JUDGE CONFIRMED - Victoria Chavez, a judge for 17 years, was sworn in Wednesday as an associate justice of the 2nd District Co...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ending a 23-year career in San Francisco, Morrison & Foerster chairman Keith Wetmore said Tuesday that he...
LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyer Edward L. Masry, a pugnacious environmental crusader who gained worldwide fame when Albert F...
Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - The Supreme Court recently decided to review two cases that raise important issues of ...
Administrative/Regulatory
Steps Must Be Taken to Get Court's Decision in Writing
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Upon timely request of any party in a bench trial, the court must issue a statement of...
SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County's first public defender, William R. Higham, died of Parkinson's disease last week. He was ...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco State University plans to move its downtown campus to the city's new Westfield Centre, in what ...
Corporate
Justices Question Individuals Using Race Bias Law for Firms
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Several members of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of an argument to allow individuals to alleg...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., affirmed Tuesday that the American Bar Association's view that a ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Latham & Watkins partner Brian Cartwright is the prime candidate to assume the role of general...
Banks' Acquisitions Cost Them $3 Billion Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman attorneys assisted in the closing of two large bank a...
SAN FRANCISCO - A California state appellate court has ruled that doctors may refuse on religious grounds to artificially inse...
SAN DIEGO - Daniel Doll was walking to a hockey game with a friend and a 4-year-old girl he babysat when a movie marquee over ...
MULTIFAMILY ALISO VIEJO - GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corp. provided $130 million in fixed-rate refinancing for two multifamily ...
SAN FRANCISCO - For State Bar Court Review Judge Judith A. Epstein, overseeing the resolution of the battered careers of lawye...
Letter to the Editor - Responding to Dalton Conley's essay "A Walking Sperm Bank, or a Father with a Right to Choose?" (Dec. 2...
Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Most first-party insurance policies, such as property, fidelity, fire and earthquake polici...
Letter to the Editor - The column "California Needs to Help Poor Men Meet Support Obligations" (Nov. 4 Daily Journal) and what...
Administrative/Regulatory
Dear Santa: A Cert Grant, and Free Speech for All
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - December is a time of gift-giving, as we chalk up credit card debt and purchase items for fri...
Law Practice
Riverside Litigator 'Played by the Rules'
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - Donald F. Powell, a Riverside civil litigator who commanded the respect of the lawyers who opposed him in cases an...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to step into a dispute between the Hells Angels and a group of San Jose...
SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge's decision to overturn a jury's $465 million damage award against Japanese technology g...
Judges and Judiciary
Asylum Case Illustrates 9th Circuit's Ideological Divide
By Itir Yakarn
SAN FRANCISCO - A severely disabled newborn who was tossed into the trash after his caretakers at a Russian state hospital man...
LOS ANGELES - For those who appreciate complexity, coincidence and ambiguity, this is a compelling one. Basically, it's a sto...
Corporate
Court: Firm's Incorporation Site Doesn't Negate California Law
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - In a case of first impression, the 4th District Court of Appeal has reinstated an insider-trading case agains...
LOS ANGELES - Like most juvenile dependency court judges, Daniel Zeke Zeidler fills his courtroom and chambers with children's...
Real Estate/Development
Conflict Looms Over Proposal to Extend Toll Road
By Gabe Friedmann
LOS ANGELES - Growing up in San Bernardino, Howard Coleman remembers watching as suburban strip malls and housing tracts slowl...
MULTIFAMILY NEWPORT BEACH - Security Properties Inc. of Seattle purchased the 298-unit apartment community at 1710- 1720 N. F...
Appellate Practice
A Disciplined Appeal Strategy Paves a Sure Path to Success
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Catherine Valerio Barrad - Much has been written about the cornerstones of good appellate practice, and comm...
Law Practice
Retired Atlantic-Richfield Counsel Had 'Majestic Dignity'
By Kenneth Davis
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Edgar H. Twine, retired associate general counsel for the Atlantic Richfield Co. ...