Archipelago Holdings Inc. is acquiring the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, which has been in operation since 1882. Th...
SAN FRANCISCO - Even when they screw up, prosecutors enjoy absolute immunity from civil lawsuits. That's why legal observers ...
EXTRA Closer Column - By Harry J. Plotkin - Take note, savvy trial attorneys: Recent research suggests that the ingredients of...
Embracing the spirit of giving that swept the world following December's South Asian tsunami, law firms throughout the nation ...
Healthcare/Hospital Law
Often Medical License-Suspension Cases Turn on Procedural Questions
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Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Stuart Miller - In the past few months, the California courts of appeal have issued an unu...
LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for Anthony J. Sousa, a veteran Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. Sousa, a membe...
RANCHO MIRAGE - The owner of an upscale outdoor shopping mall in Rancho Mirage has backed down from a challenge to the desert...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - Gone are the days of Big Tobacco and billion-dollar verdicts. Instead, 2004 saw tort reform take...
LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has yanked a sizeable workers' compensation contract from a local law firm after one of...
LOS ANGELES - A trial originally set for today on charges the Securities and Exchange Commission brought against embattled for...
Greenberg Traurig's 10-month-old East Palo Alto office acquired Bill Goines in December, and he will form the core of the offi...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether Michigan can impose two different annual fees on truckers op...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Homeowners' Signs Bar Access to Trail
By Melissa Onstad And Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - For hundreds of years, people have freely used the pass that cuts through the foothills above Altadena for trave...
Labor/Employment
Mobilized Staffers Can Receive Payments If There Is No Ethical Conflict
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Employment Column - By Adrian G. Driscoll - As the burden of the global war on terrorism continues to fall heavily upon civili...
Intellectual Property
Secondary Liability Expansion Raises Significant Legal Issues
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Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Lisa A. Freitas - As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to refine the scope of secondar...
Administrative/Regulatory
Google Resolves Dispute With SEC Over Staff Stock Options
By Geneva Whitmarsh
LOS ANGELES - Internet search giant Google Inc. won't pay a penny for charges by regulators that it failed to register more th...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for imprisoned private investigator Anthony Pellicano told a federal appellate panel Thursday that FBI ...
LOS ANGELES - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Thursday filed a federal age-discrimination lawsuit against promi...
LOS ANGELES - Juvenile Court Referee Anthony Trendacosta will replace newly elected Judge Donna Groman as Los Angeles Superior...
LOS ANGELES - On Monday, the Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center will receive a visit from a handful of lawyers and staff mem...
LOS ANGELES - It was the day the young couple had been planning for months. With a packed room behind them to witness this new...
Government
Now U.S. Attorney's Office Tackles 'Pay to Play' Scandal in L.A.
By John Ryan
LOS ANGELES - Shame on local government, success for federal prosecutors. That's one way to sum up 2004, a stellar year for a...
Personal Injury & Torts
Injured Library Patron Settles With County for $300,000
By Ryan Oliver
LOS ANGELES - A library patron who was rendered unconscious for three days after allegedly being assaulted by a library aide ...
INDUSTRIAL BAKERSFIELD - Rex Martin, Jason Martin and Brett Prather purchased a 5,000-square-foot industrial building on a 43,...
Letter to the Editor - In the Nov. 26, 2004, edition of the Daily Journal on the first page, there was an article concerning a...
Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - All the palaver concerning the CBS News scandal, sometimes referred to as Memogate o...
Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Lose weight. Recognize inner beauty. Learn employment law. A triumvira...
Appellate Practice
Research Files Find No Takers Among Next Generation of Appellate Lawyers
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Forum Column - By Katherine J. Hamilton - The wall calendar, improvised on the back of December 2004 to avoid investing in a 2...
SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has opened an office in Taipei, Taiwan, to serve about a dozen existing cl...
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, and his 2000 campaign treasurer have agreed to pay a $6,000 fine by the st...