LOS ANGELES - When it comes to securities class-action settlements, 2005 probably will be remembered for the announcement of t...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal drug charges while avoiding a trial on more ser...
SAN FRANCISCO- A Silicon Valley engineer tried to defend himself in an insider trading trial by claiming he had never read a c...
LOS ANGELES - Here's a sure-fire recipe for legal trouble: Take some famous lawyers, combine with cash in duffel bags. Wait fo...
LOS ANGELES - Paul S. Aronzon, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, is leaving the firm...
LOS ANGELES - The indictment has been unsealed. The prosecutors and defense attorneys are in place. But one of the most critic...
Environmental
Church Leader Gets Tangled Up In Federal Shark-Poaching Case
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Six people, including the head of an East Bay Unification Church congregation, have been indicted in an allege...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Wins Mayoral Election by 2-1 Margin
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - By a 2-1 margin, voters have put a Superior Court judge in the mayor's office of this city. Voters chose Pat...
SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed two veteran prosecutors to the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tues...
SILICON VALLEY - James Pooley is a man without a law firm. Pooley made headlines in late January when he split Milbank, Tweed,...
Forum Column - By Gerald Sato - In "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights" (Random House 2006), Yale Law Professor ...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Lawyers Would Be Wise to File Under New Rules
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Hieu Hoang - The first place to start in any appeal - and particularly if the appellate lawyer does not prac...
Letter to the Editor - The Bush regime's recent public relations campaign justifying the secret wiretaps of international call...
Administrative/Regulatory
Californians Need to Constrain Harshness of Three-Strikes Law
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - It is axiomatic in Anglo-American juridical philosophy that the punishment fit the crime. ...
Letter to the Editor - In 26 years as an attorney in Los Angeles, and 15 years as a subscriber to the Daily Journal, I have ne...
LOS ANGELES - For foreign investors in China, it may be the year of the merger. New rules that make it easier for foreign com...
Criminal
Felon's Lawyer Calls DAs' Forged-Paper Allegation 'a Spurious Lie'
By Anat Rubinn
LOS ANGELES - An attorney seeking clemency for a death row inmate called prosecutors' allegation that he had given the governo...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Gemstar-TV Guide executive accused of inflating the company's licensing and ad revenues will pay mor...
Litigation
Suit Seeks Details of Secret Court Settlement
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - In a case spotlighting criticism of closed-door decisions of the state judiciary, an open-government advocacy grou...
SAN FRANCISCO - For hundreds of Southern California plaintiffs who claimed their health was injured by exposure to a toxic che...
Litigation
Advocates Sue Target to Make Web Site Accessible to the Blind
By Robert Selna
ALAMEDA - Advocates for the blind filed a class action against retail giant Target in Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday...
SAN BERNARDINO - Family law attorneys say they are no longer surprised when San Bernardino Superior Court Commissioner Michael...
LOS ANGELES - Bruce Iwasaki, former head of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, was still looking for a pen in his new o...
Judges and Judiciary
Setting the Right Pace for Traffic in His Courtroom
By Dennis Opatrny
SAN FRANCISCO - Every traffic commissioner probably has a favorite excuse story spun by drivers handed a ticket. San Francisco...
SUPPORT RULING - When Eric Campbell's soon-to-be ex-wife remarried in Nevada, he thought it was the end of his obligation to p...
INSPECTOR'S REPORT - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners inspector general provided the first glimpse Tuesday into h...
SAN FRANCISCO - When Presiding Judge Ronald W. Stovitz of the State Bar Court steps down toward the end of this year, Californ...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Amazing that with a federal budget of nearly $2.5 trillion, several elected officials have...
Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The 2nd District Court of Appeal in In re Marriage of McTiernan and...
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan was recovering Monday from heart bypass surgery he underwent over th...