WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow Tuesday to the free speech rights of public employees seeking to report on go...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the primary election Tuesday, the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candidates in...
Law Practice
Many Minds Make Exacting Work of State Supreme Court's Opinions
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - Every opinion written by the California Supreme Court lists the names of the justices who decided the case. B...
Administrative/Regulatory
Influence of Clerks Is Cloaked in U.S. Supreme Court Secrecy
By Peter Blumberg
WASHINGTON - This much we know about law clerks for the U.S. Supreme Court: They're inexperienced, destined for greatness and ...
Focus Column - By Jennifer Addams - A new ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals makes qualified immunity a little ha...
Letters to the Editor - Charles Parselle's article "L.A.'s Policy of Free Mediation Benefits Everybody but the Mediator" (May ...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Recently, the subject of severe overcrowding in county jails and the California state pris...
Judges and Judiciary
Accusations of Bias and Cronyism Dog Incumbent in Two-Way Race for Marin County Judgeship
By Savannah Blackwelln
SAN RAFAEL - Sitting trial-court judges rarely attract challengers when they run for re-election every six years. And it's unu...
LOS ANGELES - Aviation defense lawyer James I. Michaelis and aviation plaintiff lawyer Charles M. Finkel are opponents in the ...
Judges and Judiciary
Deputy County Counsel Takes On Presiding Judge
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA BARBARA - A senior deputy county counsel is challenging the presiding judge of the juvenile court in Santa Barbara Count...
Law Practice
Veteran Corporate Attorney Goes to Winston & Strawn
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate attorney William L. Harvey, formerly of White & Case's soon to be defunct San Francisco office, ...
Judges and Judiciary
Mendocino Court Race Pits Experience Against Endorsements After Stormin' Norman Drops Out
By Savannah Blackwell
UKIAH - Mendocino District Attorney Norman Vroman's announcement last summer that he was planning to run for the Superior Cour...
Judges and Judiciary
Six East Bay Attorneys Seek Retiree's Seat on Alameda County Bench
By Tim Hay
OAKLAND - When Alameda County Superior Court Judge Donald B. Squires announced in March that he would not seek re-election, si...
UKIAH - Seeking a respite from the San Francisco Bay Area's hectic pace and inspired by a "back to the land" movement blossomi...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that expands its Silicon Valley intellectual property practice, Greenberg Traurig has brought patent...
SAN FRANCISCO - A month after announcing it would open in San Francisco's Financial District, Boston-based Goodwin Procter ann...
Judges and Judiciary
San Bernardino Prosecutor Says Opponent Isn't 'Team Player Judge'
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - Lazy, poor temperament and not a "team player." Those are some descriptions Deputy District Attorney Sharon ...
Judges and Judiciary
Running for Judge Puts Gag on Politically Dynamic Couple
By Tim Hay
SAN FRANCISCO - Out on the campaign trail in Alameda County, Dennis Hayashi talks about his many years as a high-level public ...
Litigation
Plaintiffs in Fajita Brawl Hope Civil Suit Will Stick to Officers
By Opatrny And Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - A 2002 street fight over takeout food triggered one of the city's worst police scandals and set the stage for ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Unseen Staff Attorneys Anchor State's Top Court
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - What do an art historian, a tax auditor and a U.S. State Department legal adviser have in common? Their paths...
LOS ANGELES - As Vioxx-related lawsuits pile up around the nation, Merck & Co., the drug's manufacturer, has been providin...
Mary Maloney Roberts, an assistant general counsel for the Administrative Office of the Courts since 2003, was named general c...
Dear Readers: In anticipation of the June 6 primary election, the Daily Journal is publishing statements from candidates in j...
RIVERSIDE - Five years ago, Michael LePenske moved his family from its cramped house and tiny suburban lot in Los Angeles Coun...
Focus Column - By Bryan Otake - In both professional sports and the public-contracting industry, nothing beats having the home...
Labor/Employment
Arbitration Pacts Are Cost-Effective Despite Questions Unresolved by Courts
By David Minkown
Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - To arbitrate, or not to arbitrate - that is the question with employee claims. ...
Labor/Employment
L.A. Council Needs to Take Agency's Boot Off City's Cabbies
By David Minkown
Forum Column - By Betty Hung - A year and a half ago, I visited Detroit for the first time, arriving after midnight with no id...
Arbitrator Profile
Warm, Folksy Neutral Creates a Comfort Zone
By William Arthur Haynes
SAN FRANCISCO - Mark L. Eaton performs 90 percent of his work as a neutral at Carnegie Hall. No, it's not the fabled Midtown...
Law Practice
Attorneys Prove Quite Adept at Playing the Delay-the-Discovery Game
By David Houstonn
Column - By Garry Abrams - If Columbus had been a lawyer, the chances are good that he would never have come to America. That'...
LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal will kick off its Mediation Awareness Month with some intensive, advanced train...