SAN FRANCISCO - Brokerage giant TD Waterhouse has agreed to pay $2 million to settle civil fraud charges for making undisclose...
LOS ANGELES - An appeals court ruling this month awarding custody of a 2-year-old child to his biological father could open th...
SANTA ANA - Trinity Broadcasting Network founder Paul F. Crouch failed Tuesday to get a judge to stop the Los Angeles Times fr...
Judges and Judiciary
Attorneys Predict Stellar Career for Gutsy New Judge
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - Growing up in Carson and Compton, the son of an executive recruiter and schoolteacher, Los Angeles Superior Cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - Joann Guldbeck strode to the courtroom podium and smiled broadly at the judge, who smiled back. "It's always g...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - Tax professionals urge taxpayers to start tax planning long in advance of need. For...
Government
Electoral College System Violates Principle of One Person, One Vote
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Mark E. Kalmansohn - As the presidential election campaign enters full swing, the Electoral College looms as...
SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Reicher, a veteran employee benefits and compensation lawyer, is the latest partner to leave Palo Alto'...
LOS ANGELES - Today, a few close friends and family members will gather at an undisclosed location to mourn the passing of Mar...
SAN FRANCISCO - If your dog jumps out of your parked truck and bites a passerby, don't expect your auto insurer to pay damages...
SAN BERNARDINO - A jury Monday awarded $37.5 million to the parents of a girl who was struck by a car as she walked home from ...
RICHMOND - By his own admission, Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barry Baskin is the embodiment of the American dream...
Entertainment & Sports
Countersuit Alleges Treachery Among Hollywood Lawyers
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Hollywood transactional mega-lawyer Barry Hirsch's divorce from his old firm has entered a name-calli...
SAN FRANCISCO - Over a blistering dissent, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused Monday to reconsider a decision barri...
Column - Adviser - By Daniel M. Kolkey - Nothing persuades in appellate briefs or judicial opinions like a memorable turn of p...
Eric Ryan says the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 changed his tax practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers in a very real way. In fact, ...
Likening himself to a professional baseball player, David Dolkas says he spent the first half of his playing career at Gray, C...
SAN DIEGO - Local lawyers and judges are inserting themselves into the city's $2 billion financial crisis with a rare candidat...
Column - Law Firm Management - By Mark Williams - Beyond fire extinguishers, posted evacuation routes and computer backups, fe...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Judicate West and JAMS Improve Their L.A. Outlets
By Eron Yehuda
With the goal of alternative dispute resolution to promote peace between warring parties, it stands to reason that a pair of O...
The Center for Auto Safety reports that more than 7,000 serious injuries and deaths occur each year in roof-crush accidents. E...
Trial lawyer Brian Kabateck and all seven of the associates at Los Angeles' Kabateck & Garris joined forces Sept. 1 with P...
Criminal
Three-Strikes Law Must Be Applied Precisely, Not in Scattergun Fashion
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Steve Cooley - Proposition 66, if passed by voters on Nov. 2, will eviscerate the three-strikes law approved...
Criminal
Will Proposition 66 Be Able to Repair Law Targeting Repeat Offenders?
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Maya Harris - Last week, Martha Stewart surprised everyone with her sudden announcement that she'd like to s...
Judges and Judiciary
Council Reforms Voir Dire to Include Gay and Lesbian Reality
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Forum Column - By Jeffrey W. Erdman - Did you know that the Judicial Council of California recently changed the manner in whic...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named three prominent state lawyers to a new Council of Economic Advisers. Named ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Liz Valsamis - Tim Crews and Bruce Anderson have a lot in common: Both are small-town newsmen...
Appellate Practice
Appellate Lawyer Is Glad to Break His High Court Date
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - For most attorneys, getting in the door to argue a case before the California or U.S. supreme cou...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist Likes Finished Product in Court, Kitchen
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Martin H. Wegman is in the "twilight of his judicial career," he says, so he's preparing for his ne...
SAN FRANCISCO - The harrowing tale of a Guatemalan immigrant abused in his homeland and in Mexico before reaching the United S...