Judges and Judiciary
A Beltway Deal May Break Up Judicial Logjam
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - A deal worked out last week between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership may lead to a rash of j...
Intellectual Property
Justices to Consider Rights to Sue Employers Despite Arbitration Pacts
By David Pike
WASHINGTON - Labor and business will be going to the mat before the Supreme Court this week on whether workers covered by col...
Technology & Science
Wilson Sonsini Wins Its Own Invention Patent
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of Palo Alto, which specializes in offering legal assistance to Silicon Valle...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Poll: Lawyers Want the Right to Elect Board
By Don J. De Benedictis
California lawyers overwhelmingly believe they should keep the right to elect most of the members of the State Bar Board of G...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Riverside President Sees Local Bar Responding to New Duties
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - As newly installed president of the Riverside County Bar Association, Diane Catran Roth has clearly defined goals...
Education
Online Law School Features No Classrooms
By Michael Ueda
^^The Paper Chase / Michael Ueda^^ Scheduled to open later this month, Concord University School of Law, based in the Westwood...
Litigation
Claims of 'Death' Come as Shock to Businessman
By Martin Bergn
Last year, Los Angeles resident Adrian G. Ready was shocked to find that he was dead. And in the eyes of the Social Security ...
Judges and Judiciary
DA Doubted on One-Day Service
By Michael Harris
Los Angeles County court officials said Thursday that despite District Attorney Gil Garcetti's call for the implementation of...
Litigation
Plaintiff, First Attacked by Shark, Meets Match in Defense Lawyer
By Anna Marie Stolley
Neither guppy nor goldfish, it was, in fact, a thrashing lemon shark that left Steven Rosenbloom hospitalized for three days....
Litigation
Dad, In Child-Support Jam, Says His Lawyer's to Blame
By Cheryl Romo
In a world where people often look for others to blame for their troubles, the story of a father of two who is suing his form...
Government
Hahn, Lungren Huff, Puff Over Tobacco Claim
By Lauren Blau
Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn and Attorney General Dan Lungren took a fight public Thursday over Hahn's lawsuit aga...
Government
Wilson Vetoes Bill to Expand Rights at Work
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - Siding with the business community, Gov. Pete Wilson has vetoed a sweeping civil rights bill that would have expa...
Government
How Much Was the 'A' Sign in the Window?
By Lauren Blau
Restaurants in Los Angeles County have been on the front burner recently because of the controversy over cleanliness in the ki...
Government
San Diego Ex-Prosecutor Appeals Termination
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO - Former deputy district attorney James Fitzpatrick, whose termination for misconduct from the district attorney's ...
Judges and Judiciary
Fast-Track Civil Trial System Called a Success
By Tori Richards
SANTA ANA --- A new fast-track civil trial system has been a great success in getting cases to trial faster, according to a s...
Technology & Science
Financial Matchmaking
By Leslie Gordon
Garage.com is a very '90's, very Silicon Valley version of "The Dating Game." The Web site, brainchild of Venture Law Group f...
Government
Advise and Consent
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - Taking a slap at the Clinton administration and a possible preemptive strike at future White Houses, the Senate ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Clients Skunked, But Not by Him, Girardi Claims
By Denise Levin
Plaintiffs' attorney Thomas V. Girardi, lauded by colleagues and feared by adversaries for his knack of winning multimillion-...
Criminal
New Law Fleshing Out DNA Banks Feared, Praised
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The sexual assault and murder of a 76-year-old woman. The rape of a pregnant woman resulting in the death of her...
State Bar & Bar Associations
State Bar Purges Republican Critic From Governors
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar of California suddenly and unexpectedly removed a persistent Republican critic from its Board of Governors last...
Family
Claims Board: Settle 'Sex Slave' Case
By Cheryl Romo
On Monday, Los Angeles County's Claims Board forwarded $974,000 in lawsuit settlements to the Board of Supervisors for cases ...
Zoning, Planning and Use
Trash Dump Opponents Hope Dirt Spills
By Mathew Heller
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A convicted felon accused of conspiring with a trash-company executive to subvert opposition to the Rail-C...
Judges and Judiciary
Judges' Ratings To Continue Despite Critics
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association's survey of judges' performance, long disliked by members of the local benc...
Government
First Phase of BofA Bond Trial Plods to a Conclusion
By Vivien Lou Chen
SAN FRANCISCO - It was originally supposed to take just two weeks. Instead, it's taken six months to get from opening stateme...
Natural Resources
Watershed Decision
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - The most recent legal battle over the state's water hasn't resulted in people taking shorter showers or watching ...
Insurance
Insurers Crash The Consumer Lawyers Party
By Denise Levin
By Denise Levin Daily Journal Staff Reporter Walking into the lion's den proved successful for representatives of an insuranc...
Criminal
No Suspicion Is Needed to Search State's Parolees
By Philip Carizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - Tossing aside a 12-year-old precedent, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police may search parol...
Media
Kato Kaelin Can Sue Over Accomplice Claims
By Anna Marie Stolley
A state appeal court Thursday resurrected part of a libel suit that Brian "Kato" Kaelin brought against a former acquaintance...
Law Office Automation
Immunity for Year-2000 Bug Catches Foes
By Daniel Shaw
WASHINGTON - With the millennium fast approaching and the end of the congressional session just weeks away, a brief but possi...
Personal Injury & Torts
Malpractice Killed Jailed Teen, Suit Says
By Lauren Blau
Contending her healthy 17-year-old son died needlessly, a woman filed a $25 million claim Thursday against the county of Los ...