SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists fret that a judge's recent ruling could create a significant loophole allowing for massive i...
LOS ANGELES - Over the course of his lunch hour, Los Angeles criminal defense attorney "Morgan Bishop" dissuaded the district ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Elaine Rushing, who pleaded no contest to an enhanced drunken driving charg...
Administrative/Regulatory
Court Allows Regulators to Fight Mining Plans
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court Monday affirmed the authority of state regulators to go to court to block faulty ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Robert Baines has not shied away from controversial cases, even when his r...
Administrative/Regulatory
CIA Can't Reveal Motor Pool Data It Doesn't Have Any
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - The CIA has been maligned for missing the pending fall of the Soviet Union and other intelligence miscues. No...
Column - By Garry Abrams - Public Beware: News Media and Politicians Rediscover an Old, Dangerous Trend and Call It New, Impro...
SAN FRANCISCO - A tortured whistle-blower retaliation case that consumed eight years, millions of dollars in attorney fees an...
SIMI VALLEY - Inside the modest research room at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library - home to 60,000 pages of largely unre...
OFFICE SAN DIEGO - Future Wei Technologies inked a $694,540 lease, 60-month lease for 4,629 square feet of office space in 101...
LOS ANGELES - In the wake of a ruling sharply critical of his billing practices in connection with the South Gate corruption s...
Administrative/Regulatory
Legal Immunity for Gun Industry Is Completely Unjustified
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Juliet Leftwich - On July 29, the U.S. Senate demonstrated its allegiance to the National Rifle Association ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Present All One's Evidence In Administrative Hearings
By Columnist
Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Several recent appellate-court decisions address the proper roles of co...
Letter to the Editor - In his article, "Mental Torture: Behavioral Scientists at Gitmo May Cross Line" (July 22 Daily Journal)...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy is hoping Tom Brown, a new of-counsel, will bring...
SAN FRANCISCO - Brian Erb, a corporate partner that joined Ropes & Gray Aug. 1, said the Boston-based firm is known as a ...
LOS ANGELES - Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has announced the latest partner addition to its expanding corporate pract...
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys who frequent Division 6 at the El Monte Courthouse know that Superior Court Judge Suzanne E. Persn is...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California developer who made millions of dollars building business parks in Silicon Valley and Ea...
Letter to the Editor - Capt. Jeff Bell, who, in his letter to the editor, calls psychology professor Gordon Finley a conspirac...
Roger R. Myers, chair of the media practice group of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in San Francisco, was to be presented with th...
Litigation partner Yolanda Orozco has jumped from Los Angeles' O'Neill Lysaght & Sun to Jones Day in Los Angeles. Orozco h...
RETAIL THOUSAND OAKS - Robertson Properties Group is expanding its local holdings with the $23.6 million acquisition of the Ne...
LOS ANGELES - Lilliana and Nicki emancipated from Los Angeles County's foster-care system with big hopes, but it didn't take ...
Labor/Employment
Compensation: When Employees Hit the Road, Time Is Often Money
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Desmond Lee - Paying employees for time spent traveling is, perhaps, one of the most widely misundersto...
Real Estate/Development
Sellers Might Need to Inform Buyer of Next-Door Problems
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Focus Column - Real Property - By Alan D. Wallace - A nuisance is "anything that is injurious to health, or is indecent or off...
Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Jin W. Han - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is about to become the nation's firs...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Lawrence Teeter, who tried to overturn the conviction of Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan ...
LOS ANGELES - Madera County District Attorney Ernest J. LiCalsi is facing allegations in a civil suit that he extorted money f...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutrals Urge Changes for Court's Mediation Program
By Eron Yehuda
LOS ANGELES - At a recent conference sponsored by the Southern California Mediation Association, Sherman Oaks mediator Charle...