BAKERSFIELD - John Stoll shuffled almost jauntily into the interview room at the Kern County detention facility. Despite being...
The attorney who recently helped Orson Welles' daughter win the right to sell her father's Oscar award says he succeeded by fi...
The executives at InVision Technologies Inc. have received a double dose of good news. General Electric Co. announced March 15...
Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - Washington, D.C.-The nation's Capitol was rocked today by a series of disclosures of pr...
Jarado Blue, former Pasadena school district police chief, won a $2.5 million judgment this month in his defamation lawsuit ag...
Pillsbury Winthrop has landed a mergers and acquisitions practice for its Century City office. Ray La Soya and Lino J. Lauro, ...
Each year, the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America attracts more than a thousand guest...
In the last two months, Santa Monica's Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket has swept up attorneys Marilyn S. Barrett, Daniel L. Go...
A prominent UCLA heart surgeon has won a defense verdict in a case alleging that he sexually harassed two former employees. ...
Michelle LaMar has landed at Loeb & Loeb after spending close to a year at Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger. Before ...
Column - Good Company - By Jill S. Dodd - Congress enacted the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act (comm...
Media and technology company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. and satellite-television provider EchoStar Communications Cor...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Latham Advises Sale of Interpore For $280 Million
By Toni Vranjes
Ten years after taking Interpore International Inc. public, Charles Ruck has guided the company in another milestone. The Cost...
Trying to expand its presence in the data-storage market, semiconductor company Applied Micro Circuits Corp. of San Diego has ...
Some attorneys have found a creative way to plan for retirement, their children's education, or other long-term financial comm...
White-collar defense attorney Michael Attanasio has joined Cooley Godward's San Diego office, leaving his post as partner at S...
Firm Watch
Reed Smith Snags Senior Staff Attorney From State High Court
By Erik Cummins
Dennis Maio spent 17 years as a senior staff attorney to state Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk. When Mosk died in 2001, aft...
Column - Evidence - By Scott Stevens - By now, most litigators are aware of the increasing importance of digital evidence in d...
Aon Corp.'s approach to litigation was a bit unconventional, says Shand Stephens, the former chief trial counsel to the insura...
Judges and Judiciary
Don't Let Cattle-Industry Lobbyist Stampede Onto Bench
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - The track record of William G. Myers III as Interior Department solicitor demonstrates that ...
Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - We can point with justifiable pride to the many innovations our state ...
Appellate Practice
Peremptory Challenges Guarantee Unbiased Juries, Fair Trials
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Forum Column - By Charles Hobson - A case challenging California's protection against racial bias in jury selection will be th...
LOS ANGELES - A Ventura County man's murder conviction must be thrown out because sheriff's deputies failed to advise him of h...
Notebook - By Phillip Carrizosa - To most lawyers and judges, forgiveness is still a foreign concept within the law. The Ameri...
SAN FRANCISCO - After eight years on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge A. Wallace Tashima has announced he will mov...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor David Angel has an unusual new assignment. He's not trying to put people behind bars....
BAKERSFIELD - When John Stoll was sent to prison in 1985 as a convicted child molester, he chose to remain in the general popu...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Brent Kendall - On a blustery January day uncommonly cold for coastal Virginia, dozens of fir...
SAN FRANCISCO - When he slashed the state's vehicle license fee, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger triggered an obligation to pay an ...
LOS ANGELES - Before he ever considered becoming a judge, or a lawyer for that matter, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis...
