LOS ANGELES - Dr. Vilas Likhite told prospective buyers he was looking to sell million-dollar artworks inherited from his fath...
Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - "When sorrows come," says King Claudius in "Hamlet," "they come not single spies, but ...
Focus Column - International Law - By John F. McKenzie - Compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Sections...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges have discretion to reduce criminal sentences otherwise called for under federal guidelines on the grou...
LOS ANGELES - A Laurel Canyon building project is back on the drawing board, after a state appellate court ruled Wednesday th...
SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant cannot be placed on special terms of probation if the conditions relate to a criminal charge that...
Administrative/Regulatory
Professor's Lawsuit Tries to Unearth Johnson Administration Mysteries
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - The Swift Boat controversy is being reincarnated. A University of California, Davis, political scie...
SANTA ANA - A state appeals court has ruled that police had no right to search an Orange County man for explosives even though...
SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors should apply their own lives' lessons as they ponder a defendant's fate. So a judge's contrary instruc...
Judges and Judiciary
Commissioner Brings an Athlete's Attitude to the Bench
By Linda Rapattoni
SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Matthew Gary has set his sights high ever since he recognized in grade sc...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Sony Corp. of America signed a 10-year, $10.65 million lease for 43,519 square feet of research and de...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Panel Orders Hearing on Three-Stooges Lawsuit
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - Wiseguy, eh? Ruling reversed, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Hartford Insurance Co. eye-poked Los Angeles Superior Court Jud...
SAN FRANCISCO - A female bartender at a Nevada casino who refused to wear makeup on the job cannot pursue her sex discriminat...
LOS ANGELES - In the latest blow to the pharmaceutical industry, a 7-year-old girl sued Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday, say...
Focus Column - International Law - By John F. McKenzie - The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. Sections 78dd-1 et seq.,...
Focus Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Scott Peterson murder trial captivated the nation and received extensive media attenti...
Focus Column - By Greg Lukianoff - For those of you who are concerned about the state of free expression on campus, I would li...
Letter to the Editor - In his letter to the editor ("Ex-DA Teaches 'Miranda' Accurately," Dec. 27 Daily Journal), Richard Chry...
Letter to the Editor - Richard Chrystie's impassioned defense of the hiring of Devalis Rutledge by the Los Angeles County dist...
SAN JOSE - Ron Del Pozzo was elected to the Santa Clara County bench a little over two years ago, and he hasn't stopped runnin...
A state Supreme Court ruling that companies who commit fraud can be hit with punitive damages even in the absence of property ...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco writer pleaded guilty Tuesday to stalking a Bingham McCutchen partner by impersonating...
LOS ANGELES - Judge Bradford Andrews didn't think much the first time he found his "Get Out of Jail Free" novelty candy bar o...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2004, the state Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendere...
SAN FRANCISCO - Sexual predators must be treated better than criminal defendants while authorities determine whether they sho...
SACRAMENTO - Sharon Arkin grew up on a chicken ranch in Orange County and somehow wound up a Democrat in that Republican stro...
SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Oleon's best experience since taking the Alameda County bench 18 months ago was when an 11-year-old gir...
The Los Angeles Times has filed suit to obtain audiotapes and other papers documenting two secret meetings the County Board o...
LOS ANGELES - The state's worker's compensation system has won a $14.6 million default judgment against two Rancho Cucamonga ...
Law Practice
Imitation of Life: Fictional Blog Captures Venal Lawyer's Barren Heart
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Who works obsessively in a high-rise, suit-and-tie gulag and delights in making associates and law ...