SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser asserted his Fifth Amendment rights in an answer filed by hi...
Litigation
Developer Gets $3.5 Million in Settlement of Suit
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A bitter legal fight over 10 acres of land alongside a busy stretch of Interstate 10 in San Bernardino came t...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge's Prostitution Arrest May Lead to His Removal
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Gifford is known as a no-nonsense judge who is admired among the highest levels of the Oakland Police Dep...
SAN DIEGO - An appellate court ruled Monday that a lesbian couple who sought country club golfing privileges equal to those gr...
WASHINGTON - The post-Janet Jackson focus on indecency over the public airwaves continues on Capitol Hill this week as both ho...
Criminal
Attorney Who Paid Others to Solicit Clients Gets Jail Sentence
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SAN BERNARDINO - A Rancho Cucamonga lawyer will begin serving a four-month jail term Wednesday after he admitted he paid inmat...
SACRAMENTO - There's a saying for when Justice George Nicholson sweet-talks other judges, attorneys and civic leaders into joi...
SACRAMENTO - A federal judge Monday approved a settlement of a decade-old lawsuit that will prompt the state to begin emphasiz...
Public Interest
DA Targets City Hall to Test His Muscles After Re-Election Mandate
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - Is Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley the new Bigfoot of Southern California politics? Or wou...
LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley is a Republican who succeeded politically in largely Democratic Los Angeles Count...
Employee Benefits
Former Executive Loses Pay Bid for Early Retirement
By Draeger Martinez
Charles Whelan, a former executive at airline-meal company Sky Chefs who sued the company over his pension plan, has lost his ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation Preparation Puts Money in Clients' Pockets
By Columnist
Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Jay Berman - While all good attorneys prepare intensely for arbitration or tr...
Family law specialist Carole Cohen has joined Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg as a partner. Cohen, who joined in early February...
Column - Recruiting - By Valerie A. Fontaine and Madeleine E. Seltzer - For a legal search consultant to make the best match b...
In the last two months, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has added four partners, beefing up its employment, business litig...
The Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw recently lost two real estate partners. Todd Stark left the firm for Line...
Breaking out of the gate, a personal injury suit on behalf of a thoroughbred horse rider seemed like a contender. Ken Nelson's...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger contends that California is the big loser in the state's $5 billion Indian-gaming industry. In his ...
Nancy Kennerly has set up her own shop 15 floors below the downtown Los Angeles offices of her former law firm, Paul, Hastings...
SANTA ANA - Thirteen. That's the number of appellate reversals Santa Ana attorney Federico Sayre has won in the last four year...
Fifteen years after the infamous Exxon Valdez ran aground, the oil tanker spewing 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alask...
Electrical and mechanical patents attorney Jonathan E. Jobe is giving up his post as head of Pillsbury Winthrop's San Diego in...
Column - Practice Management - By David Goehl - Jeffrey Carr, the general counsel of FMC Technologies, is part of a new breed ...
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Brian S. Kabateck - In January, we observed the 10th anniversary of the 1994 Northridge eart...
Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The attorney work-product doctrine protected an environmental consulta...
Forum Column - By Rex Darrell Berry - Over the last decade, more and more employers have embraced mandatory pre-dispute arbitr...
LOS ANGELES - A woman can sue Metabolife International Inc. over claims the company's ephedrine-based weight-loss pill drove h...
LOS ANGELES - Every $1 million cut from the Los Angeles Superior Court budget will mean that 3 1/3 courtrooms will close and 2...
SANTA ANA - A man fired from Boeing after company officials accused him of spying on a competitor has sued the aerospace firm ...
Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Erik Cummins - A year ago, law firm partners and recruiters fixed their eyes on a Malibu cour...