Administrative/Regulatory
Senate Democrats Choose All Their Words Carefully
By Lawrence Hurleyn
WASHINGTON - Restraint is not often associated with politics. But that's exactly the word many people are using to describe D...
INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - Randy and Scott Johnson purchased a 28,750-square-foot industrial building in Turner Riverwalk Busines...
Intellectual Property
Recording-Industry Group Pushes Past Copyright Limits
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Christopher Norgaard - The Recording Industry Association of America is rightfully concerned about the exten...
Focus Column - Construction Law - By Lawrence R. Jensen - The California Supreme Court in MW Erectors Inc. v. Niederhauser Orn...
Letter to the Editor - It must be a slow op-ed day when you publish such drivel as the July 13 letter to editor, "Law Protects...
Forum Column - By Howard M. Ehrenberg - In April, President Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protectio...
LOS ANGELES - Joanne Caruso, managing partner at Howrey in Southern California, knows firsthand the challenges faced by women ...
LOS ANGELES - With its stock on the skids because of low DVD sales, DreamWorks Animation continues to get the ogre treatment f...
LOS ANGELES - You don't have to tell San Diego paralegal Nancy Huebner about the specialization of paralegal work. Huebner's ...
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court jury in Burbank on Wednesday awarded three adult siblings $25.5 million for the St. Patrick's ...
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 ...