Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - Winning negotiators know that getting the best deal often hinges on their ability to pers...
Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - Before heading off to a deposition, make sure you've packed up all the items you'll need. ...
RIVERSIDE - During 20 years in office, District Attorney Grover Trask has taken his share of chances. When a mobile-home fire ...
Labor/Employment
A Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clause Doesn't Limit the Jurisdiction of the EEOC
By Columnist
Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first major practical limit...
LOS ANGELES - Judge C. Robert Simpson believes he has served the public well on the bench during the past 13 years. Why then, ...
Forum Column - By Steve Baughman - Given the frenzied calls to string John Walker Lindh up by his thumbs and the almost comple...
LOS ANGELES - The families of two men who died in the plane crash that also killed singer and actress Aaliyah in the Bahamas l...
LOS ANGELES - A man convicted in a plot to murder federal drug agents deserves a new trial because the judge in the case refus...
LOS ANGELES - An elderly neighbor of a woman mauled to death by dogs told jurors Wednesday that the scene in the hallway of he...
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Last year, the California Supreme Court decided that consenting adults could expect to hav...
Government
A Revived Condit Banks on a Wave of Publicity to Carry Him to Victory
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - It's a busy time in Condit Country, that region of the Twilight Zone where California Rep. Gary Cond...
VENTURA - In a case that tested the liability of schools for off-campus injuries to students, an appellate court has upheld an...
Focus Column - By Johnny Darnell Griggs - In its landmark opinion in Circuit City Stores Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 105 (2...
Judges and Judiciary
Democrats Excoriate GOP Nominees for U.S. Bench
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - Republicans were dealt setbacks on two fronts involving judicial nominations on Tuesday, as emboldened Democrats ...
LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyer Michael S. Kopple was describing how he once tried to persuade a client with a fistful of prior c...
Forum Column - Editor's Note: Every once in a while one of the Daily Journal's Opinion pieces provokes an especially strong re...
SANTA ANA - The state attorney general's office has declined to file criminal charges against an Orange County deputy district...
Entertainment & Sports
Television Writers' Age-Bias Case Moves to State Court
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Moving their fight against alleged age discrimination in the entertainment industry to a new venue, 150 televisi...
LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco man testified Tuesday in Los Angeles that he contacted police to relate a frightening encounter ...
Focus Column - By Stephen P. Milner - Last year was not a banner year for the initial public offering market. And, unfortunate...
WASHINGTON - A clear majority of the Supreme Court on Monday indicated they will strike down a city's law that strictly regula...
Government
Panel Stays Judge's Decision to Undo Compton Mayoral Election
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - Eric Perrodin will be mayor of Compton again - at least for now. Less than three weeks after a Superior Court ju...
LOS ANGELES - Paul Bacigalupo had to go to court to keep his ballot designation of "Judge, State Bar" on Tuesday's primary bal...
Dicta Column - By John P. Rutledge - While most lawyers excel at arguing, pontificating and debating, most do not excel at wri...
WASHINGTON - Taking on another arbitration dispute, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether federal courts or a...
Column by Garry Abrams - The barbaric murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan is a ghastly reminder th...
Forum Column - By Dorothy M. Ehrlich - In an announcement that has attracted remarkably little scrutiny or public debate, Atto...
Law Practice
Real Estate Lawyer Offered Free Advice to Those in Need
By Claude Walbert
ORANGE - Services have taken place for Bert J. Cook, who practiced real estate law as a sole practitioner and taught real esta...
LOS ANGELES - To stop the reopening of an abandoned mine in a Santa Clarita neighborhood, its opponents acknowledge, county of...
Labor/Employment
Administrator Fired by DA Wins Victory in Arbitration
By Jenna Bordelon
SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas didn't have "reasonable cause" to fire an office administrator he ...