwarz during her campaign for an open judicial se...
Judges and Judiciary
Three Vie to Replace Judge Running for Santa Clara DA
By Craig Anderson
SAN JOSE - The race to succeed Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Dolores A. Carr, who is in the midst of a campaign for ...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real has given class status to a suit by former law students accusing a company of...
Two years after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was ordered to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a state ap...
Blowing the dust off 19th century court opinions and pre-World War I law, a state appeal court appears to have strengthened th...
Corporate
Justices Weigh Whether Georgia Law Violates Californians' Privacy
By Itir Yakarn
A global brokerage firm took pains Thursday to explain why California courts should not worry about the firm's out-of-state re...
LOS ANGELES - In another setback for the recently indicted Milberg, Weiss, Bershad & Schulman, a New York state official s...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief Judge to Set Up Panel for 7-Year-Old Misconduct Case
By Amelia Hansen
SAN FRANCISCO - More than three years after a federal judge in Los Angeles was accused of giving special treatment to one of h...
LOS ANGELES - More than a dozen attorneys who made up the criminal defense section of the Cochran Firm have split off to form ...
A man's home is his castle - unless police rush in to make a drunk driving arrest, the California Supreme Court held Thursday....
LOS ANGELES - After nearly a week lugging a 70-pound pack through the wilderness, Sandy Gage was finally ready. It was midnig...
Believe it or not, selling videos of the infamous Playboy Mansion parties is not a matter of public interest. A state appella...
In the Daily Journal’s annual Top Women Litigators supplement, the state’s trial elite talk about the turning points in their ...
Law Practice
Beyond the Back Nine: Women Should Cultivate Relationships In and Outside the Firm
By Amy Kalinn
Law is a relationship business. In any type of organization, in any area of the law, developing relationships with others is c...
The catalysts range from the ideal of remedying injustice to overcoming a life-threatening illness. Economic exploitation in a...
In the beginning, I was against this list. I came of age in the post-feminist era and have long believed singling out women ...
LOS ANGELES - When prosecutor Rick Hirsch finished his talk in Tokyo, the 100 attorneys from the Japanese Ministry of Justice ...
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Last month, two reporters for ABC News reported that the FBI had secretly obtained their phon...
LOS ANGELES - The three contenders for Los Angeles County Superior Court's Office No. 8 boast backgrounds that are diverse, bo...
LOS ANGELES - Two prosecutors and an in-house real estate attorney and broker will face off in the June primary race for Los A...
LOS ANGELES - The attorneys running for Office 102 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court have little in common. ...
Entertainment & Sports
Fill in the Brand: Film and TV Place Products After the Wrap
By Amy Kalinn
Focus Column - By Alexis Garcia - Though many cite the Reeses Pieces in "E.T." as the first example of product placement in f...