Judges and Judiciary
Political Incontinence Mars Supreme Court Selection
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Leaks! Disinformation! Supreme Court intrigue! Until an hour before President Bush announced his ch...
Environmental
Lockyer Hits Speedbump in Litigation Over U.S. Forest Plans
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Sacramento has dealt at least a temporary setback to Attorney General Bill Lockyer's chall...
SAN FRANCISCO - Conservative critics of gay nuptials cannot intervene in San Francisco's constitutional attack on the state's...
SAN JOSE - A San Mateo attorney has been charged in Wisconsin with plotting with her then-boyfriend and his brothers to commi...
HOSPITALITY PALM SPRINGS - Highland Hospitality Corp. closed its previously announced acquisition of the 410-room Wyndham Pal...
Forum Column - By Mark Kulkis - I might be expected to have a bias against feminists because I make my living producing pornog...
Bankruptcy
Professionals Learn From 'Movitz' That Disclosure Rules Always Rule
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Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Mette H. Kurth and Anastasia Jones - On April 28, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the 9...
The Daily Journal is now accepting nominations for the 2005 Top Women Litigators list. Please include attorney's name, firm, ...
LOS ANGELES - The board of U.S. oil producer Unocal Corp. met near Los Angeles early this week to mull over an $18.5 billion ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate dockets statewide grew to 22,824 cases during the most recent budget year, the most in three years,...
Environmental
Lawyer Co-Founded Pioneering Environmental Law Firm in S.F.
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - Mark I. Weinberger, the co-founder of one of California's pioneering environmental law firms, has died followi...
LOS ANGELES - Concerto Software Inc. has agreed to acquire Aspect Communications Corp., a rival vendor of technology that powe...
LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Pasadena-based court-reporting and interpreter company pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he do...
LOS ANGELES - A Laguna Niguel man who underwent routine elective neck surgery at the University of California, San Francisco,...
LOS ANGELES - An insurance salesman suffering from alcoholism who took time off from work to care for his ailing mother can s...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four days after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom named Phil Ting to head the city's embattled assessor's offic...
INDEPENDENCE - Inyo Superior Court Judge Brian J. Lamb presides over matters in a county that boasts some remarkable statistic...
Education
West L.A. Law School Chooses Ex-City Official as Interim Dean
By Draeger Martinez
LOS ANGELES - The University of West Los Angeles has appointed Cheryl Ward, a former top official of the Los Angeles city att...
LOS ANGELES - Armen Adzhemyan had an eventful first year at Boalt Hall. Adzhemyan spearheaded an effort to create a student co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge W. Scott Snowden, who led the way for Napa County to become the first to consolidate its municipal and ...
WASHINGTON - Moments after President Bush announced John G. Roberts Jr., a federal appeals-court judge and former clerk to Chi...
LOS ANGELES - Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. will buy business-integration software provider SeeBeyond Technology Corp. ...
SAN DIEGO - Bringing an end to a scandal that soiled the city's squeaky-clean image, a federal jury Monday convicted San Diego...
SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors in San Francisco preparing for a capital murder trial are refusing to share their witness...
Labor/Employment
Failure to Enforce Labor Laws Puts Immigrant Workers at Risk
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Forum Column - By Mitch Kamin and Becky Monroe - Think twice before deciding how much to tip the guy who dries your car at the...
Letter to the Editor - I read Jeffrey Lowe's opinion column, "Bill Allowing Pharmacist Approval for Morning-After Crosses a Le...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal Oldman - In the matter of Bernard v. Foley , 2005 DJDAR 7986, the 2nd District Court o...
LOS ANGELES - A client in Macau may be a few clicks away on a PDA, but you might not know whether they were pleased or pertur...
SAN FRANCISCO - Pamela Fulmer and Art Beeman have left Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, the third and fou...
LOS ANGELES - A state Court of Appeal has ordered a Compton judge to appear next month to explain why he refused to let a dep...